Local News & Action from across Walkergate
Wallsend Boys Club Flooding
20 Jan 2011
National News
Save Our Cheque
Cheques have been in use for over 300 years in the UK and in 2009 they were used to transfer £1.9 trillion. Across the country 1/3 of all people still regularly use cheques and 75% use the cheque facility with their bank accounts. In December 2009 the Payments Council - representing the major high street banks - set a target date of 2018 for the closure of central cheque clearing. Apparently the banks stand to gain £200 million a year by phasing out cheques. But I understand that cheques are a bit of a pain to bank staff; but most jobs have a task that people don't particularly enjoy doing but they just have to get on with it. As they are still a popular way of making a payment I would hate to think that one of the reasons for their abolition was just because bank staff finds them an inconvenience.
AL
19 Jan 2011
EU should act on homophobic human rights threats – Ludford
The European Parliament has called in a resolution for the European Commission to examine and challenge proposed legislation in Lithuania which would criminalise with fines the 'promotion' of homosexuality. MEPs have long followed developments in this Baltic country which joined the EU in 2004; it lags way behind in the narrow intolerance of its discourse on sexual orientation, despite having to implement EU anti-discrimination laws.
19 Jan 2011
Save Our Cheque
Stockton Borough Council tonight passed unanimously a motion calling on the Chief Executive to write to our MPs asking them to...
19 Jan 2011
Conservative's £5m doesn’t go far enough
Liberal Democrat County Councillors have welcomed the Conservative Administration's acceptance of the principle that reserve funds can be used to cushion the impact of cuts in Leicestershire, but believe that the £2.5m p.a. over two years doesn't go far enough.
19 Jan 2011
Revolt in Tunisia and potential effects in the Arab world
Revolt in Tunisia and its possible affects on the Arab world
DRM
19 Jan 2011