It's always goood to see a long-awaited project delivering benefits. In this case the so-called "Bacon Factory Chord" in the north of Ipswich.
Councillor Ron Tindall is on the front page of this week's Gazette speaking out against Conservative run Hertfordshire County Council's plans to save money on its adult care budget. These plans would mean asking the most vulnerable residents to pay £130 more per week for the care that they receive.
The Liberal Democrat Opposition councillors at County Hall have been shocked and angered to hear that HCC are intending to extend the contracts of much-criticised highways contractors Ringway for a further 5 years.
Huge volumes of traffic, sharp bends, low bridges have been causing problems for years on the A507, which, for an "A" road, is quite narrow in places. Villages are plagued with congestion and pollution and HGVs have difficulty in passing each other in several places. In addition, there have been numerous bridge strikes as larger HGVs, misled by inaccurate satvav, are too tall to get under the Baldock railway bridge.
25 years behind the first successful link between a light rail and a normal rail network constructed in 1992 in Karlsruhe, the first trams designed to run on the first such link in the UK (dubbed "tram-train") have finally been introduced into passenger service.
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