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THE TELEGRAPH ARE WANTING OUR WASPI STORIES ! Has the State pension age change affected you? Please email Olivia.rudgard@telegraph.co.uk with your story

As it happens I rarely use my mobile. Only have it on when I go out of the house. I value it for its ability to let me communicate (mobile service allowing of course) should I find myself in an emergency/dangerous situation.  And also to let people know where I am if I alter where it is I told them that  I was going. Again, a safety precaution. But maybe I think that way bec ause I am ...

See page 18 (the Rotten Boroughs section) for info about TDC cllrs and council tax, and the pay award to TDC's chief exec. (Private Eye edition no 1430, 28th Oct-10 Nov 2016).

Update about the fund raising: With 16 days still to run, the Fair State Pensions for WASPI women CrowdJustice appeal has reached a staggering £88,000, or 117% of its stretch target of £75,000. Women Against State Pension Inequality Ltd want to thank each and every one of you who has donated and continue to donate to the fund.  It’s inspiring to know that we ...

On the issue of defribulators - noticed that in the centre of Bath a red telephone box had been turned into a defribulator location.

1 Nov 2016

This is an agenda item on tomorrow (weds. 2nd Nov) Dawlish full town council meeting. Just for info - all last week I couldn't get any mobile phone service in the cottage where I was staying. Which was quite amazing really given as I was located so very near (between West and East Dundry since you ask) to a big city (Bristol). Really messed up my going off for walks by myself (would ...

And click on this link if you would like to donate towards the legal costs https://www.crowdjustice.org/case/waspi/ and watch this podcast from Conservative MP Tim Loughton if you want to know why you should support the campaign https://www.timloughton.com/news/update-waspi-campaign

· Telephone boxes - clerksandcouncilsdirect.co.uk www.clerksandcouncilsdirect.co.uk/content.asp?id=18 I WAS reading your news story about new uses for old telephone boxes ... failure have helped to install a defibrillator in their village’s old red telephone box. · Top 10 Creative Uses For Old Red Phone Boxes theverybesttop10.com/repurposed-red-telephone-boxes Some people take ...

16 Oct 2016

Given that the public are going to be encouraged to use the St Mary's cottages locality, via the permanent SANGS location,  I wonder if there would be any mileage in keeping the phone box to store a defribrillator in? Parish councils that have already responded to this BT consultation have raised the same point. Another thing, and again this refers to the permanent SANGS location, is do we know ...

15 Oct 2016

According to the info provided by BT, the number of calls made from the boxes I've listed above during the past 12 months is as follows: Old Town Street - 6 calls Newlands - 1 call Ashcombe - 0 calls St. Mary's Cottages - 0 calls