Free Hospital Parking…..for Wales

September 1, 2018 in News, Opinions

Unfortunately I've recently had to visit hospitals in Essex and Kent for various reasons. Whilst travelling to local hospitals might be feasible by public transport, travelling to Kent by public transport isn't the easiest, so inevitably we've traveled by car. Hit by expensive car parking charges, sometimes I wish we were more like Wales (except from the rain) - free prescriptions & now free parking at ALL their hospitals. More on this here All NHS hospital car parking charges scrapped in Wales http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45347166

You might also be interest in these posts...

Pavement Promotion Problems

Tonight’s review committee meeting brought up the issue of the pavement promotions problems. The reference to ‘pavement promotion problems’ is really to A boards. The blight of A boards through the High St (Rayleigh) seems to get increasingly worse – however, this may only be a ‘perception‘. Taking in to account the number of reports

Read More

REPOST: Housing crisis not caused by lack of supply, says Tony Blair Institute

Food for thought perhaps in this article from ‘inside housing’ The UK’s housing crisis is not caused by a lack of supply and 300,000 new homes a year would not make a significant impact on house prices and rents, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has said. The thinktank, which published a report today written

Read More

Rising Cyber Crime & Learn How to Protect Yourself

No one wants to be a victim of crime and it could be even more devastating if you are a victim of cyber crime. Shocking figures given to us at a recent Police Crime Commissioner briefing shows there has been an increase of 245% in online crime, nationally, in the past year. (May 2016 to

Read More

About the author 

James Newport

Essex County Councillor for Rayleigh North, Rochford District Councillor for Downhall & Rawreth and Rayleigh Town Councillor for Sweyne.