Cllr Mark Haworth-Booth
18/02/2025 / 18/02/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
Photo: the Valentine I received on Friday My wife has a great gift for creating or finding the soppiest cards to give me on 14 February each year, all of which I treasure. I gave a talk at the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon last Tuesday to its Friends group. My subject was ‘Great […]
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10/02/2025 / 10/02/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
Making a difference? I wonder, quite often, how much difference I am making as a district councillor. This week I found that I had helped in a way I had not expected. I serve on the joint committee (with Torridge District Council) of the North Devon Crematorium. At our meeting last Friday afternoon, the Crematorium […]
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03/02/2025 / 04/02/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
Spring – Snowdrops in St James’s Churchyard, Swimbridge Last Monday was Holocaust Memorial Day and, like many others, I listened on the radio to heart-rending testimonies broadcast from the Auschwitz death camp. They were followed by short updates from Gaza. I was not alone in feeling that the Holocaust visited upon millions of innocent Jews […]
28/01/2025 / 28/01/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
Welcome to my latest blog post… I am a member of the Taw Torridge Estuary Forum, which met last Monday evening. Louise Wainwright, chair of Avon River Champions in South Devon, was our special guest. She gave a rousing speech about the abject state of our waterways and our dysfunctional regulations but proposed a solution […]
20/01/2025 / 20/01/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
This week I’m writing about two of my meetings as a local councillor and also reflecting on the sentencing of the Just Stop Oil activist, Dr Patrick Hart, the memorial service of Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll and the 24th demonstration for Gaza in London. At Full Council on Wednesday there was a warm welcome to the […]
