Sunday, December 20, 2009

Community Information Centre and Police Post opens in South Petherton

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In December 2009 we opened the South Petherton Community Information Centre and Police Post. http://www.thisisdorset.co.uk/westerngazette/...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Climate Change Action Day

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I am delighted to share with thousand of others around the worl din blogging for climate change. In South Somerset we are working to a cor...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

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Monday, February 23, 2009

South West Charter for Member Development

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South West Charter for Member Development Hilton Hotel, Swindon February 27th 2009 The Charter for Member Development requires councils to e...
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A Local perspective on the art of integrating sustainability

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AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO PLANNING THE FUTURE – YES WE CAN! - Embedding Sustainable Development into the new government processes & stra...
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Saturday, November 29, 2008

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ACT

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In October the Government invited Councils to 'opt in' to the Sustainable Communities Act. This piece of private member legislation ...
Friday, August 29, 2008

SMOKE FREE SOUTH SOMERSET

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This is the text of a letter I sent recently as Health Champion for South Somerset District - so far 3 major local newspapers have run the l...

South Petherton Local Action Group

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South Petherton is blessed with a very active, successful and inspirational group of young people who over the years have developed the Yout...
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Friday, July 20, 2007

Community Strategy leads Rural Continuity

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South Somerset is made up of a diverse mix of town, village and rural localities. If you want to live in an idyllic village with fields, ani...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

One size fits all?

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The Unitary debate is reaching a key stage across the country. Responses to the Department of Communities and Local Government consultation ...
Sunday, April 02, 2006

Rural Areas - the Dark Matter in Local Government

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I had the opportunity to talk at the Henry Stewart Conference on City Regions or Cities and Regions on March 29th 2006. The debate was consi...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Cutting the Wires

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The New Local Government Network launches their report on wireless / mobile working today. The text that follows is my contribution to that ...
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Friday, January 06, 2006

Charles Kennedy

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A very difficult few days for the Liberal Democrats. Charles Kennedy did a very good personal political job yesterday by declaring his alcoh...
Sunday, August 21, 2005

Full Ironman in South Somerset and Dorset

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This morning I was at the start of the UK's Full Ironman event. One of 23 Ironman around the world 1500 competitors swam, cycled and ran...
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Monday, August 08, 2005

Green Flag Award and Civic Trust

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10 days ago I was fortunate to go to Swansea's Brangwyn Hall together with the Portfolio Holder for Leisure and Culture and 2 of our Cou...
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Sunday, February 06, 2005

Peer Mentors

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Attended the peer mentor accreditation day for the I&DeA on Wednesday. The whole idea of supporting councillors and officers in their no...
Saturday, January 29, 2005

School mentors

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I visited Westfield School in Yeovil on Thursday to present certificates to Year 11 Mentors. This seems to be an excellent scheme where olde...
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Monday, January 24, 2005

now its a routine

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This is the second of my entries, and hopefully this will become a routine - every week I hope to deliver some useful information about the ...
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Sunday, December 19, 2004

First Post

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I decided to start this weblog after writing a diary for an article soon to be published. I have recreated the diary as my first real ent...
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