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  1. I totally disagree. I think the sentence is ok. The judge in the case is a very senior judge, and sits on the Sentencing Council so I think there will be no overturning this sentence on appeal.
  2. You could try emailing the Yorkshire Young Farmers Federation on this email address: office@yfyfc.org.uk Ask them to put you in touch with the closest young farmer's club. Someone there should be able to give you some other contacts that would be help find someone that could offer some work experience. When contacting them, and it really needs to be your daughter that contacts them, she should stress her maturity and her interest in farming.
  3. Sheffield City Council are surveying the population of Sheffield to see what goals should be set for the city. If you want to complete the survey, use this link: digital survey. If you want more information, use this link: Sheffield City Goals website
  4. You don't need to provide either to sell your house. Residential properties don't need a gas safety certificate unless they are being rented out. Other sellers may have been asked to provide them, but they are not required legally. An EPC is legally required, even if you are selling the property privately, however it is my experience that solicitors do not check that an EPC is in place before exchanging contracts, so it is unlikely that you would be caught out if you are not selling via an estate agents. Estate Agents will not market the property unless there is an EPC in place. They will do so without gas and electrical safety certificates.
  5. Unfortunately the economics of that just won't work. We need people to be paying more tax not less, so that essential public services can be maintained, and so that we can repay some of the debt we have incurred surviving the financial crisis, pandemic and the effect of the war in Ukraine on energy proces.
  6. It's not a perfect survey, but we should remember that this is a University that is undertaking the research, and hence the survey creator is likely to be a pre or post-graduate student. I'm sure they will find the feedback useful.
  7. The link provided confirms that you have to go to court IF the lodger has basic protection. The website explains that if they share a kitchen, bathroom or living room with you, then they don't have this protection. If they don't have basic protection, you can evict them by changing the locks. You need to take care of their possessions, and offer them the chance to get them back within a reasonable time.
  8. You will need an EPDM waterproof membrane over a wooden deck (e.g. OSB 3). I don't know of anyone in Sheffield that specialises in Green roofs, but I am inclined to think that you want a specialist for a green roof, rather than a "flat roof specialist" with experience of EPDM. You can and should add insulation under the wooden deck if the roof is over an inhabited room as the roof needs to comply with building regulations. You will need a structural engineer to check for loadings. This site suggests that the engineer will need to allow for 100Kg+ per square meter: Extensive Sedum Green Roof System - Blackdown Greenroofs On the site, they discuss the desirable make-up of the roof on the site and have detailed specifications for different pitches of roofs, but basically you need: a strong wooden deck - unless you are aware of any problem with the existing roof deck, the contractor will probably be ableto just remove the existing waterproof layer and insulation, and use the deck underneath. new insulation the EPDM waterproof membrane a drainage layer protected by a geotextile a moisture control layer to retain water in times of drought They would seem to be experts in the field, and can supply the right plants that will survive on a flat roof where the soil doesn't allow the plants to tap into the deep supplies of moisture that the could in a normal garden.
  9. The £300 Million a Week that we were giving to the EU amounts to £15.7 Billion a Year. The pandemic, energy support and Truss Mini-budget left a hole of £57 Billion in the UK's finances, so the £15.7 Billion saved by leaving the EU has been absorbed by that. It goes to show how much more efficient the UK Tories are at spending our money than the EU ever were!
  10. I think SCC will find it very difficult job to save money. Most of the services they provide are either required by law, or so necessary for daily life that the residents of Sheffield would riot if they were withdrawn, e.g. emptying rubbish bins. The few areas where they have discretion have already been cut to the bone, but I guess they could cut them out all together, e.g. close the libraries and parks, and switch off all the street lights. But if the libraries were closed, it wouldn't save a lot (they would still have to be heated to avoid damp and frost damage, and the staff couldn't be laid off without incurring some cost), and it would make it impossible for some people to access the internet or keep warm - libraries are warm refuge for people who cannot afford to heat their home. I would want them to remain open for these reasons. Closing the parks is an option, but they would need to be sold to someone to avoid them becoming a liability. One option is to sell them to developers, but use planning conditions to ensure that some green space is left for recreation, but the cost of managing the space is picked up by the residents via a service charge. This is also very undesirable. Collecting council tax and paying benefits is not an option. The council can't cut the staff costs in these areas. There are probably some hidden areas of cost, e.g. defending legal actions against the council, and sickness rates for staff where some sensible interventions might save a bit. Where staff are off with stress caused by working conditions, you have to think that something can be done to get them back to work, e.g. by supporting them back into a different role. One of the main causes of stress at work is when there are not enough people to do the job and so residents get angry with staff because their needs are not being met. The way to keep people at work is to hire more staff and support them better, e.g. with senior managers (or councillors even) who are willing to take on hard cases and who are authorised to spend some money to get a thorny problem solved properly. But spending money to save money is difficult to justify; it's all to easy to spend more than you are really saving, but we have have all able bodied council staff at work and working for residents. It's different if they have a medical problem that no amount of adjustment at work will help with. Most ways of saving money have very serious downsides, or are very difficult to implement in practice. Even trying to generate additional income can cost money. e.g. if you invited better-off residents to give money to the council, you would need a system to take payments! But we have to try.
  11. Brain Fox Roofing (0114 249 0077) did this same job for me a few months ago, but they were mainly doing some repointing to the ridge and chimney, so I don't know what they would charge for just removing the tree. It's definitely worth getting it removed asap.
  12. Definitely different. The Chesterfield accent is closer to a Nottinghamshire accent. It's not surprsing as Chesterfield is in the Midlands and Sheffield is in the North.
  13. Fogwill & Jones are good. I used them for some pension transfer advice a while back.
  14. I think you can leave it a bit longer. I think at 8 years old I would start to worry that the original belt might be starting to age, even if it is likely to go on for a number of years after that point, there come a point where a failure is starting to get more likely.
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