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The Government gives two-finger salute to St Albans |
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Written by Sandy Walkington
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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As if we needed any further evidence, the self-styled ‘listening Prime Minister’ does not listen.
All the campaigning and representations against the vastly overblown housing demands being made on our district and county by the proposed "Regional Spatial Strategy" have been ignored.
Thousands of local residents signed the Hands Off Herts e-petition and paper petitions too - and for what? The Government waits till after the local elections and then today confirms concrete not cows for St Albans as Hemel and Hatfield are both extended onto St Albans Green Belt land.
We have warned all along that the Government was going to drown our historic cathedral and market city in a sea of new suburbia charmingly called ‘London Arc West’. Welcome to the ‘London Borough of Hertfordshire’.
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Written by Sandy Walkington
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Sunday, 11 May 2008 |
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I have always felt rather guilty that I have never participated in the annual beating of the bounds, so I joined our excellent Mayor Kate Morris this afternoon. I felt less guilty when 50-year resident Peter Hurford told me it was his firt time too.
And at least we could dress appropriately for the sunny weather whereas poor Kate was trussed up in full mayoral fig with fur trimming and tricorn hat, and the mace-bearer and town crier were scarcely less over-dressed.
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We Poor Thespians, We Happy Few |
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Written by Sandy Walkington
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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I found myself with a walk-on part in tonight's Ovo production of Measure for Measure at the Maltings. Not a play I had ever seen or read before. My part of Master Fresh was not arduous. I just had to stand on the stage and look gormless while quick repartee flew around me - so no change there then.
The play is certainly thought-provoking, raising issues about sexual morality and law enforcement which could have come straight from Sharia law. Men don't emerge at all well as liars and sexual predators - even the Duke exercising droit de seigneur at the end.
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Sandy Walkington has launched one of the most comprehensive surveys ever undertaken of local health services for St Albans and the surrounding villages.
