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Oh Clive that is an absolutely brilliant idea! (just click on the link here to view http://www.ice.org.uk/News-Public-Affairs/ICE-News/Happy-engineers-get-dancing-to-Pharrell-hit ). Dawlish Cllrs? Dawlish Chamber of Commerce? Dawlish Warren Tourism? New Town Centre manager? What say you? and. ........the local secondary school could be involved as well? We need more people studying the ...
Just come back by train from Exeter. At Exeter St. David's a couple with suitcases and from up north (could tell by their accents) got on. Between there and D.Warren I picked up that they were down here going to Torquay for a long weekend break. Anyhow, when we got to Dawlish Warren the fella got up out of his seat and was looking with great interest out to sea. First off I thought he was ...
Thanks for the update Michael.
Any chance of a report back on the Sustrans bid?
No probs for Starcross Mcjprc - I was at quite a few public meetings concerning the new houses planned to be built in Dawlish where the planners said words to the effect of that the present A379 would not be adversely affected by extra traffic because the new houses would be sited near to where there are rail stations and bus stops and the people in the new houses would use the train or the bus ...
From today's Independent THE TOP 10 COUNTRIES FOR OVER-60S 1. Norway Switzerland came in third 2. Sweden 3. Switzerland 4. Canada 5. Germany 6. Netherlands 7. Iceland 8. United States 9. Japan 10. New Zealand
nor are these my words: "...........the utter cynicism with which Osborne (and Cameron) went about exploiting what was by any measure a global economic crisis for their own ends. Although they now complain of Labour profligacy, one has to pinch oneself to recall that, until the end of 2008, the Tories were signed up to match Labour's spending on the main public servies "pound for pound". They ...
But I wish they were mine.
Don't forget there are other forms of taxation as well as income tax. Those who don't earn or who earn but who do not earn enough to pay income tax - they are still tax payers. 20% VAT for example.
So people who are so poorly paid that they qualify for tax credits don't genuinely need help? Really? Is that what you are saying? I wonder how much the need for tax credit supplements would be diminished if all the poorly paid were paid the living wage?
