“It will be pretty hard for the roses. Hopefully there can be a way to keep the gardens protected until a new hedge can provide enough cover from wind and pollutants.” He said the garden was close to the sea and port with large numbers of trucks and traffic operating nearby. “Seven or eight years ago there was a talk of replacing the hedge with a brick wall.”
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The hedge (pictured right) was having a detrimental effect on the roses with its roots system, a garden expert said. . Thomas said the Festival of the Roses would be held again in December, but he would be stepping down as event organiser.
Scholar of the Labour party, its constituent trade unions and how they voted at the annual conference Lewis Minkin at the launch of his book Exits and Entrances at the Labour party conference, Brighton, 1997 Lewis Minkin at the launch of his book Exits and Entrances at the Labour party conference, Brighton, 1997
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Mon 5 Apr 2021 13.19 EDT
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In a past that was another country the annual Labour party conference was a significant gathering. Its set-piece debates were often truculent and sometimes sulphurous. The political analyst Lewis Minkin, who has died aged 84, was a perennial spectator. His interest lay not so much in the public spectacle as in its backstage hinterland.