Why Didn’t Queen Elizabeth Attend Her Son’s Registry Office Wedding To Camilla Parker Bowles?

Children, wider family members and close friends were all present and correct for the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.

Quite right, too. This was not just the formal union of two people very much in love but an occasion to be set down for the historical record.

Amid the snappily tailored crowd filling the Windsor Guildhall in April 2005, two distinguished guests were notably missing.

The Queen and Prince Philip, mother and father of the groom, were nowhere to be seen when the civil ceremony took place.

Where were they? Why would the monarch choose to stay away from the wedding of her own son?

There was no shortage of conjecture. Did she think a mere ‘town hall’ wedding to be beneath her dignity?

Others assumed that Queen Elizabeth disapproved of her son’s relationship.

At one stage the Queen referred to Camilla as ‘that wicked woman’.

Yet the real explanation for why The Queen was missing is much more straightforward than many might think.

As ruler, The Queen was Head of The Church of England. Both Charles and Camilla had been married before and later divorced.

While recognising divorce as a sad fact of life, the Church of England does not encourage it.

The Queen, herself was a devout believer and couldn’t be seen to question the Church’s values in any way.

Weeks before the wedding, a newspaper outlet reported that The Queen had told one of her friends that she wasn’t able to go to the wedding because she didn’t feel that her position permitted it.

There was also family history to consider. Just one generation before Elizabeth’s rule, the monarchy had been hurled into disarray, perhaps even jeopardy, by her uncle Edward VIII’s declaration on marrying the ‘woman he loved’, who was also a divorcee and which went against the strictures of the Church, of which he, too, was head.

Queen Elizabeth wished the married couple well and with Prince Philip, she attended the religious blessing at St George’s Chapel, which followed the civil ceremony at the Guildhall.

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh then had a wedding bash for the couple. However, The Queen’s relationship with Camilla, now Queen Consort had not always been an uncomplicated one.

The Queen’s reasons are the very basis for why Charles shouldn’t be the head of the Church of England.

Charles is now head of the Church of England, yet he’s an adulterer and he’s set himself as Defender of Faith. The people of the United Kingdom were not asked about this and Charles certainly has a brass neck.

They really are too old to be King and Queen of the United Kingdom, and it should have been passed to William, his son.

Whenever I see Charles and Camilla together, she always looks like a mummy replacement for a boy who looks like a man.

Charles was an adulterer and head of the Church of England but then so was Henry VIII and you can’t get any bigger adulterer than that.

I have no sympathy for Camilla, but the real villain is Charles. If he truly wanted Camilla and there’s no accounting for taste, he should have married her before she got married herself. Instead, he went along with this ridiculous medieval folly of marrying a suitable bride.

Charles has always been weak. If he wanted to marry Camilla, he should have just married her. Of course, he was the heir apparent but what were they going to do, knock him off and replace him with Andrew?

Thousands Of Homes Could Be Built On the ‘Green Belt’

Rachel Reeves has said that Labour could alter planning rules to allow hundreds of thousands of vital homes to be built on the ‘Green Belt.

The shadow chancellor said the party would look at reclassifying protected land as ‘brownfield’ sites ripe for development under a ‘common sense approach’ if elected.

It comes as all the main parties face pressure to increase stuttering housebuilding rates amid skyrocketing prices and rental rates.

In an interview with a newspaper outlet, Ms Reeves said that a brownfield first approach was right, but that they also needed to look again at what was designated green and brown, and that no one has anything to fear from this.

The Tories are divided between shire Tories who are against development and pro-housing MPs who argue the party must do more to attract younger voters.

At its conference last week, Lib Dem members forced the leadership to keep annual housebuilding targets in its manifesto.

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner last night said the party would seek to bring an end to ‘land banking’ and give local authorities powers to build council and social housing where needed.

Asked about concerns over possible building on the green belt, she told BBC Breakfast that there was a lot of land that’s already identified and has got planning to develop but the developers aren’t developing it, so they will push to make sure that happens.

She added that it wasn’t because they didn’t have the land, the land had been identified, but they had this situation where there was land banking, where developers were not building.

