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Volunteers, including staff from landscape contractors John O'Conner (who also provided 500 bedding plants) have transformed this forgotten corner of the town square
A St Albans dad has voiced fears over a cancer-linked herbicide being used by contractors outside council homes. Phil Fletcher, 72, raised the alarm over the glyphosate-based herbicide, which the borough council's contractor John O'Conner has been spraying outside his flat in Malthouse Court. Research has linked it to increasing some cancers by more than 40 per cent, according to studies by the University of Washington, and it is also thought to be harmful for organisms such as earthworms and bees. Phil, who lives on his own in a one bedroom flat, said he and his neighbours ar...
Staff at Queenswood School are making PPE for NHS and care staff. Picture: Queenswood School. - Credit: Archant Starting in April with the first lockdown just a week old, Welwyn Hatfield had some good news by June with the opening of non-essential retail. During this period of Stay at Home, Stay Alert, and Control the Virus, our community stepped up to the plate with numerous examples of little and big kindnesses. Hand sanitiser made by the University of Hertfordshire. Picture: UoH. - Credit: Archant To address the shortage of hand sanitiser in April, the University of Hertfordshire in Ha...
A battle against lies December 23, 2020 The Christian existentialist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote about the corruption in the Danish State Church, declaring that everyone knew privately that the system was rotten and corrupt but they would not say so publicly. Just as one says that death has marked a man, so we recognize the symptoms which demand to be attacked. It is a battle against lies, he said. The problem we face today is corruption in government, the media, and the church that runs so deep that it is uncomfortable for some to even talk about it publicly. In his landmark 1975...
By: Cliff Kincaid The Christian existentialist philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, wrote about the corruption in the Danish State Church, declaring that everyone knew privately that the system was rotten and corrupt but they would not say so publicly. “Just as one says that death has marked a man, so we recognize the symptoms which demand to be attacked. It is a battle against lies,” he said. The problem we face today is corruption in government, the media, and the church that runs so deep that it is uncomfortable for some to even talk about it publicly. In his landmark 1975 book, The Corru...