Essex Police has launched details of its new Policing Blueprint model. The proposed changes will be implemented by March 2012. According to the police, this will build a capability and a capacity that will serve well the people in Essex and continue to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in the years ahead.
I recently attended a small ceremony to mark the opening of a new 'changing place' disabled toilet at River Street Car Park. You might wonder why a ceremony was held to mark the opening of a toilet, but the opening of this facility really is something worthy of celebration. It's the first facility of its kind in the Borough, and it will make a real difference for local residents and visitors with physical disabilities which make using standard accessible toilets difficult or, very often, impossible.
The Essex Chronicle reports: DEPARTING employees pocketed almost half a million pounds of taxpayers' cash in the past 18 months from Essex County Council to keep them quiet.
Wiltshire Lib Dems have congratulated Bath and North East Somerset Council on leading the way in saving money and energy with their new LED street light system in Keynsham, near Bath, but questioned why Wiltshire Council isn't engaging in similar schemes to cut costs in our county.
Businesses in Swindon and Wiltshire will be supported by a new local enterprise partnership approved today by Business Minister Mark Prisk and Decentralisation Minister Greg Clark.
This time next year the London Olympic games will be almost upon us.