Defra drowns in its inefficiency

I was hoping someone from Defra with a nuance of intelligence would have picked up on some of excellent points raised in this Sunday Times article on freeing our congested roads by using our rivers and sea more. Each barge can carry the equivalent of more than 20 lorryloads, it surely must be an answer to so many of our problems. And as barges are already used in London to transport its rubbish...
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Norfolk’s 100-year-old parish councillor still going strong

No wonder so many A-listers want a Norfolk seat, it is the perfect base for a healthy, politically active life, as Jack Chase, will vouch, who is 100 today and still serving as a parish councillor. He is almost certainly the country’s oldest parish councillor and remains as committed as ever to tackling the issues in his village of Caister, near Great Yarmouth. A pity the web link did not...
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