On Thursday, 11th July, 1929, a well-rehearsed fire service demonstration at the Gillingham Park Fete went tragically wrong, and 15 people burned alive in front of a crowd of hundreds of spectators.
The real tragedy, however, is the state of the graves of those six men and nine boys who perished in the tragedy, epitomised in [...]
Labour activists have been on the offensive about Lord Ashcroft’s non-dom status, despite the fact that their non-dom donors have given more freely than Ashcroft.
In particular, the leading Labour blogger in Medway, Tristan Osborne, has been spewing his bile about Ashcroft’s funding of Tory posters in his new locale of Chatham.
However, the Labour candidate for [...]
I went into last night’s budget meeting intending to tweet the most interesting comments, as well as brief personal thoughts, from start to finish.
Unfortunately, my neglect in ensuring that I went into the public gallery with a fully-charged BlackBerry put pay to that idea, and I had to stop live tweeting the meeting.
I did, however, [...]
February 26, 2010 | Posted in
Full Council,
Opinion |
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AlanWCollins is today launching a new campaign in Medway – this time against the car parking system presently enforced (or, in some cases, not) by Medway Council.
In this first stage, I am using a Facebook group and a Google Docs survey to gather support, opinions and contributions to the Campaign Against Rip-off Parking in Medway [...]
Labour’s biggest failure in tackling one of Britain’s biggest social problems was exposed by The Sun on Monday as figures revealed that, since 2002, 15 ten year-olds have fallen pregnant.
In addition, 39 eleven year-olds have been found to be expecting in the same period of time, and 300 girls of or under the age of [...]
February 10, 2010 | Posted in
Labour,
Opinion,
Pregnancy,
Sex |
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