For those watching in the United States, this film is like a road map to how to get public support and your community energized around lower speed limits.
New York City may have recently set it's city speed limits at 25 mph, but to keep driving down serious injuries and fatalities, we should be following the example set by the UK.
[The Revd Hughes] tells me he has arranged for a locum vicar to take Divine Service and visit the sick whilst he is away.
“He’s young and keen and believes every word of the Liberal Democrat manifesto is the literal truth.”
I eye him levelly: “It’s not Farron, is it?”You may also enjoy these two posts from 2010:
He loathed the Taunton public school to which his parents managed to send him, a "philistine place" he has described as "hell". It took him, or so he says, 27 years to return to the town, and when he did, he got his revenge by sending it up in one of his restaurant reviews (he was then the offal-scoffing and somewhat porcine restaurant critic of the Times). The locals and its liberal democrat MP went nuts.Can this be true?
His article has angered residents so much that the MP has demanded an apology.
Meades asked in The Times article if the restaurant would thrive in the town.
He questions whether the "three headed sheep shaggers" would come down from the hills to support the establishment.
And if they did, he continues, where would they park their combine harvester or tie up their cow?And who was the Liberal Democrat MP who went nuts?
Local reaction to the article has led the town's Liberal Democrat MP Jackie Ballard to table a Common's (sic) motion seeking an apology.
She said: "I think its a disgraceful slur on the county town of Somerset and also Mr Meades made some crude comments on the natives of Somerset who he thinks are not sophisticated enough to enjoy a good restaurant.
"I can assure him they are."And Jackie Ballard really did table an early day motion on the subject. It ran:
That this House deplores remarks made by Jonathan Meades in The Times Magazine of Saturday 4th July regarding the people and town of Taunton; knows that Taunton is the county town of Somerset and it has many natural and man-made assets including the River Tone and the recently enhanced, thriving town centre; recognises that Taunton is at the heart of a rural community and is also the home of Somerset county cricket, the Charity Commissioners, the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, The Castle Hotel and many other nationally known organisations and businesses; and calls on Mr Meades to apologise specifically to the people of the Somerset levels and the Blackdown Hills for his obscene and offensive comments and to the people of Somerset for his unwarranted slur on their county town.There were 11 signatories: Jackie, nine loyal Liberal Democrats and, for some odd reason, Ken Livingstone.
Mr Meades said he will not withdraw his comments as they were meant light heartedly .
He said: "She has no sense of humour, she is after all a Liberal Democrat."People can be so unfair.
9 July 1968 - Many belong to a species of stage boy, only related to childhood by their small size. All the other attributes of boyhood - youth, gaiety, innocence - have long since gone. Squat creatures, seemingly weaned on Woodbines, they are the boys who have been in Oliver! Lionel Bart has cut a swathe through the nation's youth like the 1914-18 war. They are the new Lost Generation.
Alan Bennett Writing Home (1994)
"Who could forget the scene where poor Olive is rescued from the speeding bus? Lines of dialogue such as 'Blimey, Stan, keep your foot down' and 'Don’t you dare touch that brake, Butler' were on everyone’s lips.Two journalists recalled being in Leicester for the trial at Frank Beck, where allegations against Greville Janner were first heard in public.
"Beith be not proud, though some have called theI forecast that the forthcoming general election would be more boring than people expected. I badly misunderestimated the SNP surge, but was right to be sceptical about Green and Ukip advances.
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so."
If your goal is to produce a book that is inoffensive in every culture, it is not surprising if you come up with something rather anaemic.
Back in the 1970s, good Liberals wanted a greater role for the market as a counterweight to centralised power. We wanted choice and innovation.
Today, however, things are more complicated than that. What the market often gives us is homogenisation.I discovered Cleaners from Venus and their 'Illya Kuryakin Looked at me.'
A stone sculpture should be erected to commemorate a meteorite which hit the UK on Christmas Eve 50 years ago, campaigners have said.
The meteorite, which was the size of a "Christmas turkey", exploded into thousands of pieces over Barwell, Leicestershire, on Christmas Eve, 1965. It was the biggest recorded meteorite to hit the UK.Read more about the Barwell meteorite on this blog.
Must be careful not to get off at the station before Canterbury— Jonathan Calder (@lordbonkers) July 26, 2015BBC News - #Train #derailed after hitting cows on line in #Kent http://t.co/FBtiFoY2df #TCEP #History #Business #Medicine #Railways #Chilham— Chaucer University (@ChaucerUniv) July 27, 2015"We always decorate the domestic staff for Christmas."
A level crossing in Leicestershire which was closed earlier this year due to safety concerns is to be replaced by a new footbridge.
Little Bowden foot crossing was closed back in August after a risk assessment determined that the amount of time people were asked to stand at the red light varied too much for it to be safe. Train movements in the area meant that on some occasions the red light would be triggered by an approaching train which would then reverse into a nearby siding and therefore never arrive at the crossing itself.
Network Rail determined that the variation in warning time– although working entirely as it should – meant that those using the crossing may grow to distrust the warnings and decide to cross when it was unsafe to.
Now Network Rail is applying for planning permission to allow a bridge to be built at Little Bowden, which crosses the Midland Main Line and sees around 200 trains a day pass through it, with the crossing set to remain closed permanently.
Designs for the bridge are currently being discussed with Leicestershire County Council, with the new footbridge potentially in place within the next 12 months.These workings that trigger the crossing lights without ever arriving at the crossing must be track machines arriving from or leaving for the North at the sidings by Market Harborough station. And I imagine they generally take place early in the morning or late at night when few people are using the crossing.
