I guess the highlight of the week was seeing the leader of the BNP humiliate himself on BBC1’s Question Time. This sad but nasty thug failed totally to present himself as the moderate face of right-wing politics, as was his claimed intention. Instead he came over as a shifty, shallow character whose racist views are […]

Public anger at elites who continue to line their pockets from the public purse whilst more and more ordinary people are genuinely finding it harder to make end meet has exposed something seriously rotten in our country. Not all in our democracy is bad. There are good examples of local people getting involved in shaping […]

District councillors are carrying out a review of day centres. People who run and use Stansted’s day centre will be invited to contribute. As with most council services, the use of day centres has been changing over the years so the time seems right to have a fresh look at making best use of these […]

New bus shelters around Stansted were installed in early October after a further month’s delay, but in time for the autumn and winter wind and rain. The revised bus service to Stortford is far from ideal, with the two services 7 and 301 timed to trail each other within a few minutes in each direction. In […]