Warminster care home construction begins
Construction will start on a new 80 bed nursing home on the Beckford Centre site in Warminster later this month, and should be complete by the end of 2014.
Construction will start on a new 80 bed nursing home on the Beckford Centre site in Warminster later this month, and should be complete by the end of 2014.
A new planning application for the Bowyers or 'Innox Riverside' site in Trowbridge was considered by the planning committee on February 13th. Planning officers recommended permission, with a total of 47 conditions and a legal agreement. Councillors overwhelmingly backed the proposal. However because the government doesn't trust local people to make decisions on this type of application it had to go to the Men from the Ministry to decide whether or not they wanted to call it in for ministerial consideration.
In the past month Kent Police have investigated 2 thefts of garden furniture from the Hospital Hill area, 1 incident of theft from a motor vehicle in Castle Road, 1 incident of theft of building materials in Sandgate High Street, 1 incident of theft of building supplies from Sandgate High Street, 1 incident of burglary in Enbrook Valley and 1 incident of criminal damage to fencing at Saga.
Liberal Democrat Cllr Dennis Meredith has attacked the Conservatives at County Hall after a senior Conservative Councillor told residents who were worried about going out in the dark after the Conservatives switched off the streetlights that they should "take a torch and get on with it".
Liz Cohen won yesterday's by election in Shenfield with a resounding victory over the Conservatives who, until May 2012, had held all three borough seats since 1896.
The Liberal Democrats have gained two seats from the Conservatives in a stunning by-election win in Oxford West & Abingdon constituency.