has landed himself a top job delivering a ‘garden city’ in North Kent. Former council leader Simon Dudley has been appointed as chairman of the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation (EDC) for four years – to which Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed his suitability. The EDC was established by the Government in 2015 to deliver the new Ebbsfleet ‘Garden City’ in Kent. The project, which combines countryside environments and urban living, is set to deliver thousands of new homes and create 30,000 job opportunities. Mr Dudley will be taking over the role from Michael Cassidy CBE, who served for six years as chairman. According to the EDC job description, a chairman earns £28,000 a year for one day per week.
Logitech has released the latest iterations of its Rally Bar video conferencing solution, adding new products to its suite of offerings.
The new products, dubbed Rally Bar mini, Rally Bar and Room Mate, the new devices are set to spearhead the vendor’s push to conquer the video conferencing hardware market.
The new solutions are from the same family of devices as the company’s Rally Bar Plus solution, but are targeted at small and medium-sized meeting rooms. The Rally Bar Plus is designed for large meeting spaces.
Logitech said the devices can run supported video conferencing applications natively on the Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini. The products support native integration of Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and will also support other video conferencing services such as GoToMeeting, Pexip and RingCentral. Logitech said that further integrations with UC vendors would be introduced in the future.
of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM). On Twitter, ex-leader of the council Simon Dudley scolded the current Conservative administration for proposing to switch weekly black bin collections to fortnightly in next year’s draft budget. He tweeted: “Councillors are good at spending your money on things the majority of local residents don’t care about when this saving of £175,000 pa [per annum] is derisory given the loss of service to residents.” Mr Dudley also shared a link to a petition put forward by ex-Tory councillor Ed Wilson demanding the council keep weekly black bin collections. Councillor Andrew Johnson (Conservative: Hurley and Walthams), current leader of RBWM, was taken aback from Mr Dudley’s comments and criticised him for leaving the council in a “parlous financial position” when the ex-leader resigned last year.