A smiling Gordon Brown has cast his ballot in rainy Fife as millions of voters began to give their verdict on his premiership. The Prime Minister voted at North Queensferry Community Centre, overlooking the Firth of Forth, where the weather was cold …
Ukip candidate Nigel Farage was injured in a light plane crash today, police sources said. Mr Farage was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries following the crash at Hinton-in-the-Hedges airfield, near Brackley in Northamptonshire. Mr …
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Yesterday, local canvassing. The response was good, but I think Kate Hoey, our Labour MP, has done a very good job and is well-known for having a mind of her own, so she will probably survive the swing against Labour. I did a two-hour stint telling from 11.00 to 13.00 this morning, and the presiding officer came outside to tell me he had 'a number of complaints' about my conduct. I told him that only one person had said anything to me personally, and that my standard approach is 'Would you be kind enough to let me know the number …
Kate Hardy
Current work: medical continuityListening to: Bach (David Russell – guitar pieces)Reading: next on TBRIt’s election day today. DH and I are off to the polling station when he gets home this evening. I’ve just discovered that you’re allowed to take kids with you as long as they don’t mark your paper or see you vote, and I know that my two would like to see for themselves how it happens, so we’ll be taking them (and reminding them – no political discussions until we’re away from the polling station).And no discussion here, either. Instead, I’m going to leave you with a really interesting link to a clip from the BBC – the booming bittern. This is a rare bird from my part of the world with a really, really unusual mating call. Scientists have actually filmed the bittern ‘booming’ for the very first time. At 30 seconds, it’s a short clip. Enjoy.
Shane Lynn