Archive for the 'Data' Category

Carving up Wealden District

The Boundary Commission for England has revealed the proposed changes to Westminster constituency seats, and whilst there is only the loss of one seat in the South East GOR and it’s the high-profile Green seat of Caroline Lucas Green in Brighton Pavillion, there are other significant changes elsewhere – like in Wealden District. Wealden District [...]

Greatest British Cyclist with International Medals

With the Olympics coming to Britain next year and British Cycling announcing their Hall of Fame, it seemed appropriate to see who, in terms of actual medals in Commonwealth, Olympic and World championships who the greatest of them is. The list doesn’t appear to include currently active cyclists, so I added Chris Hoy as my [...]

Haywards Heath TV?

The analogue switch off for Sussex is not complete yet, but yesterday, OFCOM and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced 65 locations across the UK that could potentially broadcast their own local TV channel on Freeview using bandwidth freed up by the digital switchover. Other locations could later broadcast a local TV channel [...]

England Riots: Number of Police Available

It has been widely reported that 6,000 Police officers were on duty in London on Sunday (after the first day of riots) which was beefed up to 16,000 with the support of other Police forces this week. It has also been widely reported that the Met has a standing force of around 32,000 – so [...]