Angela Rayner overrules Planning Inspector and approves giant building scheme in the Green Belt
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has said overhauling planning rules to bypass local authorities will remove “chaos and subjectiveness” from the system. She made the statement having overturned a Planning Inspector’s…
Association Football: The pyramid with a detachable top. The threat to the sport in England today.
Visit your local park on any weekend and you will find dozens of people playing football. Some of the games will be organised, others ad hoc kickarounds. There will be…
24,000 affordable homes lost over the past ten years, according to Angela Rayner’s Government department
Nearly 24,000 homes that should have been available for sale at low prices have instead been sold at premium prices during the past ten years. We can now reveal how…
DPP promises action on Joint Enterprise
In a question and answer session with the House of Commons Justice Committee, Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson told the Chair Andrew Slaughter his office were undertaking a study…
Olympic gold medallist Ellie Simmonds inspires student journalists
Multi gold medal winning Paralympian Ellie Simmonds enthralled an audience of aspiring journalists, plus a few old hacks too, as she was interviewed at a conference in Holborn. The event…
Yvette Cooper’s Respect orders are a return to the ASBO
Residents around Old Street will be delighted that the Government are looking to stop the nuisance of e-bikes riding on the pavement. They are also clamping down on flytipping. The…
If this isn’t urgent, what is? The scandalous state of Young Offenders’ Institutions
I get to read a lot of reports from the Prison Inspectorate, Ofsted, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, and more. Many of them are detailed, hard hitting, and critical of…
Too late to weep: the tragic tale of injustice and Edith Thompson
Left to right, Freddy Bywaters, Edith Thompson, and Percy Thompson As you travel on the Elizabeth Line from London to Essex, you will see the large City ofLondon Cemetery, between…
Taste the world in Whitecross Street
Just outside the City boundary is a high quality freshly cooked food market. Find information on many of the food stalls by clicking the links below. Said to be Britain’s…
Witch switch
On the wall of Rougemont Castle in Exeter is a granite plaque on which are listed four names of women, all of whom are recorded as being the last women…