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RISE: news of a council tax rise was met with a range of responses COUNCIL Tax is set to rise in Barrow. Sue Roberts, the director of resources at Barrow Borough Council, said the hike was necessary to help balance the budget. Residents will see a £5 increase a year on a Band D property. Ms Roberts told a meeting of the council s executive committee that 85 per cent of properties in the borough fell below the Band D rate. She said those properties below Band D would see an increase of 6p per week on average. The borough s share of the Council Tax will be close to four million pounds this next year, the meeting was told.
A total of eight new biographies were added to the website in 2020 and three more have been posted in January.
2020 was a year of substantial progress for the Dictionary of Falklands Biography website reports its administrators. The average number of hits recorded every day was 40, a yearly total exceeding 13,000.
This was an impressive increase over 2109, when only 3,300 visitors went to the site in the last six months. There was a good spread of visitors from 116 countries: most came from the UK – 6,505, or 48%, while other countries include the USA (2972 – 22%), Argentina (416 – 3%) and the Falkland Islands themselves, (264 – 2%).
The number of images on the site has risen over the year: there are now 1,634, whereas the original printed volume only had 365. Almost all the articles are now accompanied by images and several have five or six pictures attached. Collecting the additional photos and painting has been the work of the website’s researcher
English Harbour in Antigua
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It’s not overindulging on rum cocktails that has us stumbling around looking for our rooms on our first night at the Inn at English Harbour in Antigua, to the accompaniment of a mocking cacophony of tree frogs. Honest, we had just one, having realised – at first sip – that there is madness in the measures. It is, rather, the absolute and disorienting darkness that envelops the island once the sun sinks beneath the horizon. There is no gradual lessening of daylight here, no hazy in-between. From its clear blue, the sky blazes, all pink-gold drama; by 6pm, it is black as pitch.
BAE Systems team walking home for Christmas
23/12/2020
A team from BAE Systems beat the wintry weekend weather on Sunday morning to successfully complete a walk past six memorials around the Furness peninsula to raise money for the Walking With The Wounded charity.
The group normally take part in the annual Cumbria Challenge https://www.cumbrianchallenge.org/ sponsored by BAE Systems which was cancelled this year.
BAE Systems’ manager Ian Lofthouse and colleagues from the Barrow shipyard completed a 28km route that paused at each memorial, starting with the crane memorial at the Dock Museum in Barrow before continuing on to Ramsden Square, Barrow Park, Dalton, Newton and Lindal.