Extra car parking at Wickham and Bishop's Waltham

4:00pm Thursday 13th February 2014 in News By Lauren Howard, Reporter

PARKING problems look set to be eased after civic chiefs agreed to extend spaces across the Winchester district.

Cabinet members approved to develop more parking within the city centre, Wickham and Bishops Waltham as part of a proposed major repair programme.

The proposal could see up to 600,000 spent developing car parks over the next two years. Councillors voted to have an additional 40 spaces in Wickham. Reports conducted over the last 12 months indicated the village car park was at capacity most days. The proposal should see the extension of the existing car park at Wickham station.

Cllr Thrse Evans said: Parking is very difficult in Wickham. Extra parking spaces will relieve pressure on the Square.

A further 70 spaces were agreed for Bishops Waltham, of which the most viable site identified was Jubilee Hall. The new Wellbeing Centre currently being developed by the parish council will incorporate the new spaces.

Cllr Steve Miller said: Thank you on behalf of Bishops Waltham. Its very welcoming to get adequate car parking.

The programme, as approved by cabinet in February last year, has seen works undertaken at Chesil Street multi story car park including the partial replacement of the drainage system, replacement of some damaged internal fire doors and extensive painting at the site.

Some 51,000 has been set aside for new LED lighting on the eight floors at Chesil, saving future energy costs.

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A contract has been awarded to build a new bridge over Kentucky Lake.

Governor Steve Beshear announced on Tuesday that the $131.5 million project, awarded by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, went to Johnson Brothers Corp., of Fort Worth, Texas.

Officials say the contract will result in a modern, four-lane bridge to carry U.S. 68/KY 80 over Kentucky Lake and serve as the western entrance to Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area.

"Replacement of the bridges over Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley has been a priority of my administration because of their importance to the tourism industry of western Kentucky," Gov. Beshear said. "Land Between The Lakes, and indeed our entire Western Waterland' region, is not only a cultural and recreational treasure. It also is an economic engine."

We're told the new bridge will replace the venerable Eggners Ferry Bridge, which was built in 1932 and long ago ceased to meet modern design standards for the amount of traffic it must accommodate.

The Eggners Ferry, joining Marshall and Trigg counties, has two lanes, each 10 feet wide, with no shoulders. The new bridge will have four travel lanes, each 11 feet wide, plus 4-foot shoulders and a 10-foot-wide pedestrian/bicycle path.

The larger Lake Bridges Project also includes replacement of the Henry Lawrence Memorial Bridge on Lake Barkley a near twin of the Eggners Ferry. The KYTC is aiming to award a contract for the second bridge by December 2014.

In the Kentucky Lake region, approximately two miles of U.S. 68/KY 80 will be widened from two lanes to four lanes from Aurora, in Marshall County on the western shore, to just east of Kentucky Lake, where the project will connect to the four-lane roadway in the Land Between The Lakes. In the Lake Barkley area, the project will widen approximately 1.5 miles of U.S. 68/KY 80 from two lanes to four lanes from just west of Lake Barkley to just east of the lake.

Like the Eggners Ferry, the Lawrence Memorial Bridge, also built in 1932, no longer meets traffic demands in the region. Plans for the new bridge over Lake Barkley call for a design similar to that of the new Kentucky Lake bridge four traffic lanes instead of two, with shoulders and a bicycle/pedestrian lane.

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Outrage as Lancashire deaf support service axed

4:56pm Friday 14th February 2014 in News

DEAF rights campaigners have blasted Lancashire County Council over the removal of a vital support service and claimed they have been ignored over its replacement.

County Halls outsourcing partner One Connect first told East Lancashire Deaf Services (ELDS) last March it would need to re-tender for a Lancashire-wide deaf services contract, offering signposting to health, leisure, education and work opportunities.

And while temporary extensions were agreed, ELDS which has offices in Blackburn and Burnley was informed in August that none of the bids matched One Connects criteria to continue.

Bosses at ELDS have been continuing to operate the service from its own funds, as no replacement has been identified.

But the matter has left six deaf community support workers and three administrators facing months of uncertainty and the societys funds severely stretched.

Doug Alker, ELDS executive chairman, said: This has placed a massive strain on our charitys finances, one which we cant sustain for much longer and we will have no choice but to withdraw our services. Without a new framework or any other form of financial support or donations the service that the deaf community needs will be gone shortly.

Lancashire Deaf Rights, a county lobbying organisation, has also questioned why the council failed to consult with the deaf community over the moves.

Leonard Hodson, of LDR, added: There is a concern that LCC will award the contract to an organisation with no awareness of the deaf language, deaf culture and history.

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The White House took its time naming a replacement for Karen Mills, who announced her resignation as Small Business Administration chief in February 2013. Her successor appears well-qualified and poised to be confirmed by the Senate, judging from a hearing today.

Maria Contreras-Sweet, whom President Obama nominated for the SBA job last month, is the founder of a Los Angeles bank and once served in the cabinet of Californias state government. Shes made loans backed by the SBA and run a state agency that dwarfs the SBA in number of employees and annual budget. Shes also a native of Mexico who adds to the cabinets diversity and has roots in the fast-growing community of Hispanic entrepreneurs.

