Be Prepared: Shepway Flood Warnings from Environment Agency
The Environment Agency have issued one flood warning and two flood alerts for the Shepway area for the next 24 hours.
5 Dec 2013
National News
Hertfordshire County Council Runs Up £1.5 Million Bill for Security on Empty Buildings
Hertfordshire County Council Liberal Democrats are amazed by the massive security bills they have uncovered at County Hall. In the period since 1st April 2010 HCC has run up a staggering £1.5 million bill to secure vacant property sites, including those awaiting demolition and sale. Council Tax payers have footed the huge bill while HCC has spent years dithering about what to do with empty premises.
5 Dec 2013
Hertfordshire County Council Runs Up £1.5 Million Bill for Security on Empty Buildings
Hertfordshire County Council Liberal Democrats are amazed by the massive security bills they have uncovered at County Hall. In the period since 1st April 2010 HCC has run up a staggering £1.5 million bill to secure vacant property sites, including those awaiting demolition and sale. Council Tax payers have footed the huge bill while HCC has spent years dithering about what to do with empty premises.
5 Dec 2013
A Million More Meals for Kent Schoolchildren
In Kent, there are currently 49,871 pupils in Reception, Year 1 and 2 in our primary schools.
5 Dec 2013
Foster families provide a vital community service
Across Chesterfield there are hundreds of council and private agency registered foster carers, and recently I have been talking to one of them.
JCPSC
5 Dec 2013
Solar farms in Wiltshire - where are they?
Wiltshire is a good place to build sun farms - relatively good levels of sunshine and plenty of open farmland. Applications for planning permission have been pouring into the Wiltshire Council offices over the last couple of years. Whether or not they continue to do so will depend on the level of government subsidies - the people who got in quick made easy money, but now the feed-in tarriff is less generous and developers are having to think carefully about the viability of installing large-scale solar farms.
4 Dec 2013