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https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... servatives" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


UK high-security prisons lose one in four officers under Conservatives
Ministry of Justice figures show a drop of more than 1,700 prison officers in total across the eight highest security prisons
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"The party of flaw and disorder"
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Goodnight, everyone
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Just got up, briefly, and noticed that it's been the "26h" October 2017. All day.
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Not all,I found the "t",as previously referenced.Sometimes,I don't know why I bother. ;)
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HindleA wrote:Not all,I found the "t",as previously referenced.Sometimes,I don't know why I bother. ;)
Ah - I saw that but didn't twig. Sorry (again).
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Given the amount of gin consumed,you've done well not to be comatose.
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Lloyds Pharmacy closes 190 stores, blaming government

Reduced funding, higher business rates and the apprenticeship levy created ‘challenging market conditions’

Julie Cooper, Labour’s shadow minister for community care, described the decision as “a devastating blow for Lloyds Pharmacy staff and their patients right across the country. The government is taking hundreds of millions of pounds of support away from pharmacies and now we see that it is patients who will pay the price.” (Guardian)
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Night night, again. This time it's for real. I've promised the cat.
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https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment ... sing-52954" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

John Healey


Yesterday I led our third Labour debate in the Commons to confront the Government on its plans for supported housing.

Perhaps it is third time lucky, after the Prime Minister announced at PMQs ahead of our debate that the Government has backed off capping help for supported housing residents at the local housing allowance rate.

A detailed announcement of plans for Ministers’ new funding system will be made next week.

We know what the Government won’t do; we don’t know what they will do.


Since November 2015 this has been like the Sword of Damocles hanging over the homes of more than 700 000 frail elderly, homeless, young adults leaving care, people with dementia or mental illness or learning disability, ex-service veterans and women fleeing domestic violence.

The fear for many of the most vulnerable people in our society are very real.

The damage to vital specialist housing is already being done.

At a time when there’s already a 17 000-shortfall in such housing the National Housing Federation reports 85% of all building plans for new supported, sheltered or extra care homes have been halted. And the Salvation Army say: the future of 9 in 10 of their Lifehouses for homeless people “could be placed at risk”.

The government’s decision to drop the LHA-cap part of the plan is welcome, as we and the sector have been clear on the government’s error here – it’s too low and too variable to be the basis for supported housing.

What the government instead matters a great deal. The devil is always in the detail, and in the funding.

We’re told we’ll have to wait till next week for the detail, but on the funding let me expose a serious problem that has not been mentioned by Ministers, and not highlighted – or perhaps even recognised – by the housing sector.

Damian Green, the previous Secretary of State for Work and Pensions – and now Deputy Prime Minister – said in September 2016 “we will bring in a new funding model which will ensure that the sector continues to be funded at current levels”.


But this is simply not true. Total funding is only protected in year one – 2019/20.

But in year two, the sector faces a funding cliff-edge, with cuts of over £500 million scheduled from April 2020. As things stand, this entirely demolishes ministers’ claim that they will protect supported housing, as I spelt out in detail in Parliament yesterday.


Instead, in our Commons motion we said that the government should “adopt a system which safeguards the long-term future and funding of supported housing”, and I set out four tests for the government which explain what this means and how Labour will judge the detail of any plans for change.

First, any new funding system must reflect the real cost of running supported housing.
Second, any new funding must be needs-led, able to deal with increases in demand for supported housing, and not subject to arbitrary cash limits
Third, any funding model must take account of the particular needs of very short-term accommodation including homelessness hostels and women’s refuges.
Fourth, and most importantly, any new system must not lead to the closure of any vitally needed supported housing.
This a Government with no majority or mandate for domestic policy because this is not covered by the Prime Minister’s deal with the DUP.

It is Britain’s first minority government for 38 years. And as a parliament we are still coming to terms with the much bigger role and stronger say we have in Government policy decisions.

Parliament, the housing sector and government must together sort out a good long-term system for supported housing.

I hope the PM’s announcement and what the government announces next week will be the basis for doing so
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I've had a gas leak (titter ye not!)

Lovely plumber/gas installer coming tomorrow to run new gas pipe to boiler. Dual fuel cooker on wrong side of room, however. Do I destroy kitchen to run pipe across or do I scrap 4 month old cooker and replace with all electric?

First world problems? Probably. But, boy I could do with catching break.

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They're expensive but I'd recommend an induction hob, better than gas imo.
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gilsey wrote:They're expensive but I'd recommend an induction hob, better than gas imo.
I've just moved to Ovo with a small percentage coming from renewables (best I could afford) so I do kind of like the idea of going with electric as it could be more environmentally friendly eventually. It would certainly be the quickest/simplest solution, if not the cheapest. Might only be able to stretch to a ceramic hob, though, but I'll certainly look into induction hobs as they sound more efficient. Thanks.
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JFK files: government releases classified assassination documents – live
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NHS cost cutting leaving disabled people 'interned' in care homes.

Out of hospital care, known as continuing healthcare, can be arranged in a care home, nursing home, hospice or a person’s own home. But the EHRC said the new funding caps, which have been rolled out in at least 44 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) across the UK, set an upper limit on the provision of care in a person’s home, which for many is not sufficient to meet their care needs.
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"Many of the documents pertain to anti-Cuban efforts by the US government in the 1960s and 70s, including “Operation Mongoose”.

In this 1962 file, the CIA considers “the possibility of producing crop failures by the introduction of biological agents which would appear to be of natural origin.”
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Many of the documents read first and foremost as the 1960s artifacts they are: obsessed with communism, civil rights, and Vietnam.

In one, the CIA takes note of an article declaring that Martin Luther King “was right” about the Vietnam war. Another describes a “black power conference” that civil rights activist Adam Clayton Power wanted to hold, but “no one showed up”. A third concerns Stokley Carmichael,’s remarks of solidarity with a Latin American group.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... corruption" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Rome's Trevi fountain turns red after activist uses dye to protest 'corruption'
Graziano Cecchini, who pulled a similar stunt 10 years ago, was escorted from the scene by police
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