My two favourites: GT and CS

Taking a quick break from my lunchtime emails and plate of toast swimming in hot butter (mmm), I noticed GT's special feature on Cleansweep's "Sweeping Success" since taking on 250 local people out of work to help. This is undoubtedly great news - as I've said before, seeing investment (albeit "old" money already agreed to some time ago and marketed as "new") in essential front line services is something I hope everyone can get behind - but it doesn't address the problem of the culture of working to rule at the expense of actually keeping the borough clean and tidy. There are a number of constructive ways this can be addressed - performance related pay, customer feedback (ie us), or even just a gentle reminder from supervisors that even if you are unable to remove something (I'm thinking of the flytipping along the railway embankments along Troughton Road) then report it to somebody who can follow up with the landowners and get it sorted.

And on the subject of Greenwich Time, a check on the online edition provoked an idea. Greenwich Conservatives are committed to abolishing GT, thereby sparing everybody a regular dose of propaganda and saving local people £3 million a year, but until the day comes where we are able to realise this, could the Council show some commitment to sustainability and affordability by giving residents the opportunity to subscribe to the online version and stop receiving dead trees through their doors? All thoughts are welcome...