Further to Pauline Latham’s comment in the House of Commons yesterday, there is more to Chris Williamson’s election ‘smear’ campaign against Amanda Solloway. On June 6 ( 2 days prior to the […]
96% of the publicity on the Derby Labour Party’s FB page is in direct support of Margaret Beckett. Of the 50 posts promoting the candidates, only 2 support Chris Williamson’s campaign. Why […]
Attention! Women born in the 1950s! You should be concerned, and annoyed about your state pension (SP). If you thought you were getting it at 60, after a lifetime of hard work, […]
Article on the organisations involved Last night a packed Lonny Wilsoncroft Centre in the New Zealand area of Derby waited with some expectation of news about the future of the terrible flies problem […]
A casual reading of this news story through the Derby Telegraph articles poses many questions about why there seems to be so many organisations involved, who own’s who, and why is there […]
Amanda Solloway’s (MP – Derby North) husband was a joint owner/director of Compass Debt Counsellors (CDC), a successful multi-million pound company, which traded for 13 years. It finally succumbed to liquidation in […]
The day finally arrived which the Junior Doctors never expected to happen, and which they didn’t want – a day of action to express their frustration at the Government’s proposals to accommodate […]
The fact that a company with one major customer is incredibly vulnerable is self-evident to any student of business – it doesn’t require much experience to realise that this is not a […]
Over the last few years Derby City Council has lost all direction over the grant funding for the Voluntary, Community and Faith (VCF) Sector. It is successfully achieving only one objective, and […]
A policy change that took a matter of seconds for George Osborne to announce in the post-election budget raises so many social questions, the most damning of which is “So a woman […]
If you missed the segment on East Midlands Today broadcast on 11 August 2015, here it is in full. The reporter proudly announces that it is “Derby’s 3rd Tourist attraction”. […]
Last week, Ranjit Banwait, the leader of Derby City Council re-invigorated the “Big Conversation”. Despite the recent consultation in 2014, the Council sees the need to ask the public again, essentially the […]
Charities in the UK have a long tradition, based on selfless giving and care for the sick, needy, vulnerable and poor. The scope of what a charity can become involved in has […]
It is routine that at the end of the Mayor’s year in office, donations are made from a specific fund, to charitable causes. The total amount is modest, and in May 2015 […]
SUMMARY Derby City Council has decided to close the Castle Nursery in order to re-allocate £100,000 ( of a £195 million budget) and deprive the children of Derby of an Outstanding Nursery […]
The Derby Telegraph posted an article on 22 April seemingly as a response to my piece entitled “JET Derby (Jobs,Education, & Training) – Who really benefited from the £118,000 Derby City Council […]
In January 2014, JET (Jobs, Education and Training) in Normanton was awarded, by Derby City Council, an 11 month contract worth £118,000. This was to help East European migrants into work, “with […]
If 1 in 4 dog-owners abused their pets there would be an outcry, if 1 in 4 car owners had their cars indiscriminately damaged on a routine basis, there would be […]
Although in the UK we might consider that we have come a long way in the last 100 years on women’s rights, in reality, many of the underlying perceptions, behaviours and core […]
In the grounds of St James Church in the Arboretum district of Derby stands a memorial to those local men who died in World War 1. “This cross was erected in Proud […]
