Angry Westcountry landowners are hitting out at the Government's decision to ignore the advice of two parliamentary committees on coastal access. Thousands of landowners and businesses with land bordering the coast in Devon and Cornwall are opposed to the proposed Marine Bill as it stands because it would give walkers and ramblers rights of access to all coastlines, including private beaches - without the owners having their say or receiving proper compensation.
You can Tweet reports of a court case, watch Parliamentary committees live on the internet and get full transcripts of Assembly proceedings... but woe betide anyone who tries to blog at a council meeting. Brendan Hughes and Graham Henry ask: Why are our local authorities are refusing to embrace tshe 21st century BLOGGER Jacqui Thompson was last month forcibly removed from the public gallery of a council meeting by police and arrested for breaching the peace. After being hauled into police cells for two hours and allegedly threatened with a night behind bars, she says she has since been banned from attending council meetings altogether.
IT should be the mother of all parliamentary committees. Last night, the tantalising prospect was raised that Murdoch senior, Murdoch junior and Rebekah Brooks might agree to be grilled by MPs next Tuesday. Given public sentiment, they will probably have to arrive and leave Westminster under blankets with a police escort.
LAST week, the S4C Authority and the BBC Trust reached agreement on the detail of the funding and accountability arrangements for S4C from April this year. This is the culmination of a process that started with the UK Government's comprehensive spending review in October 2010. It's been a long journey since then, and S4C itself has been through a difficult period of significant change to the organisation and its personnel. It's also exactly a year since we welcomed our new permanent chief executive, Ian Jones. In my own pre-appointment hearing before two parliamentary committees in June 2011, I said that delivering a deal for S4C with the BBC Trust would be a priority. In October 2011 we agreed the key terms of that new relationship. Since then we have been working on the detailed Opera...
IT should be the mother of all parliamentary committees. Last night, the tantalising prospect was raised that Murdoch senior, Murdoch junior and Rebekah Brooks might agree to be grilled by MPs next Tuesday. Given public sentiment, they will probably have to arrive and leave Westminster under blankets with a police escort.
A CALL for an official inquiry has been made after claims that a former South Devon MP sold information to the Czechs at the height of the Cold War. Czech security service files revealed Mr Mawby, who was MP for Totnes from 1955 to 1983, was in its pay for a decade, according to the BBC. The claim is that he supplied spies with a floor plan of the Prime Minister's Commons office, lists of parliamentary committees, information about colleagues and a supposedly confidential parliamentary investigation into a Conservative peer.
THE first of two free Parliament events in Wales is being held in Cardiff on Monday. Welsh Affairs Committee chairman and former AM David TC Davies will lead a session on the work of an MP and how Parliamentary committees work at the National Museum at 10am.
LAST week, the S4C Authority and the BBC Trust reached agreement on the detail of the funding and accountability arrangements for S4C from April this year. This is the culmination of a process that started with the UK Government's comprehensive spending review in October 2010. It's been a long journey since then, and S4C itself has been through a difficult period of significant change to the organisation and its personnel. It's also exactly a year since we welcomed our new permanent chief executive, Ian Jones. In my own pre-appointment hearing before two parliamentary committees in June 2011, I said that delivering a deal for S4C with the BBC Trust would be a priority. In October 2011 we agreed the key terms of that new relationship. Since then we have been working on the detailed Opera...
By SaRaH BaRdon FINANCE Minister Michael Noonan said a radical overhaul of banking practices and procedures will now take place. He revealed a referendum will be held this year to seek more powers for parliamentary committees to call bankers and force them to answer.
IN HIS letter published on July 16, your correspondent D Payne drew our attention to 'very eloquent speakers with no common sense, conducting an inquiry into the banking shambles. The bankers are sure to make mincemeat of them.' He was, of course, referring to the work of parliamentary select committees. It does seem strange, almost inexplicable, that a national government duly elected by its peoples, and with all the parliamentary powers at its command, appears singularly incapable of properly investigating and thus serving the cause of justice.
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