Pre-legislative scrutiny of the proposed National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) Order in the field of Social Walfare 2007 (Cm.)
Herohill (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
We are not much for posting "news" on the hill, but this is the kind of announcement that demands attention. Paul Murphy - guitar man/vocalist of Wintersleep - is fixing to put out a record he made with his brother as a gift for their mom. Under the moniker Postdata , the Murphy Boys hammered out some songs at their parent's house in Yarmouth, and revisited them almost a year later. The...
CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Wintersleep's Paul Murphy & brother Michael to release a new album Jan 26. Chart Japandroids confirmed for SXSW. Exclaim Jenn Grant tours Ontario & Quebec + new video. jenngrant.com Websites selling digital Beatles downloads shut down. Exclaim Brian Borcherdt & Julie Fader head out on Eastern Canadian tour. Exclaim Before she went Gaga , Stephanie Germanotta tickles the ivories. The Daily...
BBC Internet blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
There are two new BBC blogs to tell you about that look like they're going to be well worth following. The Web Developer blog rather self-effacingly and modestly describes itself as "A blog about the web and the BBC, from the people who build the BBC website." From its first half dozen or so posts you can see that this is a blog that isn't afraid to get down and dirty and tell it how it...
Wales Office (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Wales Office Minister Wayne David today welcomed the appointment of Ann Beynon OBE as Wales Commissioner to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The three-year appointment will help to strengthen the Commission’s work on gender, age, disability, sex orientation, race, religion and belief, as well as its work with employers in the public and private sectors, [...]
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
21 Nov 2009 20:00 TOWER OF SONG BAR B irmingham based acoustic musician Tom Martin is one of the finest singer song writers in the city. Tom was born in Belfast but has lived, worked and created music in Birmingham for deacdes and is well known and greatly respected on the local roots / folk scene. I first met Tom in 1983 when he was collaborating with Paul Murphy (The Destroyers), Phil Bond, Dave...
The Herald (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
HUNTER business figure Paul Murphy has accused Minister for the Hunter Jodi McKay of "getting personal" over his stand on the removal of the Newcastle rail line. Mr Murphy has been publicly sca
BBC Internet blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
David Artiss, writing on his blog Artiss.co.uk : Last night, or rather at midnight, the BBC iPlayer channel was released for the Nintendo Wii. The iPlayer has been usable in the past using the Opera-powered browser channel, but has been of limited quality and, well, not very easy to use. Now we have a very specific channel just for iPlayer. And it's been a long time coming - the BBC have been talking...
Wales Office (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The foundations of a National Care Service, abolition of child poverty and help towards energy bills for the frailest, most vulnerable people in our communities are amongst new Government legislation to deliver economic recovery and create a safer, fairer society for all, Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain said today. Other key measures for Wales [...]
Wales Office (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Devolution is gathering pace, said Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain today (Tuesday, 17 November) as two more powers were devolved to Wales. The Carers Legislative Competence Order (LCO) became the fifth LCO to be approved as it, and the Building Regulations Order, were both approved by Her Majesty the Queen in Privy Council. Welcoming the [...]
BBC Internet blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
There's a press release that's appeared today on the BBC press office website that outlines the planned roll out of Freeview HD . I've pulled out a couple of interesting paragraphs but it's worth looking at the full release as it has the dates for different bits of the country: Today the BBC has confirmed the timetable that will make HD services on Freeview available to 50% of the population in time...
Wales Office (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain today urged Welsh media organisations to join forces and submit the strongest possible bids to create a new pilot to replace ITV regional news in Wales. Mr Hain said: “It is great news that a timetable for the regional news pilots has now been confirmed. Having a pilot based [...]
Guerrilla Welsh-Fare (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Next Wednesday will see Sir Emyr Jones Parry present his report on the referendum to Rhodri Morgan and Ieuan Wyn Jones. Make no mistake; this will be a seminal moment in Welsh political history. Labour MPs were part of the establishment committee for the All Wales Convention and their membership voted with a massive majority to support its content. Yet over the past few weeks people like Peter Hain...
BBC Internet blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
There are a number of posters placed around our floor at Internet blog towers today as part of World Usability day . We probably would have missed it were it not for the internal email we received from the BBC FM&T Usability and Accessibility team (who also put up the posters): ...In companies all over the world usability professionals, designers and developers are today celebrating World Usability...
BBC Internet blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Everytime we sit down to write a weekly round-up someone somewhere says "No" to the BBC . This week it's the turn of BBC HD and Ofcom to do the dance of refusal. As HD sagas on the Internet blog go the HD DRM debate is pretty tame compared to the HD PQ ruction . The Guardian reports : Ofcom has rejected the BBC's request to introduce anti-piracy technology to Freeview to limit the illegal...
Wales Office (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain today [Wednesday 11 November] hosted a reception for Older People’s Commissioner for Wales Ruth Marks as she launched her second annual report in London. Mr Hain hosted a reception in Portcullis House for Welsh MPs as Ms Marks outlined some of the findings from her latest annual report. Also [...]
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