Controversy is raging over the decision by Suffolk County Council to push to outsource its services. The decision is made worse by the lack of prior discussion with the parties involved. How will St Edmundsbury Borough Council afford to run their new Council offices if the County staff there are all outsourced?
Having experienced our own Mental Health Awareness Day in Folkestone Town Centre this week, it was good to experience a different venue for the same exhibitions. I was impressed that so many people remembered us from Thursday, and good to meet new people with displays we had not yet seen.
An informal council meeting on Monday 11th October is to look at ways of speeding up the process of renting allotments : hopefully this will mean the waiting list of 150+ can be reduced and uncultivated plots re-let much more quickly.
The Wolverhampton's Euro MP Liz Lynne says the coalition government's new plan for a modified High Speed rail link is vital to plugging our region's economy into the rest of Britain and Europe.
Following a long battle led by the Lib Dems, European governments, including the UK, have adopted a new law giving all criminal suspects in the EU the right to free interpretation and translation of questioning, court proceedings and essential documents. This right will apply right through from arrest to trial.
Most of us know about Guide Dogs for the Blind, but few people seem to know about Help Dogs who care for disabled people. I was invited to attend this fund raising auction and to speak about the charity.
