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Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Here, as usual, are the top ten sites which referred visitors to this weblog in the month of November. Thanks once again to everyone who has a link to this blog on their website! 1. Google Search 2. Direct Hits 3. Walkden Conservatives 4. Salford Conservatives 5. Yahoo Search 6. David Ottewell’s Politics 7. Live Search 8. British Blogs 9. AOL Search 10. Bellgrove Belle
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Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Fergie backs c-chargeExclusive David Ottewell SIR Alex Ferguson is backing the congestion charge.The United boss said the promise of billions of pounds in return for the charge was a 'once in a lifetime opportunity to put Greater Manchester in the premier league for public transport'.He urged people to vote Yes in the on-going all-postal referendum, which closes on December 11.But he...
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Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
David Ottewell has posted some interesting information about motorway congestion in Greater Manchester and the wider northern region. It makes the unsurprising assertion that the stretch of the M60 around Junction 13 in Worsley is the busiest in the entire region. The report, by the Northern Way, makes some suggestions for improvement, including car sharing and [...]
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Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
News| Manchester Town HalladvertisementStolen laptops contained teachers' detailsExclusive David Ottewell 21/11/2008LAPTOPS containing the personal details of nearly 2,000 education workers in Manchester have been stolen from the town hall. The computers - which had passwords, but were not encrypted - contained the names, dates of birth and national insurance numbers of 1,754 teachers,...
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Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Obama team study c-chargeExclusive: David Ottewell BARACK Obama's transport advisers are studying Greater Manchester's congestion-charge plans - to see if they could work in the US.The President-elect's team have asked an American consultant who helped draw up the proposed charge to provide information about this scheme and similar systems around the world.Jack Opiola - who previously...
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Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... it tends to be devoid of political content and not very interesting. However I’m grateful to David Ottewell for pointing out this post on the US elections and the TIF bid . We’ll step around the ludicrous inference that Barack Obama would support the TIF bid (I rather doubt he has a view either way) and instead ask ourselves why the Manchester taxpayer is funding Sir Richard’s politically...
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Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
A weekly list of things which have caught my eye… David Jones MP reports on giving Dennis Skinner a taste of his own medicine Unquestionably the most amusing thing from US Election Night: David Ottewell’s Toyometer. Peter Hoskin at the Coffee House notes the withdrawal of Northern Rock tracker mortgages. On the Blue Blog, Tobias Ellwood MP presses the [...]
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Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Greetings from the Manchester Conservatives election night HQ, live from the Green Quarter! A quick straw poll reveals that those present are fairly evenly split in terms of whom they want to win - 5 McCain supporters, 4 Obama backers (including me) and 1 who isn’t really that bothered either way. I’ll try to make a couple of updates through the night but no promises. David Ottewell is...
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Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
I’m heading out for a table-tennis match, but in the meantime David Ottewell has kindly provided maps of the - subject to AGMA approval - finalised proposed congestion charge rings for your viewing pleasure. Outer Ring / Inner Ring Basically not much change, certainly not for residents in western Salford. More comment on my return!
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Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Kids able to bypass school firewallsKids abusing school computersExclusive: David Ottewell HUNDREDS of kids are looking at pornography on school computers every day.Experts also found that kids at Greater Manchester primary and secondary schools use the internet to send bullying and abusive messages while in class.They found the average school triggered between 50 and 100 'serious alerts'...
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Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
Ten things that caught my eye this week, in no particular order… Andrew Lansley MP on the Blue Blog explains why Labour aren’t the Party of the NHS Dan Hannan MEP on Gordon Brown’s use of anti-terror legislation against Iceland Cllr Simon Renwick on selecting a new Conservative candidate for Fylde ConservativeHome: New Labour = Old Labour David Ottewell’s blog [...]
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Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
So today “the question” has been released. David Ottewell reports that the poll question local residents will be asked about the TIF bid and congestion charge will be: Please read the leaflet enclosed with this ballot paper which provides details of the Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund proposals. These involve both major investment in public transport improvements [...]
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Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Sex offenders breaching rulesSex offenders flouting rulesExclusive David Ottewell THE number of potentially dangerous sex offenders breaching rules designed to protect the public has doubled in two years.More than 100 of the 1,716 paedophiles, rapists and other signatories of the Sex Offenders Register in Greater Manchester were cautioned or charged for breaching their orders in a 12-month...
