I had not consciously logged First Group’s strapline until I was sitting this afternoon in a Palace of Westminster committee room seeing a set of slides produced by Mary Grant, chair of First Capital Connect and managing director of all First Group’s rail operations.
FCC certainly has “transformed” travel but not perhaps in the way that [...]
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“FIRST – Transforming Travel”
February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Tags:377 trains·delay repay·FCC·First Capital Connect·Lord Bradshaw·Mary Grant·Neal Lawson·Nigel Quinton·Norman Baker MP·Paul Burstow MP·Sandy Walkington·St Albans·Tom Brake MP
Is it the end for Speaker Martin?
May 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Events are moving very rapidly in terms of the Speaker of the House of Commons. I have written previously in this blog of my dismay at his abject performances.
Both opinion polls and comment on the doorstep are showing the huge damage being done to the institutions of democracy by the whole ghastly story of [...]
Tags:Michael Martin MP·MP Expenses·Nigel Quinton·Paul Zukowskyj·Sal Brinton·Speaker
The sobering implications of Peak Oil
January 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Sandy's blog
We held a thought-provoking discussion last night on the issue of “Peak Oil” – that is the very real likelihood that we are already near maximum production of oil and that we will then struggle even to maintain this level of production while global demand continues to soar, particularly in India and China.
The discussion was [...]