She said that they will ensure that they do build and they will give local authorities powers to build council housing and social housing where they need it.

Of course, this new housing won’t be for all the British people who were born in the United Kingdom, it will be for all those illegal immigrants our government allow to stay.

The problem is that with new housing comes the demand for more infrastructure. More reservoirs, more hospitals, more police, courts, prisons, shops, the list will be endless. So much for their green scheme, because this will take up a huge area of green space but needs must and we need more housing, that’s a reality.

However, we need to stop letting boat people come to our country because we are a small country and we just cannot house them all, and we need to get us back to a sustainable population. But these people are allowed over on the boats, they come and occupy our land, then they breed and have enormous families that we can’t possibly house.

But what happens when we run out of land to build on, then what? The Government need to say no to any immigrants coming to our country. It might sound callous, but we simply don’t have the room for them.

Of course, immigrants are extremely profitable. They will work long hours and more money to send home to their relatives who will then come to England because it is more beneficial for them and more beneficial for the Government because they know these immigrants will work like slaves for very little money because what they earn here is much more than they would earn back home.

The Government will build up, like Hong Kong. We will all live in tiny rooms and our wages will be enough to buy a bowl of rice.

Our Government need to acknowledge that immigrants are the primary driver of our housing crisis. They must also realise that they just can’t build themselves out of this.

Carla Ferrigno Files For Divorce From Hulk Star Lou Ferrigno

A newspaper outlet has exclusively revealed that the wife of the ‘Incredible Hulk’ star Lou Ferrigno has filed for divorce, accusing him of flaunting a mistress, and trapping her in an abusive and controlling marriage after she was diagnosed with dementia.

Lou Ferrigno’s wife Carla, 74, made the alarming claims in recent court filings in San Luis Obispo County, California, as she opposed his endeavour to establish a court-ordered conservatorship to control her affairs.

It comes after Lou Ferrigno, 71, argued in court that Carla has ‘advanced dementia’ and accused their own daughter, 42-year-old Shanna of ‘elder abuse’ for attempting to drive Carla to the bank to withdraw $500,000.

In response, Carla now accuses Lou Ferrigno, her husband of 43 years, of covertly cutting off her access to their collective finances, and of keeping her physically isolated to stop her from divorcing him.

In a signed statement, she also alleges that Lou has a brazen affair with a mistress called Lisa, ‘with whom he spends most of his time, travelling to his various appearances and flaunting in her face even when he’s at home’.

Carla said that while his affair may not be abuse, when she gets upset with him about her being around, he physically threatens her, by getting into her face and using his much larger size. He will remind everyone that he’s the Hulk, compared to her small size, to intimidate and manipulate her into submission.

She added, that while towering over her, he yells at her, claiming horrible things about her and making sure that she understands that she’s ruining his life and that he will not care for her.

Lou Ferrigno was a bodybuilding rival of Arnold Schwarzenegger before becoming an actor best known for The Hulk, and their competition was the subject of the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron.

Lous Ferrigno’s lawyer Vatche Zetjian responded in a statement to a newspaper outlet, saying that Lou’s priority remained with his wife’s welfare and that all of the Restraining Orders recently mentioned in the press had been suspended upon mutual agreement of the parties.

He said that Lou and Carla, through counsel, have agreed to mediate and Lou’s hope remains that they reach an amicable resolution. Lou requests privacy for all his family members at this time.

Although Carla confirms in the filings that she’s been diagnosed with dementia, both her doctor and lawyer say she’s always voiced her desire for a divorce for years and has the capacity to understand that decision.

‘Don’t make him angry – You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry’.

Sadly dementia generates suspicion and paranoia amongst other things. We don’t know how long she’s had dementia, but Carla has voiced for years that she’s wanted a divorce, and Lou Ferrigno doesn’t help himself by having a mistress.

The poor woman is already medically restrained by her dementia diagnosis, let’s not put the nail in her coffin just yet. Just because she has dementia doesn’t make her an intuitive liar or crazy person – let the woman speak.

If the woman is that demented how would she be able to file for a divorce, unless someone is doing it on her behalf, which means she would have had to have given them power of attorney?

