The freehold of the building which houses one of the most controversial supermarkets in Bristol is up for sale, for a cool £550,000.
The Tesco store on Cheltenham Road, Stokes Croft, was the scene of protests and riots last year. Now the freehold of numbers 138-142 is up for sale and being marketed by Suttons.
The details show that the let to Tesco has been set for 20 years from December 2009, and that Tesco pays an annual rent of £38,000 for its premises.
In November last year, a High Court judge ruled that Bristol City Council and Tesco both acted lawfully over the controversial supermarket in Stokes Croft.
No Tesco in Stokes Croft campaigners had highlighted what they believed had been flaws in the planning process, specifically the failure to assess the traffic impact of deliveries at the store.
Earlier in 2011, protesters applied for the review of the council’s planning procedures but it was initially rejected. That decision was appealed against and a second judge in Cardiff allowed the review to take place.
But Mr Justice Duncan Ouseley backed the council’s decision on December 8 last year to grant planning consent for changes to the service yard at the back of the new store, on the site of the former Jesters comedy club.
In April last year, riots broke out in the area after police raided a squat across the road from the store, saying there had been reason to believe people there had planned to attack the store with petrol bombs.
In 2010, protesters took over the site in an attempt to prevent Tesco from taking on the empty shop. Hundreds gathered on the street as bailiffs were called in to remove them by force.
Source: www.bristol247.com
Diamond Choir singer describes service as 'thrilling' - BBC News
A teenager from Kent has described singing for the Queen in St Paul's Cathedral as a "thrilling experience".
Josie Hawthorn, 13, from Hadlow, was part of the Diamond Choir which sang in the Diamond Jubilee Service of Thanksgiving.
Josie was one of 41 young people chosen for the choir after more than 400 auditions at 18 cathedrals around the country.
The choir sang an anthem composed to mark the Queen's 60-year reign.
The anthem, which is called The Call of Wisdom, was written by composer Will Todd.
Josie, who wants to be an opera singer, said: "It was amazing, it was such a thrilling experience and I really enjoyed it."
'Enormously proud'The Diamond Choir sang The Call of Wisdom with choristers of St Paul's Cathedral Choir and the boys of the Chapel Royal during the service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral.
"We got up at half six, had breakfast and then we came here at half eight and we had a little rehearsal and then we went in and did the service," said Josie.
Her mother Jacqui Hawthorn said Josie's whole family was "enormously proud" of her.
Mrs Hawthorn added: "It's been a truly wonderful experience for Josie and it just illustrates how music can really bring people together.
"A new piece of music, 40 children from around the whole of Great Britain, working together and coming up with the sound they came up with today, it's just absolutely incredible."
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Kent State baseball has a tradition of excellence - Cleveland Plain Dealer
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- To those outside Northeast Ohio, the Kent State baseball team's berth in the NCAA super regional at Oregon this weekend might bring the term "Cinderella" to mind.
But the Flashes won't be turning into a pumpkin at midnight. They have stood the test of time.
Like a train rolling down the tracks, the super regional appearance has been coming for a while. The Golden Flashes have won the past four Mid-American Conference titles and have made 12 NCAA Tournament appearances, but had never reached a super regional.
And they were within a game of pulling this off last year. In Texas in 2011, KSU topped the powerhouse host team before the Longhorns came back through the losers' bracket to beat the Flashes in the championship game.
Last weekend at the Gary (Ind.) Regional, the Flashes played top-seeded Purdue, the Big Ten champion, and No. 2-seeded Kentucky, arguably the team to beat in the tournament. Yet Kent beat the Wildcats twice, first in a 21-inning classic Friday, then in a nine-inning nail-biter for the championship Sunday.
KSU, which enters the super regional riding a 20-game winning streak, used the weekend to show off its trademark -- quality pitching and sterling defense -- and made its own breaks along the way.
Pitching and defense
Kent used five pitchers in the 21-inning marathon, but they issued only seven walks and struck out 21.
Needing to rest the bullpen in the second game Saturday against Purdue, the Flashes got their first complete game of the season out of Strongsville's Ryan Bores, who went nine innings with one walk and two strikeouts. He scattered nine hits.
Then in the title game against Kentucky, Tyler Skulina, another Strongsville native, pitched a strong game, oblivious to the fact Kentucky's Chandler Shepherd was holding the Flashes hitless over six innings.
"Ty was unreal," KSU coach Scott Stricklin said. "He threw a lot of strikes, mixed in his slider and his change-up. He did everything he needed to do. They hit some balls hard, but they hit them at us."
Making the breaks
In the 21-inning marathon, what appeared to be a double off the wall in left to start the 12th inning became an out when Kent noticed that Kentucky's Michael Williams had missed first base.
The relay back to the infield beat a retreating Williams to the bag for the out.
And in the third inning of the title game, KSU catcher David Lyon made a nifty pick-off throw to first baseman George Roberts to erase a runner after a leadoff single. The play drew Kentucky coach Gary Henderson out of the dugout to protest the call, but photos later proved the call correct.
"We played great defense all weekend long," Stricklin said. "Clean baseball, only one error all weekend long, and got it done."
