Temple Cowley Pools re-opens on Saturday

Temple Cowley Pools is now ready to re-open after a month’s closure.
Staff at the pool will be looking forward to welcoming customers back to the swimming pool from Saturday 1 March. Swimming lessons and the usual timetable will resume on Monday 3 March.
The essential maintenance work was carried out successfully and on time [...]

Will ORR actions on Network Rail change the company’s behaviour?

RFG welcomes the ORR Report published yesterday (28 Feb) on Network Rail’s New Year possession overruns.

These were serious for freight as well as for passenger services, and were not confined to the West Coast Main Line.   The overruns were compounded by the lack for proper advance warning when it must have been clear much earlier [...]

News from the Regional Assembly

GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC PLANS NEGLECT THE SOUTH EAST
The South East’s thriving economy gets insufficient support in draft Government guidance on planning for economic development, says the South East England Regional Assembly’s Regional Planning Committee.
Responding this week to Government consultation on planning for sustainable economic development, the Committee says there is too much focus on weak economies [...]

Its Time You Learnt Latin?

‘No more Latin, no more French,no more sitting on the old school bench…’
 So went the old end-of-term celebration rhyme, putting Latin first in the list of things children would be glad to see the back of. Latin had a bad press for generations: it was dull, difficult and dead. Things have changed in recent decades: [...]

TEXT TICKETING AT CHILTERN RAILWAYS

Text ticketing was a first for the UK rail industry and now Chiltern Railways have been awarded ‘the Innovative Transport Project of the Year’ for text ticketing at last nights London Transport Awards held at Hilton Park Lane in London.
Peter Owen, Marketing Director of Chiltern Railways said: “I am delighted that we have won this [...]