Lou Ferrigno’s net wealth has been reported at approximately $12 million. It’s not like he’s short of a few dollars. He’s cheated on his wife, which in itself is emotional stress. She’s been his wife for a very very long time. Whether it was happy or not, she is the mother to their children. Now that she’s sick he should provide for her even if she doesn’t want to be with him any longer. If he was a man with any morals he would do that without even thinking about it.

It Would Appear That Sir Keir Starmer Is An A+ In Terms Of Hypocrisy

Wine glasses had been charged, solid silver teaspoons clinked in fine bone china cups and shimmering candles were casting a warm glimmer over the gilded frames of large oil portraits as Sir Keir Starmer rose to speak.

It was late one Thursday night in January 2017, and our then Shadow Brexit Secretary found himself addressing guests inside the majestic stateroom at the East India Club, just off London’s Pall Mall.

The choice of venue sat awkwardly with his responsibilities as a member of Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet since this private members establishment doesn’t permit women to join. But the gathering itself was reassuringly progressive.

That’s because Sir Keir Starmer was one of just over 60 dashingly attired guests supporting the inaugural fundraising dinner of a charitable organisation called the Henry Smith Club.

Named after one of the great Elizabethan philanthropists, the club had been formed three years before in support of a cause that, back then, at least, lay close to Sir Keir Starmer’s heart.

Specifically, it provided funds to allow gifted but underprivileged young people to attend Starmer’s alma mater, Reigate Grammar School, a league table-topping £22,995 a year private school in the Surrey commuter belt.

Sir Keir Starmer, who attended RGS from 1974 to 1981, gave every appearance of being an evangelical supporter of its mission to transform young lives.

An account of his after-dinner speech, published on the website of the school’s charitable foundation, documents that he ‘spoke of his fond memories of his time at school and of the first class education he received, which laid the platform for his successful career’.

According to his biographer, Nigel Cawthorne, Sir Keir Starmer also agreed to be a paid-up member of the Henry Smith Club, contributing £1,675 a year for the privilege.

The sum, chosen because RGS was established in 1675, went into a charitable pot. For every ten people who joined, the club would sponsor an underprivileged local boy or girl through RGS, with the school chipping in the balance of the fees.

It was a great gesture from a man whose life’s journey has, as we shall see, provided an object lesson in the transformative powers of private schooling.

Yet fast forward just five years and Sir Keir Starmer, who hails from a working-class family, yet, for reasons was able to attend RGS for free, has executed a volte-face on the matter.

Clearly, the politician who once went to such great lengths to support his old school, and to help other children of humble means to walk its well-mown lawns, now seems determined to destroy the place.

How else, one might ask, are we to interpret his Labour Party’s desire to slap VAT on independent school fees?

This highly incendiary policy, which Sir Keir Starmer inherited from privately educated class warrior Jeremy Corbyn, will add 20 per cent to the cost of private education overnight.

Labour might get back, although I’m not sure why, as all the parties pretty much plan the same. They all say that we need to change, but they don’t really elaborate on what will change.

People like Sir Keir Starmer had no problem climbing up the ladder, but once he didn’t need that ladder anymore, he had no trouble pulling the ladder down so that nobody else could climb it.

When it comes down to it, all politicians are hypocrites and they will say anything to get into power, and Sir Keir Starmer is no different from any of them.

I’m sick to death of both the Tories and Labour, and just looking at what they’ve both done to our once beautiful country, makes me wonder who to vote for because it doesn’t matter what party they are, they all make promises that they never keep.

Why promise the people something they know they won’t do? Because it’s a manifesto gimmick. Tell the people what they want to hear and they might vote for them, and of course, people are sheeple, and they will follow whatever they believe is best.

The government also want us to fight against each other, and we do where politics is concerned: ‘Don’t do this or that because you will hurt your fellow man’. That’s why they created the unions so that they could fight against each other.

Any Child Could Be The Subject Of This Story

The devastated parents of a teenager who was killed after being groomed by a county lines gang have warned that ‘any child’ could fall into the same trap, as a video emerged of him being pursued by his killers moments before his death.

