Bournemouth's biggest industry is tourism and we do it well. As a seaside town we are one of the most popular in the country, but choices of destination (both domestically and abroad) continue to grow and we must therefore constantly look for new and imaginative ways of retaining and developing Bournemouth's attributes. This includes a long-term
Today Britain has about 3,500 wind turbines and the speed in which they are being built means by 2020 there will be over 10,000 of which 4,300 will be based off shore. On a windy day (but not too windy as the machines don’t then work) they will collectively contribute around 30% of our energy needs. (source)
Tobias Ellwood MP is petitioning No 10 Downing Street, the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Town Hall in Bournemouth to overturn the proposal to build three permanent traveller sites on Bournemouth’s Greenbelt.
The funeral service for David Atkinson will take place on 20 February
It is with great sadness to learn this morning of the death of David Atkinson the former Member of Parliament for Bournemouth East who died from cancer yesterday afternoon.
Since the eighties it has become a Parliamentary ritual for the House to debate the proposal of permanently moving the clocks forward by one hour, only to see each attempt scuppered by archaic rules which allow individual members, intent on speaking until the proverbial cows come home, to talk the Bill out. In this Parliament things appear different. See the debate here.
Tobias Ellwood MP has launched his new website to enable his constituents to keep track of his many activities.
Tobias along with Councillor Williams meets Park Home Residents who are experiencing difficulties with the owners of the park in Iford
Perhaps we are too close to events to appreciate it, but historians may single out 2011 as exceptional, not just for the dramatic events that took place but for the enduring consequences that may result. RA Butler commented that politics is the art of the possible. 2011 saw that unravelling 13 locust years of New Labour would test the limits, both of what Government felt it could do, and of what the people would accept.
On Friday 11 Nov 2010 at 14:00 hrs Tobias will hand a cheque for £1,500 C.R.U.M.B.S a Boscombe based disability training charity, which offers a workplace, pre-employment programme of learning.
