Some while ago I suggested to Swindon’s Cabinet that they should be pressing the government to abandon their target for…
Heron
Here’s a picture of a heron at Shaftesbury Avenue lakes. We don’t see them very often, just occasional visits. I…
An assault on local democracy
According to the report for this week’s Swindon Council Cabinet meeting “a high proportion of responses received expressed opposition to…
Swindon Council cuts – there is a choice
Article after article by David Renard drives home the message that Swindon Borough Council ‘has no choice’. It has to…
The Letting Agencies rip-off
“The problems of high cost and poor standards are not confined to a few “rogue” agencies but are widespread across…
BMA strikers in Swindon
A few photos from today’s picket line in Swindon at the Great Western Hospital.
Parishes proposal: the electors must decide
This is written on behalf of Parks & East Walcot Community Forum, of which I am the Secretary. Yesterday Parks…
Swindon Council to ’empower’ local people by denying them power to decide on parishes
At the Council meeting yesterday I asked a couple of questions on the Community Governance Review which will consider whether…
Not so much a ‘vision’, more a nightmare
This is a guest post by a Swindon Council employee who has been given a ‘vision’… A couple of weeks…
Labour should oppose parishes move and demand referendum
Just when I was thinking that’s a good letter from Des Moffatt (“Beware Parish Plan”) he said this: “…I am…
Martin Wicks 