There’s so much good stuff going on out there that you should only have time for your daily dose of PRSD before you head back out the door. This week a bunged up Niki gives you a low down of all the gigs that are occurring as well as tunes that crackle like the glaze of a varnished conker (in the pre-politically correct times, of course).
Listen to the sounds of Lemanis, El Coda, Barrio Kingdom and Hey Molly.
And then vote for the best loos, best new, and best grass roots festival of the AEON festival on the UK’s Festival Awards site. Huzzah!
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October 11th, 2007
Posted by Cptn
As we were digging around on the Government News Network, we tripped this story from the start of the month: “Torbay Council was fined £1,000 with £500 costs and found guilty of neglecting to produce appropriate records to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) compliance officers. Officers were attempting to establish whether council workers in the Parks and Leisure department have received the National Minimum Wage.
“The council was prosecuted by the Revenue & Customs Prosecutions Office (RCPO) for ‘neglecting to supply information’ required under the National Minimum Wage Act.”
Now, isn’t that applying free market ideals a little too stringently to public services?
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October 11th, 2007
Unless the PRSD statistician - an oddly urbane fellow with a pencil thin moustache and a love of Duke Ellington - is wrong, the unemployment rate in Plymouth is six per cent.
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October 11th, 2007
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Back in the 1997 when we were all listening to Candle In The Wind redux, the average house in the South West could be bought for £60,000, now it’s £178,500. The average wage was £15,873, whereas the the average wage has risen Ohh Ahh Just A Little Bit to £22,453 (yeah, right!).
That’s a house price rise of 198 per cent and a pay rise of 41.5 per cent over the past 10 years.
Nigel Costley, TUC regional secretary, told us here at the PRSD that: ‘These stark figures bring alive the housing crisis. They show just how quickly buying your own home has gone out of the reach of many working people. These figures show just how much housing has become an engine of inequality. If you are lucky enough to own your own home you have got that bit richer every day than those that do not.
‘We desperately need more quality affordable homes to rent and to buy. Trade unions stand ready to back new housing policies that provide quality homes in proper communities that respect the environment, but if we are to build enough homes local councils, the Regional Assembly and ministers will need to take tough decisions.’
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October 11th, 2007
