On Monday, Gill and I stopped off on the way home from a post lockdown family weekend visit to Lincolnshire to go on this simply marvellous 5 mile circular walk around St Ives, Cambridgeshire.
We started off at the National Trust car park …Read more…
Lincoln Castle, Walls, Prison, Magna Carta & Cathedral (and finding a long lost John Gray)
Off message-ish. Last month we went to Lincolnshire to visit my little sister and our nephew (and his lovely family).
On the Sunday we went to Lincoln to visit the historic city centre. A fascinating place to spend a few hours. Despite Lincolnshire be…Read more…
‘Tremendous solidarity’
Despite the crisis in health visitor numbers showing no sign of abating — with the latest figures revealing a further massive drop compared to figures from as recently as earlier this year –…Read more…
Health visiting ‘in crisis’
MPs will shine a spotlight on the massive drop in health visitor numbers in a Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday (October 24). The Community Practitioners’ and Health Visitors’ Association…Read more…
‘Divide and rule’ jobs move slammed
More than 70 Lincolnshire health visitors are being balloted for strike action as the long running pay dispute escalates with county council bosses trying to ‘divide and rule’ over future job roles….Read more…
‘Fighting for the future of every child’
Health visitors and hundreds of their supporters, including Labour’s shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth, marched through Lincoln’s cobbled streets on Saturday (August 17) to stand up for the…Read more…
‘Maximum support’
Labour’s shadow health and social care secretary Jon Ashworth will give Lincolnshire’s health visitors ‘maximum support’ when he addresses a well-supported rally in Lincoln tomorrow (August 17)….Read more…
‘Massive blow’
Unite said the announcement that Cummins Generator Technologies is to close one of its sites in Stamford threatening about 300 jobs is ‘a massive blow to the Lincolnshire economy’. It is…Read more…