BORIS JOHNSON could be making a land grab for some of Rishi Sunak’s property. No, the Prime Minister isn’t knocking through from No 10 and taking over parts of the Chancellor’s No 11. Instead, new research for this column suggests that there is a corner of the Richmond constituency that really has Mr Johnson at its heart rather than the sitting MP. Because we are led to believe that Mr Johnson’s great-great-great-great-grandparents were tenant farmers just outside Richmond, probably on land owned by the Aske estate. Walter and Hannah Johnson were “bread-bakers” in Darlington in 1813, according to the parish registers of St Cuthbert’s Church when their son, Thomas, was baptised there on December 19.
I WOULD like to acknowledge Brian Murphy’s excellent letter regarding poor policing (March 11). However, I don’t think the issue is the fault of current police leaders. The fault lies with the politicians who created the national police force on April 1, 2013, thus forcing the leadership into creating a service that is now largely reactive rather than proactive. The former City of Glasgow Police and latterly Strathclyde Police had eight city divisions each with a chief superintendent and his support staff policing the city and providing its citizens with a service that is impossible to now provide. Greater Glasgow is now a police division with one chief superintendent and his staff attempting to do the work of eight commands. It is quite impossible.
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