Liberal Democrats will put forward a range of proposals to create sustainable prosperity and jobs at their Autumn Conference next month.
The paper banks at George V Playing Fields have been destroyed by fire. TRDC is trying to borrow spare paper banks from other authorities for the short term. If residents who use these banks need extra boxes to accommodate their paper please ring TRDC and they will be delivered to your home. There are paper banks at Riverside Drive.
A report published in the middle of August by the Waste Resource Action Programme (WRAP) claims that more than half of all bulky waste items taken to household waste and recycling centres (HWRCs) could be re-used.
It has been announced this afternoon (25th August) that Mouchel Group plc has gone into administration. The assets have been sold by the administrators, KPMG, to a new company, MRBL Ltd, now owned by the lender banks (80%) and management (20%). The banks have had to write off £83 million and the shareholders have lost everything, but at least the 8,000 employees keep their jobs for the moment.
YOUNG OFFENDERS TO UNDERTAKE LOCAL TASKS.
A Hertfordshire rail bottleneck is now well on the way to being removed, thanks to the Coalition Governments infrastructure investment programme. Currently trains for Cambridge and Ely have to cross the East Coast Main Line on the same level just after Hitchin station. This blocks both fast tracks temporarily every time a train turns off to Cambridge, with speed restrictions over the crossing and obvious timetabling problems.
Reflecting on the year’s International Women’s Day theme of “accelerate action”, I am sadly reminded of how much more we still need to achieve.
The UK needs to strengthen both our Armed Forces and our soft power.
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day.
