I am still being inundated daily with e-mails and telephone calls about continued erratic performance from First Capital Connect. And their mean and overly complex compensation offer is leaving people frustrated and angry.
The mechanism exists for rail franchises to be handed back if franchisees fail to deliver the promised service. FCC seems to have had [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Marlborough Road Methodist Church'
“Should FCC lose its franchise?” – Public Meeting 16th March
March 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Tags:FCC·First Capital Connect·Marlborough Road Methodist Church·Norman Baker·rail franchise·Sandy Walkington·St Albans
Crossing boundaries
February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
A belated note about last Saturday’s St Albans Interfaith Group’s reception at the Civic Centre.
St Albans is special in so many ways, and the longstanding interfaith group (which predates 9/11) is evidence of that. The initiative came from the Rev Tony Hurle of St Paul’s Church, who wanted to create a regular dialogue between the [...]
Tags:Marlborough Road Methodist Church·Sandy Walkington·St Albans·St Albans Abbey·St Albans Bahai·St Albans Islamic Centre·St Albans Masorti Synagogue·St Albans Quakers·St Albans United Synagogue·St Pauls church St Albans
Really interesting health discussion
January 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · SOS Herts NHS, Sandy's blog
It was a reflective and thought-provoking public meeting on Thursday night with Norman Lamb MP and Cllr Nick Hollinghurst talking about the current state of and future prognosis for our health services both locally and nationally. Marlborough Road Methodist Church was nicely full and the audience was treated to a grown-up discussion of the opportunities [...]
Tags:Herts NHS·Marlborough Road Methodist Church·Nick Hollinghurst·Norman Lamb·Sandy Walkington·St Albans
“The NHS has left me” – local resident
January 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · SOS Herts NHS, Sandy's blog
Issues round local NHS services are constantly raised on the doorstep and in letters to me. Of course people recognise there has been investment. But the lady who told me ‘The NHS has left me’ summed up a wide sense of loss as the delivery of NHS services becomes more distant for local people.
There have [...]
Tags:Herts NHS·Marlborough Road Methodist Church·Nick Hollinghurst·Norman Lamb·Sandy Walkington·St Albans·St Albans City Hospital·St Albans maternity services·St Albans Urgent Care Centre
Great turn-out for Nick Clegg in St Albans
August 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Sandy's blog
We were slightly worried that the Thursday before Bank Holiday would not be the ideal time to attract a crowd to a political meeting. We should not have been concerned. Three hundred people packed into the Marlborough Road Methodist Church to hear Nick take questions from all comers.
He uses no intermediary to pick the questioners. [...]
Tags:Gary Shore·gaslights·Marlborough Road Methodist Church·Nick Clegg