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William V. Bowen
William V. Bowen, 72, husband of Medra Bowen, died Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Memorial Service 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, visitation prior beginning at 12 p.m. at Tucker, Yocum & Wilson Funeral Home. www.TuckerYocumWilson.com.
William V. Bowen
William V. Bowen, 72, husband of Medra Bowen, died Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Memorial Service 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, visitation prior beginning at 12 p.m. at Tucker, Yocum & Wilson Funeral Home. www.TuckerYocumWilson.com.
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Mr. William Louis Bowen, 77, of Pulaski died May 13, 2022, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
Mr. Bowen was born March 8, 1945, in Campbellsville. He was retired from Maremont Gabriel, was a City of Pulaski police officer, Giles County deputy and jack of all trades, from truck driving to logging. He is preceded in death by parents, Leon and Lula Mae Hendrix Bowen; son Billy Wayne Bowen; brother Charles Anthony (Bobo) Bowen; grandson Kelby Bowen; and mother of his children Marie Bowen Hutton.
Visitation will be Saturday, May 21, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at Carr & Erwin Funeral Home. Funeral services will begin at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Lynnwood Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to the family.
Survivors include daughters, Gail Harmond and husband Jeff of Goodspring, Laquitta Norwood and Jimmy Green, Donna Martin, all of Pulaski, Tammy Hughes and husband Kenneth of Prospect; brother Bobby Bowen and wife Pam of Pulaski; sister Pauline Sturgeon and husband Fred of Decatur, Ala.; 11 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and best friend and fur baby Toto.
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William V. Bowen
William V. Bowen, 72, husband of Medra Bowen, died Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Memorial Service 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, visitation prior beginning at 12 p.m. at Tucker, Yocum & Wilson Funeral Home. www.TuckerYocumWilson.com.
William V. Bowen
William V. Bowen, 72, husband of Medra Bowen, died Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Memorial Service 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, visitation prior beginning at 12 p.m. at Tucker, Yocum & Wilson Funeral Home. www.TuckerYocumWilson.com.
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BONNELL BOWEN, 87, of Kenova, W.Va., went to be with his Lord the morning of Thursday, April 7, 2022, at home, following a brief illness of cancer. He was born September 30, 1934, at Jobe, Ky., to the late Earshel and Martha Mills Bowen. He was a member of the Catlettsburg Freewill Baptist Church and the American Legion Post 93. He retired from C.J. Hughes Construction Co., where he worked as a heavy equipment operator; proudly served his nation in the US Army; and attended the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Prichard, W.Va. Mr. Bowen leaves behind his wife, Lenore “Ellen” Bowen, his children, Marie Tapscott of Katy, Texas, Connie Overstreet, Wanda Staley and Cynthia (Larry) Mayne, all of Huntington, W.Va., Garry Bowen of Cleveland, Tenn., Bernice (Wayne) Brown of Fort Collins, Colo., Teresa Bowen of Kenova, W.Va., and Erma Morton of Charleston, W.Va. In addition to his children, he leaves behind 14 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren; one brother, Larry James; two sisters, Janet Gant and Loretha Muncy; along with a host of other relatives and friends. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his loving wife of 51 years, Ina Mae Bowen; two sisters, Veva Pack and Emma Endicott; and one brother, Donald Bowen. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Monday, April 11, at the Reger Funeral Home and Crematory Ceredo-Kenova Chapel, Ceredo, W.Va., with Pastor Ron Scarberry officiating. Burial will follow in Maple Hill at Docks Creek Cemetery in Kenova, W.Va. Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday at the Reger Funeral Home, Ceredo. The family requests expressions of sympathy take the form of donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Condolences may be expressed to the family online at www.regerfh.com.
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William V. Bowen
William V. Bowen, 72, husband of Medra Bowen, died Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Memorial Service 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, visitation prior beginning at 12 p.m. at Tucker, Yocum & Wilson Funeral Home. www.TuckerYocumWilson.com.
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William V. Bowen, 72, husband of Medra Bowen, died Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Memorial Service 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, visitation prior beginning at 12 p.m. at Tucker, Yocum & Wilson Funeral Home. www.TuckerYocumWilson.com.
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BEAVER DAM — William “Perry” Bowen, 49, of Beaver Dam died Saturday, July 30, 2022, at his home. Perry worked in construction and was a member of Rockport Baptist Church.
Survivors: son, William Gunner Bowen Brinkerhoff; daughter, Gracie Christine Bowen; and mother, Pamela Graves Bowen.
Service: 2 p.m. Thursday, August 4, 2022, at William L. Danks Funeral Home in Beaver Dam. Visitation: 10 a.m. until the time of the service Thursday at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy: Perry Bowen Memorial Fund, c/o William L. Danks Funeral Home, P.O. Box 407, Beaver Dam, KY 42320.
Online condolences may be left for the family of William “Perry” Bowen by visiting his memorial tribute at www.danksfuneralhome.com.
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Biggest jump in domestic energy bills in living memory comes into effect
The biggest jump in domestic energy bills in living memory has come into effect as charities warn that 2.5 million more households are set to fall into “fuel stress” and supplier websites remained unresponsive to customers.
As a 54% increase to Ofgem’s price cap hit bills, the Resolution Foundation think tank said the number of English households in fuel stress – those spending at least 10% of their total budgets on energy bills – was set to double overnight from 2.5 to five million.
Resolution Foundation senior economist Jonathan Marshall said: “Today’s energy price cap rise will see the number of households experiencing fuel stress double to five million.
“Another increase in energy bills this autumn hastens the need for more immediate support, as well as a clear, long-term strategy for improving home insulation, ramping up renewable and nuclear electricity generation, and reforming energy markets so that families’ energy bills are less dependent on global gas prices.”
Citizens Advice said around five million people would be unable to pay their energy bills from April, even accounting for the support the Government has already announced.
It warned this number would almost triple to one in four people in the UK – more than 14 million – if the price cap rises again in October based on current predictions.
Concern about the pressures households are facing came as energy firms continued to struggle to allow customers to submit up-to-date meter readings to avoid paying the higher tariff on energy used before April 1.
Customers reported issues logging in to supplier websites including British Gas, EDF, E.On, SSE, So Energy and Octopus Energy from early on Thursday.
Energy UK, the trade body for the industry, urged people not to worry if they were unable to submit a meter reading ahead of Friday.
It said: “Most suppliers are offering alternative options such as submitting at a later date, and different methods to send meter readings such as text, social media and email.
“This demonstrates the scale of the problem and how worried people are about high prices, which is why we have been asking Government to intervene to provide further support to consumers.”
Citizens Advice chief executive Dame Clare Moriarty said: “The energy price cap rise will be potentially ruinous for millions of people across the country.
“The support announced so far from the Government simply isn’t enough for those who’ll be hit hardest. With the long-anticipated price rises now hitting, many more people will face the kind of heart-rending choices that our frontline advisers already see all too often.”
The energy price cap for those on default tariffs who pay by direct debit is rising by £693 from £1,277 to £1,971 from April 1.
Prepayment customers will see a bigger jump, with their price cap going up by £708, from £1,309 to £2,017.
The regulator was forced to hike the energy price cap to a record £1,971 for a typical household as gas prices soared to unprecedented highs.
Fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) warned the cost of heating an average home has now doubled in 18 months, leaving 6.5 million households unable to live in a warm, safe home across the UK.
An Ofgem spokeswoman said: “We know this rise will be extremely worrying for many people.
“The energy market has faced a huge challenge due to the unprecedented increase in global gas prices, a once in a 30-year event, and Ofgem’s role as energy regulator is to ensure that, under the price cap, energy companies can only charge a fair price based on the true cost of supplying electricity and gas.
“Ofgem is working to stabilise the market and over the longer term to diversify our sources of energy, which will help protect customers from similar price shocks in the future.”
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has previously pledged to “take the sting out” of the price rises, promising all 28 million households in Britain would get a £200 upfront rebate on their energy bills from October.
The Government will provide the cash for this, but it wants the money back so will hike bills by £40 per year over the next five years from 2023 to recoup it.
Goldman Sachs has already warned that prices in the gas market are likely to remain at twice their usual levels until 2025.
Higher energy prices are not the only way households are set to feel the pinch, with tax rises and reductions in state pandemic support increasing costs for businesses and, ultimately, leading to higher prices for customers.
The cost of buying a pub meal, soft drink or hotel stay could become more expensive from this month as VAT levels across the hospitality sector lift back to 20%, while the National Insurance tax rise will come into force on April 6.
Fuel prices have also reached record highs in recent weeks amid a rise in oil prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Sunak cut fuel duty by 5p in his spring statement last week, but retailers have been accused of failing to fully pass on the saving.
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Energy regulators Ofgem this morning announced yet another worrying price hike.
From October, the cap on energy bills will rise by 80% up from the current figure of £1,971 to £3,549 per year - nearly 10% of the average UK worker's salary.
This is if you are paying by direct debit on a default tariff.
For those paying by prepayment meter the jump is to an even bigger figure, from £2,017 to £3,608.
This will particularly hit vulnerable households or those already struggling to pay their energy.
Are you worried about rising energy prices? Let us know: webnews@reachplc.com
Standard credit customers - so where you pay once you've received your bill - will see their price cap rise from £2,100 to a staggering £3,764, working out as the most expensive way of paying.
Direct debit is the cheapest way of paying your bills - this is because suppliers provide a discount for people paying this way as it works out as lower costs and administration for them to sort.
It is also advised that you submit meter readings the day before the new energy price cap comes into effect in October.
This is so you can lower your chance of being overcharged on the higher rates, for the days before they come into place.
You can find out more on how to do this here.
Martin has called the latest cap on bills as "staggering" and a "catastrophe", warning "lives will be lost" if the incoming Prime Minister does not urgently take action next month.
Lost for words this morning, he told BBC presenters he had "no answer" for what more households could do.
“If you are really struggling, it is very difficult for you to be disconnected these days if you can’t pay,” he told Breakfast presenter Charlie Stayt.
“They might move you, if you’re not already on to a prepayment metre – and there is some emergency help on prepayment meters.
“Some people are going to have massive help problems because they don’t have heating in their home. There are people voluntarily disconnecting.
“I said - I think six months ago, maybe a little less - that I was out of tools to help the most vulnerable with energy, and Government help is needed.”
Why are bills going up?
At least half your energy bill covers wholesale costs – this is the actual cost of gas, oil or whatever is used to power our homes.
As countries have emerged from Covid lockdowns and the worst of the crisis over recent months, prices everywhere have shot up as demand for energy soared.
But these surged astronomically following Putin's invasion of Ukraine, as much of our oil comes from Russia.
Fears over whether Russia will turn off the taps have sent gas prices through the roof.
You can see more answers to questions about rising energy bills here.
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Biggest jump in domestic energy bills in living memory comes into effect
The biggest jump in domestic energy bills in living memory has come into effect as charities warn that 2.5 million more households are set to fall into “fuel stress” and supplier websites remained unresponsive to customers.
As a 54% increase to Ofgem’s price cap hit bills, the Resolution Foundation think tank said the number of English households in fuel stress – those spending at least 10% of their total budgets on energy bills – was set to double overnight from 2.5 to five million.
Resolution Foundation senior economist Jonathan Marshall said: “Today’s energy price cap rise will see the number of households experiencing fuel stress double to five million.
“Another increase in energy bills this autumn hastens the need for more immediate support, as well as a clear, long-term strategy for improving home insulation, ramping up renewable and nuclear electricity generation, and reforming energy markets so that families’ energy bills are less dependent on global gas prices.”
