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Annoyances and Irritations

Keep Yourself to Yourself

Richmond Council has joined forces with the police to warn residents and businesses about the increasing incidence of identity fraud. Britain suffers one of Europe's highest rates of identity fraud; despite 99% of adults claiming to be aware of the i

The Only Way is Up

With roadworks in Richmond town centre having caused a lot of congestion on the roads, drivers have been using The Vineyard as a short cut by illegally driving the wrong way down this one-way street. This has already caused a number of incidents and

Listen to the Heathrow expansion lobbies...

02 October 2008 10:27
Maybe feeling the heat over the Tories transportation plan, the British Airways CEO mounted a counter PR attack yesterday: BA criticises Tory Heathrow plan (BBC, 1/10/08) (via Londonist). Mr Walsh says the latest idea that a rail link from Leeds and Manc

More misleading comparisons from BAA

11 September 2008 17:28
At the time they are faced with being broken up by the anti-trust regulator, BAA are still putting out misleading statements, as relayed in this BBC article: Delays become worse at Heathrow Their PR officer claims that "Heathrow is full and its depend

Beware - Rogue Traders

Matt Allright is the familiar face we associate with uncovering Rogue Traders every week on BBC1, going undercover to find all sorts of deceit and exploitation, from restaurants employing illegal immigrants to plumbers ripping off the elderly, but perha

Why BAA and the DfT are so backward?

08 September 2008 12:11
While BAA is being threatened with breakup by its friends at the DfT and still considers its rivals being Paris and Amsterdam, other airlines are moving fast into new segments taking note of rail as an unbeatable competitor on short journeys and jet fuel p

Does the DoH really think it's going to solve the obesity epidemic by sanitising the language?

05 August 2008 14:20
Sometimes political correctness drives me over the edge: Nothing To Do With Arbroath: British government bans the word 'obese' to describe overweight children Does using euphemism help solving the issue? At a time when "Obesity 'threatens future of NHS'" (

Economic case for Heathrow expansion 'flawed'

25 July 2008 10:15
An article in the RTT needs little to be added to: Economic case for Heathrow expansion 'flawed' (From RichmondandTwickenham Times) The Friends of the Earht have commissionned a report to the Stockholm Environment Institute was commissioned: see their pres

Finally, high-speed train gets coverage!

21 July 2008 23:32
The 2M group, representing the 2 millions people living under the Heathrow airport flight path (LHR is the airport annoying the most people in Europe) has managed to get great coverage: Evening Standard: £30bn rail link to put Sheffield within three hours

Environmental perversity

16 July 2008 10:03
Because the Government has imposed a "use it or loose it" rule for those precious Heathrow take-off and landing slots, some airlines such as BMI plan to have planes 'fly empty' to keep slots at Heathrow. This shows the difficulty of governing in a free