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Newtown

Blog by Bill Cawley - posted Fri 27th Jan 2012

Newtown This pub sign in Fenton was probably put up in the 1960s and has a prophetic view of the future rising above the smoky past. Hanley represents a shining city on a hill- a vision from the perspective of the late 60s of what the future might hold. Manhattan on the Trent or so they hoped.

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I like the Victorians

Blog by Bill Cawley - posted Wed 25th Jan 2012

I like the Victorians. They had drive, they had energy, they believed in progress. I know that there was poverty and disease and huge discrepancies in wealth but look around at any North Staffs town and you can see obvious signs of their desire for improvement. Local towns were building their own gas works, they were organising their own water supplies, and they were building their own town halls. And this was done at speed look at the 30 years it took them to build the railway system, look at the drains under the streets of many cities in the UK.

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Attention to detail

Blog by Mike Rawlins - posted Tue 24th Jan 2012

I don't often write blog posts on here, I generally keep my opinions away from the site other than in the odd comment here or there.Today I am going to make an exception to my rule and ask why do Stoke-on-Trent City Council seem to have such a lack of attention to detail?Earlier I published a piece on the consultation for bus re-routing in Hanley. The re-routing needs to be carried out to allow the new bus station to operate.

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Consultation for Bus Re-routing in Hanley begins

Story by Mike Rawlins - posted Tue 24th Jan 2012

Public consultation on changes to the bus routing in Hanley appears to have begun. Although there has been no official public announcement about this from Stoke-on-Trent City Council yet, the web page on the council website appears to have been updated on Monday. It was proposed at the December Cabinet meeting, that public consultation should take place in January & February 2012, with the detailed design phase taking place between February & April in order for the final proposals to be presented to the April Cabinet meeting.

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Ben Gummer MP to introduce Statements of Taxation Bill

Story by Mike Rawlins - posted Tue 24th Jan 2012

Ipswich MP Ben Gummer will introduce his Statements of Taxation Bill after Prime Minister’s Questions tomorrow. The proposal is that each year Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs should send every taxpayer a statement detailing:how much Income Tax and National Insurance they paid in the previous year how much Income Tax and National Insurance they can expect to pay in the current year how that money is being spent, broken down by areas of government spending.Jonathan Isaby, Political Director of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said

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