Citizens Advice said around five million people would be unable to pay their energy bills from April, even accounting for the support the Government has already announced.
It warned this number would almost triple to one in four people in the UK – more than 14 million – if the price cap rises again in October based on current predictions.
Concern about the pressures households are facing came as energy firms continued to struggle to allow customers to submit up-to-date meter readings to avoid paying the higher tariff on energy used before April 1.
Customers reported issues logging in to supplier websites including British Gas, EDF, E.On, SSE, So Energy and Octopus Energy from early on Thursday.
Energy UK, the trade body for the industry, urged people not to worry if they were unable to submit a meter reading ahead of Friday.
It said: “Most suppliers are offering alternative options such as submitting at a later date, and different methods to send meter readings such as text, social media and email.
“This demonstrates the scale of the problem and how worried people are about high prices, which is why we have been asking Government to intervene to provide further support to consumers.”
Citizens Advice chief executive Dame Clare Moriarty said: “The energy price cap rise will be potentially ruinous for millions of people across the country.
“The support announced so far from the Government simply isn’t enough for those who’ll be hit hardest. With the long-anticipated price rises now hitting, many more people will face the kind of heart-rending choices that our frontline advisers already see all too often.”
The energy price cap for those on default tariffs who pay by direct debit is rising by £693 from £1,277 to £1,971 from April 1.
Prepayment customers will see a bigger jump, with their price cap going up by £708, from £1,309 to £2,017.
The regulator was forced to hike the energy price cap to a record £1,971 for a typical household as gas prices soared to unprecedented highs.
Fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) warned the cost of heating an average home has now doubled in 18 months, leaving 6.5 million households unable to live in a warm, safe home across the UK.
An Ofgem spokeswoman said: “We know this rise will be extremely worrying for many people.
“The energy market has faced a huge challenge due to the unprecedented increase in global gas prices, a once in a 30-year event, and Ofgem’s role as energy regulator is to ensure that, under the price cap, energy companies can only charge a fair price based on the true cost of supplying electricity and gas.
“Ofgem is working to stabilise the market and over the longer term to diversify our sources of energy, which will help protect customers from similar price shocks in the future.”
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has previously pledged to “take the sting out” of the price rises, promising all 28 million households in Britain would get a £200 upfront rebate on their energy bills from October.
The Government will provide the cash for this, but it wants the money back so will hike bills by £40 per year over the next five years from 2023 to recoup it.
Goldman Sachs has already warned that prices in the gas market are likely to remain at twice their usual levels until 2025.
Higher energy prices are not the only way households are set to feel the pinch, with tax rises and reductions in state pandemic support increasing costs for businesses and, ultimately, leading to higher prices for customers.
The cost of buying a pub meal, soft drink or hotel stay could become more expensive from this month as VAT levels across the hospitality sector lift back to 20%, while the National Insurance tax rise will come into force on April 6.
Fuel prices have also reached record highs in recent weeks amid a rise in oil prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Sunak cut fuel duty by 5p in his spring statement last week, but retailers have been accused of failing to fully pass on the saving.
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Britons are paying 54% more for their energy starting now
By Anna Cooban, CNN Business
Britons were hit Friday by a huge rise in energy bills, compounding the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in decades.
About 22 million households will see their annual bills soar to about £2,000 ($2,626) after the UK’s energy regulator lifted its price cap by 54% — the biggest jump since it began limiting price increases in 2017. The cap sets a limit on the maximum price suppliers can charge per unit of energy.
The increase will double the number of English households living in “fuel stress” — defined as those spending at least 10% of their total budgets on energy bills — to 5 million, according to the Resolution Foundation.
“This is the biggest energy price shock in living memory,” Adam Scorer, chief executive of National Energy Action, a fuel poverty charity, said in a statement on Thursday.
“Millions of people will be priced out of adequate levels of heating and power. For all the anticipation of these price rises, many people on the lowest incomes will be crushed by the reality.”
Britons’ bills had already risen by 12% last October, the last time the price cap was adjusted, after a global natural gas supply crunch pushed wholesale prices up to record levels.
The government has tried to ease the pain by cutting local taxes and fuel duties as well as by allowing many consumers to spread the cost of their bills over the next few years.
But further rises could be on the way in October. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February is making the situation worse, pushing energy prices up further, the Bank of England said last month. Estimates vary as to the scale of the next shock, but investment bank Investec expects annual bills for power and gas could rise to as much as £3,000 ($3,941).
The Resolution Foundation, a think tank that focuses on living standards, estimates that the numbers of English households in fuel stress could hit 7.5 million — almost a third of all families — after October if annual bills rise to £2,500 ($3,282) in the autumn.
“Another increase in energy bills this autumn hastens the need for more immediate support,” Jonathan Marshall, senior economist at the Resolution Foundation, said Friday in a press statement.
Marshall said soaring prices called for a reform of “energy markets so that families’ energy bills are less dependent on global gas prices.”
The opposition Labour Party has repeated its call for a windfall tax on the huge profits being made by oil companies such as BP and Shell thanks to the gains in global crude prices.
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Biggest jump in domestic energy bills in living memory comes into effect
The biggest jump in domestic energy bills in living memory has come into effect as charities warn that 2.5 million more households are set to fall into “fuel stress” and supplier websites remained unresponsive to customers.
As a 54% increase to Ofgem’s price cap hit bills, the Resolution Foundation think tank said the number of English households in fuel stress – those spending at least 10% of their total budgets on energy bills – was set to double overnight from 2.5 to five million.
Resolution Foundation senior economist Jonathan Marshall said: “Today’s energy price cap rise will see the number of households experiencing fuel stress double to five million.
“Another increase in energy bills this autumn hastens the need for more immediate support, as well as a clear, long-term strategy for improving home insulation, ramping up renewable and nuclear electricity generation, and reforming energy markets so that families’ energy bills are less dependent on global gas prices.”
Citizens Advice said around five million people would be unable to pay their energy bills from April, even accounting for the support the Government has already announced.
It warned this number would almost triple to one in four people in the UK – more than 14 million – if the price cap rises again in October based on current predictions.
Concern about the pressures households are facing came as energy firms continued to struggle to allow customers to submit up-to-date meter readings to avoid paying the higher tariff on energy used before April 1.
Customers reported issues logging in to supplier websites including British Gas, EDF, E.On, SSE, So Energy and Octopus Energy from early on Thursday.
Energy UK, the trade body for the industry, urged people not to worry if they were unable to submit a meter reading ahead of Friday.
It said: “Most suppliers are offering alternative options such as submitting at a later date, and different methods to send meter readings such as text, social media and email.
“This demonstrates the scale of the problem and how worried people are about high prices, which is why we have been asking Government to intervene to provide further support to consumers.”
Citizens Advice chief executive Dame Clare Moriarty said: “The energy price cap rise will be potentially ruinous for millions of people across the country.
“The support announced so far from the Government simply isn’t enough for those who’ll be hit hardest. With the long-anticipated price rises now hitting, many more people will face the kind of heart-rending choices that our frontline advisers already see all too often.”
The energy price cap for those on default tariffs who pay by direct debit is rising by £693 from £1,277 to £1,971 from April 1.
Prepayment customers will see a bigger jump, with their price cap going up by £708, from £1,309 to £2,017.
The regulator was forced to hike the energy price cap to a record £1,971 for a typical household as gas prices soared to unprecedented highs.
Fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) warned the cost of heating an average home has now doubled in 18 months, leaving 6.5 million households unable to live in a warm, safe home across the UK.
An Ofgem spokeswoman said: “We know this rise will be extremely worrying for many people.
“The energy market has faced a huge challenge due to the unprecedented increase in global gas prices, a once in a 30-year event, and Ofgem’s role as energy regulator is to ensure that, under the price cap, energy companies can only charge a fair price based on the true cost of supplying electricity and gas.
“Ofgem is working to stabilise the market and over the longer term to diversify our sources of energy, which will help protect customers from similar price shocks in the future.”
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has previously pledged to “take the sting out” of the price rises, promising all 28 million households in Britain would get a £200 upfront rebate on their energy bills from October.
The Government will provide the cash for this, but it wants the money back so will hike bills by £40 per year over the next five years from 2023 to recoup it.
Goldman Sachs has already warned that prices in the gas market are likely to remain at twice their usual levels until 2025.
Higher energy prices are not the only way households are set to feel the pinch, with tax rises and reductions in state pandemic support increasing costs for businesses and, ultimately, leading to higher prices for customers.
The cost of buying a pub meal, soft drink or hotel stay could become more expensive from this month as VAT levels across the hospitality sector lift back to 20%, while the National Insurance tax rise will come into force on April 6.
Fuel prices have also reached record highs in recent weeks amid a rise in oil prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Sunak cut fuel duty by 5p in his spring statement last week, but retailers have been accused of failing to fully pass on the saving.
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Britons are paying 54% more for their energy starting now
By Anna Cooban, CNN Business
Britons were hit Friday by a huge rise in energy bills, compounding the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in decades.
About 22 million households will see their annual bills soar to about £2,000 ($2,626) after the UK’s energy regulator lifted its price cap by 54% — the biggest jump since it began limiting price increases in 2017. The cap sets a limit on the maximum price suppliers can charge per unit of energy.
The increase will double the number of English households living in “fuel stress” — defined as those spending at least 10% of their total budgets on energy bills — to 5 million, according to the Resolution Foundation.
“This is the biggest energy price shock in living memory,” Adam Scorer, chief executive of National Energy Action, a fuel poverty charity, said in a statement on Thursday.
“Millions of people will be priced out of adequate levels of heating and power. For all the anticipation of these price rises, many people on the lowest incomes will be crushed by the reality.”
Britons’ bills had already risen by 12% last October, the last time the price cap was adjusted, after a global natural gas supply crunch pushed wholesale prices up to record levels.
The government has tried to ease the pain by cutting local taxes and fuel duties as well as by allowing many consumers to spread the cost of their bills over the next few years.
But further rises could be on the way in October. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February is making the situation worse, pushing energy prices up further, the Bank of England said last month. Estimates vary as to the scale of the next shock, but investment bank Investec expects annual bills for power and gas could rise to as much as £3,000 ($3,941).
The Resolution Foundation, a think tank that focuses on living standards, estimates that the numbers of English households in fuel stress could hit 7.5 million — almost a third of all families — after October if annual bills rise to £2,500 ($3,282) in the autumn.
“Another increase in energy bills this autumn hastens the need for more immediate support,” Jonathan Marshall, senior economist at the Resolution Foundation, said Friday in a press statement.
Marshall said soaring prices called for a reform of “energy markets so that families’ energy bills are less dependent on global gas prices.”
The opposition Labour Party has repeated its call for a windfall tax on the huge profits being made by oil companies such as BP and Shell thanks to the gains in global crude prices.
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Contemporary artwork to be shown at Balmoral Castle for first time
A piece of contemporary art is being displayed at Balmoral Castle for the first time as part of an exhibition to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The installation, Salmon School, created by artist Joseph Rossano, consists of 250 mirrored glass forms, suspended in the air to look like a school of wild salmon.
The installation aims to highlight the plight of wild salmon and the importance of salmon conversation, as climate change and biodiversity loss threaten their existence in the wild.
It will take centre stage at the Platinum Jubilee exhibition, Life at Balmoral, which will be on show in the castle ballroom between April 1 and August 2 this year.
Mr Rossano said: “The Salmon School is an international collaborative performance project that contextualises the finality of a seemingly infinite resource.
“A synthesis of art and science, the Salmon School fosters environmental awareness, bringing together diverse communities for a greater good — cold, clean water.
