CONSPIRACY IS abound. A 50-year legacy is set to be erased from memory as Fylde Borough Council have twisted, turned and changed rules to sell off a much-loved estate of retirement bungalows at Melton Grove to a developer.
AFTER A two-year probe, Paul Maynard’s chief of staff and Fylde councillor Simon Renwick has been suspended from his duties as a councillor over allegations that he had 1,000 images of gay pornography on his council-issue laptop. The photogenic Mr Renwick has maintained that he never viewed the images nor downloaded them, but has been [...more]
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It’s been a quiet few weeks of news after the general election splurge, but fortunately thanks to court clerk Christine Dean, the site has received another boost to its visitor numbers. This month we’re up to 7,432 visits from 4,119 unique visitors; an increase of 24.22%. A large chunk of this was caused by visitors [...more]
The heavily lobbied Digital Economy Bill, part of Gordon Brown’s Digital Britain strategy, has been powered through Parliament in the annual wash up. Perhaps it has been intentionally kept below the radar due to the immense opposition to it, although one could ask whether MPs even knew about it given the disgracefully low turnout. The [...more]
The BBC has proposed an amendment to its license agreement with industry regulator Ofcom that will permit it to use copy protection on its high definition broadcasts meaning that much like with Freesat HD it will be impossible to record them. Using the much maligned Digital Rights Management, the BBC hopes to encourage content producers [...more]
This week Labour MPs have endorsed the third runway at Heathrow Airport, doubling passenger throughput from 67 million per year to 135 million. This equates to an additional 220,000 flights per year. Without this expansion, according to government boffins, these passengers would go via other European airports such as Paris Charles de Gaulle or Schipol [...more]
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