The Blue Rinse Brigade

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But a debate broke out in which campaigning councillor Jim Bollan said his experience of community councils were of people looking for something to occupy them rather than highlighting the key issues of their area. Community councils are being run by the “blue rinse brigade” and are not representative of local people or issues, according to a campaigning councillor.

Craig Mathie is vice-chairman of the Destination Management Board in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and managing director of the Bournemouth 7s festival which draws a younger demographic to Dorset. Having grown up locally, I know first hand how much there is for young people to do in the local area. Alongside our much-lauded natural assets, the conurbation is full of vibrant areas, a host of excellent events, activities and attractions and an aspirational and positive business community which offers fantastic careers for people of all ages.” He said: “There is still this feeling around that community councils are stuffed with people who you could call the blue rinse brigade. AN estimated 40,000 people, many drawn from churches across the UK, ringed the Houses of Parliament on Saturday to encour­age the Copenhagen summit to agree an equitable solution to global warming. Another 13,000 people joined a rally in Glasgow.The Conservative Women's Organisation ( CWO) represents the female members of the Conservative Party in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The council is very amenable but other organisations don’t seem to respond to community council requests.” Her unit will liaise closely with Ffion Hague, the Tory leader's wife, who is a leading light in Conservative Network, a new group which aims to attract fresh recruits who have been put off in the past by the party's stuffy image. The whole initiative is the brainchild of Baroness Buscombe of Goring, a close aide to Mr Hague who recently dispensed with her title as Tory vice chairperson for women in an attempt to end the marginalisation of women in the party. Ken was managing and playing drums in a fairly successful university group known as The Talismen Beat Unit. When Ken departed from Glasgow University, he took time off playing to establish his “day job” as a film cameraman/sound recordist in a small Glasgow film and recording company.

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He wants to promote the area as a place for “wellbeing” and also to make more of cultural assets such as the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum and Poole Museum.

She told how they feared that this would just make it more complicated to get answers to queries in the first place. Read More Related Articles Another member suggests experiences like that could even help those in high office come up with robust drug laws. The increase in stag and hen dos – and indeed just the development of the 'night-time economy' through the 1980s and 1990s – was partly seen as challenging for Bournemouth specifically because of that blue rinse image and the 'respectable' history, but I think Bournemouth is now seen differently," he says. By this time, the successful 4 were spotted by an astute management organisation who suggested that they become a speciality band and dress up in latin gear to complement the half dozen or so latin pop songs they included in their popular repertoire. Los Caracas was born and the next stage in the group’s career began.As with all political parties, membership has declined and the CWO had about 5,000 active members in 2012 (although all the women members of the party are actually members). Attendance at the CWO Annual Conference has been between 300 and 750 in the past five years.