“Embracing art’s ability to disarm, to make something beautiful — a sculpture mimicking an ideal, a restored ecosystem — the project achieves measurable change through its actions and initiatives.”
First conceived and shown in the Pacific Northwest in the US, Salmon School was then shown at Cop26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November 2021.
Salmon conservation work has been supported by the Queen, the Royal Family and the Balmoral Estate on the River Dee over the last 170 years.
The Balmoral Estate works closely with the River Dee Trust to deliver practical salmon restoration to help protect the endangered fish.
Most recently, across Deeside, the River Dee Trust and Dee District Salmon Fishery Board have introduced a One Million Trees campaign to plant riverbank trees, to help restore the Dee and save its salmon.
Trees are said to have multiple benefits in helping wild salmon to thrive, including providing shade over the water, nourishment through leaves and insects, and helping to stabilise the riverbanks to prevent erosion.
In the last five years, the Balmoral Estate has planted 300,000 trees along the River Dee.
The work to protect wild salmon also includes using windblown trees to create large wooden structures in the rivers on the estate, to offer a variety of salmon habitats, which in turn give shelter from bad weather and trap nutrients.
Small wooden dams have also been created in the estate’s smaller streams to help river flows in times of flood and drought.
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Salmon swim above the rocky bottom of a stream in new mural is coming together in Kanaka Creek Regional Park.
The mural adorns a wall, opposite the 240 Street fish fence in Maple Ridge.
Started in July, 2020, Todd Polich, founder of the Earth Foundation Conservation Society, was contracted to create large-scale public art piece to promote environmental conservation. He was chosen by a selection panel that included a Kwantlen elder, a youth representative, and representatives from partner agencies.
Polich consulted with Salish artist Carman McKay and also worked with students on elements of the mural.
Metro Vancouver and KEEPS conducted field trips with the participating classes to educate them about the importance of the salmon rainforest at Kanaka Creek Regional Park and Polich gave students art lessons to prepare them for mural painting. Polich also delivered free community webinars to help local artists learn the business of art.
The result was a 760 square foot mural painted with eco-friendly, water-based paint, painted on the concrete retaining wall west of the 240 Street overpass, under the overpass and on the bridge pillars.
“This beautification project is meant to illustrate the ecological diversity of Kanaka Creek and the surrounding park through interpretive art murals while connecting with the local community,” explained John McEwen, chair of Metro Vancouver’s Regional Parks Committee.
“Our hope that this project will educate park visitors about the salmon food web,” he said.
READ ALSO: Ridge Meadows Foundry unveils mural created by Katzie artist and youth collaborators
ALSO: Summerland reconciliation mural vandalized
There was a project team, an artist team, and four local school classes took part in creating the mural.
The project was the result of a collaboration between a number of agencies including: the Pacific Parklands Foundation, a registered charity dedicated to the conservation and enhancement of Metro Vancouver’s regional parks; the City of Maple Ridge; Kwantlen First Nation; Kanaka Education and Environmental Partnership Society, KEEPS; Pacific Salmon Foundation; and Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
A budget of $27,000 was available for the mural – with $12,000 coming from the Pacific Parklands Foundation, $10,000 from the City of Maple Ridge, and $5,000 from Metro Vancouver.
Work is still underway on a 3-D sculptural element.
The project is expected to be complete by July.
A celebratory community event is being planned from 10-12 p.m. on July 22 .
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Contemporary artwork to be shown at Balmoral Castle for first time
A piece of contemporary art is being displayed at Balmoral Castle for the first time as part of an exhibition to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The installation, Salmon School, created by artist Joseph Rossano, consists of 250 mirrored glass forms, suspended in the air to look like a school of wild salmon.
The installation aims to highlight the plight of wild salmon and the importance of salmon conversation, as climate change and biodiversity loss threaten their existence in the wild.
It will take centre stage at the Platinum Jubilee exhibition, Life at Balmoral, which will be on show in the castle ballroom between April 1 and August 2 this year.
Mr Rossano said: “The Salmon School is an international collaborative performance project that contextualises the finality of a seemingly infinite resource.
“A synthesis of art and science, the Salmon School fosters environmental awareness, bringing together diverse communities for a greater good — cold, clean water.
“Embracing art’s ability to disarm, to make something beautiful — a sculpture mimicking an ideal, a restored ecosystem — the project achieves measurable change through its actions and initiatives.”
First conceived and shown in the Pacific Northwest in the US, Salmon School was then shown at Cop26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November 2021.
Salmon conservation work has been supported by the Queen, the Royal Family and the Balmoral Estate on the River Dee over the last 170 years.
The Balmoral Estate works closely with the River Dee Trust to deliver practical salmon restoration to help protect the endangered fish.
Most recently, across Deeside, the River Dee Trust and Dee District Salmon Fishery Board have introduced a One Million Trees campaign to plant riverbank trees, to help restore the Dee and save its salmon.
Trees are said to have multiple benefits in helping wild salmon to thrive, including providing shade over the water, nourishment through leaves and insects, and helping to stabilise the riverbanks to prevent erosion.
In the last five years, the Balmoral Estate has planted 300,000 trees along the River Dee.
The work to protect wild salmon also includes using windblown trees to create large wooden structures in the rivers on the estate, to offer a variety of salmon habitats, which in turn give shelter from bad weather and trap nutrients.
Small wooden dams have also been created in the estate’s smaller streams to help river flows in times of flood and drought.
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The role salmon play in Indigenous culture is the focus of the upcoming exhibit at the Salmon Arm Art Gallery.
Beginning Saturday, Aug. 27, the gallery presents Sqlélten, an exhibition exploring the role of salmon in Indigenous culture, story and food systems.
In this peak year of the Adams River Sockeye Salmon Run, the art gallery wishes to focus on the land-based knowledge of the Secwépemc people, and is grateful for the generous participation of co-curator Tania Willard to bring together a diverse selection of contemporary and traditional works by Indigenous artists, reads a media release from the Salmon Arm Arts Centre & Art Gallery.
Willard brings an extensive knowledge to this topic. She leads an Indigenous Arts Intensive at UBC Okanagan each year, and has brought the work of Csetkwe Fortier into this visual dialogue, explained gallery director/curator Tracey Kutschker.
Sqlélten, which runs until Oct. 8, will also feature works by Aaron Leon, Isha Jules, Hop You Haskett, Kenthen Thomas, Gerry Thomas, Louis Thomas and the students of Chief Atahm School, weaving a 15,000 year history with contemporary art-making and storytelling.
The opening day celebration on the 27th starts with a traditional welcome at 11:30 a.m., with Neskonlith Councillor and Knowledge Keeper Louis Thomas.
Willard and exhibiting artists will be speaking at the the Coffee Break and Artist Talk at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15, during which locally roasted organic coffee and fresh baked cookies will be available.
Art gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with admission by donation.
Read more: ‘Got a fish!’: Favourite sound at Indigenous-led program for Salmon Arm school
Read more: PHOTOS: Pulling Together Canoe Journey gives paddlers Adams Lake welcome
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Contemporary artwork to be shown at Balmoral Castle for first time
A piece of contemporary art is being displayed at Balmoral Castle for the first time as part of an exhibition to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The installation, Salmon School, created by artist Joseph Rossano, consists of 250 mirrored glass forms, suspended in the air to look like a school of wild salmon.
The installation aims to highlight the plight of wild salmon and the importance of salmon conversation, as climate change and biodiversity loss threaten their existence in the wild.
It will take centre stage at the Platinum Jubilee exhibition, Life at Balmoral, which will be on show in the castle ballroom between April 1 and August 2 this year.
Mr Rossano said: “The Salmon School is an international collaborative performance project that contextualises the finality of a seemingly infinite resource.
“A synthesis of art and science, the Salmon School fosters environmental awareness, bringing together diverse communities for a greater good — cold, clean water.
“Embracing art’s ability to disarm, to make something beautiful — a sculpture mimicking an ideal, a restored ecosystem — the project achieves measurable change through its actions and initiatives.”
First conceived and shown in the Pacific Northwest in the US, Salmon School was then shown at Cop26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November 2021.
Salmon conservation work has been supported by the Queen, the Royal Family and the Balmoral Estate on the River Dee over the last 170 years.
The Balmoral Estate works closely with the River Dee Trust to deliver practical salmon restoration to help protect the endangered fish.
Most recently, across Deeside, the River Dee Trust and Dee District Salmon Fishery Board have introduced a One Million Trees campaign to plant riverbank trees, to help restore the Dee and save its salmon.
Trees are said to have multiple benefits in helping wild salmon to thrive, including providing shade over the water, nourishment through leaves and insects, and helping to stabilise the riverbanks to prevent erosion.
In the last five years, the Balmoral Estate has planted 300,000 trees along the River Dee.
The work to protect wild salmon also includes using windblown trees to create large wooden structures in the rivers on the estate, to offer a variety of salmon habitats, which in turn give shelter from bad weather and trap nutrients.
Small wooden dams have also been created in the estate’s smaller streams to help river flows in times of flood and drought.
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The National Fish Hatchery has a newly completed mural at the Cook, Wash., Little White Fish Hatchery visitor center, 56961 State Road 14, thanks to local artist Janet Essley.
The mural displays all predators to the salmon lifecycle along two walls and down the stairs leading visitors to the salmon viewing window, where the big fish swim by.
Essley, who lives in White Salmon, said it was important to her that the mural be realistic, with all elements as proportioned as possible in the available space. She used a grid, both on a small canvas and the walls, to be sure all details were correct.
“The site was definitely a challenge — to physically reach all the corners, both top and bottom, and because the changing perspective of a viewer moving down or up the stairwell created such interesting design options,” she said. “Fishery employees were very helpful in answering questions about the fish that affected color and position in the mural. What was most fun was taking breaks and going outside to warm up and to look at the beautiful surroundings, and inside watching the salmon swim past the window was fascinating.”
She spent 120 hours creating models for each mural, measuring approximately 11 feet, 8 inches by 15 feet, 8 inches — a project she worked on last winter. She began with a list of basic items to include, provided by Cheri Anderson, information and education specialist for the Columbia River Gorge National Fish Hatchery complex.
Essley is also the artist behind the Spring Creek mural, another hatchery in the Columbia Gorge complex.
Anderson said when the idea for a second mural came up, it took months to decide how to get it done. Classrooms where one idea, but COVID caused disruptions. She remembers thinking, “If only I could get a hold of Janet Essley.”
And then one day, many years after their first introduction, Essley was visiting her mural work at Spring Creek with some friends when the two were reunited.
“Creating public murals has always been interesting for me because the topics are so varied — researching the information necessary to know for different murals has been lifelong learning in many subjects,” Essley said. “Even though I had learned much about the salmon life cycle and the history of hatcheries along the Columbia while doing the Spring Creek mural in 2001, I needed to know more about salmon, sturgeon, lampreys, and aquatic invertebrates for this one.”
Anderson's wish list “presented fascinating artistic challenges,” she said: “How to present tiny, barely visible salmon eggs and invertebrate larvae underwater along with huge above-water structures such as barges, hydroelectric dams, and Mount Adams in the same, apparently rational space, and how to fit animals of diverse sizes within a limited space when in nature, they would be much more widely dispersed.
“Traditional means of showing space on a two-dimensional surface were complicated because many viewers would not have a good understanding of the relative sizes of the birds and animals shown,” Essley continued. “Most important in the design was that the optimal viewing space of the painting would be constantly changing as one walked up and down the stairwell, and different for adults and children.”
