How to complain - new advice from Ombudsman
Citizens of Newcastle made over 176,500 complaints about shoddy service last year1.
23 Sep 2016
National News
Annual report from your Parklands Ward Councillors 2016
At the one-and-annual meeting of the Parklands Ward Committee of Newcastle City Council, David Down was elected Chairman for 2016-17. Outgoing Chairman Pauline Allen delivered this report on activities during the past year :
23 Sep 2016
Lib Dems win in Hadleigh. Conservative lose majority.
Liberal Democrats are celebrating gaining the Hadleigh seat on Suffolk County Council. As a result the out of touch Conservatives have lost their majority on the council. They can no longer be certain of driving through their policies at budget time and on other crucial votes.
23 Sep 2016
Open, Tolerant and United - Tim's Story
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23 Sep 2016
No to Secondary Moderns!
All but five years of my 34 year career were spent in comprehensive schools. Even though some may have argued that my specialism, modern foreign languages, would have been better pursued in a more selective system, I made a conscious choice and have no regrets. I still feel that it is wrong to select children at 11 to pursue different paths and was conscious of the general feeling amongst my contemporaries at primary school that failure at the 11 plus was indeed failure.
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23 Sep 2016
Lib Dem Success! Free salt for Hertfordshire schools
All Hertfordshire schools that are not directly on a gritting route will now be offered free salt supplies this winter.
23 Sep 2016