Kent landed six players on the all-regional team, including Roberts, who was voted Most Outstanding Player. He finished the series 7-for-18 at the plate with five RBI and several slick fielding gems.
He was joined by Bores and Skulina, second baseman Derek Toadvine, shortstop Jimmy Rider and outfielder Evan Campbell, whose three-run homer accounted the Flashes' runs Sunday.
"The only home run hit in this regional was hit by Evan Campbell," Stricklin said. "It was the biggest hit in Kent State baseball history."
Source: www.cleveland.com
Sussex County facing 'dramatic shortage' of physicians - Delaware Wave
MILLSBORO -- Marya Grier moved to Millsboro from New Jersey in November, and one of her top priorities was to find a primary care physician.
Although Grier, 70 and on Medicare, is on medication and needs to be monitored by a doctor regularly, she's been struggling to find care. One doctor cut back on his practice and another said it would be a six-month wait for an appointment.
For now, she's continuing to make the three-hour trek to see her doctor in New Jersey.
"It's kind of upsetting in a way," she said. "I'm certainly not in any dire straits, but if I had any issues with the medication, who would I go to? My only option is to go to Jersey, but that's a day trip and that's expensive."
Sussex County is considered a medically underserved area by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
According to the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's County Health Rankings, Sussex County has 157 primary care physicians and a population to primary care physician ratio of 1,208-to-1. The same figure in New Castle County is 806-to-1, while the national benchmark that has been set is at 631-to-1.
"In a perfect world, we would have at least one doctor to every 630 patients," said Megan Williams, director of Population Health at Beebe Medical Center. "The idea there is that if we had a provider for every 630 patients, (the provider) would have ample time, knowledge and resources to provide robust primary care for their patients."
Williams said one reason the county has "a pretty dramatic shortage of primary care providers in the area" is its rural setting.
"We don't necessarily have medical education or a medical school here in Delaware, or certainly close to Sussex County," she said. "By virtue of that, we don't have folks who are doing a lot of their training and education here. Right out of the gate, that puts us at a disadvantage."
Kelly Griffin, director of marketing and communications at Beebe, said the wait for a someone who uses the center's physician referral line to seek primary care is usually two to three months. More than 200 local physicians who are affiliated with Beebe and deal with family practice and internal medicine are on the list.
"Often we can help, but it depends on whether they want to travel a little bit further," she said.
Beebe actively recruits for additional primary care physicians. Marilyn Hill, director of physician services, said there are fewer people who aspire for physician positions, for a number of reasons, including the high costs to get to that point.
"It's difficult to entice people to go into it," she said. "It's very expensive to go through medical school, residency and fellowship training. You have to have a passion for it and want to do it for the right reasons."
Hill said when she recruits, she tries to promote the workplace community and the local community and focuses on the positives.
Grier said she believes the wait is so long because many local doctors are retiring and no one is taking their place.
Sussex County Administrator Todd Lawson said while there are no marketing plans at this time to bring more physicians into Sussex County, discussions with Beebe and Nanticoke Health Services have taken place with that in mind.
"We all recognize the fact that health care and our health care industry locally is being stretched right now with our population shifts, so we need to plan for that," he said.
Lawson said despite having the beach and the infrastructure, as well as being two hours away from three metropolitan areas, the county is having issues attracting the talent.
"Getting those young professionals in here is a challenge," he said. "We've had many discussions on how to combat that. I don't have an answer that we have a plan in place, but we recognize the issue."
As for Grier, she is still undecided about what she will do.
"I'm sort of hanging on the edge as to what I'm going to do next," she said.
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Source: www.delmarvanow.com
Kent City Council Weighs Ban of Medical Marijuana Collective Gardens - Seattle Weekly (blog)
Tonight the Kent City Council is scheduled to vote on an ordinance that, if passed, will ban medical marijuana collective gardens throughout the city, regardless of zoning district.
The ordinance before the council, which was recently recommended by a 2-1 vote out of the Kent City Council's Economic and Community Development
Committee, and has been discussed - through two moratoriums - since last year, cites existing federal marijuana laws and the "potential secondary impacts from the establishment of facilities for the growth, production, and processing of medical cannabis," as its backbone. The ordinance declares that medical marijuana collective gardens "are not appropriate for any zoning designation within the city."
"There are certain things we want in the City of Kent and other things we don't," says Kent City Councilmember Billy Boyce, the chair of the Public Safety committee. Boyce says after an extended period of time spent learning about current state and federal marijuana laws, and extensive time spent discussing the situation with members of the Kent City Council, he decided to support the ban.
Not surprisingly, especially since Washington state law is designed to give qualifying patients the right to participate in medical marijuana collective gardens, Kent's ordinance has riled many medical marijuana supporters. Among them is Sensible Washington, an active pro-pot group that sent a letter to the members of the Kent City Council late last week urging them to vote down the ordinance. Sensible Washington has also gathered the support of at least two state lawmakers to aid in its effort to see the ordinance defeated, and says it plans to hold a rally outside Kent City Hall tonight prior to the scheduled City Kent Council meeting.
