Police Commissioners threaten judicial review over cuts

Seven Police commissioners, including ours at Devon and Cornwall, join forces to urge Policing Minister Mike Penning to halt ‘deeply flawed’ changes and threaten to sue:

“Tony Hogg, the police and crime commissioner for Devon and Cornwall, said: “It is with considerable regret that I cannot rule out mounting a legal challenge against the Government’s plans. I feel I must do everything I can to stop these proposals coming into effect.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-cuts-forces-threaten-to-sue-government-over-unjustified-budget-reforms-a6718676.html

300 seaside town residents pay £100 a year for private security

Security company AGS drives around Frinton-on-Sea in Essex every night between 7pm and 7am and also has an emergency phoneline.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3300362/Residents-seaside-town-just-six-PCSOs-pay-100-year-private-security-firm-patrol-streets.html

Totnes MP raises concern over “rural right to buy”

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/02/zac-goldsmith-housing-right-to-buy-wollaston_n_8453970.htm

“No 10 ridiculed after adding poppy to David Cameron Facebook picture”

First it’s Hugo Swire and Councillor Elson whose photos are changed by EDDC, now it’s David Cameron’s who has had his doctored to add a large poppy.

It seems that when Tory politicians don’t like their pictures – they just airbrush them!

http://gu.com/p/4dp3q

Though no-one appears to have doctored the picture in this article, which accompanies a story about Mr Cameron accepting free membership of an expensive private members club:

http://gu.com/p/4dpv8

where it also says:

… But what kind of club has Cameron joined? It’s one where the dress code requires that men refrain from wearing such excrescences as collarless shirts and deck shoes, while women will be shown the door for sporting denim or exposing their undergarments. It’s one where the menu doesn’t have prices (according to Zagat: “Members sniff, ‘If you ask how much it costs, you can’t afford to eat here’”), but will reportedly offer Dover sole meunière at £40 and wine from £60 a bottle. It’s one where Vivienne Westwood launched her memoirs in 2014, and where Boris Johnson held his Christmas party. It’s one with which Dave and Sam Cam are familiar, since they had a lovely election victory dinner there in May.

Earlier this year, though, the owners of Mark’s decided that their club wasn’t quite exclusive enough. So they chose to cull about a third of its members. “Members will be asked if they want to join the club again,” Charles Price, the American entrepreneur who oversees the club, told Vanity Fair. “If they do, they can submit their applications.”

The idea was to make Mark’s the most exclusive club in London. “It’s going to be a global A-list, from a variety of backgrounds, old world and new world,” Price said. “You can’t just have a name or money to get in; the main qualification is you have to be interesting.” So, while Mark’s closed its doors in July and Paris-based designer Tino Zervudachi gave the club a multimillion-pound makeover, there was a kind of night of the posh knives in which membership was reduced from 2,500 to 1,500.” …

Nearly a third of East Devon workers do not receive Living Wage

And they will be the ones most affected by Tax Credit reductions and whose wages most affect their struggle to pay increased rents and house prices.

There are already warnings that many care homes (a backbone of the East Devon economy) may soon close because they cannot afford to raise wages when council payments to them are not rising to take account of higher wages.

“Within Devon, the figure ranges from 18 per cent in Exeter to 28 per cent in East Devon, 31 per cent in Mid Devon and Teignbridge, and 41 per cent in Torridge.”

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Devon-workers-earns-Living-Wage-new-figures/story-28085285-detail/story.html