Apparently more down to failings within the CDC and other bodies... will report back when the book has been read. (View Post)

Here in the Yorkshire Dales the local economy is very buoyant... lifted by ‘staycation’ tourism and an influx of new homeowners, local businesses are struggling to recruit and tradesmen are impossibl… (View Post)

The Tories have built a values-based coalition of interests of the right size (c.40-45% of voter) in the right places to gain and maintain power. Brexit was the means to an end, not the end itself. U… (View Post)

Glorious weather in the north-west... snow on the high ground... southern lakes hills very clear in the distance... currently watching three buzzards high in the sky above the moor, they’re being att… (View Post)

Rural FTTP is perfectly feasible and commercial. If, that is, Openreach are not involved. Offering connectivity to farmers as an alternative to wayleave payments and using methods such as mole plough… (View Post)