Sandy 4 St Albans

I am sure no-one needs reminding that today is polling day for the local elections for St Albans City and District Council.  There is no election in Colney Heath or in Bedmond which is in the Three Rivers council area.

A huge amount of paper – all recycled I hope! – has been delivered through doors [...]

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The launch of the Butterfly World project was a glittering affair with the Lord Lieutenant, the Countess of Verulam, and all the great and good of St Albans.  David Bellamy called for three cheers for the local authority and it was good to see Anne Main applauding her Liberal Democrat council – though I suspect [...]

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I was pleased to be a guest at the annual St Albans Civic Reception last night at Sopwell House Hotel.  This is the chance for all the local dignitaries to celebrate this great city and district together with leaders of all the different civic bodies in the company of civic leaders ("the chain gang") from [...]

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All the politicians including in my own party are tip-toeing round the issue of Speaker Martin and his expense claims.  This is because of the convention that MPs do not criticise or attack the Speaker as the guardian of their liberties. 

Indeed it used to be a very high risk job.  When the Speaker is selected, [...]

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Yes, it’s "extraordinary rendition".

And what a damning comment about our so-called special relationship with the USA that we should only be told now about CIA use of British territory to carry out its illegal activities.

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I have been reading a book called Hengeworld about Stonehenge, Avebury, the latest archaeological discoveries and what they tell us about the societies which built those extraordinary monuments.  As a child I lived under the Cotswold scarp dotted with mounds and barrows.  So shifting the huge Silbury Hill of horse manure which had been delivered [...]

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A tractor-load of horse manure was delivered for our allotment today.  A great mound of dung is a daunting sight – and a huge amount of effort to wheel-barrow it from where the tractor can reach along the narrow paths to our plot.  Thank goodness it was a sunny day.

But the tractor-loads of poo being [...]

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Whatever will the Labour Government do next?

We now learn that Gordon Brown is trousering 38 pence of every pound that St Albans council home tenants pay in rent.  It’s a scandal.
The Labour parliamentary candidate recently complained about the lack of affordable housing in St Albans.  It’s a huge problem.  It’s her Government in power, [...]

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