Trying to meet their housing policy objectives has meant donning blinkers for the majority of those involved within the Council - and in any case in the main we are not only often talking about low calibre individuals whether elected or appointed who have been doing this but also...
Thought you might like to know about my story. I got robbed of a wheelchair, hundreds of their chairs are faulty as the inventor admits in the news link below, they have ripped hundreds of people off. this wheelchair I have not been able to use it for over...
As a journalist I frequently get press releases - most I ignore, some make me seethe. Hastoe is a housing association that specialises in small rural developments. They are ground breakers too - all their new build homes are Passivhaus accredited, meaning that a three bedroomed house costs less...
Jason Haiselden and I interviewed Andrew Hindle, CEO at Infrastrata, at the demo/presentation yesterday. He would not let us film. Here are the bullet points, more details to come later.. Infrastrata have made a new interpretation of test drillings carried out by BP in the 1980's and they...
Over the last seven days there has been much discussion regarding the accuracy of an Observer article that detailed some of the problems faced by seaside towns and Weymouth in particular. The newspaper’s narrative referring to culture and economics was largely disparaging with terms such as wasteland; isolation; poverty;...
A young asylum seeker has been found dead at a Victorian jail which is still being run as a prison despite only housing people seeking refuge in Britain, The Independent has learnt. Bruno Dos Santos, who was in his 20s and has a child in the UK, was discovered in his...
Local Labour campaigners are warning people in Dorset that David Cameron got his sums wrong when he claimed that Conservative-led councils like Weymouth & Portland, West Dorset and Purbeck charge the lowest Council Tax. National analysis of the latest Council Tax figures for 2014/15 from the Department of Communities...
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...
