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SNAIL'S TALES (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The 3rd annual meeting of the Ohio (River) Valley Unified Malacologists (OVUM), organized by Tim Pearce, took place at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh yesterday. There were 14 participants and 11 presentations. Here are the speakers and very brief summaries of what I thought they talked about in the order of presentation. Charlie Sturm (CMNH) : Ongoing attempts to locate the field...
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Isle of Wight - WightBlog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP has called for measures in the Sustainable Communities Act to be implemented in full, to demonstrate how much public money in total is being spent on the Isle of Wight and in other areas across the country. Section 6 of the Act (which became law in 2007) requires the Government to [...] MP – Government should ‘open the books’ is a post from: Isle...
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Isle of Wight - WightBlog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Andrew Turner has given his response to the report on MPs’ Expenses by Sir Christopher Kelly and the Committee on Standards in Public Life. Mr Turner welcomed the report which, he says, contains many sensible proposals. He hopes that the new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) will implement the recommendations in full as part [...] Island MP’s response to Kelly report...
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Isle of Wight - WightBlog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, has raised the cost of guarding prisoners whilst they receive healthcare outside the prison at Prime Minister’s Question time this week. Responsibility and the budget for paying for escorts (for out-patient prisoners) and bed-watchers (for in-patient prisoners) transferred to the NHS from the prison service last April. Figures from the [...] Prime Minister...
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KERRY MCCARTHY (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I promised someone on Twitter last week that I would explain how the ballot for PMQs works, and who else gets to speak, so here goes, using tomorrow's session as an example. Backbenchers (which includes all the Lib Dems except Clegg and all the Tories except the Shadow Cabinet) have to submit their question for PMQs by 12.30pm the Thursday before. They don't have to actually specify what question they...
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the optimum population trust blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
THE projected population rise to over 70 million is dangerously unsustainable and would equate to an extra 15,000 people on the Isle of Wight, Island MP Andrew Turner has said. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) projects the population will reach such a level by 2029. Mr Turner said: “There is simply not the capacity or resources [...]
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Isle of Wight - WightBlog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
MP – says ‘Simply Ask’! Andrew Turner has signalled his support for the RSPCA Freedom Food ‘Simply Ask’ Campaign by signing a giant egg in Westminster. Freedom Food is the RSPCA’s scheme for the welfare of farm animals and ‘Simply Ask’ aims to encourage people to ask where food is sourced when they eat [...] ‘Simply Ask’! is a post from: Isle...
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Isle of Wight - WightBlog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
The Island’s MP, Andrew Turner, said today that, although disappointed with the final decision of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to take no further action at this time to investigate the Cross-Solent ferry market, he is pleased that there will be more information available to the public in future about the levels of [...] Island MP – on OFT report is a post from: Isle of Wight - WightBlog.co.uk...
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Isle of Wight - WightBlog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Sir Thomas Legg Enquiry Island MP Andrew Turner has issued a statement following the provisional conclusions of an audit into all MPs’ claims conducted by Sir Thomas Legg, a former civil servant. In a letter he received last night, Mr Turner was asked for more documentation. Mr Turner said today: “All my claims were supported by documentary evidence but I [...] MPs’ claims is a post...
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Isle of Wight - WightBlog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, was praised this week from the platform of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Sir George Young, the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons was speaking about Conservative proposals to cut the cost of politics, which include a commitment to reduce the number of MPs by 10%. [...] Island MP – ‘first class job’ is a post from: Isle of...
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Corante (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Andrew Turner: Beyond Google Maps presentation Some people might say that I’m geo-obsessed. Since I started geo-tagging my Flickr photos, now about half of my entire Flickr stream is geo-tagged. I use Google’s Latitude, and I’ve written about the opportunities that I see for geo-location and news. Last week, I met someone even more enthusiastic about geo-data [...]
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Moving Past Push Pins (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
In July at State of the Map Andrew Turner announced the release of our open source geocoder gem. Since then it has been tried, bugs have been found and we’ve continued to improve it. Following that announcement we’ve integrated our geocoder into GeoCommons. When you upload a CSV file and define columns that contain address, city, [...]
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Isle of Wight - WightBlog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
MP – Urgent Review of Hospitals Needed Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, is supporting the Patients Association’s call for a review of basic training and dignity standards across the NHS. Although Mr Turner has received very few complaints about care received at St Mary’s Hospital on the Island, he is aware that there is a [...] MP – Urgent Review of Hospitals Needed is...
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Martin's Moths (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Here's another Red Admiral, seen less than a week after the tattered old veteran I showed on 3 September. What a difference. The contrast makes the point about the different generations of some butterflies. Like us, Red Admirals keep breeding in the summer, so that a pensioner such as the one at Addingham can be flying at the same time as a beautiful youngster in her equivalent of the twenties, like...
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Isle of Wight - WightBlog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, has refused to refer a complaint to the Parliamentary Ombudsman in respect of a prisoner at HMP Albany who wants to claim compensation for the loss of his personal details by the Home Office. Mr Turner was approached by Swain & Co, a firm of solicitors in Hampshire who [...] Island MP – Refusing to support ‘scam’ damages claim is a post from:...
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