Spotted at our local school the other day … … anti-climb paint on a climbing wall.

The English Defence League are coming to Telford next weekend to protest in Wellington, motivated by the (alleged) muslim paedophile gang currently standing trail for grooming teenage girls. Labour councillors have come out in opposition to the march and are getting behind Councillor Mike Ion’s campaign to deny the EDL their right to peaceful protest [...]

Well, what an interesting night (or to be more accurate, morning).  Labour have won back control of Telford & Wrekin Council after just one stint in opposition in the history of the town by taking control of 33 out of 54 seats. No UKIP candidates got elected to the borough council but where UKIP candidates [...]

It’s today!  I am standing for election today as a UKIP candidate for the Brookside ward of Telford & Wrekin Borough Council, having been elected unopposed onto the parish council as only 8 people contested the 8 vacancies. It should be an interesting one this.  There are two seats on the borough council up for [...]

Last September I posted some pictures of the police and fire brigade attending  a fire in some low rise flats in the next street to me. It turns out that it was started deliberately by some drunken chav who decided to set fire to her ex-boyfriend’s baseball cap and throw it on a mattress.  She [...]

Here are some pictures and video’s from today’s St George’s Day celebration in Telford Town Centre and Telford Town Park …

I was out walking the dog last night and there were 6 police cars a few doors down from my house.  An hour later there was just one car left that I could see and a driveway was cordoned off with police tape.  Turns out a man and his daughter were found dead last night. [...]

I went to a public meeting last night at the Holiday Inn in Telford on the proposed changes to hospital services in Telford. The main shocker of the night was that David Wright MP not only stayed after the photographers had left but what he said while he was in the meeting actually made sense. [...]

Telford & Wrekin Council have been deciding what services and budgets to cut after the British government cut their block grant by more than expected. What they were talking about on local radio the other day was a bit of a mixed bag. One good idea was requiring parents to opt in to free school [...]

It’s been over 2 weeks since I last posted, I’ve been neglecting the blog a bit recently. So what’s been happening in the last couple of weeks?  Well, I went to the UKIP leadership hustings in Birmingham last week.  I’m backing Nigel Farage for leader of course, he’s the best candidate by far.  The second [...]

Well, not quite but there was a fire a short time ago in a block of flats in the next street to me. Seven police cars, two fire engines, a paramedic car and two ambulances – the most exciting thing to happen to Brookside since … a fortnight ago when serial arsonists were lighting fires [...]

I’ve not long got back from stewarding a community event in Brookside, Telford called “Health & Harmony”. I’m still none the wiser at where “Harmony” comes into it but the “Health” bit was covered off by the free fruit smoothies that were given out, the healthy eating advice and the demonstrations by Telford Thai Boxing [...]

So, how’s your St Georges weekend been so far?  Ours has been busy (not to mention expensive) and it’s not over yet! Yesterday Mrs Sane and I went to my sisters’ pub for a 3 course St Georges Day lunch.  The garlic mushrooms with tomato and goats cheese probably weren’t very English (although garlic was [...]

Some people shouldn’t be allowed to breed, let alone run major engineering projects. Quite a few schools in Telford are being rebuilt and one of them is a few miles away from where I live.  The council have chosen a hill covered in woodland as the site of the playing fields for this new school.  [...]

Yesterday I got a call from Mrs Sane who was out on the road asking me to phone the police for her and tell them that some clever person had lobbed a traffic cone off an island onto the dual carriageway below and that just after the cone was a broken down and the two [...]

Yesterday was National Carers Day and BBC Radio Shropshire marked it with features throughout the day. One of the features was about an announcement of a new scheme for elderly carers.  More money and support is to be given to elderly carers who need their partners to have respite care.  This annoyed me. My father-in-law [...]