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Jeremy Pembroke about to resign as leader of Suffolk County Council?

Jeremy Pembroke UPDATE - 12 Midnight the EADT have confirmed that Jeremy Pembroke has resigned as leader of Suffolk CC and will retire f...

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More power to Andrea Hill as two senior County Council staff leave

Graham Dixon Two senior Suffolk County Council staff suddenly left under unexplained circumstances yesterday. Graham Dixon, Director of R...

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Protest and what actually happened on Saturday

Since the March for the Alternative this weekend there has been considerable comment and debate in the press about what happened. In order t...

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March for the Alternative

Today I marched for the alternative ...I made a video and took some photos which you can see below: Created with Admarket's flic...

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Governance Models for Chains of Academies

I blogged earlier this year on Academy status in a post called Academy Status: The Question that won't go away  about how all schools sh...

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Suffolk County Council have £68 million in the bank but are slashing services...

Eric Pickles addressing the Tory Party Conference Suffolk County Council are going around telling anyone who will listen that they have n...

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Full Details of the 2nd April March to Save Suffolk's Libraries

The lovely people running the Rosehill campaign in Ipswich have released full details of the march planned for Saturday 2nd April starting a...

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Roger McMaster, Head of Suffolk Libraries Resigns

Roger McMaster at the Stradbroke Public Meeting on 21st February This blog can reveal that Roger McMaster the Head of Suffolk Libraries ...

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Ixworth and Wickham Market Library Responses, Stowmarket and Debenham protests

Acrostic of "Library" on the wall at Debenham Library Over the weekend we heard news of the responses in Ixworth and Wickham M...

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Debenham Library Read-in 19th March

Creators of the "Library" acrostic pose for a photo An all night marathon read-in began today at Suffolk's smallest library...

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The Hill Photo Saga...When in a hole...

An unhappy looking Cllr Eddy Alcock, Chairman of Suffolk CC I was at the Debenham library read-in earlier today and as you can imagine t...

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Suffolk County Council's Freedom of Information handling "unlawful"

I was unhappy yesterday when my Freedom of Information request for the full responses from the library consultation were met with a refusal ...

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Suffolk County Council refuse to release library consultation results until after decision is made

Suffolk County Council have today responded to a Freedom of Information Act request to publish the results of the ongoing library consultati...

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Suffolk Library Consultation Project Manager Mike Ellwood admits lack of time and resources

Today the newly launched Wikisuffolk placed the full text of a document written by Mike Ellwood, Suffolk County Council's library consul...

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Local library campaigners "warned off" as Suffolk County Council meet US company LSSI

Last month I joined a group of other library campaigners at The Endeavour House Meeting with Suffolk County Council. The meeting although cl...

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Privatisation. The big threat to ALL Suffolk's libraries?

Jim Lynch LSSI Stuart St. V Fitzgerald LSSI This blog has been detailing the twists and turns of the Suffolk Library consultation....

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2nd April - March in Ipswich to Save Suffolk Libraries

Save the date! A week after the big London demonstration there will be a march and protest in Ipswich on Saturday 2nd April starting at Ende...

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Press Office called in to rescue "Epic Fail" Suffolk Library Consultation...

Cllr Judy Terry Suffolk County Council's library consultation is clearly not going to plan. In fact it is going so badly that they ha...

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Andrea Hill Should Resign

Andrea Hill Suffolk CC's CEO Earns £218K a year Ipswich Spy is today calling on Andrea Hill to resign  and I agree. The Blog hits ...

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Orwellian Doublethink and Suffolk County Council

Endeavour House "The Ministry of Truth" It is, perhaps, appropriate that the river that runs through Ipswich is the Orwell. To...

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Leiston Library March

On Saturday I had the pleasure of joining the march to save Leiston Library and also took the opportunity to look around the library which i...

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National Express East Anglia (NXEA) Wifi Service

Some of you might remember when this Blog was mainly about tech and not constant articles about Suffolk County Council! Anyway I am taking s...

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An open letter to "Misunderstood" at Endeavour House (Andrea Hill)

This is an open letter to Andrea Hill, CEO of Suffolk County Council Ms Andrea Hill "Misunderstood" Endeavour House Ipswich 2 M...

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