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Giving my 128th pint of blood...

… all the blood I have donated since then, all 128 pints of it, would probably only just about cover the amount he was given during his [...]

You have to pay for the best?

Suffolk workers are not not highly paid as a group (ONS stas shows 40% of all workers in Suffolk are paid less than £17,000 a year – over £1000 LESS than the national average) . Except when it comes to the eye-wateringly high salaries dished out to the top execs at Suffolk County Council. Just to remind you, the Chief Executive is paid £230.000 per [...]

Woodbridge Thoroughfare temporarily closed to cars

TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF PART OF THE U3628 THE THOROUGHFARE, [...]

Save rural transport!

If we don’t reregulate I fear the buses are reaching a Beeching situation. And when we lose a functioning service for good we will truly pauperise many people and prevent them from contributing to the economic recovery which we all [...]

Woodbridge Town Council Report June 2010

At the meeting we were told by Deputy Leader that £122,000 was a tiny proportion of the annual council budget. I pointed out that £122000 may not seem a lot to the administration , but from the viewpoint of Woodbridge – where the Deben Family Centre closed for want of £50,000 – it’s a fortune.
Sadly, the Call-in was defeated: by 18 votes to [...]

EADT coverage of Suffolk CC appointing consultants without tendering

I was quite forthright about the issue

Our new government has just instituted a £500 rule which means that all public expenditure over this sum has to be publically declared – and justified. The people of Suffolk should rise up and demand that the same rule applies to their [...]

High pay in the public sector!

There are a hundred and seventy Whitehall Civil Service chiefs who earn more than the prime minister.
There are only two or three who earn more than our Suffolk County Council Chief Executive Andrea [...]