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Blackdown Hills Parish Network (BHPN) in Devon & Somerset
DCMS have excluded Devon & Somerset from an estimated £30M of Project Gigabit investment before 2025, after Devon and Somerset County Councils told DCMS that their planned direct investment would interfere with the County Councils’ ongoing delayed Phase 2 rural broadband roll out across the two counties and that theContinue Reading
Taking Care to support RAF veterans maintain independence in the homes they love
Taking Care, the UK’s largest private provider of personal alarm services, has announced a new partnership with the RAF Benevolent Fund. The partnership will see Taking Care donating a portion of alarm sales made via the RAF Benevolent Fund page on Taking Care’s website to the Charity, in order toContinue Reading
Royal Navy Type 21 Association Remembers
The Royal Navy Type 21 Association will be represented both nationally and internationally on Remembrance Sunday with the laying of poppy wreaths bearing the Type 21 Association Crest in Remembrance of all those that lost their lives whilst serving on Type 21 ships, and all those that lost their livesContinue Reading
Notions to give Saffie a successful return!
Splendent, with experience of three runs, ticks enough boxes for a solid each-way bet in the ten-runner Maiden Stakes over ten furlongs of Newcastle tapeta this afternoon when an eight-race card offers plenty of punting opportunities, the reason why this column is produced daily. Recently the ‘Good Ship Ross’ hasContinue Reading
Get England to beat Albania at huge 20/1 odds tonight with William Hill
ENGLAND can all but guarantee a place in the 2022 World Cup with a win over Albania tonight at Wembley. And ahead of the qualifier, William Hill are allowing new customers to back the Three Lions to win at 20/1. 1 This offer expires at 7.45pm tonight William Hill – EnglandContinue Reading
Care homes: why mandatory vaccination could make staff shortages worse
Almost 90% of the care-home workforce is already vaccinated. Prostock-studio The care sector in England is reportedly facing its worst staffing crisis ever. The UK government has launched a recruitment campaign to fill over 105,000 vacant posts. However, the government is also mandating from November 11 that care home workersContinue Reading
Spencer to The Crown: Can there ever be a definitive Diana on screen?
It makes sense that, until very recently, the best screen depiction of Diana was one where no one really played her at all. In Peter Morgan’s 2006 film The Queen, she is but a hurried figure getting into a car, chased by men on motorbikes. As we watch the RoyalContinue Reading
Why wearing a poppy and taking a knee in football should not be dismissed as ‘gesture politics’
At the London Stadium on Sunday, November 7, the players of West Ham United and Liverpool football clubs gathered around the centre circle, arms interlinked. Falling poppies filled the big screen as former England team captain Trevor Brooking read John McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Field, and a trumpeter played TheContinue Reading
Belarus: whether or not Putin is behind the border crisis, it plays into Kremlin hands
The migrant crisis on Belarus’s western border has escalated rapidly in recent days, forcing Poland and Lithuania to declare a state of emergency and close the borders with their neighbour. With 15,000 Polish border security personnel on one side of the barbed wire fence and an estimated 4,000 migrants desperatelyContinue Reading
Corruption: how the UK compares to other countries
Corruption allegations have been flowing freely in the UK of late. To cherry-pick just some, an MP has resigned over his apparent conflicts of interest, a former attorney general has had his external business practices thrust into the public spotlight, the prime minister has been dealing with allegations about whoContinue Reading