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Posts by Al Collier

Eh? It's been open to foot passengers for decades ...

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Thanks, question prompted as fence looks unlikely to survive Storm Amy!

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Does it follow that it's worth replacing the garden fence with solar panels or is the cost of the inverter such that it only works at scale?

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My dad used to talk about going out on RAF launches from Mundesley at the end of the war to throw unwanted munitions overboard ...

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Star Warts

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The Williams one is extraordinary ...

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Anyone lost a memory card from a birding trip to #Iceland in May in Norfolk? This guy has found it! Please share!

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Max tedium for minimum useful data

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The central platform is a good start but local govt still has to publish grant, spend and contract data separately in a separate format under the transparency code, then there's a new subsidy control database that typically will have to be filled in for a direct award ...

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Nice to see a balanced article on procurement. A good place to start would be a proper data strategy to rationalise the hotchpotch of platforms and publication requirements associated not just with procurement but with grants and subsidy control.

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Public procurement based purely on price is vanishingly rare for significant contracts ...

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Benefits: 1) transparency; 2) better shared data and less dependence on rentiers cleaning our own data and selling it back to us; 3) more compatible with social care law and user choice; 4) more emphasis on contract mgmt; 5) ability to negotiate under frameworks

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Much of the implementation cost has already been incurred - training, software changes, new templates, etc. So question now is whether incremental costs and uncertainty are outweighed by the benefits.

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How would that help?

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Gold Blend to Nescafe captures it beautifully.

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4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.

On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day

So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga

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Walking through the north aisle of Norwich Cathedral, bathed in the vibrant light of John McLean's Trinity windows, feels like stepping into a symphony of color.

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Are you concerned about the effect of pubs on railway stations or vice versa?

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I think columnists in general should have a term limit of 5 years, and then get some fresh air.

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Useful list thanks. Is there any way to follow them all in bulk or do you have to do each individually?

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