Aldbury Nowers Nature Reserve in Late Summer.
Peace, quiet and butterflies in the tranquility of late summer.
Aldbury Nowers is 11½ hectares (28½ acres) of chalk grassland, scrub […]
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Nick Hollinghurst
Working for social democracy and a greener world through the Liberal Democrats
North, Midland and West Rail Electrification – a Premature Cancellation based on Panic, Politics and Prejudice
The Tories’ unexpected and disasterous cancellation of the electrification of the rail lines from Cardiff to Swansea, Oxenholme to Windermere […]
Read more →Are Grayling and Khan Playing Games with Watford’s Transport Links?
The creation of a suburban Metro, the devolution of London’s suburban rail services from the Department for Transport (DfT) to […]
Read more →Welcome Developments in the Protest against Developments – Miswell Lane Public Open Space!
It has been a long-standing anomaly that a triangle of land off Miswell Lane in Tring was privately owned despite […]
Read more →Smoking Reduction – an International Public Health Success
It is now 10 years ago – on 1st July, 2007 – that it became illegal to smoke in any […]
Read more →In the Nick of time – the Grid Fairy got 4 critical grids cleared before the rain fell in earnest!
Dacorum Borough Council does a really poor job in Tring of sweeping up soil, grit and litter from the gutters.
These […]
West Midlands Rail Franchise Awarded to Abellio JVRail
Yesterday, 10th August, 2017, it was announced that the West Midlands Rail Franchise was awarded to Abellio JVRail, a joint […]
Read more →Lib Dem Leader Vince Cable Speaks to Packed Hall in Cambridge
At a packed hall in the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, West Road, Cambridge, last week the new Liberal […]
Read more →As One Island leaves Europe – Another is to be built in the North Sea.
Britain is on its way out of Europe – but as the Eurozone and other countries in EU27 continue make […]
Read more →Could this be a First? Recycling London Underground Trains.
Actually not. There’s a well developed second-hand trade in refurbished or adapted locomotives and occasionally multiple unit sets. For example, […]
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