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WILTSHIRE-based athlete Alice Wilson heads back to Yeovil on Saturday (May 1st) aiming to build upon her solid start to the new season. The 15-year-old Team Bath AC athlete from North Wraxhall, near Bradford-on-Avon, opened her summer campaign at the same Somerset venue last weekend tackling the javelin and the high jump. The latter event was hampered by technical issues largely due to the blustery and cold wind so her height of 1.46m was well below her lifetime best of 1.57m. But if the meeting was less about results than in just getting used to the competitive arena again after six months of solid training after the indoor season was cancelled. ....
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Call for Kildare County Council to build more houses Criticism ); There was overwhelming support for a call for more houses to be built, at a recent Kildare County Council meeting. And there was criticism of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) system, which provides financial assistance for households who qualify for social housing and who are trying to rent a home on the private market. There are about 2,400 people receiving HAP within County Kildare but Cllr Noel Connolly said the only long term answer is for public housing to be built on publicly-owned land. He said that HAP limits are too low to allow families or individuals to actually avail of much of the rented accommodation that is available in the county. ....
Call for local authority to take back domestic waste service Each Municipal District could put out tender says Cllr Noel Connolly Reporter: ); ); Kildare County Council has been asked to take back the domestic waste collection service from private companies. But the council’s Director of Services is against the idea. The matter is to go for consideration to the council’s Environmental Strategic Policy Committee (SPC). After debate at the January 25 meeting of the council, the proposer, Cllr Noel Connolly, said he was surprised with the support from some members. At the January 25 meeting of the council, Cllr Connolly proposed that the council recognises that domestic waste collection should be in the control and ownership of local authorities and that a consistent service should be offered to all homes county wide, including glass and organic waste collection. ....
Kildare school places issue a ticking time bomb, public meeting hears South Kildare school situation an emergency Reporter: ); ); Demand for school enrollments in Kildare could be a “ticking time bomb,” a county councillor has told a public meeting which heard of major concerns over school places in the county. Cllr Angela Feeney was speaking on a request by a number of councillors for information on school capacity at Kildare County Council’s plenary meeting on January 25. Cllr Feeney said 27% of the population of north Kildare was under 18 and school places needed to be built for all the new and planned housing. ....