3rd November 2009  

Alan Watkins says on his blog today that he is fed up of junk press releases coming to him. I hope he’s not including me in this lot. In fact I have a rather exciting (I think…) one coming later on in the day. Alan’s comment is here: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway_messenger/news/2009/tales_from_gun_wharf.aspx As to what’s going on today – it’s the Thames Gateway Forum at the O2 all afternoon so i’m over there talking/listening/ and hopefully learning in the process. As the job spec now includes shipping, it’s pretty important. Good news last week was that the Government is giving a cash boost to kickstart the development of homes on St Mary’s Island. This unfortunately stalled thanks to the recession but this money is tangible evidence of what Government intervention can actually do. David Cameron bangs on about ’small government’...