Posted by Gav on December 5th, 2007
Last night the Policy and Strategy Committee of Adur District Council (ADC) had to make some tough funding decisions.
If you find your favourite project has been dropped or had its funding cut, write to the Prime Minister and copy in your local Councillor and explain that the burdens on Council Tax in the south of England imposed by central government are making life unreasonably difficult for Councils, for tax payers and for those who rely on assistance from the local Council.
The minutes of the meeting will show which projects did not make the cut and which projects have had their funding modified (reduced). In the meantime, you can see the choices we had to make in Annex 2 (the last page) of Agenda Item 5 of the meeting on 4 December 2007: Policy and Strategy reports and minutes
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Posted by Gav on December 5th, 2007
So a police officer has been banned from driving for forty-two days for driving at 90mph.
This, depending upon how you look at it, is an extremely soft penalty or an extremely harsh one. I would err on the harsh side.
No-one was hurt by his driving and if he’d been in an accident speed would statistically have been unlikely to be a contributing factor. Even if it were a contributing factor, that same argument could be made all the way down to not allowing the car to move at all.
When the police flout blatantly foolish and draconian laws (as does almost every commuter on my 84-mile round trip each day), it must surely say something about the validity of the law. If it was so dangerous to drive at a speed over 70mph, surely there would be at least one crash on the M23 each day?
Let’s make the speed limits sensible and consider no speed limits on some straight, flat motorways.
Posted by Gav on December 5th, 2007
Google’s Search History on my personalised homepage today had a few items that I most certainly did not search for and that were made while I was at a Council meeting and while no-one was using my PC at home (I checked).
So it seems Google have a security leak which is troubling at the very least. Suffice I’ve changed my passwords for everything (which took some time as you may imagine!)
I suggest you change yours too.
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