Analysis Topic: Local Issues
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Sheffield's First Eid Festival at Millhouses Park - Lots of Visitors But Little To Do / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield's first ever Eid festival organised by the Sheffield Heritage Foundation was held at Millhouses park on Saturday 10th August (12-8pm). The festival got off to a very slow start with barely a few hundred people visible some 2 hours into the event.
Sunday, June 09, 2013
Sheffield School Admissions Appeals Help - What You Should Do / Local / Educating Children
By: N_Walayat
Many parents of Sheffield's children will have found that their child has been rejected for a place at their secondary, junior or primary school of choice during the past few months, where in many instances even for catchment area schools due to the blanket reason of schools being over-subscribed. However, what this hides is the underlying truth of why so many children are being denied places at schools of choice which is as consequences of severe cuts in the schools budget that continues to intensify each year.
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Sheffield Fly Tipping Soars 180% Following 50% Black Bin Collections Cut, Whilst Veolia Profits / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Labour run Sheffield City's baldrick-esk councillor's cunning plan of last year to cut costs by cutting black bin waste collections by 50% has not only FAILED to result in a cut in the waste management budget but has resulted in an increase in fly tipping by over 180% as the number of reported cases of fly tipping soar city wide to 576 for 2012/13 as compared to 204 for 2011/12 which could yet double again for 2013/14, whilst the French multinational waste contracting firm Veolia's annual UK profits continue to soar at the rate of 20% per annum.
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Sheffield City Council Baldrick Plan to Cut Waste Collections Costs Fails / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield City Council bureaucrats baldrick-esk cunning plan of last year to cut costs by cutting black bin waste collections by 50% has abysmally failed in every respect as official figures reveal no spending is expected to be cut for 2013-14, and the final actual amount expended is likely to INCREASE, whilst at the same time cutting waste collections by 50% is resulting in many households being left with growing mountains of uncollected waste.
Sunday, March 03, 2013
Sheffield Secondary School Places Crisis Appeals Chaos, Why You Need a Solicitor / Local / Educating Children
By: N_Walayat
Parents of Sheffield's children will have received the results of their secondary school applications this week and many will be finding that they have been denied a place at their choice of school, in many instances even for catchment area schools due to the blanket response of the schools being over-subscribed. However, what this hides is the underlying truth of why so many children are being denied places at schools of choice which as consequences of severe cuts in school budgets that continues each year. Many parents will now be considering going down appeals route which this article will seek to illuminate.
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Sheffield School Places Chaos 2013, Labour Run City Council Cuts 10,000 Places / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
A large number of parents will be finding during 2013 that their child will not have been given a place at an catchment area school, with the excuse given that the school is full and thus instead given places many miles away. The reason why this is happening with increasingly frequency is as a consequence of the Labour run Sheffield City Council continuing the Liberal Democrats programme for deep cuts in Sheffield's education budget as the below graph illustrates that in nominal terms has seen the education budget cut by 11% since 2010 and 17% in real terms (after inflation of 3% per annum), despite continuously increasing council tax bills.
Saturday, November 03, 2012
Sheffield City Council Cuts Education Budget by 17%, School Places Chaos 2013 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Many of Sheffield's parents will have been busy during October making postal and online applications for 2013-14 secondary school places, and similarly soon to be followed by applications for primary and junior school places for which there are strict deadlines to adhere to. Unfortunately a large number of parents will find during 2013 that their child will not have been given a place at catchment area schools, instead be placed right across the city.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Sheffield Primary, Secondary, Junior School Place Applying Admissions Chaos 2013 / Local / Educating Children
By: N_Walayat
Many of Sheffield's parents will have been busy this past month in making postal and online applications for 2013-14 secondary school places, and similarly soon to be followed by applications for primary and junior school places for which there are strict deadlines to adhere to. The minimum expectations of all parents is for a fair and level playing field in the process of applying for school places for their children.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Sheffield School Pupils Admissions Fails to Provide a Level Playing Field / Local / Educating Children
By: N_Walayat
Many of Sheffield's parents will have been busy this past month in making postal and online applications for secondary schools, and similarly soon to be followed by applications for nursery and junior school places. The minimum expectations of all parents is for a fair and level playing field in the process of applying for school places for their children.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Labour Sheffield Council Black Bins Collections 50% Cut Encouraging Fly Tipping, Veolia Profits Jump 18.4% / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield residents are increasingly outraged at what they perceive to be the unilateral action by the Labour regime, Sheffield City Council to cut black bin collections by 50%, all without any prior discussion with residents at the ballot box, most of whom only find out of the changes AFTER they find that their black bins have gone uncollected. Leaflets informing residents of the changes were supposed to be have been sent out by the waste management company but have only been received by few.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Sheffield City Council Cuts Black Bins Collection by 50%, NHS GP's Delay Referrals Whilst Seeking Commissions / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
About 80% of council tax payers are in receipt of about 20% of the services, as Sheffield city council takes another step, in a long line of steps at stripping services offered to preserve public sector jobs to the greater detriment of public services as illustrated by the latest brain wave to cut the main black bins collection by 50% to save a mere £2.4 million and thus leaving Sheffield's residents with only one main collection every fortnight, whilst forcing recycling to a greater extent in the alternative blue bins collections for paper and bottles.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Manchester Airport Terminal 1 Arrivals Suspected Laser Blinding Attack, Public Safety Warning / Local / Social Issues
By: N_Walayat
An epidemic of laser attacks on passenger air-liners during landing at Manchester and other airports has resulted in a firm police response in tracking down, arresting and successfully prosecuting the culprits who usually turn out to be local yobs.
