Tag Archives: hosepipe ban

Labour councillor apologises for using hose pipe during ban

GetReading reports:

One of Reading’s newest councillors has been spotted using a hosepipe to clean his car – despite the ban.

Posted in News | Also tagged | 16 Comments

LibLink: Tim Leunig – I’d pay extra to fill my little girl’s paddling pool

In the Telegraph, Tim Leunig argues that the hosepipe ban falls unfairly on domestic users, and that there are other ways to use less water:

We are among the 20 million people in southern and eastern England affected by a crude prohibition that falls unfairly and disproportionately on domestic users. Drought orders are about to be extended to the Midlands and the South West. Yet there is a better alternative: why can’t those of us who want to fill up our children’s paddling pools, or turn on

Posted in LibLink | Also tagged | 33 Comments



Recent Comments

  • User AvatarAl McIntosh 21st May - 2:16pm
    Section K1 of Schedule 5 part 2 of the 1998 Scotland Act clearly makes the BBC a reserved matter under the present constitutional settlement. "Monitoring...
  • User AvatarMax Wilkinson 21st May - 1:55pm
    On what other grounds, aside from sexual orientation, would it be acceptable for a registrar to refuse to conduct a service? Are the rights of...
  • User AvatarAndrewR 21st May - 1:43pm
    There was no violence or threats of violence. There were no racist statements. What you didn't see on TV was that the protestors had tried...
  • User AvatarATF 21st May - 1:42pm
    Good article title, especially seeing as in an episode of Hancock's Half Hour he stood as a Liberal candidate.
  • User AvatarJoe Otten 21st May - 1:38pm
    @Malcolm It is interesting that by failing to bring in equal marriage the first time round, and introducing civil partnership, this country has inadvertently found...