A community event in Hillmorton will take place on Friday 25th August from 10.30am until 2pm to weed and prune back the planted trees/ hedge area at Featherbed Lane.
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Only 17 per cent of council leaders are women Newly-devolved powers are being consolidated among white middle-aged men because local government is more than 3,000 female councillors short of a 50-50 gender balance, a think-tank has said.
The format of education hasn't really changed since Victorian times. Students are still packed into a classroom with a teacher who spends most of their time doing some variation of lecturing to the students, before they then apply whatever they've just heard to some real examples. This system treats everyone equally by treating pretty much everyone the same, using the same techniques and the same curriculum for everyone, regardless of their differences. Liberal Democrats tend to challenge traditional policies, and should challenge the current educational system too. We also tend to look solely to teachers for educational policy but it is also worth listening to the perspective of students. Technology promised a revolution in classrooms, with very little change in the techniques in the publicly funded and conservative education sector. Technology has changed the way in which the teacher delivers the information to the class, allowing a little more interactivity but keeping the key parts of the teacher lecturin
This weekend, Grantham, our largest town, was in the news twice…. and for all the wrong reasons. First came the shocking images of the National Front march through Grantham on Saturday, which made the national newspapers. Estimates vary of the number of alt-right supporters there - and some claimed that many were not local. But their rally was met by a counter-demonstration by Unite Against Fascism, and violence flared. Police managed to regain control and 2 people were arrested, but there was significant disruption to High Street traffic, and shoppers were warned to hide in shops for their own safety.