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Urban transport authority has issued a warning regarding the funding for free bus pass for both disabled and older people. It is reported that by funding there would be expense on other transport services as costs are increasing on the other hand. Passenger transport executive bosses of various areas such as Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Tyne and Wear, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and West Midlands have requested for more funds... Read More»

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»