Anyone who follows The Hedon Blog regularly will know that it relies heavily on Twitter for collecting and disseminating information. One of the third-party applications that make Twitter easier to manage is TweetDeck.
This week’s JigZone puzzle is a unique insight into parts (I must keep some secrets!!) of my very own TweetDeck.
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The HOTI group (Hull and Holderness Oppose the Incinerator) is to hold a public meeting in Hedon on Friday 26th June 2009, 6:30pm at the Alexandra Hall.
The meeting will provide the latest information on the campaign to prevent the building of a waste-burning incinerator at Saltend near Hedon.
The Waste Recycling Group Ltd already has planning permission to build an incinerator and has recently re-submitted an application for a permit to operate the facility.
The Environment Agency has said that an approved permit will ensure that the plant operates without causing significant harm to the environment and human health. However, the HOTI group have claimed that the terms of the contract to operate the site are now fundamentally different to those originally agreed and are therefore legally flawed.
Hear the arguments from HOTI at the Public Meeting.
The Hull Daily Mail has reported the first case of swine flu confirmed in Hull. The Health Protection Agency confirmed three new cases yesterday in Yorkshire and the Humber including the one from Hull.
110 NEW cases of Swine Flu in England were confirmed yesterday following laboratory testing by the Department of Health.
Together with the 10 confirmed cases in Scotland one confirmed case in Northern Ireland this brings the total number of laboratory confirmed UK cases identified since April 2009 to 1,582.
Dr Wendy Richardson, director of public health for Hull, was reported in the Mail as stating:
“Although we now have a confirmed case of swine flu in the Humber area, I would like to stress there is still no need to panic.
“Due to the ongoing situation in the rest of the country we are following the tried and tested plan for dealing with swine flu.
“Our message remains the same that this is not currently a serious condition and patients can be managed well at home, so people in the wider community should not be concerned.”
See UK Government Swine Flu leaflet and recommended advice websites on the Pandemic Flu Alert on The Hedon Blog.
In April this blogger asked who would be paying for the UK’s digital future. Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report has now proposed that the public will pay for this in two ways.
Taxation: Under the proposals reported by the BBC yesterday, everyone with a fixed-phone line will pay a small levy (a tax!) of £6.00 per year to contribute towards the costs of bringing broadband to everyone.
Television Licence Fee: It is further proposed that up to £250 million of licence fee income should be spent on ensuring broadband access is extended to all.
The proposals yesterday may not necessarily please all those who currently benefit from and pay for faster broadband. However it does seem that they might actively ensure wider digital inclusion than currently exists and bring broadband opportunities to a third of the poulation with no current access.
On a closely related issue, the Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw announced in Parliament yesterday that the Government wished to continue to support strong local and regional news services and that licence fee monies might be spent on broadcasters other than the BBC in the future.
The BBC have used Channel M – TV for Manchester as an example of the kind of broadcaster that might benefit from future licence fee funding. Note: I could not get Channel M’s video player to work on my limited broadband connection!
Posted in ICT, UK/International
Tagged BBC, Broadband, broadband tax, Channel M, Digital Britain, Digital Inclusion
Billy Bragg headlines the Beverley and East Riding Folk Festival which kicks off this Friday night at 8pm at the Beverley Leisure Complex. The Festival now in its 26th year, takes place over the long weekend from Friday 19th June until Sunday 21st June 2009.
Other acts performing include The Peatbog Faeries, Seth Lakeman, Lúnasa and The Lonnie Donegan Band Feat featuring Lonnie Donegan’s son Peter. But of special interest for me is the appearance of Eric Bogle with John Munro. Eric wrote an anti-war song in 1976 called “No Man’s Land” (which found fame as “The Green Fields of France”) which is one of my favourite and moving songs of all time. Eric and John perform on Sunday 21st June 2009 at 3:00pm.
The full list of artists can be found on the Beverley Folk Festival website:
“The Festival will be bigger than before with the addition of more marquees and will be offering a weekend of activities for all ages, ranging from a fantastic array of craft, food and music stalls, Family and Youth events, workshops and children’s events plus non-stop performances at the Late Night Festival Club. The Wold Top Festival Bar will once again be serving the famous Beverley Festival Brew.”
A Funding Fair to be staged in Beverley on Thursday 25th February, 10am to 4:30pm will provide useful advice and information to voluntary and community groups active in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Community groups and voluntary organisations will be able to discuss their project ideas and funding application forms directly with advisors from major funding organisations including the Big Lottery Fund, Lloyds TSB, Grassroots Grants, Comic Relief and others.
The “Meet the Funders” event will be held at the Beverley Leisure Complex and is organised by the East Riding Voluntary Action Services.
Contact office@ervas.org.uk for further information or call ERVAS on tel: 01482 871077.
This photo was taken by Mrs “David Bailey” Duff in York a few years ago. As always; click to play:
A wheelie bin fire on Draper’s Lane tackled by the Fire Brigade at about 2:45am this morning seems to have been the work of arsonists and could have had tragic consequences for the two flats and families concerned (each flat had small children sleeping).
Fortunately nobody got hurt but the results could have been different had neighbours not spotted and alerted the fire brigade.
The design of the two storey flats in Draper’s Lane greatly increases the risk of families being trapped in upstairs flats during fires. The stairways
are the only means of quick escape.
Another flat a few doors away had its wheelie bin set alight about 5-6 months ago. This morning’s fire therefore raises fears about a local arsonist possibly being active.
This will raise the question of whether a Neighbourhood Watch scheme or something similar would be beneficial for the area? Local families would certainly benefit from reviewing their ‘fire escape plans‘.
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