May 28, 2012
There is a wonderful TV series showing on the BBC called The Great British Story: A People’s History I just watched the first programme over a cuppa last week.
It was insightful learning about how important and beautiful some towns and cities used to be, particularly as one suburb of Glasgow, Govan, once loved by the Romans is now junkie heaven and infamoulsy connected to its fictional comedy resident, Rab C Nesbitt.
As the programme moved across Britain
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February 29, 2012
Immigration really does need to advocate “no littering” to those applying for residency in this country. Southall, Wembley, Newham etc.. is treated like a dustbin. Residents lack care in keeping their streets clean and happily toss their rubbish into the streets.
Today I witnessed a woman who left her post behind her stall in front of a shop to throw an apple and a rolled up piece of newspaper onto the road instead of taking it indoors and putting it in a bin or putting it in the roadside bin less than 20m from her.
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January 11, 2012
A new initiative as part of the 2012 Olympic cultural legacy is to use the tops of bus stops as spaces to display art. Bus-Tops project digital art in London on the top of 30 shelters in 20 boroughs offering commuters a surprisingly pleasant view from the top of a double decker bus.

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May 18, 2011
Political correspondent Nick Robinson hosted an interesting documentary called “The Street That Cut Everything” on BBC on Monday night. This was Prime Minister David Cameron’s Big Society in action.
A street in Preston conceded council services for 6 weeks. As a community, they had to run everything from rubbish collection to graffiti cleaning, benefits support to planning issues.

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May 15, 2011
Last weekend, a series of toolkits were launched during a national conference in Manchester to help Mosques better engage with women and young people. The toolkits are a result of findings of workshops held around the country which highlighted poor representation and engagement of women and young people in Mosques.

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April 3, 2011
The extremely sad and tragic story of Satpal Kaur Singh demonstrated once again the lack of attention paid by social services to adequately support mental health and children. Satpal pleaded to manslaughter and was sentenced to 7 years for killing her 12 year old autistic son by making him drink bleach. Her own mental health deteriorated as she struggled to cope with the care of her son.
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