I still have a serious hump about the billions of pounds we send overseas in international aid. We as a country are in dire straits. Charity begins at home, so as a person from the apparently wealthy SE, i have no problems with my taxes being spent to help those in the North, Wales, Ireland or ...

With the creation of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority on 1st April GMPTE has changed to Transport for Greater Manchester along with an update on the GMPTE 'M':
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Previously: http://www.accessnetwork.org/phpThumb/phpThumb.php?src=/management ...

Gareth, you must be the lucky ones in Suffolk, as in my area of the county, or even just of Ipswich, very little grit is being laid! My road is constantly a death-trap, being on a steep hill, the road is currently a mixture of slush and black ice. The schools here were mostly open, they dealt with ...

As with most things it seems to depend on where you live and what your council have done. Here, Suffolk County Council have seemingly been spreading grit/salt for at least a month. Consequently the main gritted routes have remained open. They've even been gritting their secondary routes which mean ...

who would i approach about this initially? the local council? the highways agency? or the police themselves?

I think the responsible authority would be the County Council unless the road is a designated trunk road which the Highways Authority would be in charge. As the Department for Transport ...

http://www.heron.nhs.uk/specialist_directory/pcd/images/scc.jpg

That is Suffolk County Council's logo - nothing special, but not too bad either.


Why have they one the "3D" so badly? It looks like they started off with a cube, but decided to change it into a shield.

The 3D isn't the worst ...

I appear to be drowning in Conservative leaflets compared to the other parties. The tory candidate who's replacing the retiring Sir Michael Lord has so far sent me 8 leaflets either direct mail or hand delivered. That has been countered by one each for Labour, Green and the New Party. Both the Green ...

The Stockport M&S also had a Butcher's shop too so it spread further south than the Scottish border. It too was quickly changed into a bakery.

Fresh fish counters have also been tried before, the M&S out of town store at Handforth Dean in Cheshire originally had a massive section with a Deli ...

The rather more than average rainfall was my holiday welcome to Northern Ireland, it was a bad omen when we couldn't acually see anything through the front windows of the ferry as we approached Belfast. We then got caught up in a massive traffic jam as large parts of the embankment on the M2 had ...

I've got parents evening next monday... more of the same "your child is doing x really well however they really need to make sure they do that every lesson". Or you get into the swing of informing the "our child is wonderful" parents that actually their child is lazy and never does any work and you ...

The specialist status college system is a bit of a joke as there's nothing "specialist" about it - schools and apply for (and get) as many specialist statuses as they want. This thus gets them lots of money which they spend on important things like new signs, letterheaded paper and fancy goodies to ...