Showing posts with label Cheltenham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cheltenham. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Cheltenham woman finds fish dinner still alive seconds before she prepares it for tea

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The judges grumbled about Gloucestershire Live not being able to make its mind up about what to call the meal in question, but that didn...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Davey's on the road again

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Caron Lindsay reports on Lib Dem Voice : Ed Davey heads out on the road today. He’s doing a 25 stop tour of Blue Wall seats ahead of the loc...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Two great local by-election gains for the Lib Dems

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As well as the parliamentary by-election in West Lancashire, there were five local contests yesterday. And two of them saw impressive gains ...
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Friday, August 12, 2022

Local Conservatives expect to lose Cheltenham to the Lib Dems

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Peter Walker , the Guardian's political correspondent, saw more of Cheltenham yesterday than the just the Conservatives' leadership ...

Liz Truss pledges to beat the Lib Dems in Cheltenham, but doesn't know which county it's in

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Yesterday's Conservative leadership hustings took place in the plum Liberal Democrat target seat of Cheltenham. During it, Liz Truss ple...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

Lib Dems can knock holes in the Tories' Blue Wall

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One of this blog's established roles is engendering irrational optimism in its Liberal Democrat readers. So I was naturally drawn to a p...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Sally Symington to fight South West Herts for the Lib Dems

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South West Hertfordshire Liberal Democrats have chosen Sally Symington as their candidate at the next general election. As she told Hem...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Two lost Cheltenham stations

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This short video from 1965 shows two lost stations. Cheltenham Spa St James and Cheltenham Malvern Road were both closed to passen...
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Sunday, December 31, 2017

A pivotal year: Lord Bonkers in 2017

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January The year began with Lord Bonkers being told by a Well-Behaved Orphan that "chimbleys is awkward things", praising Du...
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Thursday, December 07, 2017

Someone is stealing the bicycles of Gloucestershire politicians

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Embed from Getty Images Alarming news from Gloucestershire Live : A Cheltenham councillor was the victim of a “brazen” bike theft on Che...
Thursday, November 09, 2017

Lib Dem shortlist for Cheltenham announced

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Before 2015 being a Liberal Democrat blogger was easy. If you were short of a story about the party, you just googled "Lib Dems...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Top 20 Liberal Democrat targets on 8 June

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Embed from Getty Images After the carnage of 2015, I was too scared to spend much time studying the general election results in de...
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Thursday, March 16, 2017

On board the Conservatives' Battlebus2015

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Embed from Getty Images With Conservative expense returns for the last general election under scrutiny in more than 20 constituenc...
Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Mirror alleges Tories exceeded spending limit in 9 Lib Dem seats

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Embed from Getty Images This morning's Mirror takes up the Channel 4 News investigation of alleged Conservative overspending ...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Martin Horwood draws a cartoon rather than write a column

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Martin Horwood, the Liberal Democrat MP for Cheltenham, writes a regular column for the Gloucestershire Echo. This week, however, he has s...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

George Grimes Watson 1927-2013

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[ Later . More on George Watson here .] I learn from Mark Pack that the Liberal Party thinker George Watson died last year. I am sorry ...
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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Andrew Mitchell warns on civil liberties

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It seems we can welcome a new recruit to the civil libertarian cause. Speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival today, the former Con...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

The last train from Swindon to Swindon Town

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Because of its connections with Richard Jefferies (about whom I wrote my Masters dissertation), I have a soft spot for Swindon. So after ...
Friday, October 11, 2013

A Cheltenham pillar box

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In the course of my day job I paid a flying visit to the Cheltenham Literary Festival on Wednesday. I was taken with this pillar box...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Lib Dems believe there's life on Mars

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Liberal Democrats are the party members most likely to believe in aliens, according to a poll reported by This is Gloucestershire : A surv...