While you may not be too interested in what happens in Dublin I nevertheless suggest that you should be aware of this issue because it is more than likely that this will happen in your city or town in the not too...
A pilot who killed himself and his family in a firey crash in the UK has been shown to have been five times over the legal alcohol limit. He had already had his flying license revoked three months before for health reasons."The pilot and co-pilot of a fatal light aircraft...
If Donald Trump finds it tricky dealing with British councils, what hope is there for the rest of us."Trump clashes with resort opponents US property tycoon Donald Trump has clashed with the councillor whose vote led to the rejection of his £1...
Looks like Vancouver's current Mayor is out of a job even before the election results are in:"Vancouver NPA councillor Peter Ladner has defeated Mayor Sam Sullivan for their party's 2008 mayoral nomination.Two-term...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA Politician, a Gruesome Murder, Drugs, the makings of the made for TV CSI movie of the week. "Cindy E. Harnett and Rob Shaw, Canwest News...
South London has gotten its first new tube station since World War Two. The new station is located at Epsom, and the first train arrived yesterday."Services have begun at a new railway station in south London.The first Southern Train to Epsom arrived at Mitcham Eastfields in...
"Vancouver -- Veteran park board commissioner Allan De Genova is the latest politician to hop on the "change bandwagon" set off by U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama. "Allan De Genova is about to make a change...
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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
Certainly an interesting read on the first settlers from France, who helped establish Quebec City 400 years ago.
Quebec's 400th Anniversary though celebrating French...
I know a Future Political headline, Mayor and Town Councillors lose election in a landslide and run for cover as they are publicly run out of town on a rail.Of course as is such in many small towns where everybody...
Vancouver's civic strike is now entering its tenth week, and Vancouverites are way past tired of the piles of garbage, rats and other fun consequences of the lack of action by either party (I miss the libraries the...
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The town of Herouxville's Councillor Andre Drouin was interviewed on Quebec TV this weekend and gave his thoughts a year after a firestorm of public opinion and contraversy on Herouxville Citizens right to protect...
"Self-styled campaigner John Spare has been warned to stop pestering police and council staff after inundating them with hundreds of complaints.
Officials at Derby City Council have grown so tired of the 58-year-old's calls that they have threatened him with legal action if...
"....This is the kind of stuff you see in despotic regimes. This is
fearmongering, right-wing, red neck stuff that's being [exported] out
of America [and] I think we should distance ourselves from it as far as
we...
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"A British woman has married a son of Osama bin Laden after a holiday romance and is to apply for a visa so that he can visit Britain, The Times has learnt.
Jane Felix-Browne, a 51-year-old grandmother and parish councillor from Cheshire, has until now kept her marriage to...
Quiet how they pulled this one off is amazing. The countries top Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing at a Northamptonshire Village park?"NOT since the BBC's Vicar of Dibley secured Kylie Minogue to open a village fete has there been such a coup for a parish...