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The government tends to focus on words rather than action when it comes to the integration of public services, writes LGC acting news editor Jonathan
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The government tends to focus on words rather than action when it comes to the integration of public services, writes LGC acting news editor Jonathan
The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian is the longest running daily newspaper in the country, marking its centenary in 2017. The paper started life as the Trinidad Guardian on Sunday 2nd September 1917 by the newly formed Trinidad Publishing Company Limited.
Even an unprecedented £200m bailout may not be enough to save troubled Slough BC, writes LGC's acting news editor Jonathan Knott. Today's top news and
The items shown below are selected from the logs of the Cypress Police Department. The police blotter is not a comprehensive listing of police-related incidents in the city, and no inference of guilt is implied in showing any item in the Cypress police blotter. July 19, 2021 Theft – 7:03 a.m. – 4600 block of Lincoln Ave. – Sometime over the weekend, an unknown suspect stole the battery from a backhoe. Hit and Run – 5:25 p.m. – 5600 block of Plaza Dr. – Officers responded to a location regarding a hit and run, where the suspect vehicle had sheared off a fire hydrant. The suspect v...
Early this morning, Twitter users were treated to an amusing photo of a temporary polling station that had hastily been set up in a car boot. An Oxford church warden had apparently hit the snooze button, forgetting that they literally held the key to local democracy – and that polls opened at 7am sharp. The Association of Electoral Administrators was unfazed by the incident, saying such mishaps occur every election and praising staff for their professional response. AEA chief executive Peter Stanyon told LGC that the measures taken were “absolutely textbook”. “If you look at the photo...