Encouraging more community involvement in neighbourhood planning through the Localism Bill has been largely welcomed by speakers and their audience at law firm Foot Anstey's latest forum. However concerns were raised about the pace at which the bill is moving forward, a lack of detail, potential planning delays and the conflict that will remain between communities and planning policy. Whilst the concept of devolving planning powers away from central government to local communities was largely supported at this week's event, some people questioned whether much of what the bill proposes is already being done.
THIS is the story of a Lydney man who used the name 'Spider Smythe' in his autobiography A Strange War. He was one of those pioneering English adventurers who roamed the world like a character in a Somerset Maugham novel. Spider was an Essex boy, who ran away to sea when he was 14. In the army during the war, he was involved in the little known dirty war in the Balkans, where local partisans on both sides of the conflict fought bitter proxy battles against each other, with encouragement from the major powers.
A COMPANY advising the non-partisan All Wales Convention looking into National Assembly law-making powers has been accused of a conflict of interest - for representing a group campaigning for more powers. Conservative AM Jonathan Morgan has raised the issue in the Senedd. He warned the link with communications firm StrataMatrix could undermine confidence in the impartial work being done by the convention to generate a debate in Wales on the Assembly's role.
Rendition Certificate: 15. Running time: 2hrs 2mins **** Stardust Certificate: PG. Running time: 2hrs 8mins *** The Last LegionCertificate: 12A. Running time: 1hr 52mins *** Nancy Drew Certificate: PG. Running time: 1hr 39mins * FILM There is certainly no current shortage of films exploring the bloody conflict between Islamist terrorists and the Western powers they perceive to be their enemies. In the past few weeks we've had A Mighty Heart and The Kingdom, and there are more on the way.
... invested with common law and statutory powers and duties to investigate crime and there is a cle... to protect wards of court where these conflict with the rights and powers of others. Thus, for e...
The UK would have been divided into 12 regions governed by Cabinet ministers wielding draconian powers in the wake of a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union, according to a secret War Book released for the first time yesterday. The Cold War document drawn up by the Government more than 40 years ago - and updated until the early Nineties - sets out in immense detail how Britain would have been administered in the event of a devastating nuclear exchange.
T HE origins of the Second World War are well understood and uncontroversial - or so we might think. Everyone knows that in September 1939 Hitler launched an unprovoked attack on Poland, having laid out his ruthless ambitions in Mein Kampf many years earlier - so what could there possibly be left to argue about? Seventy years on, the answer turns out to be "plenty". While historians continue to debate the factors that influenced the Nazi drive to war, the current hot potato surrounds the actions of the other great powers in the years and months before the conflict broke out. In particular, some Russian politicians and historians are currently seeking to justify the Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939. This non-aggression treaty, also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, cleared the way for...
Negotiations between Iran and world powers over its nuclear programme ended yesterday with a plan to meet next month but agreement on little else. The open channels between Iran and the six- nation bloc - the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany - are seen as the most hopeful chances of outreach between Washington and Tehran in years. They could also push back threats of military action which have shaken oil markets and brought worries of triggering a wider Middle East conflict.
Wales coach Mike Ruddock will evoke the spirit of the 1905 Wales side when he sends his men out to face the mighty All Blacks on Saturday. The Bonfire Night clash at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, has been arranged to celebrate 100 years of conflict between two of the world's greatest rugby powers. And Ruddock, who is a keen student of Welsh rugby history, is determined to make sure his squad are aware of the significance and context of the November 5 clash.
AS Pope Benedict quietly handed back the Fisherman's Ring and quit the papacy, few paused to reflect on how our Queen continues to do her duty as she approaches her 87th birthday, the last head of state or government on earth to have served in the Second World War. Since then the world has undergone an enormous cultural shift, reflecting not just the passing of a generation but the fading of its values. It was a long war, waged by this nation for six years. It was a total war in which the combatants included civilians and even children, experiencing the terror of bombing and the rigours of rationing. And it was a world war, fought through four continents and involving all the great powers. And everyone who served in it, or grew up during it, was and remains defined by that experience. E...
... Edward Heath became Prime Minister, the conflict was closer to us then than the battle for the Falk...
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