A proposed ‘core offer’ detailing what services East Sussex residents can expect to be delivered in the future has been published. East Sussex County Council, which has already had to save £129m since 2010 due to increased demands and costs coupled with reduced Government funding, may need to find a further £46m over the next three years.The core offer does include a number of cuts, but would see a number of non-statutory alongside the statutory services being maintained.In her report chief executive Becky Shaw described how the core offer ‘is not the ideal that we would wish to be able to provide but seeks to capture what is most appropriate and possible in a time of austerity’.For example adult social care and children’s services will continue to be provided, roads and highway infrastructure will still be maintained, a library services will be provided and waste sites will continue to operate in the county.But monitoring of school performance … [Read more...] about ‘Core offer’ explains what services East Sussex residents can expect in the future
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Paris motor show preview – what to expect from the 2018 Mondial de l’Automobile
The 2018 Paris Motor Show will take place in Paris Expo Porte de Versailles from Thursday October 4 to Sunday October 14, with two additional press preview days on the 2nd and 3rd. It’s one of the largest events of its kind in Europe, joining Geneva and Frankfurt on the continent's automotive calendar. This year, though, it’s noticeably empty – some high-profile brands have chosen to skip Mondial de l'Automobile in 2018. Some of the event will come as a surprise, but most will not. We have a fairly good idea about what to expect from the various brands who are turning up, either from industry intelligence or from their own press releases, and we've put together an A-Z of what you need ("need") to know ahead of the show's opening. We'll also be on the ground covering the Paris motor show live, with news and analysis from Telegraph motoring correspondent Andrew English. Audi One of the show’s most hotly anticipated models is the E-Tron all-electric SUV. … [Read more...] about Paris motor show preview – what to expect from the 2018 Mondial de l’Automobile
TV review, The Windsors Royal Wedding Special (Channel 4): The perfect vaccine to Harry and Meghan fever
Only a few more days now, but I’m already fully inoculated against “royal wedding fever”. You see, I willingly submitted myself to a one-hour long ocular administration of The Windsors Royal Wedding Special, a powerful booster dose for us monarcho-sceptics. I am now confident that I shall able to ignore the fact of two wealthy and, for all I know, perfectly pleasant people I’ve never met getting married – either the couple doing so for the telly at Windsor Castle, or the countless others doing so across the land. I mean ask yourself this: would you actually want to spend today trying to gate-crash a wedding you’ve not been invited to – even if you knew the happy couple? Exactly. Like the regular Windsors series the Royal Wedding Special was devastatingly well-scripted and acted, and it was great to see all the old cast lined up again – the “Fab Four” (Wills, Kate, Meghan, Harry), the bitter old … [Read more...] about TV review, The Windsors Royal Wedding Special (Channel 4): The perfect vaccine to Harry and Meghan fever
REVIEW: Quatuor Arod – Coffee Concert at The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Sussex University, Falmer
Jordan Victoria, Alexandre Vu (violins), Tanguy Parisot (viola), Samy Rachid (cello). String Quartets by Haydn, in G minor Op74 No 3 ‘The Rider’ (1793); Benjamin Attahir, Al ’Asr (2018); Beethoven, in E minor Op59 No2 ‘Rasumovsky’(1805). Watching four different bodies combine on stage is one of the fascinations of seeing small-scale ensembles perform in chamber music concerts. We can’t know freely their actual personalities but we can search for clues in how they perform. Our eyes are drawn in all directions. Here was another example in the frequent flow of Coffee Concert debut-making groups already operating at high level. This time, Quatuor Arod from Paris – intriguingly titled and individually answering to a metropolitan array of forenames and surnames yet again underlining the internationality of classical music ensemble formation down the ages. We had another absorbed lead violinist, contained in his movement, concentrated in … [Read more...] about REVIEW: Quatuor Arod – Coffee Concert at The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Sussex University, Falmer
Home Office Deportation Targets Show How Britain’s Immigration System Is Harmful By Design
by Victoria Canning, a lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy at The Open University, and Monish Bhatia, a lecturer in Criminology at Birkbeck, University of London April has been a month of turbulence for the Home Office. The aftermath of the Windrush exposé has shaken British politics to its core. And now Amber Rudd has resigned as home secretary, days after admitting that her department had internal regional targets to remove illegalised people from the country – some from the Windrush generation who were already British subjects. By setting targets, the intricacies of people’s histories are erased, and humans are reduced to statistics. For those applying for asylum, it means details of persecution are overlooked in favour of increasing removals. For many immigrants, and anyone working on issues around immigration, the admission that targets existed should come as no surprise. The push toward reducing net … [Read more...] about Home Office Deportation Targets Show How Britain’s Immigration System Is Harmful By Design