Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

The local election campaign kicks off this week and, as always, there is a little extra surprise supplied by Crawley.
At the very last minute Crawley council’s very own invisible man, Mike Weatherly, has quit so there will be a by-election at the same time as the regular scheduled elections, and the other parties have to [...]

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On saturday afternoon we went up to Camden Lock. I had not been there for years, over 15 years I think. It was great to see Jayne’s reaction to the place with all its interesting clothes shops and endless market stalls.
After a while you recover from the impact of seeing so many shops [...]

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One interesting thing I learnt at this meeting on Saturday is a small but significant change to ballot papers.
Previously if you were know as something different to your official name it would appear on the ballot paper as (for example)
Anthony Wedgewood-Benn
commonly known as Tony Benn
But now it will only show what you are commonly [...]

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After our meeting on Saturday we headed across to London Bridge. The intention was to visit the London Dungeon, which Jayne has never been to and really wants to see. When we got there we found a queue which went on for ever. One of the assistants estimated that it would take about [...]

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