Anderson, who has 24 years’ experience and works out of the Spring Creek hatchery location, said she expects the new mural at Little White Fish Hatchery to be a talking piece for visitors, much like Essley’s Spring Creek mural.
“(Essley’s) got the lifecycle in there,” said Anderson. “She’s got salmon predators — everything that’s in both of those murals is completely accurate. Like there’s not a bird in there that does not have some interaction with salmon, whether it’s eating them or not, so I just think it’s going be an opportunity to talk about the bigger picture, the bigger story.”
She added, “This will be helpful for tours as well, giving a visual aid. And visitors are always commenting on the mural at Spring Creek hatchery on the history of Salmon fishing and asking who the artist is. This new mural should be very popular as well.
“(Essley’s) got a great use of color,” Anderson said. “Both of our murals are realistic, you know, so I feel like she captures that integrity.”
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Coming up in the Aug. 10 issue of Columbia Gorge News: The long history of fish hatcheries in the Columbia River Gorge, the educational opportunities they provide, and their collaboration with Native peoples.
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Hundreds of adults and children test artificial pancreas on the NHS
Hundreds of adults and children with Type 1 diabetes are testing an “artificial pancreas” that could, in future, be rolled out across the NHS.
The device uses an algorithm to determine the amount of insulin that should be administered and also reads blood sugar levels to keep them steady.
The technology is much more effective at managing blood sugar levels than current devices and requires far less input than at present.
Managing Type 1 diabetes can be challenging, especially in young children, owing to variations in the levels of insulin required and unpredictability around how much youngsters eat and exercise.
Children are particularly at risk of dangerously low blood sugar levels (hypoglycaemia) and high blood sugar levels (hyperglycaemia), which can damage the body or even lead to death.
The new artificial pancreas, which is being manufactured by several firms, uses a “hybrid closed loop system” to continually monitor blood glucose and automatically adjust insulin through a pump.
A nurse gives a patient a diabetes test at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool. A new artificial pancreas could limit the need for blood sugar tests (PA)
It is being tested in more than 30 NHS diabetes centres across England, with 875 people benefiting for a year so far. This is the first nationwide study of its kind in the world.
The technology can eliminate finger-prick tests to check blood sugar levels and can hugely prevent hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemia attacks.
The NHS in England spends around £10 billion a year on diabetes – around 10% of its entire budget.
Professor Partha Kar, NHS national speciality adviser for diabetes, said: “Having machines monitor and deliver medication for diabetes patients sounds quite sci-fi like, but when you think of it, technology and machines are part and parcel of how we live our lives every day.
“A device picks up your glucose levels, sends the reading across to the delivery system – aka the pump – and then the system kicks in to assess how much insulin is needed.
“It is not very far away from the holy grail of a fully automated system, where people with Type 1 diabetes can get on with their lives without worrying about glucose levels or medication.”
Estimations show that only a third of children with Type 1 diabetes are able to achieve good control of their blood glucose level, which is needed to prevent complications.
Figures also show that a five-year-old child diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes faces up to 23,000 insulin injections and 52,000 finger-prick blood tests by the time they are 18.
Six-year-old Charlotte Abbott-Pierce was diagnosed just over a year ago with typical symptoms of increased thirst and the need to urinate.
Charlotte was initially started on insulin injections then progressed to an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor. Now, as part of the pilot, these systems work together.
Charlotte’s mum, Ange Abbott-Pierce, said: “Before the hybrid closed loop system was fitted, my husband and I would be up every two hours every night having to check Charlotte’s blood sugars and most times giving insulin, sometimes doing finger pricks or dealing with ketones due to quick rises in blood sugar.
“This was really hard as we both work full-time.”
She said the new system was a “godsend to us as we were at our wits’ end with worry, not being able to catch the highs before they got dangerous”.
The NHS’s pilot has been designed to include a representative mix of adults and children living with Type 1 diabetes from all backgrounds, to ensure the device’s effectiveness can be tracked.
Chris Askew, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: “This technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with Type 1 diabetes, improving both their quality of life and clinical outcomes.
“The trial will generate real-world data which will hopefully support the case for more people having access to this life-changing tech in the future.”
The data collected from the pilot, along with other evidence, will be considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence when it looks at wider NHS rollout.
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Hundreds fitted with artificial pancreas in NHS type 1 diabetes trial
Hundreds of adults and children with type 1 diabetes in England have been fitted with an artificial pancreas that experts say could become the “holy grail” for managing the disease, in a world-first trial on the NHS.
The groundbreaking device uses an algorithm to determine the amount of insulin that should be administered and reads blood sugar levels to keep them steady. The NHS trial has so far found the technology more effective at managing diabetes than current devices and that it requires far less input from patients.
Managing type 1 diabetes can be challenging, especially in young children, owing to variations in the levels of insulin required and unpredictability around how much patients eat and exercise. Children are particularly at risk of dangerously low blood sugar levels (hypoglycaemia) and high ones (hyperglycaemia), which can damage the body or even lead to death.
Now a new artificial pancreas worn next to the body – which continually monitors blood glucose levels and automatically adjusts insulin delivered via a pump – is being tested in 30 NHS diabetes centres. About 875 people have benefited so far in the first nationwide study of its kind in the world.
The technology can eliminate finger-prick tests to check blood sugar levels and prevent hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemia attacks. Although most of the NHS’s estimated £10bn annual spending on diabetes treatment goes on type 2 diabetes, it is also hoped the devices will help cut costs by ensuring less need for interventions for type 1 cases.
“Having machines monitor and deliver medication for diabetes patients sounds quite sci-fi-like, but when you think of it, technology and machines are part and parcel of how we live our lives every day,” said Prof Partha Kar, the NHS national speciality adviser for diabetes.
“A device picks up your glucose levels, sends the reading across to the delivery system – AKA the pump – and then the system kicks in to assess how much insulin is needed. It is not very far away from the holy grail of a fully automated system, where people with type 1 diabetes can get on with their lives without worrying about glucose levels or medication.”
Charlotte Abbott-Pierce, six, was diagnosed just over a year ago and initially started on insulin injections but has now become one of the first people to benefit from an artificial pancreas.
She has been fitted with an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor that, as part of the world first pilot, now work together.
Her mother, Ange Abbott-Pierce, said: “Before the hybrid closed loop system was fitted, my husband and I would be up every two hours every night having to check Charlotte’s blood sugars and most times giving insulin, sometimes doing finger pricks or dealing with ketones due to quick rises in blood sugar.” She said the new system was a “godsend to us as we were at our wits’ end with worry, not being able to catch the highs before they got dangerous”.
Chris Askew, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: “This technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with type 1 diabetes, improving both their quality of life and clinical outcomes.”
The data collected from the pilot, along with other evidence, will be considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence when it looks at rolling the device out more widely.
Separately, new research on Friday reveals that even slim people can get remission from type 2 diabetes by managing their calorie intake.
A trial led by Prof Roy Taylor of Newcastle University found 70% of participants with a low body mass index (BMI) went into type 2 remission thanks to diet-controlled weight loss, despite not being obese or overweight. Obesity raises the risk of type 2 diabetes, but 10% of sufferers have lower BMIs.
His previous landmark research gave hope to millions of type 2 diabetics who were overweight by showing it was possible to go into remission through careful weight loss. It showed that shedding fat from inside the pancreas and liver – the two key organs involved in blood sugar control – was key to remission from type 2 in people living with obesity or being overweight.
Now researchers have found it also works for slimmer diabetics – with a BMI at or just above the healthy range, below 27. Taylor said: “This is very good news for everyone with type 2 diabetes.”
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Hundreds of adults and children test artificial pancreas on the NHS
Hundreds of adults and children with Type 1 diabetes are testing an “artificial pancreas” that could, in future, be rolled out across the NHS.
The device uses an algorithm to determine the amount of insulin that should be administered and also reads blood sugar levels to keep them steady.
The technology is much more effective at managing blood sugar levels than current devices and requires far less input than at present.
Managing Type 1 diabetes can be challenging, especially in young children, owing to variations in the levels of insulin required and unpredictability around how much youngsters eat and exercise.
Children are particularly at risk of dangerously low blood sugar levels (hypoglycaemia) and high blood sugar levels (hyperglycaemia), which can damage the body or even lead to death.
The new artificial pancreas, which is being manufactured by several firms, uses a “hybrid closed loop system” to continually monitor blood glucose and automatically adjust insulin through a pump.
A nurse gives a patient a diabetes test at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool. A new artificial pancreas could limit the need for blood sugar tests (PA)
It is being tested in more than 30 NHS diabetes centres across England, with 875 people benefiting for a year so far. This is the first nationwide study of its kind in the world.
The technology can eliminate finger-prick tests to check blood sugar levels and can hugely prevent hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemia attacks.
The NHS in England spends around £10 billion a year on diabetes – around 10% of its entire budget.
Professor Partha Kar, NHS national speciality adviser for diabetes, said: “Having machines monitor and deliver medication for diabetes patients sounds quite sci-fi like, but when you think of it, technology and machines are part and parcel of how we live our lives every day.
“A device picks up your glucose levels, sends the reading across to the delivery system – aka the pump – and then the system kicks in to assess how much insulin is needed.
“It is not very far away from the holy grail of a fully automated system, where people with Type 1 diabetes can get on with their lives without worrying about glucose levels or medication.”
Estimations show that only a third of children with Type 1 diabetes are able to achieve good control of their blood glucose level, which is needed to prevent complications.
Figures also show that a five-year-old child diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes faces up to 23,000 insulin injections and 52,000 finger-prick blood tests by the time they are 18.
Six-year-old Charlotte Abbott-Pierce was diagnosed just over a year ago with typical symptoms of increased thirst and the need to urinate.
Charlotte was initially started on insulin injections then progressed to an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor. Now, as part of the pilot, these systems work together.
Charlotte’s mum, Ange Abbott-Pierce, said: “Before the hybrid closed loop system was fitted, my husband and I would be up every two hours every night having to check Charlotte’s blood sugars and most times giving insulin, sometimes doing finger pricks or dealing with ketones due to quick rises in blood sugar.
“This was really hard as we both work full-time.”
She said the new system was a “godsend to us as we were at our wits’ end with worry, not being able to catch the highs before they got dangerous”.
The NHS’s pilot has been designed to include a representative mix of adults and children living with Type 1 diabetes from all backgrounds, to ensure the device’s effectiveness can be tracked.
Chris Askew, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: “This technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with Type 1 diabetes, improving both their quality of life and clinical outcomes.
“The trial will generate real-world data which will hopefully support the case for more people having access to this life-changing tech in the future.”
The data collected from the pilot, along with other evidence, will be considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence when it looks at wider NHS rollout.
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NHS runs world-first test into ‘sci-fi like’ artificial pancreases
Almost 1,000 adults and children with type 1 diabetes have been given a potentially life-altering ‘artificial pancreas’ by the NHS in England as part of the first nationwide test into the effectiveness of this technology in the world.
One century after the first diabetes patient was given insulin, around 35 NHS diabetes centres across the country are piloting the revolutionary hybrid closed loop system – also known as an ‘artificial pancreas’ – with 875 people benefiting for a year so far.
The innovative ‘hybrid closed loop technology’, continually monitors blood glucose and automatically adjusts the amount of insulin given through a pump.
It can eliminate finger prick tests and prevent life-threatening hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemia attacks, which can lead to seizures, coma or even death for people living with type 1 diabetes.
NHS experts want to discover whether the tech can help people with diabetes, of all ages, to safely and effectively control their condition, in a real-world setting, in the first nationwide test of its kind in the world.
