Picture by Otto Eastbrook
Day: December 16, 2019
MORNING COFFEE AL FRESCO DOON THE PARK
PICTURE by MICHAEL MOFFAT
IT’S OK FOR VULNERABLE KIDS TO MEET AT McDONALD’S
Cllr Jim Bollan, Council leader Jonathan McColl, Chief Social worker Jonathan Hinds,Beth Culshaw and Cllr Martin Rooney. By Lizzie Healey Concerns have been raised after
INVESTIGATION: NICK KEMPE ASKS VITAL QUESTIONS
While I am still generally sceptical about what the LLTNPA Board does because of its terrible record of taking decisions in secret (13 meetings about the camping byelaws before they were approved) these emails do appear to reflect levels of Board involvement. I have heard elsewhere a Board Member say they were NOT allowed to say anything about the Flamingo Land Planning Application in case this prejudiced the decision. Effectively staff have told them to be silent – the emails which tell Board Members to refer any enquiries about the Application to staff re-inforce this. This perhaps explain why Board Members never raised any of the obvious public interest questions about the inclusion of the Park’s own land in the Planning Application.
VAL WALDRON’S POST ELECTION DIARY
The rise, or rather the inflation of Jo Swinson is not the only story in town, but the themes are strong in this one. I’d have been hard pushed to pick Jo out from an identity parade until she made her grandiose and delusional claim that she could be PM. As our collective memory gradually starts to write her out of our consciousness, it only remains to pick over those shards of glass from that “Glass Ceiling” resignation speech: