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Belfast District Policing Partnership has organised a Christmas Crime Prevention and Safety event on Wednesday, 2 nd December from 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. in the Great Hall, City Hall. The Belfast District Policing Partnership Chairman, Councillor David Browne explained, “the event has been designed to provide members of the public with practical advice, information and support on a range of crime prevention and safety issues, particularly related to this Christmas season. There will be a formal welcome at 10.00 a.m. and the rest of the morning will follow a marketplace format with a number of organisations providing information exhibits”. “A number of the exhibitors, including the Police, Fire and Rescue Service, Belfast City Council and voluntary organisations, will have stands with specific crime prevention and safety messages and advice on car crime, domestic burglaries, bogus callers, fire prevention, food and consumer safety, the ‘Get Home Safe’ Campaign and ...
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Here's a summary of Bristol's progress to date. I hope this will encourage efforts around the country. It's November 2009 and Bristol has taken another step towards being a 20mph City. Earlier this year the City Council proposed two pilot 20mph areas comprising about 8% of the urban area. The initial proposals excluded roads where the speed limit would really make a difference and mainly included narrow residential streets where speeds are already low. Campaigners made strong objections and now the plans that will go forward to the formal consultation stage of traffic regulation orders include most of the streets in the two areas, including most of the streets that exceed 24mph average speed at present. While arterial roads are still left at 30mph or higher, the proposals represent a major success for campaigners and set an important precedent for going beyond the DfT guideline of limiting the change to 20mph to streets that already have recorded average speeds of 24mph or less. ...
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AbilityNet Podcast no 9 now released The latest Podcast from AbilityNet is released and ready for free download. Mike Williams discusses AbilityNet's AAC project Jo Greenwell's usual tips - this month DSpeech and adjusting the mouse double-click Greg Mumford discusses the best of the AbilityNet Youtube channel Joe Chidzik's regular web accessibility news roundup David Banes explains AbilityNet's involvement in the Telecentres Europe project Alex Barker's usual dates for our diaries Available from http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/podcast/ and iTunes New Web Access Courses Launched AbilityNet up-coming winter courses – all in central London: Understanding and Testing with WCAG2.0 - 11 Dec Creating Accessible PDFs - 20 Jan Accessible Flash - 17 Feb For more information and to book your place today please go to www.abilitynet.org.uk/webopencourses. Access IT website updated with winners and best practice nominees ...
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From: Sean Dear colleague As part of our ongoing volunteering programme we have arranged with our partners in Belfast City Council and Conservation Volunteers NI to hold a tree planting event in Dixon Playing Fields as part of National Tree Week. The event will take place on 28 November 2009, from 10.30 am to 3.30 pm and follows on from last weekend’s bulb planting in Victoria Park which was both hugely successful and enjoyable with over 2,500 bluebell and snowdrop bulbs planted. The event in Dixon Playing Fields will hopefully be as much fun and we would like to see as many people there as possible. It is suitable for all ages and abilities and CVNI will be there to provide expert guidance and assistance with planting a range of native trees. I have attached a poster advertising the event and would appreciate it if you could ensure that this poster reaches as wide an audience as possible. Sean Brannigan Sean Brannigan Community Engagement ...
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"You Cant always get what you want" wailed Mick and the Boys, unless what you want is a regular zingy newsletter of all the latest news and information from the world of accessibility and assistive technology. In which case he should have sung "You can get exactly what you want just by subscribing to the weekly AbilityNet Newsletter ooooooh Yeah" Testify MIck, just testify Newsletter tested for mobile browsing Dont wait for your AbilityNet newsletter - view it on your mobile - every week we test the Newsletter for mobile access - what more could you ask for ? Contents AbilityNet News Access News Best Of YouTube Whats Hot on Twitter Special Offers Courses Staying In Touch AbilityNet News AAC Resouces launched online AbilityNet’s “Exploring AAC” Website Launched www.abilitynet.org.uk/aac Please take a look at our web resource and tell us what ...