Contreras-Sweet testified before the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship today. Heres what we learned:

Shes a political insider. That much was already apparent from Contreras-Sweets rsumin addition to her stint running Californias Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, she was a Senate appointee to the Federal Glass Ceiling Commission and a director of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

A few connections that emerged during the hearing: Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, stopped by to recommend Contreras-Sweet, adding that the two have known each other for years. Senator James Rich of Idaho, the ranking Republican on the committee, said that he and the nominee have a mutual friend in Jovita Carranza, a former deputy administrator at the SBA. Contreras-Sweet also name-dropped her good friend George Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader.

The committee liked her. Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, praised Contreras-Sweets wonderful experience and talent. Senator Mary Landrieu, the outgoing committee chairwoman, called her the the most extraordinary nominee shes seen in a decade on the committee. Senator Rich, as noted, was also friendly. There was no reason to expect the hearing would be contentious, but the senators seemed particularly congenial. Her lending experience and government service probably helped. It didnt hurt, for instance, to remind the senators that her job in state government put her in charge of the California Highway Patrol on Sept. 11, 2001.

She gets the nitty-gritty. Contreras-Sweet clearly knows her way around SBA lending programs, and she had no problem handling questions on the agencys 504 lending, microloan, and preferred lender programs. Thats not surprising, given her professional experience, and it should mean a gentler learning curve if she takes over the agency.

Speaking of confirmation . The committee didnt have enough senators for a quorum, meaning a confirmation vote is still a ways off. When the committee next meets, Landrieu will have passed the chairwomans gavel to Senator Maria Cantwell, a Washington Democrat.

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VANCEBURG | Lewis County Fiscal Court has been awarded emergency road aid funds to replace a dangerous bridge.

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet spokesperson Allen Blair said $39,900 was awarded to the court Monday in order to replace Butler Branch Bridge, located on Butler Branch Road off Laurel Road in Vanceburg.

The bridge was a topic of discussion during a December meeting, in which County Road Supervisor Bob Moore and representatives from KTC told the court the bridge was in desperate need of replacement.

Moore said the bridge has several issues with the decking, beams and abutments.

"The decking is bad, the beams are terrible," Moore said, during the December meeting. "Pretty much everything is wrong with the bridge."

"I wouldn't ride my bicycle across it," KTC representative Larry Tincher said. "It's terrible and it's not safe for anyone to be on."

"The entire bridge just needs to be replaced," Judge-Executive Todd Ruckel added.

According to Blair, the aid money is being taken out of the gas tax project fund.

The gas tax project fund is money taken in from Kentucky's fuel tax. The money is divided between the counties and the state for road projects. A portion of the state's money is set aside to allow emergency aid money to be given to participating counties, according to Blair.

"Counties who participate in the project can apply for the money when they are doing projects that they need extra money to complete," said Blair.

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The Haryana Cabinet on Friday abandoned its ambitious 25,000-acre Special Economic Zone (SEZ) with Reliance Industries in Gurgaon and Jhajjar districts by approving a proposal to take back 1383.68 acres of land given by it in 2006 to implement the project.

The same land originally acquired by the Haryana State Industrial Development Corporation (HSIDC) will now be utilised to develop a Global City Project as an investment node under the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project (DMIC). The Global City is envisaged as a high-value manufacturing area with an international exhibition and convention centre, skill development centres and central business district and township facilities.

The Global City is a replacement of sorts for the International Convention centre that the State government had planned along the KMP Expressway but is presently stayed by the Supreme Court, said Yudhivir Malik, Principal Secretary, Industries. Since that project is stayed for long and this land was coming back to us, the government thought it prudent to develop the GC, here, which has some components of the International Convention centre too in it, he told The Hindu. The SEZ with Reliance, the government admitted, became economically unviable mainly due to the imposition of Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT), withdrawal of tax holiday, a slowdown in the global economy and prohibitively high land prices.

The Haryana State Industrial Development Corporation and Reliance Ventures Limited had entered into a Joint Venture Agreement in June 2006 for setting up this SEZ and soon after, the land was transferred to the special purpose vehicle floated for this purpose.

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The author has posted comments on this articleAgencies | Feb 7, 2014, 02.43AM IST NEW DELHI: UK-based Vodafone on Thursday secured a Cabinet approval to buy out minority shareholders in its Indian arm for Rs 10,141 crore the single largest foreign investment in the country's telecom sector. After this, Vodafone India will be the first telecom operator to be fully-owned by a foreign firm.

"The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the proposal of CGP India Investment for increase in foreign equity in Vodafone India from 64.38% to 100%," an official statement said.

The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) had on December 2013, cleared the proposal of CGP India, an indirect Mauritian subsidiary of Vodafone International Holdings.

Vodafone, which entered India in 2007 by buying Hutchison Whampoa's stake in Hutchison-Essar in a $11-billion deal, directly holds 64.38% stake in Vodafone India. "The approval would result in foreign investment of approximately Rs 10,141 crore being received in the country," the statement added.

Last year, the government had allowed 100% FDI into the telecom sector.

The telecom major will buy remaining outstanding shares from minority shareholders Ajay Piramal and Analjit Singh. agencies

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