Growing soft fruit is not easy. The plants need sunshine to grow and ripen - making sugars to provide sweetness needs lots of energy in the form of sunlight. On the other hand they need lots of water, i.e. lots of rain, so all in all that's a bit of a contradiction.
This Monday, 20th July, 2020, the first trainset in an order of 5 battery hybrid passenger trains was delivered to rail and bus operator Trafnidiaeth Cymru in Wrexham to run on their Borders Line service between Wrexham in North Wales and Bidston on the Wirrall. At Bidston an easy change to Merseyrail makes for a fast and frequent service to Birkenhead and Liverpool.
Yes, folks, when I stood for Parliament for the Hemel Hempstead constituency for the SDP/Liberal Alliance in 1983 rolling out fibre broadband across the country was one of our flagship policies. Shirley Williams espoused it as her personal crusade and got a detailed three-page article in the Economist, a business affairs weekly established in London in1843. The Financial Times was similarly enthusiastic.
Despite the hard times of the covid-19 pandemic, Tring's Friday Charter Market, first established under a Royal Charter from Edward II in 1315, has kept going.
Every Principal Council should set up structures to ensure the actions and decisions of the Council Executive and the policies of the Council itself are able to be scrutinised by councillors and by members of the public.
Well, we all like sweet, succulent fruit picked when ripe and eaten fresh, but soft fruits are not the easiest crops to look after.
