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Archive for: October, 2009

Medway blogger attacks anti-war protesters for vandalising charity billboards

Medway blogger attacks anti-war protesters for vandalising charity billboards

Medway blogger Alan Collins has attacked anti-war protesters for vandalising billboards advertising the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal.
Mr Collins, a member of the Royal British Legion and the Royal Air Forces Association, as well as a former member of the Air Training Corps, expressed his anger at the tactics used by the protesters.
“The whole point [...]

Moving forward

Moving forward

AlanWCollins has continuously undergone changes – major and minor – since this weblog was introduced.
The latest change for the site is the introduction, as much as I wish it could have been avoided, of displaying Google Ads.
Friends and followers of my Twitter feed will have realised by now that I am obsessed with Google, and [...]

Online: plans to transform Twydall’s roads

Online: plans to transform Twydall’s roads

Medway Council has now published online detailed plans to transform Twydall’s roads.
The self-styled Twydall Accessibility Project aims to improve accessibility for Twydall’s pedestrians and cyclists, particularly pupils from Twydall’s several primary schools and it’s popular selective secondary school.
At the heart of the proposals, open for public consultation until Monday 26 October, is a plan to [...]

Twydall to become 20mph?

Twydall to become 20mph?

Medway Council is opening for public consultation plans to improve Twydall which include turning the area into a 20mph zone.
The proposals, contained within the ironically-titled Twydall accessibility project, come as part of a raft of new measures aimed at slowing traffic – and increasing safety for young children in Twydall’s primary schools.
However, some say that [...]

Everything that’s wrong with local politics

Everything that’s wrong with local politics

It’s not often that I find myself agreeing with Labour blogger Tristan Osborne, but his summary of the frankly childish Not The Medway Labour Blog as representing ‘gutter politics in Medway’ could not be truer.
Someone (clearly not a fan) has taken it upon themselves to create a primitive, perhaps, one might say, neolithic attack blog [...]

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