The reduced rail traffic has meant more time to fit in maintenance and improvements in all sorts of places up and down the UK. During this summer a £2.1 million programme of repairs is taking place on the Grade-II listed Ribblehead Viaduct in North Yorkshire.
Yesterday evening (12/08/2020) at a well attended virtual meeting Dacorum Borough Councillors were briefed by council officers on some of the implications of Johnson's "Build, Build, Build!" Planning White Paper.
Rosemarie and Nick had a short break this year already with four days in Wiltshire, when we were very lucky with the weather, but then the rest of their holiday plans ( like those of everybody else ) were wrecked by covid-19 and the subsequent lockdown. Not that they're complaining - a friend of theirs lost his wife through covid in March. The disease must be taken seriously and very many families have lost multiple loved ones.
There's no doubt that global heating is changing the UK's climate and making it noticeably warmer. Not all changes are uniform of course. Most people will have heard of the Gulf Stream. This is a stream of warm water which drifts across the Atlantic and keeps the UK 5 degrees C warmer than the corresponding parts of Canada. The ocean movements are quite complex but the Gulf Stream is slowing down. At the moment there is a 15% chance is could stop by the end of the century. If that happened then the UK would feel the chill quite quickly. Of course that might not happen and, if it did, then it might still be centuries away.
Yes, it is - and it's important we do recycle these materials.
The Hertfordshire Liberal Democrat Councillors, who are the Opposition at County, Hall have slammed a decision by the Conservative-run administration to spend an extra £11m that the council has been given for road and footway repairs on new roads instead.
Pippa Heylings reports from the global climate summit in Baku
What the Government is doing, and why we're opposing it.
October is Black History Month - a chance to celebrate the Black British community, acknowledge their contributions and discover their stories.