The NHS has already exceeded some of the goals in the Long Term Plan for delivering better diabetes care, such as ensuring that one fifth of people with type 1 diabetes had access to a flash monitor device, so they can check their glucose levels more easily and regularly.
NHS data shows that three in five people living with type 1 diabetes – around 175,000 – have been given a glucose monitoring device to help control their condition, through the NHS. Just yesterday, new guidance was announced that will see everyone living with type 1 diabetes eligible for a lifechanging flash glucose monitor on the NHS.
The NHS in England currently spends around £10 billion a year on diabetes – around 10% of its entire budget.
The NHS is taking radical action to tackle and treat diabetes, including through the world leading NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme with new research showing thousands of people are being spared type 2 diabetes thanks to the scheme.
Professor Partha Kar, NHS national speciality advisor for diabetes, said: “Having machines monitor and deliver medication for diabetes patients sounds quite sci-fi like, but when you think of it, technology and machines are part and parcel of how we live our lives every day.
“A device picks up your glucose levels, sends the reading across to the delivery system – aka the pump – and then the system kicks in to assess how much insulin is needed.
“It is not very far away from the holy grail of a fully automated system, where people with type 1 diabetes can get on with their lives without worrying about glucose levels or medication”.
Estimations show that only a third of children with type 1 diabetes are currently able to achieve good control of their blood glucose level, which is needed to avoid serious consequences to their long-term health and quality of life.
Figures also show that a five-year-old child diagnosed with type 1 diabetes faces up to 23,000 insulin injections and 52,000 finger prick blood tests by the time they are 18 years old.
As well as the physical benefits, using this system can also help relieve some of the mental burden on people with type 1 diabetes or their carers who otherwise must remain constantly vigilant to blood sugar levels.
One of the children who has received an artificial pancreas from the NHS is six -year-old Charlotte Abbott-Pierce. Just over a year ago, Charlotte was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was five years old after having to attend Ormskirk Paediatric A&E department because of a significant increase in thirst and need to urinate.
Ange Abbott-Pierce, Charlotte’s mum, has type 1 diabetes so had recognised the symptoms, and this prevented her daughter from being extremely unwell upon diagnosis.
Charlotte was initially started on insulin injections then progressed to an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor. Now, as part of the pilot these systems work together as an HCL system.
Due to Charlotte being so young, having no awareness of what can happen when blood sugar levels become dangerously low and her glucose levels being so variable, her clinician recommended her as part of the HCL pilot. This was done with the aim of improving Charlotte’s glycaemic control, supporting her parents with her diabetes management and potentially improving her long-term health outcomes.
Now Charlotte has fewer blood glucose highs, and her parents know the pump is doing work in the background, so they don’t have to set alarms every two hours to check how she is.
Ange said: “Before the HCL was fitted, my husband and I would be up every two hours every night having to check Charlotte’s blood sugars and most times giving insulin, sometimes doing finger pricks or dealing with ketones due to quick rises in blood sugar. This was really hard as we both work full time.
“The HCL has given us tighter control as the CGM is monitoring Charlotte’s blood sugars and the pump is reacting before we even know there’s a problem. Hormones are a big factor at the moment, so interventions are still needed but this system is a god send to us as we were at our wits’ end with worry, not being able to catch the highs before they got dangerous.”
The NHS’s pilot has been designed to include a representative mix of adults and children living with type 1 diabetes from all backgrounds, to ensure this pilot considers the potential effectiveness of HCL.
Under the NHS’s pilot, all of the closed loop systems that are licenced for use within the UK are available to participants. Clinicians and patients or their carer discuss which is the best option for them and choose the HCL system they want.
Yasmin Hopkins, 27, from London has also received an artificial pancreas as part of the NHS pilot.
Yasmin has been living with Type 1 diabetes for 16 years. She started pump therapy six years ago, which helped her control her diabetes. However, diabetes is never straightforward, and Yasmin still suffered from peaks and troughs, diabetes burnout and general fluctuations of glucose levels.
Yasmin, said: “I became aware of the emerging research into artificial pancreases, and fortunately for myself, my amazing diabetes team are part of the NHS pilot study. From here, I instantly contacted the team, and I was eligible to enrol. Since then, I haven’t looked back”.
Yasmin’s continuous glucose monitor has been able to communicate with her insulin pump and reduce the fluctuations that were taking over her life. This has not only brought Yasmin physical benefits but has also supported her mental health.
“The connection between the monitor and insulin pump means that I can enjoy my life, whilst limiting the highs and lows, changing my life for the better. This amazing innovative technology hasn’t just benefitted me, it has also benefitted my family and friends – my boyfriend constantly emphasises that this technology will change lives the way that it has changed mine – even if it does beep extremely loud at 4am”, said Yasmin.
Chris Askew OBE, Chief Executive of Diabetes UK, said: “This technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with type 1 diabetes, improving both their quality of life and clinical outcomes.
“The trial will generate real-world data which will hopefully support the case for more people having access to this life-changing tech in the future. And while widening access to diabetes tech remains a priority for Diabetes UK, the NHS’ rollout of this scheme is a very significant and positive step in the right direction.
“We are proud of our legacy of artificial pancreas research and will continue to support NHS England as the pilot progresses”.
The data collected from the pilot, along with other evidence, will be considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as part of a technology assessment. NICE will make a recommendation about wider adoption within the NHS following a review of the evidence.
Original article link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/2022/04/nhs-runs-world-first-test-into-sci-fi-like-artificial-pancreases/
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Hundreds of adults and children test artificial pancreas on the NHS
Hundreds of adults and children with Type 1 diabetes are testing an “artificial pancreas” that could, in future, be rolled out across the NHS.
The device uses an algorithm to determine the amount of insulin that should be administered and also reads blood sugar levels to keep them steady.
The technology is much more effective at managing blood sugar levels than current devices and requires far less input than at present.
Managing Type 1 diabetes can be challenging, especially in young children, owing to variations in the levels of insulin required and unpredictability around how much youngsters eat and exercise.
Children are particularly at risk of dangerously low blood sugar levels (hypoglycaemia) and high blood sugar levels (hyperglycaemia), which can damage the body or even lead to death.
The new artificial pancreas, which is being manufactured by several firms, uses a “hybrid closed loop system” to continually monitor blood glucose and automatically adjust insulin through a pump.
A nurse gives a patient a diabetes test at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool. A new artificial pancreas could limit the need for blood sugar tests (PA)
It is being tested in more than 30 NHS diabetes centres across England, with 875 people benefiting for a year so far. This is the first nationwide study of its kind in the world.
The technology can eliminate finger-prick tests to check blood sugar levels and can hugely prevent hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemia attacks.
The NHS in England spends around £10 billion a year on diabetes – around 10% of its entire budget.
Professor Partha Kar, NHS national speciality adviser for diabetes, said: “Having machines monitor and deliver medication for diabetes patients sounds quite sci-fi like, but when you think of it, technology and machines are part and parcel of how we live our lives every day.
“A device picks up your glucose levels, sends the reading across to the delivery system – aka the pump – and then the system kicks in to assess how much insulin is needed.
“It is not very far away from the holy grail of a fully automated system, where people with Type 1 diabetes can get on with their lives without worrying about glucose levels or medication.”
Estimations show that only a third of children with Type 1 diabetes are able to achieve good control of their blood glucose level, which is needed to prevent complications.
Figures also show that a five-year-old child diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes faces up to 23,000 insulin injections and 52,000 finger-prick blood tests by the time they are 18.
Six-year-old Charlotte Abbott-Pierce was diagnosed just over a year ago with typical symptoms of increased thirst and the need to urinate.
Charlotte was initially started on insulin injections then progressed to an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor. Now, as part of the pilot, these systems work together.
Charlotte’s mum, Ange Abbott-Pierce, said: “Before the hybrid closed loop system was fitted, my husband and I would be up every two hours every night having to check Charlotte’s blood sugars and most times giving insulin, sometimes doing finger pricks or dealing with ketones due to quick rises in blood sugar.
“This was really hard as we both work full-time.”
She said the new system was a “godsend to us as we were at our wits’ end with worry, not being able to catch the highs before they got dangerous”.
The NHS’s pilot has been designed to include a representative mix of adults and children living with Type 1 diabetes from all backgrounds, to ensure the device’s effectiveness can be tracked.
Chris Askew, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: “This technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with Type 1 diabetes, improving both their quality of life and clinical outcomes.
“The trial will generate real-world data which will hopefully support the case for more people having access to this life-changing tech in the future.”
The data collected from the pilot, along with other evidence, will be considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence when it looks at wider NHS rollout.
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England is spearheading the world’s first nationwide test of an ‘artificial pancreas’ that is potentially life-altering for people living with type 1 diabetes.
Around 35 NHS diabetes centres across the country are piloting the artificial pancreas – a so-called hybrid closed loop system – with 875 adults and children benefiting for a year so far.
The hybrid closed loop technology continually monitors blood glucose and automatically adjusts the amount of insulin given through a pump.
It can eliminate finger prick tests and prevent hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemia attacks, which can lead to seizures, coma or even death for people with type 1 diabetes.
NHS experts want to discover whether the tech can help people with diabetes safely and effectively control their condition in real-world settings.
Type 1 diabetes is a serious condition where a person’s blood glucose (sugar) level is too high because the body cannot make insulin. This happens because the body attacks the cells in the pancreas that make the insulin. The NHS in England currently spends around £10bn a year on diabetes, which is around 10 per cent of its budget.
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Professor Partha Kar, NHS national speciality advisor for diabetes, said: “Having machines monitor and deliver medication for diabetes patients sounds quite sci-fi like, but when you think of it, technology and machines are part and parcel of how we live our lives every day.
“A device picks up your glucose levels, sends the reading across to the delivery system…and then the system kicks in to assess how much insulin is needed.
“It is not very far away from the holy grail of a fully automated system, where people with type 1 diabetes can get on with their lives without worrying about glucose levels or medication.”
According to Diabetes UK, hybrid closed loop systems comprise a continuous glucose monitor, algorithm, and insulin pump.
The continuous glucose monitor is placed under the skin to send blood sugar readings to a device such as mobile phone or to the insulin pump.
The algorithm – which can be part of an app on a separate device, or the insulin pump itself – reads the blood sugar information and calculates how much insulin is needed.
The insulin pump automatically releases insulin into the body based on blood sugar readings. The exception to this is at mealtimes when the pump requires information about carbohydrates being consumed.
Under the NHS’s pilot, all of the closed loop systems that are licenced for use within the UK are available to participants.
The data collected from the pilot, along with other evidence, will be considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as part of a technology assessment. NICE will make a recommendation about wider adoption within the NHS following a review of the evidence.
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TOWANDA — The Bradford County Commissioners will issue a proclamation to declare April Child Abuse Prevention Month from 11 a.m. to noon on April 6 on the lawn of the Bradford County Courthouse.
On the courthouse lawn there will be the reading of the Proclamation, which designates April as Child Abuse Awareness Month in Bradford County. Over 1,000 pinwheels have been placed on the courthouse lawn to represent every investigation done by Bradford County Children and Youth for 2021 as well as each Forensic Interview conducted at The Children’s House Child Advocacy Center (CHCAC).
