By Lisa Northover The Bounderies commission has today published the proposals for the new constituency bounderies for England and Wales, I have picked out the relevant information for Bournemouth Poole and surrounding constituencies. The electorates of the unitary authorities of Poole and Bournemouth are such that it is not possible to allocate a whole number [...]
15 people, some old faces, some new, attended the launch of Dorset 4 Democracy in Bridport on Thursday the 8th. Through the Alternative Vote referendum campaign the organisation was known as Fair Votes for Dorset. Chaired by Richard Denton White, D4D wants to expose problems in the electoral system caused by retrenched councils. We are [...]
By Ken Mantock The Government is seeking to streamline the planning process and kickstart development. Over 1300 pages of various national policies that local councils have to abide by when deciding planning applications are being reduced down to just 52 pages. Sounds good in principle perhaps, but people are up in arms because the new [...]
By Anna Hancock Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has said that the public sector needs to look carefully at assets which could be sold to raise money in preference to cutting services. However, here in Bournemouth, rather than selling off assets to raise funds our local council has spent over £4 million on purchasing the [...]
Claims by President Obama’s chief counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan that ‘there hasn’t been a single collateral [civilian] death’ in Pakistan since August 2010 are found to be untrue today, following a major Bureau investigation. According to Brennan, Barack Obama himself has ‘insisted’ that US drone strikes are ‘exceptionally surgical and precise’ and ‘do not put… [...]
Summer 2011 – Back to the story…. Lostprophets released their first album, ‘thefakesoundofprogress’, just over ten years ago. Ten. Years. They’ve been years of shifts in both style and attitude as the band made the ascent through the British rock spectrum. Their forthcoming fifth record promises to encompass all the sound and experience that Lostprophets [...]
Creativity and Addiction
New logo for the Navitus Bay Wind Park created by local student
New partnership to hold rights to Navitus Bay offshore wind project
Health and vitality in juicy Boscombe
The BCCA – What do the The Boscombe Arts Collective say?
Fighting the cold – bedsits in Boscombe
