andybodders Covid Watch 168: Omicron, face masks, new testing advice and peaking cases
Our country has been battered by Storm Arwen. Could it also be about to be battered by Variant Omicron? The new Covid variant has twice as many mutations as Delta,…
Lib Dem Helen Morgan joins six candidates in North Shropshire by-election
Helen Morgan has been selected as the Lib Dem candidate in the North Shropshire by-election, which was called after the resignation of Conservative Owen Paterson amid allegations of sleaze. The…
Covid Watch 167: Infection rates are going up and down in Telford and Shropshire
Just a quick update this week. The infection rate has been falling in Telford, though provisional data show a small increase in recent days. In Shropshire, the infection rate looks…
COP26 didn’t save the world but it helps
Glasgow was not a disaster after all. Neither was it a ringing success. Hopes had been building that the Conference of Parties would have reached an agreement that would get…
The North Shropshire by-election is well underway
There is always an air of excitement about by-elections. General elections and the four yearly local elections are planned well ahead by the political parties, candidates and campaigners. But by-elections…