10 Most Recent Stories From Roger Harmer
42 and 44 Flint Green Road Planning Application Granted.
The latest Planning Application for 42 & 44 Flint Green Road has now been approved. This covers 42 and 44 themselves and the building of five new 4 bed homes on the site facing Arden Road. The approval is not a surprise as all the local views expressed to me, were ...
Vote Blue get …. Blue.
Yesterday the Tories published a list of 'Ten reasons to vote Conservative' which did not include any reference to the environment or climate change. This is despite David Cameron's claim that he has 'sought to push the environment up to the top of the political agenda', and his own Shadow Climate Change ...
Save the Staffordshire Hoard for the West Midlands.
A fundraising campaign has been launched to save the Staffordshire Hoard for the West Midlands. In July last year a metal detector enthusiast discovered the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found, in a Staffordshire field not far from Birmingham. News coverage of the find was huge - and over 40,000 people queued to see ...
A Sad Day.
The announcement that the Cadbury Board have accepted the increased takeover offer from Kraft has made it a sad day - for this great British company, for Birmingham and for the Cadbury workforce. Takeovers only usually make any sense when the company being taken over has major problems that the predator company ...
A Fairer Britain.
With all the political parties now gearing up for the General Election, which is odds on to be on 6th May, the same date as the local elections, they have all been busy putting out policy statements in the past couple of weeks. For the Liberal Democrats the emphasis has been on Fairness. The background ...
True Grit.
Though I love the snow, even I am beginning to tire of this weather. And with the Government asking the Council to cut down on the gritting of our roads, to preserve national grit stocks, we must hope the predicted thaw does indeed arrive this weekend. Despite some stories in the ...
Scrap University Tuition Fees.
I'm really pleased to see that, despite the current financial pressures, the Lib Dems have restated their commitment to scrap University Tuition Fees. The state of the economy has meant that to keep our plans financially responsible, phasing out fees will take a total of six years, but it will ...
Positive Thoughts on Copenhagen.
Its hard to get away from the view that the outcome of the Copenhagen summit was pretty depressing. Global leaders have failed to deliver a binding agreement. Instead we have a non binding pact or 'Accord' that most delegates merely 'noted'. As the BBC's environment correspondent, Richard Black said, this is unlikely ...
One in Four Young Brummies Unemployed.
The November unemployment figures were released yesterday. They show that the recent trend of a slowing of the rise has thankfully continued. Indeed while the national three monthly figure rose more slowly, the monthly adjusted levels actually fell. National adjusted unemployment was down 6,300, in the West Midlands it was down 1,600. The ...
Some Cuts Deferred - but only for a year….
This week saw two Governments take very different strategies to deal with very similar levels of budget deficits (around 12% of national income). In Ireland the finance minister, Brian Lenihan, announced plenty of painful measures. Cuts in public sector pay and welfare benefits will save around 7% of government spending. Pay ...
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