A 100-year-old evergreen oak tree sited on The Leas promenade in Folkestone has been cut down illegally. The 50ft (15.2m) oak was one of the largest trees on the Leas and had been in a conservation area.

The building of new council houses is one of the most important challenges facing councils across the country. There is an urgent need for new social housing to provide those who need support with quality accommodation.

They can run for president. Of the United States. No shit. All you have to do is pay a $1,000 fee and you're on the ballot. That's just what Keith Russell Judd, a felon who is locked up in federal

Could SCIF actually be sold?SCIF is the California's largest workers' comp insurer. A quasi-public insurer, SCIF just a few years ago had around half of the market share for comp in the state. That market share is probably down to

17 Kent schools are expected to be closed today due to strike action by members of the National Union of Teachers. A number of other schools will only open partially - some reduced to just a few classes functioning normally.

Weston-super-Mare's local Constituency Labour Party (CLP) branch has launched a stinging attack on its own Labour Government and Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

North Somerset Council's Executive this week agreed to recommend that Liberata's £3.9m a year contract for benefits, council tax and business rates processing should be extended for another two years

I'm pretty sick of the argument that instructs conservatives to vote for Republican Candidate X because he's not Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, or some other liberal bogeyman. Conservatives should be more ambitious in their candidate wishes than merely...

With some people paying 100$ to fill up their tanks it time to repost my list of gas saving tips...gasbuddy.com tracks prices all over America on a station by station basis. They have websites for most major cities (insert city

It could be worse. At least you weren't saved from a lynching by being arrested for being part of a penis stealing ring.Apparently truth is still stranger than fiction.

Andrew Simpson, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Northampton North, has called the Government announcement about helping those affected by the 10p tax rate cut as a case of 'spin over substance'.

The European Parliament today raised its concerns on rising global food prices in a debate with the Commissioner Louis Michel, EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid.

Following the discovery this week of two further dead porpoises on Westcountry beaches, at Slapton Sands near Dartmouth and Torquay, Devon, local Liberal Democrat MEP for the South West and Gibraltar, Graham Watson commented following his recently tabled Parliamentary Question

To kvetch about gas prices...Its official. The weekly cost of gasoline for my family exceeded 100$ this week. That makes it the highest weekly expense right behind food. If current trends continue it'll become the absolute highest weekly expense in

By an impressive 10% margin. The problem is that she only picked up roughly a dozen pledged delegates. As the number crunchers point out she'd have to win by 80% in the remaining races to catch up to Obama. With

So this woman is on a Delta flight that lands at Logan International Airport in Boston. As she would make sure everyone knows, she is FAMOUS! As reported in The Boston Globe: The general manager of WHDH Channel 7 was

Trying to analyze yesterday's Pennsylvania primary win for Hillary Clinton has political analysts jumping up and down like schoolkids with their hands in the air saying, "I know! I know!"Conflicting commentary dominates the news cycle, with everything from she-won-but-it-doesn't-matter to

The current push to change the opinions of Average Joe/Jane Americans on climate change just doesn't seem to be working according to an Earth Day Gallup poll.A third of Americans think "Global Warming" is a serious concern - a figure

Could it just be that the Arab's are getting even with us for picking on one of their own? If you want to punish an offender, society fines the "offendee". Hit 'em where it hurts, in their pocketbook.