A charity claims regeneration work in Leicester is making it increasingly difficult for disabled people to find a parking space in the city centre. The group, Mosaic, said the work being carried out has severely reduced the number of parking spaces dedicated to those with disabilities. It claims disabled spaces on Church Gate have been cut from 16 to five. The city council has said it will look again at the balance of spaces which are available.
A severely disabled man has been told he must move his girlfriend out of his home in order to receive benefits, because of money she previously had. Stephen Hook, 50, from Barming in Kent, was left unable to work after injuring his back when he was a hospital porter, and has claimed benefits for 15 years. But the Department for Work and Pensions stopped them because his partner had money from her house sale. It said they would be restored if she moved out and he used a state carer.
Out delivering Focus in Whitmore Reans this weekend the St. Peter's Focus Team was astonished to find overflowing wheely bins left on the footpath when clearly there was no refuse collections that day. Even worse, no attempt had been made to separate out items that could be recycled. The Focus Team has called on Wolverhampton Council not only to clear up the mess, some of which is near food shops, but to organise community education programmes about domestic waste. The dangers to health from domestic waste in the street should be obvious but apparently isn't. And the effort needed to separate recyclable items such as glass and paper is minute compared to the advantages it brings to the environment.
Kent Regional Newspapers, the group which owns the Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh "Herald" newspapers amongst others, has been bought by Northcliffe Media from previous owners Trinity Mirror.
The CWU (Communication Workers Union) has given notice to the Royal Mail of further strike action. The strike will start at 7pm on Thursday July 12th 2007, and continue through Friday 13th July.
Thousands of residents across the city have signed a petition against the Government's proposed tough new anti-terror laws.
