Highways England calls on local businesses to be a part of Lower Thames Crossing project
HIGHWAYS England is today (Monday 11 January) calling on local businesses in Kent and Essex to be a part of the most ambitious road scheme seen in the UK in nearly 35 years, the Lower Thames Crossing.
The project has created a Small Medium Enterprise (SME) directory, a database of local businesses and their specialists, which will be given to the main works contractors, so they have ready access to local firms – giving them the best possible chance to work on this transformative project.
Since the directory was launched in late December over 60 businesses, ranging from printers and builders to security firms and training providers, have already entered their details. The target is to have hundreds of businesses registered to help ensure as much of the work needed to build the Crossing goes to local firms.
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“I really don’t know what to believe right now, I am a product from the inner city I have seen way too many wrongs been done by gangsters and then they are protected by the same residents; the sad truth is, the residents only give up these gangsters when the problem/s knock on their doors. Mr Adams was respected and probably still is by majority, he was trusted by majority and I strongly believe intelligence lead him to visit Kraal.” – Badd English
Oswald Hanciles (The Guru): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2020:
The bye-election in the hotly contested Constituency 110 in the Freetown Peninsula, awakens in me a sense of déjà vu. In the 1967 parliamentary election, and in the fiercely contested elections of the 1970s, there would be not only enthusiastic campaigning by APC and SLPP partisans, but spasmodic violence all over the country, until the General Elections of 1977, when the APC government led by the wily, pugnacious, and charismatic APC leader, Siaka Stevens, waged a full-scale war on the SLPP opposition (disguised as competitive elections).
Stevens then coerced the SLPP, forced its leaders to capitulate and absorbed into the APC, which led to a de jure One Party State, after the APC was declared winner of the 1977 election by a landslide.