A Bury grandmother is flying out to Poland to help Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn homeland.
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Residents in Bury will be hit with a bill increase of around three per cent higher from April.
The Labour controlled council passed a budget which approved the core increase in council tax of 1.94 per cent and the inclusion of a one per cent social care levy.
The budget also includes recurrent changes to expenditure or reductions in income of £17.2m in 2022/23, and a loss of additional income of £5.9m for the same period.
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The council will also use of cash reserves of £14.355m in 2022/23 to balance its finances.
Addressing the council on Wednesday evening, leader Eamonn O’Brien said:
“This budget has been one of the hardest we’ve had to set in the council’s history.
“Not just because we are having to make cuts to budgets and increasing council tax but because after the last two years I had some degree of hope that the Tory government would finally recognise the value of local government.
“And in doing so give us what they promised at the start of the pandemic and give back just a small part of what they have taken away from us over the last 12 years.
“Sadly the financial realities facing Bury Council show that this promise has been broken.
“Our public services and residents have been betrayed by the government.
“Our financial gap in £25m bigger as a result of Covid.
“It would be dishonest to suggest the amount of support we have been given is in any way sufficient to avoid tough decisions.
“We will get on with the jobs in Bury to respond to the challenges.”
Coun O’Brien said the council’s aspirations were for a strong and fair recovery and renew the borough for a brighter future.
He said key priorities would be supporting those
A Bury grandmother is flying out to Poland to help Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn homeland.
the band’s Twitter account states.The included works that are set to be leaving Russian and Belarusian streaming platforms are Pink Floyd studio albums “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” (1987), “The Division Bell” (1994) as well as 2014’s “The Endless River.” Gilmour has released four solo studio albums in his career, the most recent being “Rattle That Lock” in 2015. His entire solo discography is also being removed from streamers.Last week, Gilmour tweeted in support of Ukraine, writing, “Russian soldiers, stop killing your brothers.
Boris Johnson will personally attend the Scottish Tory conference next week to burnish his “war leader” image in an attempt to bury the sleaze of partygate allegations against him.
invaded that country on Feb. 24.Host Ken Jennings read the $800 clue in the category “Bordering Russia”: ”The Kerch Strait — along with serious border issues — separates Russia from this country on the Black Sea.”The answer, of course, was Ukraine.The 1.9-mile-long strait separates Russia from Crimea to its west and Ukraine to the north. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and subsequently built a bridge across the strait to connect the two in 2018.
Chris Willman Music WriterHit songwriter Ross Golan, who has crafted smashes for Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, One Direction and Demi Lovato, has started a petition on Change.org asking the music community to stop licensing songs in Russia for as long as the nation wages war on Ukraine.The petition, posted Thursday afternoon here, was put up for the purpose of allowing songwriters to make their voices heard in requesting that collection agencies sever ties with their counterpart orgs in Russia, to ensure that they won’t be profiting from the rogue-superpower nation while the bloody siege of its neighbor country continues.“Currently, a portion of our royalties are going directly to the Russian government, which in turn funds their invasion into Ukraine,” Golan says. The petition — credited to “And the Writer Is,” the podcast Golan started to spotlight writers and their issues — reads: “The global songwriting business stands with Ukraine.
Get the latest updates in the Russia-Ukraine conflict with The Post’s live coverage.“I’m well aware what happens when you’re only able to see one part of a small picture. It becomes your whole world.
Franz Ferdinand have cancelled their Russian shows and apologised to residents who they know 'see the madness' of their country's leadership.
including “The Batman,” amid Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The moves comes as Russia escalated its offensive Tuesday by bombing Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, and dispatching a 40-mile-long convoy of tanks and other equipment to Kyiv.“In light of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, WarnerMedia is pausing the release of its feature film ‘The Batman’ in Russia,” the studio said in a statement, per the Hollywood Reporter.
Mystery symbols are being tagged onto Ukrainian buildings which are being reportedly marked for Russian airstrikes, according to sources in Kyiv.
Russia-Ukraine war.The band, which consists of musicians Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool, was set to perform on May 29 at Spartak Stadium.“With heavy hearts, in light of current events we feel it is necessary to cancel our upcoming show in Moscow at Spartak Stadium,” Green Day wrote on their Instagram Story.“We are aware that this moment is not about stadium rock shows, it’s much bigger than that. But we also know that rock and roll is forever and we feel confident there will be a time and a place for us to return in the future,” the band continued.
More than half a million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded the country last week, according to the UN refugee agency.
With the deepening humanitarian crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, people across the country are coming together to help out refugees fleeing violence.
their ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The post surfaced amid high-stakes talks between the nations, in which Ukraine demanded that the invading nation withdraw troops from their country.The screenshot, which the host of “The Joe Rogan Experience” shared Monday to Facebook and Instagram on Monday, depicted the 69-year-old action movie star toting a machine gun while rocking sunglasses and combat fatigues.
New sanctions have been announced targeting Russia's central bank.