“Bradford County recognizes April as National Child Abuse Prevention and awareness month and is committed to working with professionals, families, and the community as a whole to advocate and educate for the prevention child abuse and neglect,” Katy VanDewark, Executive Director of the CHCAC, said. “April is typically one of our favorite months of the year because for one the weather is finally starting to change and get a little bit warmer and we are able to cast a hopeful and positive light on a difficult subject. As a community when a child and their family is experiencing the difficult path that abuse takes many down, it is important for them to know where they can turn to for help? As a community, this year April provides you a chance to help in small ways. Show your commitment to keeping kids safe and Help us create the future. Each year we at the CHCAC, are asked by many people how they can help and here is my response, Volunteer or donate to the CHCAC or one of the local nonprofits that helps these children and families in need, contact local and state officials to help ensure the commonwealth provides efficient support to those children who are affected by neglect or abuse, help a neighbor or friend, if they seem to be overwhelmed by the stresses of parenting, kind gestures can go a long way, and if you suspect abuse report it.”
Bradford County Commissioners stated, “April is Child Abuse Awareness Month. The Bradford County Commissioners are issuing a proclamation in support of those who work tirelessly to address this devastating problem that unfortunately harm’s way too many children within communities and our country. One abused child is one too many! Child abuse affects us all in one way or another even though we may not think it does. Abused children are our neighbors, they are our future. The Commissioners are extremely grateful for those who work on our behalf addressing this very troubling stain on our community.”
Debra Sharp, Bradford County Children and Youth, stated, “While this event and this month remind us to raise awareness about child abuse, it is up to all of us to raise our voices for children year-round. In doing so, we can all help play a part in keeping kids safe and reduce child abuse and neglect. We can also help strengthen families by supporting local organizations that assist us in our prevention efforts. We can further assist by nurturing healthy and supportive relationships within our own families and extend that to our friends and neighbors in our local communities. Please join us in putting families first in Bradford County. As we work together to prevent child abuse, we will help all children, families, and communities thrive.
For more information about child abuse prevention programs and activities during the month of April, and throughout the year, Contact Bradford County Children and Youth office or The Children’s House Child Advocacy Center (CHCAC) at 570-265-4132 or visit our website at www.chcac.org.
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TOWANDA — Bradford County Commissioners proclaimed April to be Child Abuse Awareness Month within the county as part of a recognition ceremony Wednesday.
An address, given in front of the Bradford County Courthouse, was kicked off by Children’s House Child Advocacy Center Executive Director Katy VanDewerk.
“April is one of my favorite months of the year,” said VanDewerk. “Not only does the weather finally change, and it’s not raining or snowing or anything today, but we get to shed a positive light on a difficult subject.”
VanDewerk asserted that everyone has a responsibility and role to play to prevent child abuse.
“Every child deserves to live a safe and healthy childhood,” she said. “I’m honored to work in a child advocacy center, and in a community, where so many amazing professionals work together to ensure a happier and healthier childhood for as many children as we possibly can.”
Commissioner John Sullivan read the proclamation, which “call[ed] upon all citizens, community agencies, faith groups, medical facilities, and businesses to increase their participation in our efforts to support families.”
Commissioner Chairman Daryl Miller then spoke, thanking the county’s Children and Youth Services workers for all the work they do.
“The Bradford County Commissioners are very proud of, and very thankful for, the job the Children and Youth Services does on a daily basis,” said Miller. “They work very hard to investigate and protect the weak in Bradford County, and we appreciate how challenging those jobs are.”
Miller noted that a little more that 1,000 pinwheels were planted in the ground in front of the courthouse, each representing an abused child in Bradford County.
“One of these pinwheels is too many,” Miller explained. “One is way too many. There’s a thousand of them.”
State Rep. Clint Owlett (R-68) was also in attendance, and he shared his appreciation for “everybody who stands up for what’s right.”
“Helping these students and these kids is what’s right, it’s the right thing to do,” said Owlett. “It takes a team, it really does, pulling in the same direction to help.”
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TOWANDA — The Bradford County Commissioners will issue a proclamation to declare April Child Abuse Prevention Month from 11 a.m. to noon on April 6 on the lawn of the Bradford County Courthouse.
On the courthouse lawn there will be the reading of the Proclamation, which designates April as Child Abuse Awareness Month in Bradford County. Over 1,000 pinwheels have been placed on the courthouse lawn to represent every investigation done by Bradford County Children and Youth for 2021 as well as each Forensic Interview conducted at The Children’s House Child Advocacy Center (CHCAC).
“Bradford County recognizes April as National Child Abuse Prevention and awareness month and is committed to working with professionals, families, and the community as a whole to advocate and educate for the prevention child abuse and neglect,” Katy VanDewark, Executive Director of the CHCAC, said. “April is typically one of our favorite months of the year because for one the weather is finally starting to change and get a little bit warmer and we are able to cast a hopeful and positive light on a difficult subject. As a community when a child and their family is experiencing the difficult path that abuse takes many down, it is important for them to know where they can turn to for help? As a community, this year April provides you a chance to help in small ways. Show your commitment to keeping kids safe and Help us create the future. Each year we at the CHCAC, are asked by many people how they can help and here is my response, Volunteer or donate to the CHCAC or one of the local nonprofits that helps these children and families in need, contact local and state officials to help ensure the commonwealth provides efficient support to those children who are affected by neglect or abuse, help a neighbor or friend, if they seem to be overwhelmed by the stresses of parenting, kind gestures can go a long way, and if you suspect abuse report it.”
Bradford County Commissioners stated, “April is Child Abuse Awareness Month. The Bradford County Commissioners are issuing a proclamation in support of those who work tirelessly to address this devastating problem that unfortunately harm’s way too many children within communities and our country. One abused child is one too many! Child abuse affects us all in one way or another even though we may not think it does. Abused children are our neighbors, they are our future. The Commissioners are extremely grateful for those who work on our behalf addressing this very troubling stain on our community.”
Debra Sharp, Bradford County Children and Youth, stated, “While this event and this month remind us to raise awareness about child abuse, it is up to all of us to raise our voices for children year-round. In doing so, we can all help play a part in keeping kids safe and reduce child abuse and neglect. We can also help strengthen families by supporting local organizations that assist us in our prevention efforts. We can further assist by nurturing healthy and supportive relationships within our own families and extend that to our friends and neighbors in our local communities. Please join us in putting families first in Bradford County. As we work together to prevent child abuse, we will help all children, families, and communities thrive.
For more information about child abuse prevention programs and activities during the month of April, and throughout the year, Contact Bradford County Children and Youth office or The Children’s House Child Advocacy Center (CHCAC) at 570-265-4132 or visit our website at www.chcac.org.
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GALLIPOLIS — The Gallia County Commission signed a proclamation proclaiming April as Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month.
“National Child Abuse Prevention Month recognizes the importance of families and communities working together to strengthen families to prevent child abuse and neglect. Through this collaboration, prevention services and supports help protect children and produce thriving families,” according to the Children’s Bureau’s website.
The Children’s Bureau releases a detailed report each year involving known cases of maltreatment.
According to the 2020 report, 2 million children received prevention services, 1.2 million children received post response services — family preservation, family support, foster care, etc. — and fewer than 21.8 percent or one-quarter of confirmed victims were removed from homes due to an investigation.
The information notes that only state and local Child Protective Services (CPS) data is included.
“We also recognize the critical work of the thousands of community-based agencies that offer additional services to these and other families to help keep children safe and help their families thrive,” the Children’s Bureau’s report said.
The proclamation reads, “Child abuse and neglect are recognized as one our most pressing social problems affecting many of Ohio’s children each year; and
Whereas, each child has the right to live and grow in a safe, secure and supportive environment; and
Whereas, high quality child protection, foster care and adoption represent a worthy commitment to our children’s future; and
Whereas, since it takes a community to protect a child, county action is needed to break the cycle of abuse and improve family life; and
Whereas, the state of Ohio and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services support and promote the partnership between state, county and local public and private agencies to prevent child abuse and neglect; and
Whereas, April has been designated “Child Abuse Prevention Month” nationwide by the National Center of Child Abuse and Neglect;
Now therefore, we the Gallia County Commissioners do hereby proclaim the month of April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in the County of Gallia, State of Ohio, on this day 7th day of April 2022. Join us in promoting awareness by wearing blue April 13th.”
Information from Gallia County Department of Job and Family Services.
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TOWANDA — The Bradford County Commissioners will issue a proclamation to declare April Child Abuse Prevention Month from 11 a.m. to noon on April 6 on the lawn of the Bradford County Courthouse.
On the courthouse lawn there will be the reading of the Proclamation, which designates April as Child Abuse Awareness Month in Bradford County. Over 1,000 pinwheels have been placed on the courthouse lawn to represent every investigation done by Bradford County Children and Youth for 2021 as well as each Forensic Interview conducted at The Children’s House Child Advocacy Center (CHCAC).
“Bradford County recognizes April as National Child Abuse Prevention and awareness month and is committed to working with professionals, families, and the community as a whole to advocate and educate for the prevention child abuse and neglect,” Katy VanDewark, Executive Director of the CHCAC, said. “April is typically one of our favorite months of the year because for one the weather is finally starting to change and get a little bit warmer and we are able to cast a hopeful and positive light on a difficult subject. As a community when a child and their family is experiencing the difficult path that abuse takes many down, it is important for them to know where they can turn to for help? As a community, this year April provides you a chance to help in small ways. Show your commitment to keeping kids safe and Help us create the future. Each year we at the CHCAC, are asked by many people how they can help and here is my response, Volunteer or donate to the CHCAC or one of the local nonprofits that helps these children and families in need, contact local and state officials to help ensure the commonwealth provides efficient support to those children who are affected by neglect or abuse, help a neighbor or friend, if they seem to be overwhelmed by the stresses of parenting, kind gestures can go a long way, and if you suspect abuse report it.”
Bradford County Commissioners stated, “April is Child Abuse Awareness Month. The Bradford County Commissioners are issuing a proclamation in support of those who work tirelessly to address this devastating problem that unfortunately harm’s way too many children within communities and our country. One abused child is one too many! Child abuse affects us all in one way or another even though we may not think it does. Abused children are our neighbors, they are our future. The Commissioners are extremely grateful for those who work on our behalf addressing this very troubling stain on our community.”
Debra Sharp, Bradford County Children and Youth, stated, “While this event and this month remind us to raise awareness about child abuse, it is up to all of us to raise our voices for children year-round. In doing so, we can all help play a part in keeping kids safe and reduce child abuse and neglect. We can also help strengthen families by supporting local organizations that assist us in our prevention efforts. We can further assist by nurturing healthy and supportive relationships within our own families and extend that to our friends and neighbors in our local communities. Please join us in putting families first in Bradford County. As we work together to prevent child abuse, we will help all children, families, and communities thrive.
For more information about child abuse prevention programs and activities during the month of April, and throughout the year, Contact Bradford County Children and Youth office or The Children’s House Child Advocacy Center (CHCAC) at 570-265-4132 or visit our website at www.chcac.org.
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National Child Abuse Prevention Month recognizes the importance of families and communities working together to strengthen families to prevent child abuse and neglect. Through this collaboration, prevention services and supports help protect children and produce thriving families and that is the continued mission of Coastal Children’s Advocacy Center. Chatham County Commissioners presented a resolution declaring April as Child Abuse Prevention Month.
Child abuse can have long-term psychological, emotional, and physical effects that have lasting consequences for victims of abuse and having effective child abuse prevention activities succeed because of the partnerships created between child welfare professionals, education, health, community – and faith-based organizations, businesses, law enforcement agencies, and families; and Communities must make every effort to promote programs and activities that create strong and thriving children and families. CCAC worked with 265 children in 2021 and we acknowledge that we must work together as a community to increase awareness about child abuse and contribute to promote the social and emotional well-being of children and families in a safe, stable, and nurturing environment; and we truly believe that prevention remains the best defense for our children and families.
