David Drew's Blog

It remains a simple fact of life that England have and can only win a World Cup when Labour is in charge.  Thus after a promising series of matches in qualifying for South Africa after only two months of the Con Dem Coalition the players were turned into stuttering wrecks and even one of the best managers in the world was left ruing the day when last May Labour lost the Election.    Forget what the pundits say and the phone-ins rail about...

I recently made a visit to the Meadows Estate in Nottingham to look at how it was introducing solar PV onto houses in the estate. They were the recipient of a major grant from the Department of Energy and Climate Change under the Green Streets initiative. I made the visit at the invitation of Alan Simpson who was until recently the MP for Nottingham South. He introduced me to the architect who has been instrumental in driving forward the new measures. I also visited the Estate Office who...

National Bike Week takes place the 19th – 27th June; it is a time for us to think about using our bikes just that little bit more… In so doing we improve our health (providing you don’t spend your whole time in traffic), reduce our carbon footprint and help promote more cycling in the community. I have been a regular cyclist for many years now; I know the Five Valleys and corresponding hills intimately! I can’t begin to tell you how good it is to cycle around this constituency. I...

Question 1Is it trure or false taht you can reheat leftovers as many times as you like?False - you should only reheat leftovers once.  The more times food cools and is reheated the more potential there is for food poisoning bacteria to grow and multiply.  Question 2Is it true or false that if something is cooked on the outside it will definitely be cooked on the inside?False - most forms of cooking involves the heat penetrating the food from the outside, so the surface may be cooked but it does

If you walk past 5a Lansdown this week you might be excused to think we were developing props for a horror movie! This week (7th – 13th June) marks the Foods Standards Agency ‘Food Safety Week’. There are many amongst us who have ourselves or seen our friends and family suffer from food poisoning – a terrible and possibly life threatening problem. It is particularly important that we respect good food hygiene especially in the summer months when levels of food poisoning soar as the...