Would you put Yemen at the top of your list of tourist destinations? It should be, were it not for the conflict that is dragging on. The old part of the capital city, Sana’a is a network of beautiful square gingerbread houses complete with white icing decoration and coloured glass qamariya in the windows. Steep […]
Read More A Few Thoughts about Yemen
Autumn is now well underway, with the usual myriad of different coloured trees all shedding their leaves and leaving the ubiquitous annual carpet of dead leaves across the floor everywhere. The final fling of the warm, summer weather now definitely appears to be over and with the clocks going back an hour this coming […]
Read More Inspector Simon Riley’s Blog: October 2018
Welcome to my latest newsletter. If you have friends, relatives or colleagues who you think may be interested in receiving this communication, please ask them to sign up here. If you have events that you would like me to include in future newsletters – please get in touch with the details. Tories sell-off Broxtowe’s ‘family […]
Read More Greg Marshall Newsletter October 2018
Welcome to my latest newsletter. If you have friends, relatives or colleagues who you think may be interested in receiving this communication, please ask them to sign up here. If you have events that you would like me to include in future newsletters – please get in touch with the details. Labour means business in […]
Read More Greg Marshall Newsletter September 2018
Tonight, Channel 4’s Dispatches is airing ‘How to Lose Seven Billion Pounds’ in which economist Liam Halligan unfolds the story of Carillion, the vast British company that was built on billions of pounds of public money and that imploded in January 2018. Its demise had a massive impact on the NHS in particular. Earlier this […]
Read More Carillion: Crawling from the Wreckage
Summertime, but the campaigning continues Welcome to my latest newsletter. If you have friends, relatives or colleagues who you think may be interested in receiving this communication, please ask them to sign up here. If you have events that you would like me to include in future newsletters – please get in touch with the […]
Read More Greg Marshall Newsletter August 2018
Iftar and launching Labour’s Broxtowe Borough Council election campaign by Beeston North candidate Ed Lyons This month we were honoured to be invited to share the Iftar, the communal breaking of the fast, with Broxtowe’s Kashmiri and Bengali community and launch our local election campaign with Labour Party chair Ian Lavery. This was a celebration […]
Read More Iftar and launching of Broxtowe Labour Council Candidates
Bainy is the driving force behind north Broxtowe’s very own ‘Kimberley Jam’. This free day-long music festival was inspired by Ian ‘Jock’ Campbell, who told two friends – Bainy and Graham ‘Cookie’ Cooke – of his idea just a few days before his premature death in 2014. Bainy and Cookie developed that vision and […]
Read More Brilliant Broxtownians!
The chaos of our rail network has been laid bare by the recent timetable changes. Commuters are missing work interviews and appointments, rejigging their schedules if employers are sympathetic – or facing disciplinaries if they aren’t. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has had to appear in the Commons with his job on the line. Brilliant […]
Read More Northern fail & Govia rail chaos continues under Tories – re-nationalise now!