Coastal Children’s Advocacy Center will be kick off Child Abuse Prevention month by meeting in Forsyth Park on Friday, April 1st at 8am and tying ribbons around the trees in the park. The public is welcomed to join in.
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How eco-crazy councils turned our streets into Gridlock Britain: HARRY WALLOP examines how 'low-traffic neighbourhoods' have added to congestion on our roads
Matthieu Denjean, 13, adores transport.
‘He loves to be on a plane, train or boat, but it’s got to move or he becomes upset,’ says his mother, Elodie.
This is because Matthieu is disabled.
‘He has a rare genetic condition,’ continues Elodie.
‘He is profoundly deaf and has ASD [Autism spectrum disorder]. He has severe and complex needs and is very delayed cognitively.’
Despite Matthieu’s difficulties, Elodie and her husband, along with Matthieu’s two older siblings, ensure the boy has as full and rich a life as possible.
That includes being picked up by car every morning from home in Islington, North London, to his special-needs school in neighbouring Camden.
The four-mile journey used to take 25 minutes.
It now takes up to 50 minutes in slow-moving, sometimes solid traffic.
‘He doesn’t understand sitting in traffic and gets very agitated and becomes aggressive because he’s distressed,’ says Elodie.
A few weeks ago, an 11-mile round trip — from school to a hospital appointment then back home — took three hours.
Elodie shakes her head as she tries to explain the effect it has had on the family.
‘Matthieu is non-verbal. It’s very distressing to see your child upset at the best of times, but when you ask them, they can’t verbalise it. It’s tough.’
Why has the traffic suddenly become so bad?
Elodie believes it is because of new ‘low-traffic neighbourhoods’ (LTNs) in Islington.
LTNs see cars banned from certain side streets and forced to drive only on main roads.
Low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) see cars banned from certain side streets and forced to drive only on main roads Pictured: A cycle lane on Kensington High Street
These controversial measures have been implemented in cities and large towns across the country, not just in Islington, where the bicycle-loving local MP is one Jeremy Corbyn.
From York, Bath and Oxford to Sheffield, Manchester and Dundee, local councils have implemented schemes that aim to limit car traffic and promote cycling and walking.
Encouraged by charities and environmental pressure groups, the aim is to reverse the impact of the car.
Living Streets, one of the leading charities pushing for these schemes, points out that in 1970, there were 13 million vehicles on Britain’s roads driving 145 billion miles.
Last year, there were 38 million vehicles driving 329 billion miles.
LTNs have been wholeheartedly backed by the Government.
The Department for Transport announced in November 2020 an extra £175million in funding for councils to support cycling and walking schemes whilst saying eight out of ten consumers support lower car traffic.
But there is increasing disquiet from residents.
Many resent how schemes were rushed through under the guise of Covid social-distancing, without proper consultation or rigorous analysis.
Many cities introduced LTNs soon after the first lockdown in March 2020, then kept them later as part of their policy to reduce car traffic.
Often, no proper pre-LTN monitoring was undertaken.
Islington claims the zones were intended to ‘make our neighbourhoods better and safer, for living, working and playing, for everyone’.
But earlier this month the council was forced to admit that some of its findings about LTNs were ‘misleading’.
Islington confessed that data for one key section, near the council’s Holloway Road, ‘was found to be of unacceptably poor quality to use for analysis’.
It went on: ‘It is therefore recommended that any conclusions related to this site are revoked’.
Until now, Islington had been at pains to suggest its LTNs — while no doubt a huge inconvenience to families such as Matthieu’s — were making the air in London easier to breathe.
The ‘interim report’ predictably found that traffic fell on side-roads that saw cars banned under LTNs.
But, surprisingly, it also suggested that traffic fell on some of the main roads on which cars were still permitted.
The report claimed that the Holloway Road — a stretch of the A1, ultimately heading all the way to Edinburgh — saw a 42 per cent fall in traffic.
This claim was trumpeted on a leaflet sent out to residents, boasting that air quality had improved.
A Railton low traffic neighbourhood by Lambeth Council
But Elodie and many Islington residents smelled a rat.
‘I thought there was no way that was true,’ she says. ‘Because I have eyes.’
I knew she was right.
I too live in Islington and have sat far too often in stationary traffic on the Holloway Road.
I was equally sceptical about the claim that traffic had fallen on this thoroughfare.
When I dared to complain on Twitter, someone told me that slow traffic on the Holloway Road ‘is hardly the end of the world if it saves thousands of others from the constant noise, pollution and danger of rat-running traffic thundering down residential roads.’
In short, a bit of inconvenience is a small price to pay for saving the planet.
But had the air quality actually improved, as the council insisted?
No. Islington’s own detailed report — though not the rather one-sided leaflet posted to residents — showed that nitrogen dioxide levels, a key pollutant caused by cars, had soared 44 per cent outside Highbury Grove School, a secondary school on a main road.
So is Islington a one-off?
Or have councils up and down Britain brought in LTNs which have made the problem they purported to solve far worse?
Certainly, across Britain, the weight of opposition to LTNs is clear.
Take south Birmingham’s Kings Heath suburb and its bustling high street, the Alcester Road (A435), which features residential streets on either side.
In order to stop drivers using these side roads, the council implemented a series of LTNs in 2020. A year later, it asked locals to fill in feedback questionnaires.
The results?
‘The responses to this consultation show that the options we presented have some but not full support,’ says the official update, optimistically titled The Way Forward and published last month.
On further reading ‘some but not full support’ is something of a euphemism.
Kings Heath residents roundly rejected LTNs — 62 per cent were opposed to the LTN east of the High Street versus 26 per cent who backed it, with similar figures for the eastern side.
So is the council going to remove the large tree planters that are blocking the residential streets and admit the experiment has not worked?
No, not quite.
‘We are very clear that doing nothing is not an option. To reach net-zero carbon, to improve air quality and to enable our growing population to travel around the city efficiently, we must take action to reduce trips taken by private car,’ the report concludes.
One resident despondent at all this is Roger Palmer, 58.
He owns the Parkview gallery and picture framers on Vicarage Road, a boundary street still used by car drivers.
Roger loves the area but says it is ‘now turned into a misery because of the wall-to-wall traffic’ jams outside his home and shop. He lives above the gallery with his wife, Manjinder, and one of his daughters.
Cyclist on a City of London cycle 'superhighway' path in Billingsgate
‘I agree that doing nothing is not an option. But a poor option is worse,’ he says.
‘I just can’t bear to see all the traffic any more. It’s been horrendous.’
He has had to install blinds on his windows.
Some of Roger’s neighbours have moved home to escape the pollution apparently caused by the local LTNs.
‘But I can’t — this is my livelihood.’
Needless to say, his customers can’t cycle to his shop — they need a car to collect the framed pictures.
Roger calls the level of consultation from the council ‘shocking’, adding that the authority ‘denied there was a problem.’
The council responded saying that it had listened to residents and altered the design of its Places For People layout, replacing some tree planters with a one-way system, but it reiterated that ‘doing nothing is not an option’.
Islington’s faulty data was processed and written up by a company called Project Centre, part of a larger outfit called Marston Holdings.
This earns most of its money from enforcing court and parking fines and maintaining parking meters.
During the year to May 2021, Marston’s revenues fell from £287million to £255million, as lockdowns stopped people travelling.
But one division did well: Project Centre, where turnover jumped from £17.6million to £18.5million.
It is understood that Project Centre recognises that some errors, spotted in a subsequent audit, were contained in the interim report that it drew up for Islington, but that the erroneous Holloway Road data was caused by the technical issue of an unrelated third party, and Project Centre did not collect the relevant data.
It is also understood that the statements about improved air quality were not contained in the main report but featured in the executive summary as well as a leaflet that was posted to residents, neither being their responsibility.
Islington Council said: ‘A final decision has not yet been taken on the future of Highbury’s people-friendly streets schemes and the council will be listening carefully to feedback from local people on the trials.’
There is evidence to suggest that councils are making lots of money from LTN-related fines.
That is because while some councils have installed large planters to physically block traffic, many use a no-entry sign and camera.
(There’s no suggestion that Marston will win a borough’s parking fine contract if it successfully implements profitable LTNs in those councils.)
Southwark Council in South London received an astonishing £6.62 million from just five cameras in the Dulwich LTN during 2021.
In Hackney, between February 2020 and August 2021, a single street gathered £4.12million in fines after it became part of an LTN.
All of this pain would be acceptable if there was noticeable gain in air quality or in reducing traffic congestion.
But there rarely is.
In Oxford, another city where LTNs have been implemented, there is very little data to compare, for example, air pollution before and after LTNs.
And yet nobody doubts the huge inconvenience to drivers.
Oxford, as a university town in a flat river valley, has a lot of cyclists.
An LTN might be expected to have increased the number of cyclists as people left their cars at home.
But buried on page 385 of a 556-page report, the council reveals that average daily cycling rates within the Cowley LTN were actually lower than before installation —in eight of the nine months evaluated.
Flowers have been dug up and plants destroyed in in Dulwich Village, South London as part of a protest against Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Richard Parnham is a legal researcher who helps run Reconnecting Oxford, which tries to interrogate some of the official data.
‘Is the medicine working? No, and it won’t work unless you remove all people in the area that drive and replace them with nice middle-class cyclists,’ he says.
Solicitor Sadiea Mustafa-Awan, 39, lives in Littlemore, a relatively poor suburb south of Oxford, with her husband, a van delivery driver, and two young children.
One of her children, Quasim, 8, has autism and ADHD.
Like Matthieu in Islington, Quasim gets agitated if his bus to his special school is late picking him up — as it now frequently is.
‘He can’t cycle to school,’ says Sadiea.
‘It’s just so unfair that he doesn’t get a choice about this.’ Sadiea is so furious that Oxford council seems to have ignored opposition to the LTNs that she has decided to stand as an independent councillor in the forthcoming local elections.
Oxfordshire County Council received about 2,400 responses in its LTN consultation. Of those, 63 per cent said they objected, 11 per cent had ‘concerns’, while 26 per cent supported the schemes.
But despite three-quarters of residents being negative about LTNs, the council intended to rubber-stamp the measures being made permanent last month.
It was only at the last moment, in the face of increasingly angry residents, that it agreed to delay the decision.
Oxfordshire County Council said: ‘Through the consultation process so far, we have received valuable feedback from people in these groups, which we will use to help shape the final plans for the LTNs.’
It is this reluctance to listen to residents that enrages so many people — those who want nicer streets, fewer cars and to encourage cycling.
But they also want to be listened to.
As Elodie in Islington says: ‘We live in a world where data is king. We need to focus on data. But then we discover bogus data about LTNs is being relied on, which shatters your confidence.
‘The trust between us residents and the council is absolutely broken. And that is a very dangerous place for the council to be in.’
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Why do England’s low-traffic neighbourhoods provoke such fury?
A few weeks ago, the Daily Mail ran a lengthy feature exploring how “eco-crazy councils turned our streets into Gridlock Britain”. It begins with a heartrending and in no way manipulative story about how the traffic jams in the north London borough of Islington are upsetting a disabled 13-year-old boy.
Across the river in Lambeth, the council is celebrating a victory after the court of appeal declined to order a judicial review into three different low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) across the borough. No matter: the local Tories have promised that, in the unlikely event they win next month’s council elections, they’ll scrap them all anyway.
Don’t imagine, though, that the row over LTNs is restricted to either inner London or the political right. In Oxford, Labour’s former shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds has said she’s “increasingly concerned” about the rollout of such schemes, and called on Oxfordshire county council to pause them pending measures to prioritise buses. If the Lib Dem/Labour/Green coalition running the council is disappointed by this response from a Labour frontbencher, they can take some comfort from the fact that she was, at least, polite. Last summer one local communicated their views of the policy by setting fire to a planter.