However such firm police action may not go so far in protecting and acting on incidence involving the general public at least at Manchester Airport as recent experience illustrates.
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Friday, July 06, 2012
UK, Sheffield Flood Warning 2012, a Repeat of 2007 Floods? / Local / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Much of Britain is bracing itself for a deluge of a months rainfall in just 24 hours. Sheffielders are rightly worried to prepare themselves for a potential re-run of the 2007 floods of the century, as after an extraordinarily wet June the ground was already saturated coming into July, with rain fall continuing during the first week of the month into today's deluge.
The Met Office weather maps put Sheffield at greatest risk of potential flooding during Saturday Evening and into Sunday Morning, followed by a pause in the rainfall going into Monday when the rain is expected to resume.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Labour Party Appoints Shaun Wright as South Yorkshire's First Police and Crime Commissioner / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Labour party has spoken, South Yorkshire's first Police and Crime Commissioner will be the relatively unknown Rotherham Labour councillor Shaun Wright, who outmanoeuvred the publically more recognisable figure of former Chief Constable Med Hughes and other candidates by in some cases using tactics such as implying endorsements from unions, MP's and other party structures on leaflets etc, that he either did not have or had already been explicitly given to another candidates.
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
One Medical Sheffield Rockingham Street NHS GP Centre Real Patient Experience Review / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
One Medicare (owned by One Medical) with much fanfare and glossy leaflet drops opened Sheffield's GP Polyclinic or Super Surgery in April 2009 that offered 7 days per week access from 8am to 8pm, situated near the centre of Sheffield on the corner of Rockingham Street and Broad Lane. The centre publicised that it was open to any person to walk in off the street and see a GP or nurse without a prior appointment (allow upto 3hours waiting time) and those choosing to register with the surgery would receive full NHS services, thus offering an alternative to patients stuck in the catchment areas of Sheffield's bottom ranking GP Surgeries.
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Will New Darnall Community GP Health Centre Building Make Any Real Difference? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Darnall Community Health consistently ranks as Sheffield's bottom ranking GP Surgery as measured by the Department of Health funded UK GP Patient survey in terms of overall satisfaction at the quality of healthcare received. The last analysed survey for the period to March 2011 featured more than 5.5 million detailed questionnaires being sent out to NHS GP patients across England of which 1.96 million were returned. For the city of Sheffield a total of 68,242 questionnaires were sent out to the patients of Sheffield's 92 GP surgeries of which 26,193 were returned from which detailed results were compiled as listed in the table at the end of this article.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Will Labour Choose the Best Man for the Job? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The coalition government's reform of England and Wale's Police forces will soon kick into gear in the run up to the November 15th elections for Police and Crime Commissioners to replace Police Authorities, who will be tasked with holding police forces to account including the power to hire and fire chief constables as well as set force priorities in response to the populations needs.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Sheffield Broad lane NHS GP City Surgery Health Walk in Centre Real Patient Experience / Local / NHS
By: N_Walayat
One Medicare (owned by One Medical) with much fanfare and glossy leaflet drops opened Sheffield's GP Polyclinic or Super Surgery in April 2009 that offered 7 days per week access from 8am to 8pm, situated near the centre of Sheffield, located on the corner of Rockingham Street and Broad Lane. The centre allows any person to walk in off the street and see a GP or nurse without a prior appointment (allow approx 2hr waiting time) and those choosing to register with the surgery receive full NHS services, thus offering the potential for those stuck in Sheffield's worst ranking GP Surgeries to register with a better ranking and resourced GP surgery.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Dr Choudhry Mohamed Walayat MBE Passes Away / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Nadeem Walayat writes: My Father, Dr Choudhry Mohammed Walayat passed away on Sunday 13th November 2011 at 9.42pm at the age of 75.
My father had been hospitalised since suffering a Major stroke in May 2011, following several months of stability with plans for home care to commence during Late October, my father took a turn for the worse on October 30th, following which he had remained critically ill until his death, and I was blessed to be at his bedside at the time of passing.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
One Medicare NHS GP Surgery Patient Experience at Broad Lane, Sheffield / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
One Medicare (owned by One Medical) with much fanfare and glossy leaflet drops opened Sheffield's GP Polyclinic or Super Surgery in April 2009 that offered 7 days per week access from 8am to 8pm, situated near the centre of Sheffield, located on the corner of Rockingham Street and Broad Lane. The centre allows any person to walk in off the street and see a GP or nurse without a prior appointment (allow approx 2hr waiting time) and those choosing to register with the surgery receiving full NHS services, thus offering the potential for those stuck in Sheffield's worst ranking GP Surgeries to register with a better resourced GP surgery.