M4 traffic being diverted overnight through Marlborough this week has sparked anger among campaigners in the town. The eastbound carriageway of the motorway between junctions 15 for Swindon and 14 is shut between 9pm-6am on Monday-Friday until June 17. Heavy goods vehicles are already causing daily chaos in Marlborough as they use Herd Street as a rat-run – with more than one a minute going past. And locals say diversions from the motorway have made life worse. Now they want proposals like congestion charging, one-way systems and road reclassification investigated by the council. “I’ve lived here for more than 20 years,” said Gaye Denyer of Marlborough Traffic Problems, who has asked a team of local residents to film and monitor the levels of traffic over the 10-day closure.
Harahan making plans for Mardi Gras-style parade
Harahan Mardi Gras in May By Rob Masson | May 6, 2021 at 5:14 PM CDT - Updated May 6 at 6:43 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - One of the areaâs busiest float builders is moving ahead with plans to stage a Mardi Gras-style parade in Harahan. It is scheduled to roll on Memorial Day weekend.
In a Kenner warehouse, Carnival floats have sat idle for over a year but all that will change in three and a half weeks.
âI think thereâs going to be a crowd like thereâs never been before in Harahan. People are hungry,â said float builder Mac Cantrell.
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The Fitzgerald Arms off Manchester Road. Who is the boy looking at the photographer? OUR recent features about Pat Paterson, the Lister’s Mill girl who became a pre-war Hollywood star, evolved from an article by Dr Paul Jennings about the mill’s dramatic society. Now Dr Jennings, author of The Local: A History of the English Pub and Bradford Pubs, writes: The interest shown in the recent pieces about Pat Paterson, whose life took her from Bradford to Hollywood, reminded me that I have this photograph of the Fitzgerald Arms in the street where she was born. Number 74 Fitzgerald Street is the address given on the record of her baptism as Eliza Paterson on May 19, 1910, at St James’s Church off Manchester Road, just over a month after her birth on April 7. Her parents are John, who was born in Lochgelly, Scotland, whose occupation is given as grease presser, and Hannah, born in Bradford.