Extract from BBC News 28-10-2024 People need to do what they can to prepare for predicted flooding this winter, a council has said. Councillors on West Berkshire District Council have warned the…
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Questions for RBWM Cabinet Meeting 30/10/2024
Background and questions for RBWM Cabinet Meeting 30-10-2024 Item 6 – CIPFA Report I am here to identify and highlight past and future flood related matters with geopolitical financial implications that may…
Council criticises Environment Agency over Temple Bridge
TEMPLE FOOTBRIDGE CLOSED. (Extract from Bucks Free Press) Here we go again – Temple footbridge on the Thames Path this time. Yet another sub-standard Environment Agency wooden footbridge out of action…
River Thames Scheme project at risk?
Surrey County, Woking and Spelthorne Borough Councils all have significant debt. RBWM likewise. The total cost of the River Thames Scheme project to date is about £90m. The RTS was started around…
DHEFIM already unaffordable?
I did attend the Hythe Centre for a short time on 24th October 2024 but only to let the EA know what I am going to do in the future. RBWM is…
The RBWM Financial Horror Story continues
The RBWM Financial Horror Story (actually the original CIPFA Report) continues and has now been updated ready for consideration at the RBWM Cabinet Meeting on 30th October. Extracts from Page 4 of…
Terry Loveridge jailed for two years for theft and fraud
This is an extract from the Slough Observer (Richard Lemmer) 23-10-2024 A man who stole more than £3,000 worth of items from vehicles in less than four weeks – and racked up…
Abandoned trailer in Datchet?
For how many months does an abandoned trailer sit in a layby (and collecting rubbish and graffiti) – on Major’s Farm Road in Datchet – until somebody decides that it is their…
Teenage motorcyclist dies in Datchet crash
Tributes paid to teenager [later named as Aidan Tottman] who died in Datchet crash (By Olivia Endellion Mowl) Tributes have been paid after a teenage boy died in a crash involving a motorcycle…
The HS2 project problem (again)!
HS2 (the new railway project) has overrun in cost and time almost from conception. Having already trimmed the planned destinations like chopping the branches off a tree – apparently the project costs…