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Let’s not go back to the denial and delusion of the Thatcher years John Harris Midway through last week, I spent a couple of hours in Redditch, 15 or so miles south of Birmingham. My daughter plays the drums, and she wanted to see the new statue of the late John Bonham, who grew up in Redditch, joined the hugely successful hard rock group Led Zeppelin, and died a tragic death in 1980. We found the impressive memorial in the local market square – an obviously popular meeting place, sullied by a conspicuous line of vacant shops. Redditch has had a rough time of late. Even now, its Covid infection rate is among the highest in the country. Like so many places, the town has said goodbye to its branch of Marks & Spencer, and is about to lose its Debenhams department store too. In the spring sunshine, it felt pinched and forlorn. This was thrown into sharper relief by what we then listened to on the car radio: endless chatter about the death of the Duke o ....
Article by Sheria Brathwaite A mechanical harvester in the field at Drax Hall, St George, as the 2021 sugar harvest gets underway. (Picture by Lennox Devonish) Social Share Sugar cane harvesting got off to a slow start yesterday on the first day of reaping. No canes were cut on any of the Government-run plantations and only four private planters – H&G Farms, Drax Hall Plantation, Edgecumbe Plantation and Foursquare – started the process. By 2:30 p.m., these planters delivered a total of 225 tonnes of sugar cane to Portvale sugar factory in Blowers, St James. The DAILY NATION visited two of the locations where cane was being harvested. ....
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MORE than 30 town and parish councils - including Downton and Laverstock - have joined together to appeal for help in protecting the future of neighbourhood planning . The councils have formed the Wiltshire Area Localism and Planning Group (WALPA), and represent more than 200,000 residents across the county. They say urgent action is needed, with Wiltshire s town and parish councils suffering because of significant loopholes in planning legislation . They add that carefully drafted neighbourhood plans - reflecting the views of local communities - can be overruled, unless Wiltshire Council is consistently able to maintain five years’ worth of available housing land. At the moment, they say, Wiltshire does not have that critical five–year supply, which means that developers are challenging Neighbourhood Plans as soon as they are two years old. ....
Salisbury Bounce Back. Picture by Spencer Mulholland WILTSHIRE Council says no decision has been made on the funding of the complementary measures for People Friendly Salisbury. It comes after the chief executive officer of the Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership, Paddy Bradley - who are contributing £1.3m - told Paddy Bradley said: The money had to be spent by March 2021, and as Wiltshire Council said the scheme would be indefinitely suspended , the SWLEP board had to take a view on what to do with the money. We took the view that this meant the scheme would not be returning before March, and therefore the money needed to be reallocated. ....