Where have all the HGVs gone?
A study by the Buxton Road Residents Group of Ashbourne has established that during Shrovetide there was a 40% reduction in HGVs using the highly polluted Buxton Road.
PD
22 Feb 2023
News Archive
Hordes Of Retirees Playing Golf?
According to the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, this is apparently the malaise afflicting the British economy!
JD
21 Feb 2023
The Lowdown on the LUF
Some Frequesntly asked questions about Ashbourne Reborn and the successful Levelling Up Fund bid.
PD
19 Feb 2023
Never mind the width, feel the volume!
DCC Highways rejects Lib Dem petition to ban HGVs on residential road
PD
19 Feb 2023
Why solving the NI Protocol matters
Peace in Northern Ireland matters for the whole UK. A return to turmoil is in no-one's interest and the lack of political will to engage properly creates uncertainty, of which there is more than enough in the world already. The Conservative Party is riven with ignorance and worse indifference of the affairs of NI and Ireland. The ERG and other anti-european brexiteers unfortunately still hold a disproportionate sway within the ranks of the party. Notions of deferred sovereignty that have fixated this powerful minority of politicians are being played out, dangerously, in their opposition to any rapprochement between the UK, Ireland and Europe over trade. They cannot envisage a unique arrangement, especially not a Red/Green customs system, even though it would facilitate good relations, trouble free trade and probable increased prosperity. They are wedded to a jingoistic viewpoint. Similarly the Democratic Unionist Party belies it's name by refusing to take part in forming a functioning assembly. They have the
JD
16 Feb 2023
Promises, promises
Conservative councillors object to strategies that are in their own election manifesto.
PD
16 Feb 2023