Joe Dix became entangled in a ‘vicious cycle’ after he was approached in a park aged 15 to courier a package for cash, eventually dealing Class A drugs.

The teenager was killed in January last year after a county lines member called in his help to stop three drug dealers from burgling a known crack den.

Horrifying footage shows Joe running from Benjamin Gil, Cameron Palmer and Hans Beeharry in Norwich before they stabbed him seven times.

On Wednesday his killers, who were all in their teens when they killed Joe, were incarcerated for a total of more than 60 years.

Joe’s mother Emma Dix, 47, told a newspaper outlet: ‘Don’t be blind. This can happen in front of your eyes. It could be any child. Don’t think it won’t be yours’.

She went on to say that it was unthinkable that a child should die before their parents, and how could she possibly tell how it felt not to be able to protect her child?

Mrs Dix, who’s on medication for post-traumatic stress disorder, said in a victim impact statement, which was read in court, that listening to the horrific details of the incident that led to her son’s death and seeing the body map images of all his injuries was dreadful.

She continued that nothing compared to the shocking footage of Joe running for his life, being chased, followed by the heartbreaking scene of him collapsing and that she couldn’t tell how many times those scenes had replayed over and over in their heads.

The family endured further pain after Joe’s death when internet trolls sent offensive messages, some in the dead boy’s name, and a memorial green near where he died in Vale Green was also desecrated.

Friends said there was no reason to think that Joe would end up working with a county lines gang.

The sports fan lived with his father Phil, a carpenter, and his mother, a hospital radiographer, in a four-bedroom house in the village of Salhouse.

He was predicted good grades, played football four times a week and regularly took part in matches for Sprowston Cricket Club. All this fell away when he became involved in drug dealing.

I don’t even suppose the police even bothered at all with these gangs.

It’s absolutely heartbreaking for the family because nobody expects their child to be taken, and it must have taken all their strength to tell their story.

This country is a farce as far as sentencing goes. They should have all got life imprisonment.

The problem is, that this country has encouraged a work-shy society and tedium. There are no places for these teenagers to go, no clubs and they become bored. Of course, there were always those that fell through the net and went into crime, but now crime is the club, where teenagers hang out together and cause devastation and death.

This is literally a mother’s worst nightmare, and it’s so scary if you have teenagers, especially boys. This was a horrific crime that deserves more jail time, and it’s so sad that there’s no longer such a thing as British justice in our once-great country. Life should mean life, not twenty years.

Rishi Sunak Cancels HS2’s Northern Leg While £36 Billion Is Spent On Better Transport 

Rishi Sunak dramatically cancelled the rest of the HS2 project and declared to pump the £36 billion savings into better transport projects.

The Prime Minister confirmed the move saying the high-speed scheme was the symbol of the ‘old consensus’, as he pledged to ‘fundamentally change our country’ and fix ‘broken’ politics like Margaret Thatcher did.

He said bosses of the project would be replaced to ‘take responsibility’ for the way it had been botched, with costs soaring.

Rishi Sunak said there was nothing ambitious about pouring more and more money into the wrong project’.

Mr Sunak put the community at the heart of his appeal to voters, saying the Conservatives were the party of the ‘pharmacist’s son and grocer’s daughter’ drawing a parallel between his own background and that of the 1980s Conservative heroine.

The premier is rallying the party faithful as he wraps up what is likely to be the last Conservative gathering before the country chooses a new government, and was introduced by his wife Akshata in touching scenes.

Quipping that the Prime Minister had no idea what she was intending to say, Mrs Murty said her husband of 14 years was her ‘best friend’ and he was summed up by the word ‘aspiration’.

She insisted it was the ‘greatest honour’ for him to be in charge of the country, and gave an emotional endorsement of his character.

She said that he was fun, he was thoughtful, he was compassionate and that he had an incredible zest for life.

Following her on to the stage, a clearly touched Rishi Sunak said that he thanked her for always being there for him and that it was literally the best long-term decision for a brighter future he ever made.

However, turning to politics Rishi Sunak swiped at his critics, saying there would ‘always be people who disagree’, as he is poised to axe HS2’s Manchester leg, instead pumping billions into other northern transport projects, and defer tax cuts.

