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Looking at Your Community – July 2018 (all articles) All in the month of JULY 50 years on from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 70 years of the National Health Service In praise of Emily Bronte Waterloo!  What’s in a Name?  Diary of a Momentous Year: July 1918 – WHEN FRIENDS COME TO HELP Poverty in...

All in the month of JULY It was: 200 years ago, on 30th July, that Emily Bronte, the British writer, was born. She was best known for her novel, Wuthering Heights. 175 years ago, on 19th July that the British steamship SS Great Britain, was launched.  Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, it was the longest...

Outer Hebrides to get its first mosque The first mosque in the Outer Hebrides is due to open this summer, despite the objections of local church leaders. The plan faced fierce opposition from the local arm of the Free Church of Scotland. A derelict house is being converted into a mosque for the small Syrian...

In praise of Emily Bronte Novelist Emily Brontë, author of Wuthering Heights, was born 200 years ago, on 30th July, 1818, in a small country town in Yorkshire, moving shortly afterwards with her family to nearby Haworth, where she remained until her death at the age of 30. Her mother and two oldest sisters died...

70 years of the National Health Service The National Health Service began operating 70 years ago, on 5th July 1948, when Sylvia Beckingham, 13, was admitted to hospital in Manchester to be treated for a liver condition. It was the climax of a hugely ambitious plan by Labour Health Secretary Aneurin Bevan to bring good...

Stop! Hedgehog! Hedgehog ‘warning signs’ are going up on our roads, at animal casualty black spots. The aim is to stop the drastic decline of their population –  around 100,000 of them are killed on our roads every year, and it is feared that this level of mortality is unsustainable. The People’s Trust for Endangered...

50 years on from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Britain, the USA, the Soviet Union and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 50 years ago, on 1st July 1968. It came into effect in March 1970, and some 190 nations have now signed. India and Pakistan have never signed the treaty but have admitted...

No more spoonfuls of sugar to help the medicine go down The NHS may bring in a complete ban on sugary drinks in hospitals, after more than a third of its trusts have failed to sign up to a voluntary scheme to cut sales. It seems that so far 80 out of 232 trusts have...

Is there poverty in our local school? Are there children in our local school who are living in poverty? There could well be. At least, teachers right across the country report that they are now having to wash children’s clothes and lend parents money, as they report increasing poverty among their pupils. A joint survey...

Prenez garde! Voila le French mosquito! If you are going to France this summer, be sure to use repellent sprays. Aggressive tiger mosquitoes that can carry viruses such as Zika, dengue and chikungunya have already spread through half of France. Tiger mosquitoes (originally from Asia) can be identified by their distinctive black-and-white striped body and...

Diary of a Momentous Year: July 1918 – WHEN FRIENDS COME TO HELP It is called ‘World War 1’ and certainly no previous conflict had spread its ugly fingers so widely. Of course, we tend to think of the Western Front. Our default image of the War is of men in trenches, of mud and...

Read this before you take your dog to Europe British pets are at risk of catching deadly diseases from foreign ticks when they are taken to the Continent. This is the warning from vets, who are reporting increasing numbers of foreign ticks who are being brought home from holidays to Spain, Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria....