Finding figures in on-going EU debate
In 2015 the UK would have paid a gross amount of £18 billion to the EU. The instant rebate of £5 billion reduced that to £13 billion and with 4.5 billion being spent in the UK we are left with a figure of £8.5billion, says HM Treasury 2015 EU finance and the office of national statistics.The money spent in the UK does not include receipts from the EU budget that bypass government and go straight to the private sector and other non-governmental organisations such as…

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Author: Western Daily Press

Obama should sort out home affairs
I almost wept at the report that a two-year-old toddler accidentally shot and killed his mother with a loaded gun that he found in the back of their car, as she drove along a highway in Milwaukee.And that’s only 16 months since another two-year-old sitting in a shopping trolley accidentally shot his mother dead in a Walmart store in Idaho – with a loaded gun he found in her handbag.What is it going to take to make Americans come to their senses and recognise that their much-vaunted…

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Author: Western Daily Press

Planters encourage wildlife into city
The My Wild City team have been at it again. This time we teamed up with the business community of Gloucester Road Central in Bristol. Our mission, to create an urban pollinator corridor on a busy central road in Bristol. Mission impossible? We didn’t think so and we’ve proved it!Funded by a combination of Neighbourhood Partnership grants and My Wild City project funding, the offer of personalised pollinator planters was given to 55 businesses running from the Egerton Road junction all the way…

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These speed limits served no purpose
Doubtless, those who vociferously campaign for more and more proscriptive, highway speed limits genuinely believe that such action will somehow ‘improve safety’ and do so with the best intentions.Yet these limits are based on false logic. Unlike speed limits imposed in other transport modes which are set by engineers and others for good reason, highway limits are determined by politicians largely on a whim and are nothing but institutional bullyIng.Even if road users all stuck rigidly to posted…

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Author: Western Daily Press