Parts of Radnor Cliff, Sandgate, will remain cordoned off for at least the next 24 hours following an explosion and fire at Cliffe House the early hours of Wednesday morning. Residents who have had to leave their homes will be unable to return tonight and will not be allowed back until gas levels have dropped.
In case you did not see it earlier, the New Economics Foundation came up last year with an intriguing un Happy Planet Index, which among other things incorporates the ecological footprint and the carbon footprint. It will ask you about where you live, your health, lifestyle, and how you feel about life. The answers you give are used to calculate your own personal score on the Happy Planet Index. How happy are you... and at what price to the environment?!
In case you did not see it earlier, the New Economics Foundation came up last year with an intriguing un Happy Planet Index, which among other things incorporates the ecological footprint and the carbon footprint. It will ask you about where you live, your health, lifestyle, and how you feel about life. The answers you give are used to calculate your own personal score on the Happy Planet Index. How happy are you... and at what price to the environment?!
In case you did not see it earlier, the New Economics Foundation came up last year with an intriguing un Happy Planet Index, which among other things incorporates the ecological footprint and the carbon footprint. It will ask you about where you live, your health, lifestyle, and how you feel about life. The answers you give are used to calculate your own personal score on the Happy Planet Index. How happy are you... and at what price to the environment?!
The Liberal Democrats today accused the Tories of hypocrisy, following Conservative complaints that Alistair Darling had stolen their tax policies. Several key proposals announced yesterday, which the Conservatives claimed were their own, had actually originally been proposed by the Liberal Democrats. They include:
At a lively Prime Minister's Questions, the first since the PM's u-turn on an early election, Ming Campbell challenged Gordon Brown on taxation. Noting that the government had stolen some Liberal Democrat tax policies in yesterday's pre-budget report (PBR), he asked Mr Brown if he would adopt a policy to help people on middle and lower incomes, by cutting the basic rate of income tax to 16p in the pound? In his second question, Ming turned to council tax, noting the 'glaring omission of any proposals for reform' of the unfair tax. Council tax is set to rise by twice the rate of inflation. 'How fair is that for lower and middle income families?' Ming asked. Alistair Darling's statement yesterday has been criticised across the board in today's papers for its shameless 'theft' of policies from the opposition parties such as raising the inheritance tax threshold and measures to get more tax from non-domiciles. The Times headline of "The Magpie Budget" is typical.
