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COUNTY councillors of all parties have formed a united front to fight for a better deal for Hampshire.

They will send a cross-party letter urging Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles to stop cutting the authoritys funding.

Councillors fear further cuts could damage frontline services, including safeguarding some of the countys most vulnerable children and adults.

The authority has lost 51 per cent of its Government funding in the last six years.

As previously reported, library funding has been slashed, neighbourhood wardens axed, bus subsidies removed and hundreds of council jobs lost.

Funding has also been stopped for gardening and handyman services at sheltered accommodation and frail pensioners homes.

Hampshire is bracing itself for a further 100m in cuts that are likely to come into effect after 2017.

The letter to Mr Pickles comes after a motion put forward at the last full council meeting in Winchester by Basingstoke Labour councillors Criss Connor and Jane Frankum when the authority agreed its 2015/16 budget.

It will say that the council will find it difficult to take the same level of cuts in the next parliament as it has already made most of the cuts possible.

They say further cuts could put services at risk, including adult care and childrens services.

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The city of Pipestone and Pipestone County Medical Center (PCMC) are working out coordination issues between PCMCs $30 million expansion project and a proposed $900,000 street and utility project the city wants to undertake this year on the street the hospital is temporarily using for all access.

PCMC made public its concerns about the timing of the street project during a Feb. 17 assessment hearing. With all public entrances to PCMC temporarily relocated to the Fifth Ave. SW side of the complex, hospital officials were concerned about disruption, confusion and safety issues for those entering and exiting the facility.

Weve known that the project has been out there for some time and were very supportive of it, said Brad Burris, PCMC administrator/CEO. We knew with the ambulance entrance over there and emergency and the receiving dock, there were going to be some adjustments during the construction period. Its just our main concern is the whole temporary parking lot is there at the same time. Its a burden to the folks were trying to take care of. Once we get that flipped back to Fourth (Ave. SW in 2016) then we think it would be a better situation.

The $900,000 project on Fifth Ave. SW from 13th St. SW to Ninth St. SW includes a new street, curb and gutter, along with full replacement upsizing of the existing storm sewer and new sanitary sewer and water lines.

Though the city initially scheduled the project for 2016, the City Council ordered an engineering report to do the project this year. Travis Winter with Bolton & Menk said meetings that took place between the PCMC construction coordinator and the city led to a preference for the work to be done this year.

I did tell (the hospital) that originally we had this for 2016 and we moved it up for 2015 because there was some storm sewer work were doing in coordination with the hospital/clinic project and we felt it was beneficial for the city versus putting it off for a year, said Jeff Jones, city administrator, during the Feb. 17 meeting.

Burris said PCMCs preference would actually be that the project be deferred until our construction is done, and Pete Swanson, PCMC plant manager, said the hospital didnt need the storm sewer upgrade until spring 2016.

Winter said the storm sewer installation was needed prior to the hospital building its new main parking lot off Fourth Ave. SW.

There would be flooding in the parking lot there if we didnt have an outlet, Winter said. Just generally you have to have an outlet before building a parking lot because even when excavating, constructing the base, there gets to be a significant amount of water. Essentially you have a bathtub and you cant drain it if theres no outlet there. Finalizing construction could be very difficult if our storm improvement wasnt available for the hospital.

He explained during the Feb. 17 meeting that the majority of the utility work is south of 10th Street SW, so we think we can construct a lot of this without having an impact on the hospital. The critical phase is when the street surface is built, but that could be done in segments to assure hospital access.

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Members of a Fukushima prefecture panel that monitors the decommissioning of the nuclear plant. Photo: Reuters

Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant's operator announced on Sunday, highlighting difficulties in decommissioning the crippled plant.

Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the sensors, which were rigged to a gutter that pours rain and ground water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to a nearby bay, detected contamination levels up to 70 times greater than the already high radioactive status seen at the plant campus.

TEPCO said its emergency inspections of tanks storing nuclear waste water did not find any additional abnormalities, but the firm said it shut the gutter to prevent radioactive water from going into the Pacific Ocean.

An official of Tokyo Electric Power Co measuring radiation at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Photo: AFP

The higher than normal levels of contamination were detected at about 10am, with sensors showing radiation levels 50 to 70 times greater than usual, TEPCO said.

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Though contamination levels have steadily fallen throughout the day, the same sensors were still showing contamination levels about 10 to 20 times more than usual, a company spokesman said.

It was not immediately clear what caused the original spike of the contamination and its gradual fall, he added.

"With emergency surveys of the plant and monitoring of other sensors, we have no reason to believe tanks storing radioactive waste water have leaked," he said.

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MORRIS Brown Bear Painting of Morris is the Grundy County Chambers recent Business Spotlight. Brown Bear Painting is at 921 Spruce St., Morris. Its hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday with other availability upon request. Owner Kevin Brown said in a news release from the chamber he has five employees and specializes in exterior and interior painting, deck and fence staining, drywall repair, wallpaper removal, exterior home maintenance, power washing, gutter cleaning and window washing. A new service offered is kitchen cabinet painting.

What would you like to tell our readers about your business?

As a new business starting just three years ago, my goal was to become one of the premier painting contractors in the area. Having been born and raised as a member of this community, I understand the importance of referrals and word of mouth to help grow a business. It has been our mission to deliver our customers a rewarding experience at an affordable price. To date, we have completed 300 plus projects and still maintain a 98 percent customer satisfaction rating, Brown said in the release.

What are you plans for the future?

Our plans for the future include slow and controlled growth, focusing on quality work and exceptional customer service. We intend to earn business from new customers and keep them as a customer for life, he said.

