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The '12 Days of Christmas' is a popular and free festival, full of fun, activities and musical delights. The fun event will take place in the foyer bar at the Cliffs Pavilion, Westcliff. The festival activities will be during lunch hours throughout December . Dates to remember will be 10th (Monday), 14th (Friday), 17th (Monday) and 21st (Friday) of December. The 23rd (Sunday) is also a key date as... Read More»

Free car parking in Newport city centre council that was established two years ago will be discontinued soon. This plan was introduced in December 2010 by the Tory-Lib Dem administration. This scheme allows shoppers to park cars free of charge for two hours in the multi-storey car parks. It is announced that shoppers can park their cars free of charge for 5 hours from December 3rd 2012 upto January end... Read More»

First Capital Connect the train operating company running the Thameslink franchise, has approved the carousel of free books made available to people visiting the village train station at Meldreth railway station. According to the chairman of Meldreth, Shepreth & Foxton Rail User Group, who is councillor Susan de Ven, she has found people enjoying time and reading the books, donated to the carousel... Read More»

Blackpool primary school children will soon get free breakfast after the town’s council has approved for the same. It is reported that about 12,000 students will get free cereal, milk, fruit juice or toast from the month of January as a part of 3 month trial. The scheme will be extended to secondary school students as well if it is found to be successful, Simon Blackburn, leader of the council... Read More»

The BBC Personality of the Year 2012 event will be held on Sunday, 16 December at ExCeL in London, which has a capacity of 15,000. This is considered to be one of the biggest events of the programme's history, following soon after the Summer Olympics of London. Five hundred tickets for the show will be handed to volunteers of the 2012 Games, using a random ballot. Another five hundred... Read More»

Using wrong kind of paint on the walls of free running parks Leicester City Council has left the place unusable. The council officials has asked youngsters to paint the walls. This place has been left unfit for people enjoying parkour or free running. Parkour is an acrobatic form of bouncing between phone boxes, benches and street signs and jumping off buildings. Based on a feedback by Nigel Porter, councillor of Liberal Democrat... Read More»

Setting up a secondary school in Cobham has become a challenge for groups as several attempts taken so far have failed. Despite this, the group of Cobham Community High School renewed its plan to appeal for opening a secondary school in September 2014. Cobham Free School has also shown interest in this regard. Hence, according to Mr. Ben Martin, co-proposer of the Cobham Community High School bid it is... Read More»

Rivals to get free maps apps on their devices, Nokia has announced. This new move has been taken to fight against its rivals. Apple iOS devices will get maps initially offering audio based directions as well as downloadable street plans. Mozilla’s new Firefox operating system will also get Nokia’s new version. Maps for Amazon's Kindle tablets, Windows Phone handsets, Garmin sat-nav kits, Flickr are already available. Apart from these four out... Read More»

Independent retailers or shops fighting for survival in the present economic slowdown will get a stimulus. Waltham Forest Council plans to give 15 minutes of free parking across Higham Park. The scheme is to be rolled out to Walthamstow, Leytonstone, Leyton and Chingford (South) too. The scheme aims to bring back customers and shoppers to the local shops at Hale End Road and The Avenue. Recently retailers here have... Read More»

Southend council has plans for a one-hour free parking scheme, in a bid to increase footfall in the shopping areas. More than 2,000 people had signed a petition that asked for free parking. It was organised by the owner of Nisa Supermarket at Broadway, of Thorpe Bay, Mr. Lee Shah. Independent councillor for Thorpe Bay, Ron Woodley, has campaigned since April for the... Read More»

Here’s glad news for parents and children aged between three and four! Wise Owl Private Day Nursery will offer free learning and childcare for 15 hours per week nation wide and also in all local authorities. Children will be entitled for this facility for 38 weeks per year. Parents get benefited by sending their children to this nursery as children learn to develop different skills such as communication, creation and... Read More»

It is reported that free parking facility announced in Carmarthenshire might be cancelled for this Christmas season. Hence, the executive board of the county council is planning to end their trading boost in areas such as Ammanford, Llanelli and Carmarthen owing to this reason. To compensate with this, shoppers can park for free in car parks owned by council for one week in the beginning of the New Year. According to... Read More»

St. Richard's Hospice will be hosting the new bereavement support service in Worcester. Chosen by the clinical commissioning group of Worcestershire, this is a free service extended to support people needing help after losing a loved one. Also bespoke awareness sessions will be given, depending on individual needs and circumstances. The service consists of a website- bereavementsupportworcestershire.org.uk, a helpline phone for people registered in South Worcestershire with a... Read More»

Mrs. Tania Sydney-Roberts, founder of the first free schools in UK, plans to make a copy of it in Leeds, to be initiated during her visit to the city soon. The Free School Norwich, opened last year by Prime Minister David Cameron, is 8-times oversubscribed now. The founder and head teacher Mrs. Sydney-Roberts says the success is due to its meeting demands of working parents. The free school remains... Read More»

Councillor Graham Newman has appealed to parents to look keenly at two competing bids for the free school at Ixworth, to be situated in the place of the present Ixworth Middle school, which would soon be closed. The rival bids are from two sources. One a parent group which is in association with the Seckford Foundation and the other second bid is from the Diocesan Board of Church of... Read More»

Ribble Valley Borough Council is offering free energy checks that will help you save money. This council will be using a free cutting edge technology for testing. Households will be given thermal imaging cameras along with heat-loss checks and “Owl” energy monitors. The use of these monitors is to track electricity usage with LED displays and sensors in it. It also calculates the cost as well as the amount of... Read More»

Late night shopping on Wednesdays of the month preceding Christmas day, will get a bonus, as shoppers will be provided free parking after 5pm, by the Sherwood and Newark district councils. This incentive follows the similar offer given last year for parking all day at the car parking of the Livestock Market, adjacent to Castle Station. In this project most multiple and independent shops will open on the 3... Read More»

Mark Barret is a father of three children and he has put forward a new form of education for kids. For the proposed new school he envisions teaching of life skills like cookery, DIY and parenting, to children. Mr. Barret, a teaching assistant at Fortismere School of Muswell Hill, admits parenting skills are not for young children but they can taught self organisation. He pointed out that although parents... Read More»

Here’s glad news for all shoppers in Huntingdonshire as limited free parking has been announced by Huntingdonshire District Council for this year’s Christmas season. This announcement has been made to encourage local high street shopping. Free parking will be available from 3pm on weekdays from December 3rd to 24th in the following places- St Neots (excluding Market Square car park), Huntingdon (excluding Sainsbury’s car park) and St Ives. Market Square car... Read More»

Here’s glad news for all as Peterborough Telegraph has listed a series of offers and promotions for this week (October 26 to 31st 2012). This newspaper brings before you news and articles related to entertainment, classifieds, sports, community and lifestyle. Details of various events are as follows: Supertots contest: Taking place on 29th October (Monday), there will be special Supertots photographer near Eye at Peterborough’s Garden Park that is off Peterborough Road... Read More»