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6 Jun 2014

These days people do like to read trade reviews (checkatrade) or ask a friend for a recommendation better still.  If you want business you have to have at least one of these types of strands in you favour.  Having said that, in spite of all my best efforts at getting a good trader, they will always be minded to put too little cement in the concrete or source dirt cheap materials, as if it's their ...

@Lynne & roberta - absolutely don't want uncertainty blighting new housing. I think we can be fairly sure that a west of DAL will be 'an option' in the report.  Luckily we only have a few weeks to wait now until finding out how it's cost/benefit is ranked by NR as an option.  I will reserve further comment until then!

The fire brigade are excellent at pinpointing causes of fire - was there a definitive statement from them?

LTPP - Excellent cross-reference Lynne.  Reading between the lines of it, it seems to me that the real win that NR would like materialised from the point of view of their long term responsibilities is to be found in Scenario 2 para.(iii). i.e. ‘...improved access and availability for regular engineering works’.  Put another way, given the notorious level of difficulty maintaining the seawall ...

3 Jun 2014

Oh that's good, NR still 'striking while the iron is still hot' to get it's South West route options tabled.  It seems as though there are three strands of work in progress. - NR Optioneering in the broadest sense (June 2014) - Immediate make do and mend on the Seawall (1st Oct 2014) - Detailed coastal/hydrology/cost study for 18months by HR Wallingford focussing solely on improving the ...

2 Jun 2014

@Lynne - i would be very interested to see a copy thanks - presumably it will have some overlap with the lecture.  1st october was mentioned in the lecture in the context of immediate improvements (presumably 'sea lawn path raising' in particular). Would guess that the 18months is for long term major solution decision making, although I seem to recall that there was a pledge when the 'wall was ...

31 May 2014

So here is my best effort, as promised, at capturing as much of the lecture as possible without too much of the techi bits.  I have put in quotes directly transcribed parts of the lectures, the rest is paraphrased as best as possible.  Skip to the five paraphrased solutions (which I think was the bit that AMM was presented with?) if it is all too much to take in!! Presenters: William ...

Absolutely, it means we have a tolerant, democratic society in which such harmless freedoms can be openly expressed. That is exactly why Putin was so incensed, freedom of speech is his biggest enemy and makes him feel vulnerable.

If you do the maths, UKIP's vote as a share of the voting population was: 34% (voting population who cast papers) * 27.5% (UKIP) = 9.35% i.e. Less than 10% actually felt strongly enough against the EU to register a 'protest vote'!! Hardly an earthquake except it was nevertheless the largest share. Make of that what you will.

Nat West Dawlish
31 May 2014

Good luck trying to save it, but I wouldn't put my fiver on it, it's all just a numbers game for someone 'on high'. Solution is simple - There is only one language the banks understand - Loss of busniness through accounts being closed. Don't grumble, would suggest everyone simply switches to the one that actually sees fit to retain a local branch otherwise you will end up losing that one as ...