What other information is important to tell our readers?

Our workforce is made up of local members of our community who grew up here, as well. They are hard-working, professional and polite. They often times go above and beyond for our customers, which is something we pride ourselves on, he said.

For information, call 815-325-2030.

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Hospitals are in desperate need of live funnel webs so they can make the anti-venom, spider expert Stacey Denovan shows the safest way to catch them.

It was a damp day last April, and Steve O'Neill described himself as "on a mission" to clean the gutters around his Balgowlah home.

"I had my hand reached up high, cleaning the leaves and I didn't have gloves on. I felt something bite one of fingers on my right hand," he said.

Immediately, Mr O'Neill pulled his hand from the gutter, and saw what looked like a spider fall to the ground. Alarmed and in immense pain, he ran inside and called his wife Natasha, who phoned triple-0.

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Out in the Park teams up with CubaDupa

Wellingtons annual queer* Fair will go ahead as part of the CubaDupa Festival, on 29 March 2015.

CubaDupa, described as a magical playground of adventure, delight, and taste, will feature live entertainment and involves the local businesses along Cuba Street and the wider Cuba Quarter. The Festival has a large footprint, and Out in the Park has been given one of the largest sites available the carpark on the corner of Ghuznee and Leeds Streets.

The Fair has now been dubbed Out in the (car)Park as a cheeky nod to its location. It will be held between 12pm and 5pm on Sunday 29 March.

We are thrilled to be working with the CubaDupa Festival, the CubaDupa team welcomed us with open arms and found us a great site to hold a smaller version of the Fair and we also start CubaDupas Sunday programme with our much-anticipated Parade says Out Wellington Chair, Virginia Parker-Bowles.

It was also important to the all-volunteer team to salvage some of the hard work that has gone into planning Out in the Park. Postponing the Fair was a tough decision, but it was the right one. The extreme winds made it much too dangerous to set up gazebos that weekend. We are excited about this new opportunity to hold it as part of a large and dynamic Festival like CubaDupa explains Parker-Bowles.

While bad weather had forced the Fair to be postponed, Parker-Bowles says the all-volunteer team behind the Fair is focussing on the silver linings.

When it was clear the Fair couldnt be held in February, the support from the community was amazing. They turned out in force at the Lust party fundraiser, they went to the brilliant mini Fair at 19 Tory Street that a group of stallholders set up, and also to the fundraiser at Bad Grannies that featured many of the performers wed booked for the Fair. So many people came up to members of the team and wished us well, it was quite overwhelming. Joining the CubaDupa programme gives us another shot at having the Fair, and we are grateful for that chance.

Out in the (car)Park will be held between 12pm and 5pm on Sunday 29 March 2015, on the corner of Ghuznee and Leeds Streets, as part of the CubaDupa Festival. The Parade will leave Civic Square, and proceed up Cuba Street, and onto Ghuznee Street to the new site.

For more information, visit http://www.outinthepark.co.nz or http://www.facebook.com/OutintheParkWellington

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65/94 Seaworld Drive, Versace penthouse, Main Beach. Image supplied. Source: Supplied

EVERYWHERE the eye looks must see a feature.

This was the brief versed by Santo Versace when the Milan fashion house he presides over built the worlds first fully fashion-branded hotel Palazzo Versace, at Main Beach, in 2000.

And the quote sums up everything and more about the avant-garde hotels dual-level penthouse and its $5.89 million price tag.

For the past eight years it has been an escape for Canberra couple Maureen and Richard Tindale but they have reluctantly decided to sell.

PALATIAL PENTHOUSE QUINTESSENTIAL VERSACE

The wow factor technically starts at the driveway, which lays claim to the second-largest pebble mosaic in the world. It continues past the magnificent 750kg chandelier in the hotel lobby, beyond a 65m lagoon and man-made beach, to one of just two dual-level rooftop penthouses in the world-famous six-star hotel.

This penthouse, along with 200 luxury hotel suites and 71 condominiums, encompasses the hotels design features that fuse the opulence of European palaces and classical architecture from Rome with Versaces logo.

It is wow from the front door but not from the rich parquetry flooring, Persian rugs or marble imported from Carrara and the Benedictine monks in Italy, but from the stunning views of the Gold Coast.

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Photograph by George Sakkestad The back wall of the Millbrook Stone shop on E. Main Street is covered with master molds that give customers an idea of the decorative patterns that can be applied to things like fireplaces and kitchen hoods. Gary Edwards, left, and Barry Tripp are master stone carvers who learned their trade in England.

There's a new shop in Los Gatos that's run by two childhood friends whose back story is unusual, to say the least: They are master stone carvers. It's an occupation you don't hear about too often these days, but the finished products made by Gary Edwards and Barry Tripp are really pieces of art.

Edwards and Tripp own Millbrook Stone at 32 E. Main St. in Los Gatos. The quality of their work is on display at the shop, but it's also seen in houses and buildings from San Francisco to Carmel.

Currently, the pair is working on homes in Saratoga and Monte Sereno.

Edwards and Tripp hail from the village of Longburton in Dorset, England.

"It's very rural with about 1,200 residents," Edwards said. "It has a church, a pub and farms. You blink and you've gone through it."

Realizing there were very few career opportunities in Longburton, Edwards and Tripp decided to learn the art of stone carving. They attended masonry school and later apprenticed with master carvers while working on historical buildings throughout England.

Then, they received a commission from a Los Gatos resident in the mid-1980s. "We carved stone for his house in England and brought it over here and installed it," Tripp said.

Edwards added, "We came over with 70 tons of stone, plus all our hand tools."

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