Lynne
Discuss.
From looking at the comments and tweets and things at the bottom of that Plymouth Herald article it seems that the problem lay with Cross Country trains. Take a look for yourselves. You'll see that their train to Edinburgh had to leave from Exeter St. David's rather than Plymouth and that Cross Country were telling people to use First Great Western trains to get from Plymouth to Exeter. ...
JC - are you saying that papers sometimes make things up?
https://www.toughchoices.co.uk/budget/
Government has said it will make an announcement concerning the future of the rail network in the south west in its Autumn statement - which usually takes place beginning of December.
Have to say I'm not surprised. I travelled by train from Dawlish to N.Abb the other week. It was a very high tide and whilst waiting for train I could see that the waves were lapping at the sea wall and spray was going over onto the track. And the weather on that day was quite calm..............
Just thought I'd bring this to people's attention given as council funded homes are closing and not all have the wherewithall to find the money for private nursing home fees. http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2392.aspx?CategoryID=68 (and yes I know that = public money (aka tax payers' money) going straight into the private sector again but.........we are where we are)
Highly recommend people having a read of the whole of this report (see link at bottom of quote) "As 29% of low paid workers work in retail, this sector in particular is coming under intense scrutiny. A recent report by The Fair Pay Network found that despite collectively making billions of pounds worth of profits and paying their CEO’s millions of pounds a year, not one of ...
And of course being on such low wages means there is not much (anything?) left over for non essentials so demand for goods is not created. Also low wages = no, or very little, income tax being paid. So not much help to the Treasury then in its efforts to pay off the deficit and reduce the Welfare bill. So.......if not enough money going in (to Treasury) means Treasury will want to reduce the ...
Take a read of the following to be found in the latest edition of the National Federation of Occupational Pensioners magazine. It's an article written by the National Chair of the NFOP, Jill Ypey, and I have been given permission to reproduce it. “At the Conservative Conference held in Birmingham, George Osborne stated that there was still a need to make cuts to the Welfare budget of ...