And he launched a vicious salvo at Sir Keir Starmer saying he was always ‘banging on about Europe’ and only says whatever he thinks will benefit him.

The importance of making an impact was highlighted with another poll revealing the Tory bounce after he watered down Net Zero commitments have reversed.

Rishi Sunak was introduced by a video demonstrating how he was ‘changing the status quo’, including footage of him announcing the COVID furlough scheme as Chancellor and agreeing the Windsor Framework with the EU.

Oh please, pass me the sick bucket. The entire thing was nauseating and Rishi Sunak’s wife sounded like she was receiving an Oscar on behalf of her husband.

Rishi Sunak is not fit for purpose and he certainly has no leadership ability. I’m sure there are many who also share the view that he’s just serving himself and his cronies rather than the country, and this is a stain on many fine MPs who actually have the interest of the country and the common man at the forefront of their beliefs and actions.

And it seemingly appears that the money that is being saved is going to be used as an election bribe. Extremely predictable but the sheep will still vote Tory anyhow.

All we hear about are vows, promises, and announcements, but nothing fortuitous will come from it. Why did they wait until now to announce all this change? Rishi Sunak and his cabinet have been running the show for a year, what were they doing all that time?

Weymouth’s Newest Pub – With A Difference

Dry Dock on St Thomas Street has opened its doors to the public.

Founder, Sam Watson said that it far exceeded his expectations. He said that he didn’t have massive expectations but the feedback that they’ve received had been 99 per cent positive.

He explained that now the non-alcoholic venue had finally come together it was ‘different’ than he expected, ‘but in a good way’.

The day of the opening saw Weymouth Mayor Cllr Kate Wheller ‘cut the ribbon’ and officially welcomed visitors into the premises.

Sam said that it was really good and that they had really good support from the public.

He said that they had live music, a fun quiz, a raffle with prizes and food from local suppliers. He added that they had a nice day and raised awareness.

The venue has a wonderful range of non-alcoholic beers, wines and beverages on offer, including Lucky Saint, Free Damm, Guinness and Doom Bar.

Dry Dock is for everyone, including those who don’t drink but still want to go into town and enjoy the atmosphere and benefits of an alcohol-free pub, such as darts, pool, quizzes, live music or just a place to meet with mates.

Now, Sam plans to welcome other community groups to use the venue.

He said that they’re beginning to use the space for community events and groups and that the non-alcoholic bar will celebrate National Recovery Month.

He said that Andy’s Man Club starts in three or four weeks’ time.

The business owner has ideas in mind for the future of Dry Dock including a mobile non-alcoholic bar.

Sam explained that he recently attended a local festival and ‘struggled to find any alcohol-free drinks’.

He’s since spoken to the festival organisers who have offered to let him have a pitch at the next festival if he continues with his vision.

Sam explained that anything could happen as over a year ago he had the idea of opening an alcohol-free bar and now Weymouth has an alcohol-free bar.

Sam and the Dry Dock crew are keen for community groups to make use of the space and to get in contact via email at: stayhappy@drydock.org.uk

It’s nice to see someone setting up a business and the best of luck to him.

In every way, Dry Dock looks like any of the bars along the road.

However, this isn’t like any of those bars, because you can’t get a drop of booze.

There is a list of drinks which includes Guinness, Doom Bar, Brewdog IPA, Peroni and many more, but they’re all alcohol-free, or 0.5 per cent alcohol or less, which is about the same amount of alcohol contained in a ripe banana.

Across Europe and the US, anything below 0.5 per cent is classed as alcohol-free. In short, you couldn’t even get even remotely intoxicated at Dry Dock, however many pints you order.

Sam said that somebody in his personal life had approached him and said that they felt that they were probably drinking a bit too much. He said he wanted to go somewhere and have a nice evening with him and chat about how they could make things better, but he realised that there was nowhere to go if you didn’t want to drink alcohol.

He then had this spark of an idea, to open his own alcohol-free establishment. He said that he’s always been an extremely sociable person, and found that when he stopped drinking when he was in recovery, he lost all of that, so he wanted to find a way to get back some of that.

