How much public money (that is – your money) does the Environment Agency actually spend every year on maintaining the designated main rivers that are their responsibility? By that I mean maintaining…
Flooding coming again? Jubilee control gates in use?
Valencia and Malaga? Cars heaped in car parks and floating down the river? Just a thought! It is not even 12 months since the last flood event here – but no watercourse…
Still awaiting answers from Cabinet Mtg.
RBWM CABINET – Wednesday 30 October 2024 (Extract from the Meeting Minutes) Councillor Larcombe, Datchet, Horton & Wraysbury, wished to highlight some past and future flood related matters to the Cabinet that…
Conflicts of interest in the civil service?
This is a National Audit Office Press release dated: 22 Nov 2024 According to the report gaps in how public bodies manage conflicts of interest among staff pose a risk to government’s…
Conservatives forgotten Council Tax policy?
‘Maintain our status as having the lowest council tax outside London’? Today RBWM has the lowest Council Tax outside London – and is on the verge of declaring bankruptcy. In my opinion…
Consultation on River Basin Management Plans
The Working Together public consultation opens on 14 November 2024 for 6 months on Gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/river-basin-planning-working-together-2024. This is the first consultation of three in the process of reviewing and updating the river basin management plans,…
Asylum seekers return to Datchet
Extract from Mailonline 15-11-2024 Families in pretty Windsor village [Datchet] say they are selling up – after claiming migrants being housed in their local hotel have turned it into a ‘hellhole’ Furious…
Major 14-hour fire in Barrow submarine assembly hall
This is an interesting extract (from the Nuclear Information Service website) about a problem in Barrow. I can confirm that you will be paying for this event. A fire, which erupted in…
Flood areas are not poor enough to help?
This report is from March 2004. Here we are 20 years later – now too poor to be helped – and entirely due to RBWM failure to contribute to ‘partnership funding’.
An alternative view of the Autumn 2024 Budget
Budget – 30th October 2024 – by Ian Thompson