Fellow Britons, it is a great honour to be with you all here today at the Port of Boston to talk about the dire need for investment here in Lincolnshire, especially here. For too long the government in Westminster, whether it be conservative or radical, has ignored the needs of the people of Lincolnshire. For too long the people of Boston have cried out for a fair shot and a level playing field only to be told to fend for themselves while the government takes your hard earned money and spends it on fancy projects and schools in London. My friends, I say to you that enough is enough. We here in Lincolnshire are some of the most productive people in all of Britain. Our arable and horticulture production is the highest in the entire county; we produce 25% of the entire nation's vegetables; we have some of the most active ports in the country, including the one where we are at right now, and the Port of Immingham. Everyone who has been to Lincolnshire for any length of time knows how hard and smart our people work, yet many find their work not sufficiently rewarded or supported by the central government.
That is what the Liberal Democrats are fighting to change. We believe that a better future is possible for the people of Lincolnshire. We as a party pledge to fight for that better future. Whether you are a farmer struggling to find seasonal help or the proper market to sell your produce in, a factory worker trying to get to work in heavy traffic, or a student trying to get a good education and a job not far from home, the Liberal Democrats pledge to fight for you everyday. We pledge to launch a review of current immigration policies and how they affect our businesses and farms to ensure that they can get the help they need when they need it. We pledge to spend billions of pounds revitalizing and adding to our existing infrastructure to help our hard working people get their goods to market and themselves to and from work quickly and safely. We pledge to reopen old railways that once brought in many billions of pounds worth of economic activity into Lincolnshire, especially to the port right here in Boston. We pledge to implement a Community Education Engagement Partnership to link higher education institutions with local businesses right here in Lincolnshire to ensure both skilled workers for our businesses and good jobs for our students. We pledge to invest in robust flood defences, including again right here in Boston, to ensure that our economy and coun
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Story goes, i found 7 boxes of old glass plate negatives many years ago in a skip (probably from a house clearance). I've done some detective work and i think they belonged to a photographer (W J Wray) who worked at a newspaper called the Boston Guardian.
Anyway, some nice old moments in time we don't really see anymore.
Happy viewing.
Edit: There are some dates on envelopes it's all mainly mid to late 1930's.
Hello,
I've recently moved to the area and desperately looking for people to play. I am 27 years old and playing RPG since I was 13.
I can play anything to be honest but Warhammer & D&D are the systems that I've spent most time playing. Please leave a comment if you are interested and give me a message so we can try to form a group.
I can join the existing group if there is any in the area.
Hi guys anyone a rough idea on how long normal post from London to Boston can take?
Im 16 and well i have no gay friends andd to put it simly i wanna have sex but idkhowbecause im not old enough for grinder (im from uk so legal age is 16)
My great great grandfather was widowed and married his second wife Elizabeth Craven in Manchester in December 1877. This is what I know for sure about her – when they married she was recorded as 29 so born about 1847/48. Her father’s name was Edward. On the 1881 census she was 27 so born about 1854/55. The 1891 census agrees with this date. On the 1901 census she was 43 so born about 1857/58. All the censuses are in Manchester but give her place of birth as Boston, Lincolnshire or just Lincolnshire. On the 1901 census, she was widowed and gave her name as Betsey. I have looked for all births for Betsey/Elizabeth Craven in Lincolnshire for 1844-1860 with a father called Edward and the best fit is Betsey Craven born 1846 in Boston, Lincs, to parents Edward and Mary Ann.
My father has a dna match with 63.5 cM shared over 3 chromosomes, with segments of 18.5cM, 19.7 cM and 25.3 cM. I built up this match’s tree and she has an ancestor Betsey Craven, born 1846 in Boston, Lincs, who married William Brewster in 1868 in Boston. They are on the 1871 census with a child, Eliza Ada Brewster born 1869, and they had another child Florence Fanny Brewster the following year. By 1881 William was married to Harriett with more children as well as Eliza (whose name here is Ada Lexa) and Florence (whose name is transcribed as Hinch). So it seemed that my Elizabeth/Betsey had been married before. But then I found a death record and burial record for Betsy Brewster. The burial was recorded as 29 August 1873 and the death was registered in the Oct-Dec quarter. Her husband William married Harriett Dunnington on 25th December 1873, just four months later!