A Medical Issue Caused Stephen Shrimpton’s Horror M53 Crash

Police have named the 15-year-old girl who died in a bus crash on the M53 as Jessica Baker. It’s claimed the coach driver Stephen Shrimpton, who also died, suffered a medical problem behind the wheel.

According to a newspaper outlet, Stephen Shrimpton was driving a coach of more than 50 students when it collided with a car and flipped onto its side in a crash in Hooton, Cheshire at 8.30 a.m.

The incident, which also left a 14-year-old boy with life-changing injuries, saw terrified children climbing out of the windows of the stricken vehicle as they fled the wreckage.

Pupils caught up in the confusion sobbed as they told emergency workers how they thought they were going to die, while traumatised eyewitnesses described seeing children on the floor outside the bus.

Merseyside Police closed the motorway as investigations took place, and tributes were paid to the victims of the incident.

At West Kirby Grammar School, where Jessica was a student, fellow students were ushered out of school in silence.

Launching a GoFundMe to pay for his funeral, Mr Shrimpton’s sister-in-law claimed that the father of two had suffered a medical issue while driving.

‘I’m raising some funds for my brother-in-law’s funeral’, the page reads. ‘He tragically died in an accident on the M53 on the morning of the 29th of September, after suffering medical issues at the wheel while driving students to school.

‘He’s sadly left behind my sister who’s now a widow in her early thirties, and unfortunately, a single mum alongside his much loved two young children, only 8 and 4, who are going to grow up without their beloved father’.

It comes after the family of Jessica released a picture of her.

A police statement issued said that Jessica Baker sadly died as a result of the collision on the M53 northbound carriageway, and it continued that Jessica’s family have requested that their privacy be respected at this time and any updates from them would be issued via Merseyside Police news office as appropriate.

It comes hours after Merseyside Police said a 14-year-old boy suffered life-changing injuries as a result of the fatal school bus accident that happened in the Wirral.

The force said 58 people were involved in the incident. Four people were taken to hospital immediately. Two were rushed to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, while two others, including the teenage boy, were taken to Arrowe Park Hospital.

This is tragic and my heartfelt condolences go to the families affected.

It could have been anybody’s child. She was just on a school trip.

It’s heartbreaking for the families and of course, the coach driver as well. We wake up every day not knowing what the day ahead brings us.

My thoughts also go out to the driver and his family and the children.

This is utterly heartbreaking. You never send your children to school and not expect them to return home safely. What should have been a normal day took such a tragic turn for the worse. My heart goes out to all the families and emergency services involved, and I hope that all those affected get the ongoing support that they will need.

This is extremely sad news, but this is why we should make the most of the time that we’ve got on this earth and be kind to one another because life can be cut short so quickly.

Our Road Will Never Be Fixed Due To A Loophole

Living on a street scarred by potholes is a reality for hundreds of Brits.

However, for Sarah Ahmed and her 13-year-old wheelchair-bound daughter, potholes and flooded roads make getting out of their front garden an everyday battle.

Mother of four, Sarah Ahmed, 35, has been trying to leave her home on dilapidated Mayfield Avenue in Bolton, Greater Manchester for years and has encountered problems including car damage and rat infestation due to the unsatisfactory condition of the road.

The local council refused to fix the road because they hadn’t ‘adopted’ it, leaving residents in limbo and shelling out for repairs themselves, to the point that one resident was forced to hire a digger.

A loophole in planning laws means roads like Mayfield Avenue and neighbouring Bradford Avenue fall into disrepair and will never be fixed, allowing housing developers and local councils to refuse to maintain unadopted residential streets.

Nearly 260,000 (20 per cent) of the almost 1.28 million roads in England and Wales have not been adopted by a public authority and so are not maintained by the taxpayer.

Data provided to a newspaper outlet by GeoPlace, which compiles details of English and Welsh streets, reveals that 18 per cent of streets in Bolton are unadopted, ranking 86th out of 175 local authority areas.

According to GeoPlace street data, 28 per cent of streets in Bradford are unadopted, the 29th highest out of 175 local authority areas.

