Chiltern Railways officially opened Oxford Parkway station yesterday (October 26) as the first phase of the £320 million project to run trains between London Marylebone and Oxford.
Chiltern Railways officially opened Oxford Parkway station yesterday (October 26) as the first phase of the £320 million project to run trains between London Marylebone and Oxford.
The Labour and Conservative parties came together in the Council Chamber tonight (27 October 2015) to force through a plan to build more houses in Rugby than the town needs.
Wiltshire Council is to ban smoking outdoors at all its sites, including County Hall and other offices, from next year. Staff smoking areas will be removed. The ban will also apply to members of the public, and to other organisations such as the police which use WC sites.
Exclusive: Secretive Mayfair funds resent European regulation - and exit would earn them £250m a year Billionaire hedge fund managers who are backing the campaign to take Britain out of Europe stand to bank millions more pounds a year in the event of a so-called "Brexit".
Norman Baker has been quick off the mark in the ex-Lib-Dem-MPs-write-books stakes, and his Against the Grain has the virtue not only of speed but also of interest and humour. It is really two books. The first is a tale of politics as it used to be, now already sounding a very distant world, where councils closed their offices at lunchtime, the government kept a 1771 map of the River Dee an official secret, a cinema licensing committee existed for an area without any cinemas, and hard local campaigning could take Liberal Democrats to council control and Parliamentary victories. As Tim Razzall put it wistfully in his own memoirs, politics back then was fun.