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Britain’s economy is performing £140bn worse than it would have done had it maintained the average of the OECD over the past decade. That’s equivalent to £5,000 per household every year, with a total for the town’s economy as a whole of £227.5m. Had Britain grown in-line with our competitors that would mean an additional…
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This week marked a quarter of a century since the Labour Party introduced the National Minimum Wage. Having emerged from Labour’s 1983 Manifesto, the one joking referred to as the ‘longest suicide note in history’ due to its perceived radicalism, the policy remained a source of vigorous debate right through to its implementation. Yet, under…
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West Sussex County Council are facing calls to make use of almost two million square metres of vacant council land and property to fund improvements to road maintenance across the county. With council budgets increasingly stretched, funding for highways has often played second fiddle to meeting cost pressures in other statutory services, such as Adult…
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This week is World Autism Acceptance Week, highlighting the challenges faced within our society by neurodivergent people, the impact upon those with autism and how we can work together to build a neuroinclusive society. With the rapid growth of autistic spectrum diagnoses over recent decades, it is vital that society adapts to remove the barriers…
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The British and World Marbles Championship returns to the Greyhound today, continuing a tradition at the site with routes as far back as Elizabeth I. While the grandiosity of the title may well not be reflected in the level of public interest, I like to think that there’s a level of town pride in the…