In Kirlees, a whopping 57 per cent of roads are unadopted or private, which takes the top spot only behind the Isles of Scilly.

Areas with high levels of unadopted roads also include Conway, Wales at 46 per cent, Tower Hamlets in Greater London at 45 per cent, and Portsmouth at 43 per cent.

When developers build new housing estates, they will usually make a deal with the local council to bring it up to a particular standard before the authority accepts responsibility for repairing potholes and more.

‘Section 38’ agreements allow the highway authority to ‘adopt’ the road, making it maintainable at public expense, but it requires the council to make sure the developer brings the quality of the road up to scratch and for the authority to take steps to take on that responsibility.

However, if developers don’t meet these requirements and the council does not make them, the burden of maintenance then falls to residents.

This is not actually a loophole. It’s a fact that unadopted (private) roads are not covered by the council, and this should have been pointed out to the buyer prior to the purchase of the property, but what happens, and who is responsible for the maintenance of an unadopted road if the properties are owned by the local authority or housing association?

Basically, it’s up to the council that you belong to. They determine if they want to make themselves responsible for the unadopted road. Some are considerate and they will, and some others can’t be bothered and won’t. Typically, it’s down to the people who live on the street to put money in each year for the maintenance of the road they live on.

There’s actually a very easy solution to this problem though. The council fixes the road and whatever else is necessary and then they put the council tax band up a level so that any forthcoming repairs can be done.

The Calm After The Storm

Brits could bask in the warmest October 1 in twelve years as autumn sunshine hits with temperatures up to 24C over the weekend.

Storm Agnes which struck regions of the United Kingdom looks set to move aside and make way for sunshine and drier days, starting with highs of 20C.

According to the BBC’s weather centre, temperatures will remain up to 20C as we roll into Saturday and by Sunday the mercury could reach 24C in the southeast.

A recording of 24C would make it the warmest October day for four years and the warmest October 1 in 12 years, and luckily the sunny weather looks set to stick around into next week.

The sunshine comes after Brits revelled in a September heatwave following a bleak and dismal summer.

The Met Office said any early cloud and rain in eastern counties Friday morning would soon clear, leaving a dry and sunny day with an abundance of bright periods.

It would be breezy at first in the east, but winds would ease throughout the day before a dry night.

Saturday would also be a mostly dry day with possible rain overnight.

Monday will be cloudy but temperatures will stay in the low 20s.

The settled conditions follow heavy rain, high winds and power cuts caused by the first named storm of the season, Agnes.

Storm Agnes struck the United Kingdom and Ireland on Wednesday, falling trees and ripping a roof off a building amid gusts of 83mph and 1.3in of rain (33mm).

More than 700 homes lost power in Devon and Cornwall, the RNLI rescued a sailor in a vessel ten miles off Ireland and a fallen tree trapped a pensioner inside his home.

Strong winds hit tents housing 350 Ukrainian refugees in County Laois, ferries were cancelled and airlines including easyJet and Ryanair encountered disruption.

Councillor Aisling Moran said she’d received reports that tents had blown down and that large puddles of water were surrounding them.

Agnes drummed up a high of 83mph winds at Capel Curig in North Wales on Wednesday evening.

Elsewhere, winds were recorded reaching speeds of 68mph at Aberdaron in Wales, 58mph at Glenanne in Northern Ireland, and 54mph at Camborne, Cornwall.

The storm triggered a string of Met Office yellow weather alerts for wind and rain across the United Kingdom, with forecasts of fierce winds and big stormy seas.

A heatwave in October really doesn’t get any better than that.

However, it’s called a forecast for a reason because it’s founded on probability and computer models. They don’t have a time machine and they can’t actually see into the future.

I’m sure the Climate Change crew will find all of this data extremely valuable.

I’m not sure about everybody else, but I love this weather. Bring on Global Warming, but I’m just cynical and it will all be different in the next decade. We should all stop peeing in our pants about everything.

There have definitely been more spiders this year. They’ve been spinning their webs inside my house, little baby ones!

The climate doom-mongers must be rubbing their hands together with joy. Me, I’m just glad my heating bill will be less this winter.

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