“Zack apologises sincerely for the unintentional mistake.” The party spokesperson said Polanski had “taken steps to pay any council tax he may be found to owe”. Polanski has been under pressure to explain whether the houseboat, moored at a marina in Hackney, had been his primary residence. A boat is liable for council tax when used as a person's “sole or main residence”, according to the tax lawyer Dan Neidle.
James IV, King of Scots, never had to worry about elections. This freed him up to satisfy his voracious curiosity with strange experiments: according to one old tale, in 1493 he trapped two children, and a nurse who couldn't talk, on Inchkeith Island in the Firth of Forth. James hoped that the children, deprived of modern influences on their speech, would naturally return to the true, divine language. They supposedly came back speaking Hebrew; for Walter Scott, it was more likely they would scream like their dumb nurse, or bleat like the sheep and goats on the island.
Following the announcement that rail operator Great Western Railway (GWR) is to be brought under public ownership in December, train passengers may be wondering if the move will make any difference to things like ticket fares, jobs and timetables. The Swindon-based operator, which is owned by FirstGroup, has run services and linked London to the south-west of England and Wales since 1996. Several rail firms around the country are already publicly owned, including Great Anglia and South Western Railway.
Ap Iorwerth was confirmed after a plenary vote on Tuesday with the support of the 43 Senedd members of his party and two Greens. Plaid Cymru ended Labour's century-long electoral dominance in Wales in last week's elections, winning the most seats in the newly expanded 96-seat parliament. Reform, which had hoped to be the biggest party, won 34 seats, and Labour came third with just nine seats, marking a definitive end to the party's grip on its birthplace.
