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Taxing times
Posted on 10:44am Tuesday 4th March 2008
Having missed my birthday night out last week because of a Conservative Group meeting – the monthly get together of councillor members from our party to discuss local issues and policies and so on, and with Council meetings following on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, I felt that it would be a nice idea to take my wife and son away for a few days to visit family down by the coast in Bournemouth. I should have known the journey was going to take a long time when for the first time in living memory, I actually got round the M25 quicker than it had taken me to get to it at the Watford entrance at Junction 19 in the first place.
Morris Bright »
Taxing times
Posted on 10:44am Tuesday 4th March 2008
Having missed my birthday night out last week because of a Conservative Group meeting – the monthly get together of councillor members from our party to discuss local issues and policies and so on, and with Council meetings following on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, I felt that it would be a nice idea to take my wife and son away for a few days to visit family down by the coast in Bournemouth. I should have known the journey was going to take a long time when for the first time in living memory, I actually got round the M25 quicker than it had taken me to get to it at the Watford entrance at Junction 19 in the first place.
Morris Bright »
A wicked evil act.
Posted on 7:40pm Monday 18th February 2008
Residents of Elstree and Borehamwood are rightfully outraged by the appalling and wicked behaviour of those people who have desecrated and damaged our local cemetery. What kind of twisted individuals would break into a cemetery and steal plaques put at gravesides to commemorate the dead. Are people that poor? Do they have so little that they need to steal from a grave? Or is this just a case of evil people not caring about who they harm and how, by callous acts of cowardly greed.
Morris Bright »
A wicked evil act.
Posted on 7:40pm Monday 18th February 2008
Residents of Elstree and Borehamwood are rightfully outraged by the appalling and wicked behaviour of those people who have desecrated and damaged our local cemetery. What kind of twisted individuals would break into a cemetery and steal plaques put at gravesides to commemorate the dead. Are people that poor? Do they have so little that they need to steal from a grave? Or is this just a case of evil people not caring about who they harm and how, by callous acts of cowardly greed.
Morris Bright »
Irate about roads
Posted on 12:56pm Wednesday 6th February 2008
Like many residents, I get more than a little peeved by the state of our roads. Shenley Road through the shopping parade in the town, for example, is quite awful - the road surface has been churned up by an endless stream of vehicles great and small and with far too little regular maintenance. Add to that the incessant digging up of the high street by the utilty companies and so on, over the years and it’s not hard to see why it has fallen into such disrepair. Thankfully we know that during the summer – August onwards I believe – work is finally due to take place to resurface the road and repair the speed ramps along the stretch between the Tesco roundabout, all the way up to the train station at the other end. Yes this will mean many weeks of road diversions and any of us who have lived along or near that stretch of road, or used it, all these years, will know what a nightmare that will be.
Morris Bright »
Irate about roads
Posted on 12:56pm Wednesday 6th February 2008
Like many residents, I get more than a little peeved by the state of our roads. Shenley Road through the shopping parade in the town, for example, is quite awful - the road surface has been churned up by an endless stream of vehicles great and small and with far too little regular maintenance. Add to that the incessant digging up of the high street by the utilty companies and so on, over the years and it’s not hard to see why it has fallen into such disrepair. Thankfully we know that during the summer – August onwards I believe – work is finally due to take place to resurface the road and repair the speed ramps along the stretch between the Tesco roundabout, all the way up to the train station at the other end. Yes this will mean many weeks of road diversions and any of us who have lived along or near that stretch of road, or used it, all these years, will know what a nightmare that will be.
Morris Bright »
A memorable day
Posted on 3:44pm Tuesday 29th January 2008
Monday 28th January started in a slightly sombre but respectful mood at 10am, when I joined with the Mayor and other councillors, along with pupils at the Queen’s School in Bushey for a Holocaust Memorial Day service. It was quite warming to know that the terribly tragic events of more than 60 years ago were still being remembered not just by those survivors who went through the inhumane ordeals during World War II, but also by the younger generations whose duty it now is to keep the history of such atrocities alive on behalf of those who died so mercilessly more than half a century ago.
Morris Bright »
A memorable day
Posted on 3:44pm Tuesday 29th January 2008
Monday 28th January started in a slightly sombre but respectful mood at 10am, when I joined with the Mayor and other councillors, along with pupils at the Queen’s School in Bushey for a Holocaust Memorial Day service. It was quite warming to know that the terribly tragic events of more than 60 years ago were still being remembered not just by those survivors who went through the inhumane ordeals during World War II, but also by the younger generations whose duty it now is to keep the history of such atrocities alive on behalf of those who died so mercilessly more than half a century ago.
Morris Bright »
It's about the numbers
Posted on 1:33pm Monday 14th January 2008
I was told last week that five years ago there was something in the region of 20 million bloggers around the world and that the number has now risen to around 70 million. So there's a lot of competition out there for reading time. Judging by some of the subjects I’m told people write about, I’m not sure how high up on the list I’m going to rate.
Morris Bright »
It's about the numbers
Posted on 1:33pm Monday 14th January 2008
I was told last week that five years ago there was something in the region of 20 million bloggers around the world and that the number has now risen to around 70 million. So there's a lot of competition out there for reading time. Judging by some of the subjects I’m told people write about, I’m not sure how high up on the list I’m going to rate.
Morris Bright »
Happy New Year
Posted on 1:23pm Thursday 3rd January 2008
One of my new year’s resolutions is to blog more. Well that’s not 100% accurate. The big bosses at the Times asked “politely” if all us bloggers could write a little more regularly and as a journalist myself, there’s one thing I know you don’t do and that’s argue with the boss, especially when it’s the media.
Morris Bright »
Happy New Year
Posted on 1:23pm Thursday 3rd January 2008
One of my new year’s resolutions is to blog more. Well that’s not 100% accurate. The big bosses at the Times asked “politely” if all us bloggers could write a little more regularly and as a journalist myself, there’s one thing I know you don’t do and that’s argue with the boss, especially when it’s the media.
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Councillor Morris Bright is the Conservative leader of Hertsmere Borough Council and Elstree and Borehamwood Town Council
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