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Peter Hain's donations

Saved on 12/01/2008

Undoubtedly there is an enormous amount of comment about Peter Hain's...

Peter Hain's donations

Seasonal Drunkenness

Saved on 07/01/2008

I read today that, astonishingly, there were a number...

Seasonal Drunkenness

Nostalgia for Hartland

Saved on 03/01/2008

I watched part of Sense and Sensibility on BBC1 on New Year's Day....

Nostalgia for Hartland

Health Inequalities

Saved on 03/01/2008

David Cameron's comments about the National Health Service today have...

Health Inequalities

Happy New Year

Saved on 01/01/2008

A Happy New Year to everyone.Here's hoping 2008 is a more prosperous,...

Happy New Year

Polly Toynbee

Saved on 31/12/2007

Polly Toynbee was on Start the Week on Radio 4 this morning....

Polly Toynbee

500 Binge drinkers admitted to hospital every day

Saved on 31/12/2007

This story about the number of drink related admissions to...

500 Binge drinkers admitted to hospital every day

Success for Parkwood Road

Saved on 07/12/2007

News reached us at the end of November that Dorset County Council has agreed to our local campaigners' requests to take positive action along Parkwood Road on behalf of its residents. The road, located near to Rowlands Hill and the Quarterjack Surgery, has been suffering parking problems and vehicle-caused...

Success for Parkwood Road

It really is time for change...

Saved on 29/11/2007

Further to my last post, it would seem prudent to emphasise the fact that this Government is smelling of cheap incompetence. As this HMRC scandal deepens – with another six packages unaccounted for and evidence of recorded phone calls being sent on CD to bemused householders across the country – we look...

It really is time for change...

A Matter of Competence

Saved on 20/11/2007

No doubt by now commentators elsewhere are highlighting the horror of the loss of 25 million personal records by the Revenue and Customs.  Errors occur in every business.  Post goes astray.  These kind of things are often unavoidable.What is avoidable is allowing a 'junior official' the access to so...

A Matter of Competence

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