So I went back to the drawing board and rechecked ‘my’ Elizabeth/Betsey. If she wasn’t the Betsey Craven born 1846, then who was she? I can’t find any other births that fit, so the only alternative is that she was a close relative of the other Betsey but the birth wasn’t registered and she wasn’t on any censuses prior to her marriage. I’ve looked at whether there are any other Edward Cravens in the family but I couldn’t find any.
Does anyone think the death might have been faked? It’s odd that Elizabeth Craven from Boston appeared in Manchester out of the blue with no traceable history, and after her husband died she called herself Betsey. Also when Betsey Brewster died, her husband married pretty quickly almost as though he had someone lined up. Imagine the following scenario – Betsey Brewster commits adultery, William is sh
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Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
I saw another post which alluded to being realistic about where your salary fits into the wider picture, and thought I would collate some statistics in case of interest to anybody.
The ONS recommends reference to median earnings rather than mean earnings. Mean earnings are inflated by a small number of super-earners, whereas if we lined up everybody in the country in order of earnings, the median will give us the salary of the person in the middle.
*edit: since a couple of people have asked, yes this does only concern salaried income, not overall individual income
All Regions
- In 2020, the median annual salary in the UK (regardless of working hours) was £25,780.
- If we only look at full-time workers, the median annual salary was £31,461.
- The median annual full-time salary for workers aged 22-29 was £26,096.
- Median pay peaks in people's forties, then slightly declines again in people's fifties.
- The highest earning group are full-time males in their forties, with a median annual salary of £38,829
- In contrast, full-time females in their forties earn a median annual salary of only £31,403.
By Region
Median incomes vary vastly by region.
- You'll recall the median full-time annual salary across the UK was £31,461
- By region, median full-time salary is highest in London, at £38,592, and lowest in the North East, at £27,971.
- By local authority, median full-time salary is highest in Richmond Upon Thames*, at £50,006, and lowest in Boston, Lincolnshire, at £24,219. (*although data for the City of London and Kensington and Chelsea are missing)
- The lowest median salary in the UK (per worker, regardless of working hours) is in Blackpool, at £19,808.
Main take-aways
- If you earn a little more than £30,000 you are in the top half of full-time UK earners
- For people in their twenties, £26,000 or more puts you in the top half of full-time earners
- For people outside London, these 'top half' thresholds will be substantially lower.
- In the lowest-earning local authorities such as Blackpool, 50% of workers earn less than £20,000 per year.
Source: ONS, Employee Earnings in the UK 2020 ( [All data related to Employee earnings in the UK: 2020 - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/2020/relateddata?:uri=employmentandlabourmarket/p
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In February 1991, Grantham and Kesteven District Hospital in Lincolnshire, in the U.K., struggled to keep up with patient demands due to chronic understaffing and lack of resources.
So when 22-year-old Beverley Gail Allitt applied for a job, management was willing to overlook a few glaring holes in her training.
Beverley had barely passed nursing school, calling in sick for 126 days of her 2-year studies. The nursing manager and ward sister had been reluctant to hire Allitt, and none of the Adult wards would take her. But Ward 4 — the pediatric ward — was so understaffed, they agreed to hire her on a short contract, beginning February 15, 1991.
Although Beverley didn't have the proper training to work with children, the staff on Ward 4 figured "another pair of hands" was better than nothing.
And it would seem that it wasn't soon enough because over the 59 day period following Allitt's arrival on Ward 4, the hospital faced a horrifying spike of emergency incidents resulting in death and permanent damage among their young, vulnerable patients.
Grantham & Kesteven General Hospital, Lincolnshire, UK
The larger Queens Hospital in Nottingham treated 40000 children a year, averaging just six cardiac arrests. But in 1991, six such cases were referred from Grantham hospital ALONE.
During this time, Allitt proved herself to be an asset to the team, and the patients' families adored her. Parents would request she be the one to monitor their sick children because Beverley seemed to have a "sixth sense" for danger.
She was always there when trouble struck and was always the first to raise the alarm when a patient crashed.
The staff in the children's ward worked hard to make the place feel warm, inviting, and safe for the children and their families. Beverley Allitt fit right in with this; she was cheerful, happy, great with the parents, and always made them feel reassured that she would dedicate the highest level of care and attention to their children.
Sadly, none of the staff or parents suspected the terrible acts Beverley Allitt was carrying out.
Most children came into Ward 4 for a variety of reasons but usually nothing too serious. The vast majority were tre
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