Anthony Martinelli, a Sensible Washington steering committee member and communications co-director, calls the ordinance, "essentially a ban of all safe access points," to medical marijuana, noting that collective gardens are basically the only definitively legal means of obtaining medical marijuana under current Washington state law.
"It's unethical, and beyond being unethical it's illegal," says Martinelli.
While Kent's anti-collective-garden ordinance includes verbiage that recognizes Washington's existing medical marijuana law, which protects these gardens and protects qualifying patients' right to utilize them, its rationale is built on a portion of the state law that, "delegates authority, to cities and towns," to establish zoning enforcement requirements, business licensing requirements, health and safety requirements, and business tax requirements on medical marijuana operations.
Most importantly, says Boyce, Kent's would-be ban acknowledges the fact that marijuana remains a Schedule I controlled substance under the federal Controlled Substance Act (CSA). As the ordinance points out: "The city council wishes to exercise the authority granted pursuant to state law in order to clarify that the establishment of a collective garden will be deemed to be a violation of city zoning ordinances, but the city council expressly disclaims any intent to exercise authority over collective gardens in a manner that would directly conflict with the CSA."
Martinelli says Sensible Washington plans to take court action should the Kent City Council pass the ordinance tonight, and he's heard other groups might as well. Despite this looming possibility, Sensible Washington is hoping its letter and extensive efforts to persuade the council will prevent the situation from coming to that.
For his part, Boyce expects a segment of Kent's population to be upset no matter what the council decides tonight.
"You have it both ways," says Boyce of his constituency and where it stands on the subject of medical marijuana. "No matter what we do there will be questions and conversation."
Speaking to Seattle Weekly Friday, Martinelli said Sensible Washington, by its count at that point in time, was anticipating a 4-3 vote in favor of the ordinance. However the organization is holding out hope, and enacting a full-court press in one final attempt to sway members planning to vote for the ban.
"This blatantly goes against the will of the voters," says Martinelli of the decision by the Kent City Council to consider a medical marijuana ban."They're overplaying their power. The citizens of Kent are not calling for this."
"I haven't the slightest idea what people are going to do," says Boyce of tonight's vote.
Find the letter Sensible Washington sent to the Kent City Council on the following page ...
Source: blogs.seattleweekly.com
Sussex squad announced with Horsham festival set to begin - wscountytimes.co.uk
Sussex Cricket Club have announced their squad for the LV=County Championship clash with neighbours Surrey, which begins at Horsham Cricket Club tomorrow (11am start).
The match forms part of the annual Horsham Festival of Cricket, which also includes the Clydesdale Bank 40 encounter with Derbyshire Falcons on Sunday, and hoping to impress on his old stomping ground after missing out last year will be home favourite Chris Nash.
The complete Sussex sqaud is: Amjad Khan, James Anyon, Ben Brown, Joe Gatting, Murray Goodwin, Naveed Arif Gondal, Ed Joyce, Steve Magoffin, Chris Nash, Monty Panesar, Luke Wells, Luke Wright, Michael Yardy (capt).
The hosts are currently three points above Surrey in the LV=CC Division One table, with both sides having a similar playing record so far this campaign, and Sussex have named an unchanged squad from their recent clash with Middlesex at Lord’s.
Surrey can name two former Sussex players in their squad in the shape of Rory Hamilton-Brown, who will captain the side, and Tim Linley.
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Kent County Cricket Club all-rounder Azhar Mahmood praises young batsman Sam Billings - Kent Online
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Experienced Kent all-rounder Azhar Mahmood has praised youngster Sam Billings for his match-winning knock against Warwickshire Bears at the St Lawrence Ground on Friday night.
Billings hit an unbeaten 58 to lead Kent Spitfires to a crushing 10-wicket win under the lights and Mahmood, who was playing in his first game of the season since returning from the Indian Premier League, was impressed with the 20-year-old’s display.
He said: "It was a very good win against Warwickshire and while any win is a win, it’s good to have got it in the manner that we did.
"It’s been great coming back and playing for Kent, it’s always been a great place to play and we have done well with Sam Billings showing the tremendous talent he has with that knock. He played particularly well, along with Rob Key, and all the bowlers put in a good performance apart from me, which is a good sign for us for the rest of the season."
Mahmood struggled with the ball, going for 26 runs off his two overs, while team-mate Mark Davies conceded just 10 runs in his eight overs on the way to figures of 3-10 as the Spitfires restricted Warwickshire to 94-7.
Mahmood said: "Mark Davies has been brilliant and the way he bowled, taking 3-10 and conceding just 10 runs from eight overs was exactly what you want.
"We seem to be gelling very well and are playing some good cricket as a team."
Kent, fourth in Clydesdale Bank Pro40 Group C, have a chance to climb the table when they take on Unicorns at Garon’s Park, Southend today.
Skipper Rob Key has selected a 12-man squad with Ben Harmison and Mike Powell, both yet to feature in the CB40 this season, included, while Mahmood has been rested ahead of the Tunbridge Wells Festival, which begins on Wednesday.
Kent from: Billings, Key, Powell, Nash, Stevens, Northeast, Jones, Coles, Tredwell, Ball, Davies, Harmison.
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