Clive
@Mrs C - primarily it's a question of health and safety. you cannot put a price or frequency limitation on that. fact is, fgw send a 2 car train all the way up to the 'soon to happen' (just 12hrs later?) breach section from exeter when there were already stones on the line and dangerous waves. thankfully the driver was proceeding slowly enough to not derail the train. passengers then had to ...
Ref. today's 'Metro, pg.4' The 'South London' home was actually in Wimbledon and sold for £1.2m profit!! Surely the smart 'chess move' would have been to magnanimously refund the full £46k?, looked good, secured the job and reputation of self and party? Some people just don't 'get it' do they?
Handy as it is, should help FGW not to be so daft as to send trains towards Dawlish when track is blocked with stones, or to rescue passengers getting the car wash treatment from sea soaked failed engines
Well that really is local news at the most appaling end of the spectrum.
According to the BBC: 'The discrepancy springs from the difference between the size of Mrs Miller's mortgage, which was £525,000 when she entered the Commons in 2005, and the £237,500 purchase price of the five-bedroom property. The commissioner believed she should only have been able to claim expenses for interest payments on the original 1996 mortgage of £215,000 and additional claims were ...
Personally I think the range of topics is brilliant. Everything from re-housing chickens to saving Dawlish from the waves to conflict resolution. Although it may seem to drift off being local at times I see it as a brilliant microcosm of the wider world. "No (wo)man is an island." - Chickens being re-housed is a bit like offering shelter to refugees. - The storms are very much a global ...
4/22 Hmm indanger of becoming 3/22. To be apolitical for a mo, still better than 0/22 from the Lib Dems. I also note that only 12.3 per cent of the Lib Dem's 57 MPs are female, 16 per cent of Tories and 31 per cent of Labour. What century are we in??
From the little I understand of these things, it seems the real whopper is the juggling around of which of the two of an MPs 'homes' is their main home. In this case MM has been forced to undeclare the one she sold (did I hear a £million?), i.e. reverse the attempt to categorise it as her main home. Hence, it is now liable to capital gains which she must now pay - this being the real punishment ...
Don't get me wrong, I love birds. But this is one reason why AMM says locals have to be involved in the process. Otherwise you may have 'a solution' but not like it very much. e.g. acceleration of the loss of Dawlish Warren, loss of wildlife and/or golf course!!,, 'ugly' granite boulders creating impasses along the beach, general change in natural character and appearance of the shoreline....
@Mrs C - not 'mystic clive' (i should wish, i'd be a very rich man!) please see lynne's thread on 'network rail... deffo...breakwater'. @leatash - norway granite is best. dawlish defences have used dartmoor granite (by rail) and more laterly norway granite (by sea). as above, please see lynne's thread on 'network rail... deffo...breakwater'. @Daverc - yes mission creep by me i ...
