BBC "ON THE WIRE", 25th BIRTHDAY LIVE SHOW
ADRIAN SHERWOOD AND STEVE BARKER PERUSE SOME VIDEO
John Peel, Legendary DJ, Musical Sage and a nice bloke.
THE MISSING JESUS AND MARY
THE MISSING JESUS AND MARY IN CLITHEROE
Thursday, March 17, 2011
KELVIN McFRENZY
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH - WARMER HOMES CAMPAIGN
Warm Homes
Millions of vulnerable people in Britain live in cold homes that make them ill and cost a fortune to heat.
Spending time in a cold, damp house can make heart disease, strokes and flu more likely. And there's an increased risk of illness and death among older people, young children and those with a disability.
Homes with shoddy insulation and inefficient boilers don't just harm people's health and leak heat.
The wasted energy means tonnes of climate-changing emissions are needlessly pumped into the atmosphere. More than a quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from heating our homes and water.
Making our homes energy efficient is one of the cheapest and quickest ways to slash CO2 and help avoid dangerous climate change.
And a nationwide overhaul of our homes would:
- Protect people's health.
- Save families money on fuel bills.
- Create tens of thousands of jobs.
- Save the NHS millions of pounds.
Sounds like a good idea? It is. But it won't happen by itself.
What we're doing
Friends of the Earth's Warm Homes campaign is calling for the coldest two thirds of British homes to be improved.
We need to cut emissions from heat-leaking houses by 42 per cent this decade, to meet our legal targets for tackling climate change.
And tenants need special protection. Houses rented from a private landlord or through a letting agency are the most likely to be the worst insulated.
We're calling for the Government to:
- Set a minimum energy-efficiency standard for private rented homes.
- From 2016 make it illegal to let the worst homes until they're improved.
- Ensure all houses are brought up to scratch by 2020.
- Support landlords and homeowners to make improvements.
- Ensure people know what it costs to heat a home before moving in.
The Government will introduce a new energy law in 2011.
Please join Friends of the Earth's campaign for the Energy Bill to warm our homes, not the planet.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
COMIC RELIEF... DONT MAKE ME LAUGH
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
BRITAIN AND THE USA CANNOT WAIT TO SEND THE MILITARY INTO LIBYA
Monday, February 14, 2011
BIG SOCIETY OR LITTLE ISLAND ?
Sunday, January 9, 2011
BBC -- HOW DRUGS DONT WORK - CANNABIS
At the last count ther3e were supposedly 421 chemcials in cannabis, 420 of which are not THC. several of which were found to be useful or potentially useful in the treatment of a number of physical and mental ailments. Surely the BBC program could have found a little time for some of these. And before you way, what do you know about all this i must point out that i worked with my Local MP in the 90s on the issues of cannabis pharmaceuticals and decriminilisation. In the course of this i prepared evidence for the House of Lords Select Committee and even discussed it with the Police Foundation.
Another issue which i find genuinely offensive is the failure of this type of programming to differentiate between use and abuse. There is a long distance which seperates the person who smokes a joint from the person of smokes cannabis in joints, pipes, bongs, etc etc from dawn till dusk. If we apply this kind of misguided logic to much of human activity we find we are surrounded by comparatively few abusers of cannabis but these are certainly well exceeded by sugar addicts and abusers, chocaholics, alcoholics, nicotine addicts, and i havent even begun to consider all those who regularly use and abuse prescription drugs such as aspirin, paracetamol, etc etc.