bridges, curves and peel

I've now finished my latest contract at school so this is the first weekday off for a while (well okay a month) which is showing its a bad sign when you've seen all the episodes of murder she wrote...
Anyway some much needed house work this afternoon and managed to bag myself a ticket for tonight's dress rehearsal of Arthur Millers All my sons tonight at the curve theatre so that's something to look forward to.

This Saturday sees the annual John Peel day going ahead despite radio one quietly dropping their commitment continues with a host of bands playing across England, if you've in or around London you could do worst than check out this event which see a host of bands play for only a fiver.

For the last few months Leicester council have once again proved their honesty and in no way going behind peoples back tradition by deciding to destroy the bowstring bridge to make way for DMU to build more buildings in Leicester, in this case a gym, this has lead to various petitions, marches and whatnot.
I think one of the main points of annoyance is that the council and DMU have gone about the business with a great level of under handedness with a number of emails sent in secret confirming deals between the two while denying any final plans to the public. It does make you wonder just how much power the DMU now holds with Leicester council, as its now got to be one of the biggest landowners in the city centre, and one that brings in a huge number of students each year.
To me its also linked to how the council seem to be slowly undermining Leicester Market, one of the biggest and oldest in Leicester, apparently there have been plans for years about building even more flats (because of course that's what people want right now instead of good quality cheap local food, more flats) in the spot. The council have already moved all the bus routes making it more difficult for older people, the main sauce of trade, to shop there. The council have never really invested any money in the central fish market since it was built I think almost 20 years ago despite it returning a nice healthy profit for them, finally I found that a large number of shops around that area are starting to close which although understandable in these economic times its also because landlords have apparently risen the rent so high that no shop can stay there. So far the market traders have managed to fight off attempts to move the market out the city (so that I presume no one can go there) and a Sunday market at the Leicester city stand that they claim would mark a deliberate attempt to undermine their business but I wonder how long they can last. Now I'm not suggesting that the council are corrupt or fully planing on destroying the market in any way buuuuuuut if anything does happen I wonder who might benefit..???

Although this has in no way anything to do with Leicester MP Keith Vaz who has know a number of shall we say bad judgements in the past his wikipedia page is worth checking out, and keep in mind hes head of the ethics committe.

Whilst building work has already started there's still time to join the petition here, or join the facebook group here