I was first down to breakfast today after a poor night’s sleep and was working all day in my office printing out Gravel Pit Road and Dog Fouling letters and then collating them together for hand delivering tomorrow. A visit from Ros Smith concerning Little Paxton planning issues, a call from the Friendship Club about next Monday’s Village Hall crisis meeting and a discussion with Bill Walston about my purchase of an Apple Macintosh before taking Debbie horse-riding. The Crown pathologist at the Gibraltar IRA inquest reports 34 bullet wounds in a frenzied attack, the Cruise Missiles left Molesworth today to be flown off to the USA via Alconbury, the country’s mail is a complete standstill and the fast Customs and Excise cutter boats seized drugs worth £37 million.
After my very late night, I did not sleep too well at first and then only for a few hours before waking but, even so, I went downstairs early and managed to be the first to breakfast. I was working in my office all day, printing out my letters to the constituents on the first subject of the gravel pit road. It took the rest of the morning to photocopy the reports to go with it and then some time this afternoon to collate and staple the items together. Ros Smith arrived at 3pm and we discussed the three Little Paxton planning items were to crop up in next Monday’s planning committee so that I could be briefed on the history and the Parish’s view on the issues to be discussed. We also chatted about the problems of the Village Hall. I had been called by the Friendship club earlier and asked to intervene in next Monday’s crisis meeting over the Hall’s future.
I also spoke to Bill Walston today, who is struggling with our newsletters. I am considering buying an Apple Macintosh myself and providing the St Neots Branch of The SLD with the facility to generate our own artwork. I contacted the Cambridgeshire County Council forestry officer at last and he will be coming to see me next week. Later today, I produce the letters for the constituents concerned with dog fouling and now have the job of hand delivering all the items tomorrow. Took Debbie to her horse-riding session this evening and she did quite well on ‘Spangles’ and has no school worries. Della was okay being left at Play-School, but her friend Thomas had the ‘weepy wailies’ as his mum left. This week’s local papers are all featuring our publicity on local political affairs as our PR tactics begin to win through. No Joan today as it’s her day off. The news today is of further reports from the IRA inquest in Gibraltar with the Crown pathologist giving evidence on the way in which the people were killed. There were 34 bullet wounds in the three victims and evidence of a frenzied attack where guns had been emptied into their head and neck even when the victims had been immobilised. The first cruise missiles to leave Britain under the East/West arms treaty left Molesworth today for Alconbury where they will be flown off to the USA. All the 18 at Molesworth will be gone by the end of the year. There is no sign of an end to the postal strike, as management and unions remain at loggerheads and so the entire country’s mail is at a complete standstill. The Bangladesh floods are steadily receding making the scale of the disaster relief needed even more apparent. Drugs worth £37 million have been seized in four hours using the Customs and Excise fleet of fast cutter boats