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Comment on Yorkshire the county thats trouncing Australia in the olympic medal table by Alex A

Alex A — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:01:59 +0000

Power should be devolved to Yorkshire. And Lancashire, Derbyshire, Dorset, Kent and all English counties. I’m certain that a re-established English parliament is far more likely to do that than the UK parliament ever is.

Comment on Yorkshire the county thats trouncing Australia in the olympic medal table by Tommy Woodward

Tommy Woodward — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:47:59 +0000

And let’s not forget that ‘if Yorkshire was a country’, it wouldn’t have benefitted from Team GB funding.
Oh and Gary Verity at Welcome to Yorkshire would have foxhunting as our national sport 🙁

Comment on Cost of living in countryside soars by £2,000 by Troy

Troy — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:50:43 +0000

Rural people are not exosepd to as much diversity and therefore are more afraid of people and ideas that are different than those they’ve lived with all their lives. Rural people percentage wise are usually not as well educated as urban people.

Comment on Hospital services need to close to improve care for patients: head of NHS Confederation by Khai

Khai — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:53:11 +0000

I would like to make a comment about nurse trianing. I was a student nurse from 1993 until 1996. I followed in a family tradition, as my mother is a nurse who trained at St. Thomas’s Hospital, and went on to train as a midwife and eventually a Health Visitor. My mother carried on working into her seventies, such was the demand for Health Visitors in Luton at the time. By contrast I was failed at the end of a three year trianing course, based at the University of Hertfordshire and St. Albans and Hemel Hempstead Hospital. I desperately wanted to be a nurse, but the course, and the tutors were what i can only describe as inadequate. I was actually failed on my final placement at the BUPA hospital in Bushey, having passed all other placements and the written work that was required. I was bitterly dissappointed, after three years dedicated hard work, to be told i was not good enough to be a nurse. I was told i could not retake the placement. But not only was it dissappointing for me, but a terrible waste of money and resources to put someone through all that trianing for nothing. There were a lot of failings with the course. There was a lack of discipline amongst students (I got into trouble when a student nurse was kicking my chair during a lecture, and i complained and walked out. I was reprimanded for making a complaint). There were a huge number of foreign students, and they appeared to get preferential treatment. But there was a drop out rate of 50% apparently. I at least completed the course, but was judged not good enough to qualify. My reasons for wanting to train as a nurse were based on personal experience. I think of myself as a compassionate and caring person. I had completed a three year degree course at Aberystwyth University, and in my final year, a dear uncle died, suddenly, with an aortic aneurysm, then my only serious boyfriend, during my time as a student, tried to commit suicide. I left university with the idea that becoming a student nurse would be the thing to do.I am not sure how trianing courses are run now. But during my time at the University of Hertfordshie, nurse tutors seemed to live in Ivory Towers, rarely venturing onto wards and lecturing by rote from text books with what seemed little practical, hands on, experience.If you want to help the NHS, then it needs to start with the way nurses are trained, not wasting resources, and policing universities who do not uphold standards of trianing.

Comment on Cost of living in countryside soars by £2,000 by Heidi

Heidi — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:45:00 +0000

In reply to Bruce Nottrodt. Urban areas are more connected with the rest of the world, more actvie, people travel more and the education os vastly superior; therefore, the overall intellect is much higher, so they vote liberal.Ignorant hicks with no clue about the world and only the bible as the source for all answers and common inbreeding, underdeveloped intellect and no education whatsoever don't know any better than to keep voting for other backwater hicks, republicans.

Comment on Cuts in milk prices will cause rise to consumers, say farming leaders by ken

ken — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:14:13 +0000

It is the retail part of milk price that is the problem. Not the production cost & farmers rate. Too much profit margins & transport costs. When Big oil runs out 2020, the cost of transport will go sky high. We will still have oil but the cost of fuel!!We need milk and food production back to the 1940ies. Food production near to the end buyer.
Good bye Big Supermarkets outside cities we won1t be able(by fuel cost)to get to your store.

Comment on Eat less meat to save planet, researchers warn by Ivan Annibal

Ivan Annibal — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:22:16 +0000

In reply to John Davies. Many thanks for these observations-will discuss them with my vegetarian business partner!

Comment on Cost of living in countryside soars by £2,000 by Ivan Annibal

Ivan Annibal — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:19:40 +0000

In reply to Bruce Nottrodt. Very true! Many thanks for your comment!

Comment on Cost of living in countryside soars by £2,000 by Bruce Nottrodt

Bruce Nottrodt — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:00:27 +0000

1 Why do people in the London area get London weighting allowance?

2 In a village on Exmoor there are 15 houses up for sale. Average completion rate is three per year.

Many people in rural Devon and Somerset are trying or need to move into the towns due to costs and levels of services.

£1 tax on the fuel to get a pint of milk?

Comment on Eat less meat to save planet, researchers warn by John Davies

John Davies — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:08:48 +0000

I do not support this warning, and i do not believe the research has reached a logical conclusion. there are several reasons not to support the warning, to name a couple:- what fertilizer will be used for crop feed if we are to increase organic products. it is a well known fact that humans adopting a vegetarian diet produce more methane gas.
a great deal more research needs to be done to prevent alarmist reports with insufficient information.