The recent and spreading rioting, looting and violence is completely indefensible and makes one wonder what is happening in the UK when communities are closing down and streets left to yobs. Are our streets becoming dominated by youths from Lord of the Flies?
Engineers have agreed to alter the timing of the signals again at the Salters Road and High Street junction in Gosforth to try to alleviate congestion and promote road safety.
With Monday's decision to restore one-hour parking in Salisbury, at a new price of £1.50, Wiltshire's Conservatives are beginning to back away from their disastrous parking charges.
Salisbury City Centre Councillor Paul Sample has welcomed the withdrawal of Tesco from the Salisbury Maltings redevelopment bidding war.
More details of the Sandgate Sea and Food Festival have been announced. On Saturday evening (27th August), the Festival will kick off with the ever popular and spectacular fireworks display over the sea from Sandgate beach, powered by Nick Ciccone of Universal Fireworks.
The annual Silent Film night will be held in Heaton Park on 23 August. This is a fantastic and quite unique night out - a silent film accompanied by live piano. Once again we have had complaints about early morning waste collections at the Glenmara House student hall in Shieldfield. We have raised this with the University of Northumbria and they assure us it has now been sorted out. The Multi-Use Games Area proposed for Napier Green will be built in the autumn after a delay to sort out a planning issue. A new puffin crossing will be installed on Falconar Street near Christ Church to help pedestrians cross this increasingly busy patch of road. As we go to press, we are getting reports that the Labour Council is cutting the ward's funding for children's activities and moving it to traditonally Labour held wards, More information as we get it.