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Looks like we may have another strong candidate for this year's Lammy of the Year award …. Sadly, this one is a bit more serious in its implications than our current front runner for the title - our (now ex-)FS’s recent fishing misdemeanour ….and it's far less entertaining, to boot. Rayner seems to have led a very complex life as far as her own personal housing is concerned. The latest high-profile issue, which has now led to her political undoing (for now at least) was whether she was entitled to designate her newly acquired flat in Hove as her main residence in her dealings with HMRC, having told the local council there that it wasn’t. And this appears to be just the tip of the iceberg.... Devoted followers of our (now ex-)deputy PM's antics will recall a previous row, again about housing, which surfaced in April 2024. At the time, she actually went as far as promising to resign if action were taken against her over the matter. The police investigation into her a...

Editor's Note: As a frequent local bus user, I was inspired recently to write a brief guide  for my website's travel page  on how to get the best out of our bus and train networks . Herewith a copy for the blog...it now includes some additional info on local UK air travel....  ------------------------- Our UK public transport network has come a long way on since the days before the internet became widely available in the late 1990s..... Working out how to get from A to B without major trauma during those somewhat simpler times relied on having a good sense of direction, a detailed knowledge of bus/train timetables, some decent maps, a knowledge of how to read them....and being reasonably mobile.  Timetable information was usually only available from tourist information offices, bus and train stations, etc., and only in paper form. It was quite often already out of date by the time you got hold of it. There were no digital bus signage boards for guidance, and few...