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There is just 18 days until millions of folks across England and Wales have the chance to cast ballots, in the final large-scale say of opinion before the General Election. Thursday May 2nd sees 2,655 seats be contested across the UK, with 107 Councils and a few others with By-Elections, having...

From Arriva’s Press Release on CrossCountry:

May 4th and 18th sees two major sets of Local Authority Elections in England and Northern Ireland. England will see over 8,000 seats in 230 Councils be contested, with most last being fought in 2019 when both the Tories and Labour took a hammering over the Brexit impass. Nearly 50 LA’s...

Next Thursday will see a BUMPER set of polls as: Northern Ireland elects a 90 Member Assembly Scotland elects all 1,219 Councillors Wales elects 1,231 Councillors 146 Councils across England elect over 4,350 Councillors - including all from the 32 Borough's of London and the 101 seats in...

2022 has finally arrived and for us West Midlanders, means we have THE BIGGEST stage in our proud history - through the hosting of the 22nd edition of The Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the West Midlands and the Lee Valley Velo Park for the Track Cycling! It is the biggest international...

In that case, the Government had no other alternative and good on Mr Shapps for acting as bluntly. BUT, I am sure everyone will be asking HOW did it reach this point in the first place? Could all of this also mean the handover of Metro services to TFL as long mooted for? This will be...

With The Games of the 32nd Olympiad completed, August 24th-September 5th will see the 16th Summer Paralympic Games take place! No matter the debate that always occurs, which has the question of "why does there have to be a seperate event?!" - I suspect that none of the 139 Team Para GB athletes...

The pressure has been mounting for several months, on FirstGroup CEO Matthew Gregory and today, he has called it quits, with his departure being after the AGM in September.

The Boundary Commission for England, has this morning announced the draft recommendations, for what is being seen as the biggest shake-up in decades in House of Commons seats. We gain 8 extra seats from Scotland and 2 from Wales, meaning a total of 543 Members of Parliament in England -...

The 11 city tournament finally kicks off on Friday evening, with Wembley playing host to the Semis and Final week ending July 11th. And Southgate demonstrates he is a rather defensive coach, by going with Ben White to replace the injured Trent Alexander-Arnold; despite England only going with 5...

One of the Gang of Four, who left Labour to form the SDP and was a Labour Cabinet Minister between 1974-1979, has passed at the age of 90. May one of the most empowering Parliamentarians, of the 20th century rest in peace. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56720985

Nominations for THE BIGGEST set of Elections, outside of a General Election year in British history have duly closed today. And I am a small proof of that - as per Page 19 of this document and being one of 81 people, seeking 22 Council seats up for Election here in The City of Wolverhampton! ;)...

Joseph Robinette Biden Junior, shortly becomes the 46th President of the United States of America - after a career of nearly half a century in US politics. Knowing the wildness of the last 4 years and the scary time at present with COVID, the US Economy being smashed from it and division like...

It is that time of the year, where I pose the annual question of what we all think may happen in 2021. One thing is for certain: change is most definitely on the horizon, all speeded up by the Coronavirus - the most unexpected possibility when midnight on January 1st 2020 hit. Personally: I...

From this mornings Telegraph - an announcement on the formal ending of the Franchising system due this week, with The Williams Review by the sounds of it rendered pointless - with its recommendations BLOCKED, by the Gov pre COVID...

One off the press in the past few minutes - all rail franchise agreements suspended for 6 months, with the cost and risk transferred to DfT. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-ensures-ticket-refunds-and-protects-services-for-passengers-with-rail-emergency-measures

That finding til October 2020, has today been confirmed by Transport Minister Chris Heaton-Harris. https://www.globalrailwayreview.com/news/97153/crosscountry-increased-capacity-trains/

Our Irish Cousins go to the polls on Saturday, with it set to be an extraordinary and political plate shifting result in sight. Sinn Fein, who kissed and made up with the DUP last month and helped reform the Northern Ireland Executive, were IN THE LEAD, of the latest IPSOS Mori poll for...

Northern Rail to lose franchise and placed into OLR control on March 1st. Beth Rigby of Sky has tweeted:

That is the view, of Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, who has released the following statement this morning: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/rail-update-on-south-western-railway