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Entries from April 11th, 2006

Councillors’ allowances

April 11th, 2006 · Comments Off on Councillors’ allowances · Politics

I already wrote about my strong opinions on attempts to introduce extra allowances for shadow executives on the borough council, but tonight I heard something extraordinary about the whole thing. I'm pretty sure I'm givng away any secrets here because, although this was raised in a Labour group meeting, the details were in a letter […]

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Council meeting

April 11th, 2006 · Comments Off on Council meeting · Politics

This evening Jayne and I went along to the Labour group meeting where they discussed this week's council meeting.  There is a standing invitation for candidates in elections to go along and see how it all works, buy Jayne had always had something else clashing with group meetings previously so this was her first chance […]

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Missing the (Air)bus

April 11th, 2006 · Comments Off on Missing the (Air)bus · Life

The more serious papers, and especially their business pages are following the story of BAE Systems wanting to sell their stake in Airbus, but I don’t think it is really interesting the general public – apart from those whose livelihood depends on it of course. I think this is a shame, and not just because […]

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