Dorset Echo are petitioning Condor to show loyalty to Weymouth. Really? I wondered who the people were, to whom Weymouth were appealing, so did some research. The trail leads from Condor in Poole, to Commodore Shipping in the Channel Isles, thence to Admiralty Holdings and finally (I think) to...
Savile/Jaconelli/Corrigan paedo-ring investigation: Update
Crime and Parliamentary Affairs correspondent TIM HICKS reports with an update on Real Whitby’s Jimmy Savile/Peter Jaconelli/Jimmy Corrigan investigation.
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There have been a number of recent developments in Real Whitby’s ongoing Jimmy Savile/Peter Jaconelli/Jimmy Corrigan investigation
The Whitby connection.
Real Whitby was the first to reveal a link between...
RICHARD DRAX MP: Danger signs of cutting our armed forces Stuff the hospitals and schools and helping the vulnerable! We want more uniforms carrying guns and looking tough. Stuff the near two trillion in personal debt we want to piss off people so that they seek to kick our...
Sir Humphrey Appleby would be proud of Weymouth & Portland Borough Council's latest exercise in local democracy. The story runs as follows. Most of you will be aware of a scheme known as Local Council Tax Support. This nominally exists to help those who are on such low incomes...
A friend of mine once told me of an encounter he had with Richard Drax at a local college. The south Dorset MP was invited by a student to address her peers (apparently he was a family friend). His opening gambit was that he had been at a local school...
Does rock ‘n’ roll have a conscience? Should it? Does it even matter? While there are many who like to keep their politics and their music separate, rock ‘n’ roll has spawned dozens of artists who used the medium of music to promote and advance their political views and...
Well what do you know? 0.3% economic growth in the first quarter of 2013. That's it then it's all over - isn't it? We can all go back to work now and enjoy the fruits of our labours in beautiful Dorset. Like buggery we can. If you can see...
Surf reef director has disappeared leaving creditors, including Bournemouth Council without hope of obtaining any cash back. See BCC report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-22199124,
Householders in leasehold properties in Weymouth could be facing a looming payment time bomb according to residential property lawyers. Battens Solicitors is advising people who bought leasehold flats in the property boom of the late 1980s to be aware that the costs of lease renewal can skyrocket as their...
This gate opens onto farmland and scrub stretching just half a mile from the Jurassic coast, up and over the Dorset ridgeway. If you head due east, maybe a touch to the north, you can walk with your dog (or dogs) for five or six miles and never come...
