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Dave Hodgson cuts the ribbon to mark the opening of Bedford's Poppy Shop

The Bedford Poppy Shop is Open

I was honoured to be invited to open the Bedford Poppy Shop on Saturday, which is once again located in the Harpur Centre. The volunteers do a fantastic job in staffing the store, helping to raise money for the crucial support and welfare work carried out by the Royal British Legion. I want to take this opportunity to thank Angela Parker and her team once again for all they do. They will be open throughout the Poppy Appeal period, so do pop along to the Harpur Centre, say hello to the volunteers and support the RBL in the vital work they do to support serving members of the Armed Forces, ex-Service men and women, their families and dependants all year-round.

29 Oct 2012
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Devizes offices to be sold for housing

The old Kennet District Council offices at Browfort are likely to be sold cheaply to a property developer, according to a report to the WC Capital Assets Committee. However before this can be done the council has to pretend to market the site for employment to fit in with its own planning policies.

29 Oct 2012
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Monopoly Is Theft - The antimonopolist history of the world’s most popular board game

When at the Scottish Lib Dem conference in Dunfermline, we used the Monopoly board game as a prop on the stand, to explain how land monopoly creates inequalities. On seeing this our speaker, Andy Wightman the leading campaigner for Land Tax in Scotland, told me about this article in Harpers Magazine. I had been told by ALTER members that the origins of Monopoly board game were from Landlords game, but this article by Christopher Ketcham tells the full forgotten history of the board game that Henry George's ideas inspired. Its a fascinating, if rather a sad tale of how an American ideal of creating a game to teach the evils of monopoly became a victim of monopoly itself.

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28 Oct 2012
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Cllr Philip Mynott

Lib Dems slam Brentwood Council for plans to close town centre disabled car park

Brentwood's main opposition party has accused Brentwood Council of duplicity in relation to plans to close the William Hunter Way disabled car park and move provision for disabled parking elsewhere. The plans - which have neither gone out to consultation, nor been discussed at any Council meeting, or with ward councillors - were uncovered by Brentwood North Lib Dem councillors Philip Mynott and Barry Aspinell after notifications of the removal of Highways rights from the car park were sent to North Road Avenue, Brentwood, which borders it. The process of removing these rights would allow the site to become private. And whilst there would be disabled car parking provision in the development, it would only be close to businesses in the development, and much further away from the High Street. Cllr Philip Mynott and Cllr Barry Aspinell (Lib Dem, Brentwood North) aggressively criticised the decision as 'morally wrong and deeply flawed' as changes to the use and ownership of the car park, which was beyond the foot

28 Oct 2012
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