Few issues in local politics spark the passion, not to mention hysteria, that has greeted the rise of low-traffic neighbourhoods. As well as the fires (there have been several), campaigns against them have included vandalism, doxxing and placards depicting council leaders as military dictators. Graffiti has appeared accusing councils of “abuse of power” or, inevitably, blaming Sadiq Khan, who has had nothing to do with any of this. Councillors and private campaigners alike have reported death threats.
All of which seems a pretty unhinged response to a policy intended to make streets a tiny bit nicer for those without cars. Low-traffic neighbourhoods, after all, aren’t doing anything as radical as, say, banning cars. They’re merely a gentle attempt – a new bollard here, a planter full of flowers there – to close off rat runs and keep through traffic to main roads. They’re nothing new, either: outer London boroughs including Waltham Forest and Kingston have had LTNs ever since Transport for London introduced its “mini-Hollands” scheme in 2014. Go to Walthamstow now, and you’ll find a glorious world of segregated cycle paths, quiet sidestreets and minor changes in road surface, intended to communicate that any motor vehicle passing through should be aware they’re in someone else’s space.
But they have expanded rather a lot of late. In May 2020, in the middle of lockdown with the need for social distancing at its height, the Department for Transport called on councils to reallocate road space from cars to cyclists and pedestrians. At the same time, transport secretary Grant Shapps announced the government’s £250m “emergency active travel fund”. About 50 councils created about 200 LTNs – often, thanks to the temporary and emergency nature of the interventions, without consulting the public.
Some of the benefits of LTNs – reducing air pollution, preventing journey planning apps from telling drivers to use your street as a shortcut – are pretty obvious. Others are not. For one thing, researchers have found that those living inside mini-Hollands are more active, with benefits for the health service. Past studies have found that those living on low-traffic streets are more likely to have friends locally, too. Between all that and halcyon images of kids playing in the street, you start to wonder why anyone wouldn’t want to live in an LTN.
Part of the problem, in fact, is that not everyone can. Diverting through traffic towards main roads is likely to mean more traffic on the main roads. In many cases that problem should, eventually, solve itself thanks to the magic of “traffic evaporation”: the phenomenon by which people switch to walking, cycling or public transport, because driving is just too big a pain in the arse. That, though, can take a while, and in the meantime traffic is going to get worse.
Another problem is that changes like this do create losers as well as winners – people who for one reason or another genuinely need to drive, and object to being sent, literally, all round the houses – and that it’s in the nature of things for them to shout a lot more loudly than those who benefit.
Perhaps the biggest issue, though, is that those pandemic LTNs were introduced in a tearing rush, as councils raced to grab a limited pot of funding. That meant a lack of consultation over temporary schemes (although councils are required to consult before making them permanent). What’s more, it would hardly be a surprise if under-resourced councils moving at speed failed to distinguish between decent schemes that would cause some temporary increase in traffic, and badly designed ones that would cause genuine, longer-term problems. A number of schemes introduced in 2020 have since been suspended.
For all that, though, it’s hard to shake the suspicion that at least some of the hysteria is just that people don’t like being inconvenienced. There are those who could walk or cycle, and whose lives would improve if they did. But they don’t want to. They want to drive, and they want to drive the most direct route, and until they can they’re going to shout at anyone trying to stop them. As well as stories of angry protests and vandalised planters, the past two years have brought footage of cars literally driving on the pavement to bypass an obstacle, rather than accepting that this route is now closed to them. Some drivers just assume their car is a god-given right, probably enshrined in Magna Carta.
They are, though, in the minority. A recent Centre for London poll found that only 12% of Londoners considered LTNs an important issue in the upcoming local elections; a 2021 survey conducted by Redfield and Wilton Strategies for the New Statesman found that twice as many people supported as opposed them. Like your car, in a traffic jam, LTNs are here to stay.
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How eco-crazy councils turned our streets into Gridlock Britain: HARRY WALLOP examines how 'low-traffic neighbourhoods' have added to congestion on our roads
Matthieu Denjean, 13, adores transport.
‘He loves to be on a plane, train or boat, but it’s got to move or he becomes upset,’ says his mother, Elodie.
This is because Matthieu is disabled.
‘He has a rare genetic condition,’ continues Elodie.
‘He is profoundly deaf and has ASD [Autism spectrum disorder]. He has severe and complex needs and is very delayed cognitively.’
Despite Matthieu’s difficulties, Elodie and her husband, along with Matthieu’s two older siblings, ensure the boy has as full and rich a life as possible.
That includes being picked up by car every morning from home in Islington, North London, to his special-needs school in neighbouring Camden.
The four-mile journey used to take 25 minutes.
It now takes up to 50 minutes in slow-moving, sometimes solid traffic.
‘He doesn’t understand sitting in traffic and gets very agitated and becomes aggressive because he’s distressed,’ says Elodie.
A few weeks ago, an 11-mile round trip — from school to a hospital appointment then back home — took three hours.
Elodie shakes her head as she tries to explain the effect it has had on the family.
‘Matthieu is non-verbal. It’s very distressing to see your child upset at the best of times, but when you ask them, they can’t verbalise it. It’s tough.’
Why has the traffic suddenly become so bad?
Elodie believes it is because of new ‘low-traffic neighbourhoods’ (LTNs) in Islington.
LTNs see cars banned from certain side streets and forced to drive only on main roads.
Low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) see cars banned from certain side streets and forced to drive only on main roads Pictured: A cycle lane on Kensington High Street
These controversial measures have been implemented in cities and large towns across the country, not just in Islington, where the bicycle-loving local MP is one Jeremy Corbyn.
From York, Bath and Oxford to Sheffield, Manchester and Dundee, local councils have implemented schemes that aim to limit car traffic and promote cycling and walking.
Encouraged by charities and environmental pressure groups, the aim is to reverse the impact of the car.
Living Streets, one of the leading charities pushing for these schemes, points out that in 1970, there were 13 million vehicles on Britain’s roads driving 145 billion miles.
Last year, there were 38 million vehicles driving 329 billion miles.
LTNs have been wholeheartedly backed by the Government.
The Department for Transport announced in November 2020 an extra £175million in funding for councils to support cycling and walking schemes whilst saying eight out of ten consumers support lower car traffic.
But there is increasing disquiet from residents.
Many resent how schemes were rushed through under the guise of Covid social-distancing, without proper consultation or rigorous analysis.
Many cities introduced LTNs soon after the first lockdown in March 2020, then kept them later as part of their policy to reduce car traffic.
Often, no proper pre-LTN monitoring was undertaken.
Islington claims the zones were intended to ‘make our neighbourhoods better and safer, for living, working and playing, for everyone’.
But earlier this month the council was forced to admit that some of its findings about LTNs were ‘misleading’.
Islington confessed that data for one key section, near the council’s Holloway Road, ‘was found to be of unacceptably poor quality to use for analysis’.
It went on: ‘It is therefore recommended that any conclusions related to this site are revoked’.
Until now, Islington had been at pains to suggest its LTNs — while no doubt a huge inconvenience to families such as Matthieu’s — were making the air in London easier to breathe.
The ‘interim report’ predictably found that traffic fell on side-roads that saw cars banned under LTNs.
But, surprisingly, it also suggested that traffic fell on some of the main roads on which cars were still permitted.
The report claimed that the Holloway Road — a stretch of the A1, ultimately heading all the way to Edinburgh — saw a 42 per cent fall in traffic.
This claim was trumpeted on a leaflet sent out to residents, boasting that air quality had improved.
A Railton low traffic neighbourhood by Lambeth Council
But Elodie and many Islington residents smelled a rat.
‘I thought there was no way that was true,’ she says. ‘Because I have eyes.’
I knew she was right.
I too live in Islington and have sat far too often in stationary traffic on the Holloway Road.
I was equally sceptical about the claim that traffic had fallen on this thoroughfare.
When I dared to complain on Twitter, someone told me that slow traffic on the Holloway Road ‘is hardly the end of the world if it saves thousands of others from the constant noise, pollution and danger of rat-running traffic thundering down residential roads.’
In short, a bit of inconvenience is a small price to pay for saving the planet.
But had the air quality actually improved, as the council insisted?
No. Islington’s own detailed report — though not the rather one-sided leaflet posted to residents — showed that nitrogen dioxide levels, a key pollutant caused by cars, had soared 44 per cent outside Highbury Grove School, a secondary school on a main road.
So is Islington a one-off?
Or have councils up and down Britain brought in LTNs which have made the problem they purported to solve far worse?
Certainly, across Britain, the weight of opposition to LTNs is clear.
Take south Birmingham’s Kings Heath suburb and its bustling high street, the Alcester Road (A435), which features residential streets on either side.
In order to stop drivers using these side roads, the council implemented a series of LTNs in 2020. A year later, it asked locals to fill in feedback questionnaires.
The results?
‘The responses to this consultation show that the options we presented have some but not full support,’ says the official update, optimistically titled The Way Forward and published last month.
On further reading ‘some but not full support’ is something of a euphemism.
Kings Heath residents roundly rejected LTNs — 62 per cent were opposed to the LTN east of the High Street versus 26 per cent who backed it, with similar figures for the eastern side.
So is the council going to remove the large tree planters that are blocking the residential streets and admit the experiment has not worked?
No, not quite.
‘We are very clear that doing nothing is not an option. To reach net-zero carbon, to improve air quality and to enable our growing population to travel around the city efficiently, we must take action to reduce trips taken by private car,’ the report concludes.
One resident despondent at all this is Roger Palmer, 58.
He owns the Parkview gallery and picture framers on Vicarage Road, a boundary street still used by car drivers.
Roger loves the area but says it is ‘now turned into a misery because of the wall-to-wall traffic’ jams outside his home and shop. He lives above the gallery with his wife, Manjinder, and one of his daughters.
Cyclist on a City of London cycle 'superhighway' path in Billingsgate
‘I agree that doing nothing is not an option. But a poor option is worse,’ he says.
‘I just can’t bear to see all the traffic any more. It’s been horrendous.’
He has had to install blinds on his windows.
Some of Roger’s neighbours have moved home to escape the pollution apparently caused by the local LTNs.
‘But I can’t — this is my livelihood.’
Needless to say, his customers can’t cycle to his shop — they need a car to collect the framed pictures.
Roger calls the level of consultation from the council ‘shocking’, adding that the authority ‘denied there was a problem.’
The council responded saying that it had listened to residents and altered the design of its Places For People layout, replacing some tree planters with a one-way system, but it reiterated that ‘doing nothing is not an option’.
Islington’s faulty data was processed and written up by a company called Project Centre, part of a larger outfit called Marston Holdings.
This earns most of its money from enforcing court and parking fines and maintaining parking meters.
During the year to May 2021, Marston’s revenues fell from £287million to £255million, as lockdowns stopped people travelling.
But one division did well: Project Centre, where turnover jumped from £17.6million to £18.5million.
It is understood that Project Centre recognises that some errors, spotted in a subsequent audit, were contained in the interim report that it drew up for Islington, but that the erroneous Holloway Road data was caused by the technical issue of an unrelated third party, and Project Centre did not collect the relevant data.
It is also understood that the statements about improved air quality were not contained in the main report but featured in the executive summary as well as a leaflet that was posted to residents, neither being their responsibility.
Islington Council said: ‘A final decision has not yet been taken on the future of Highbury’s people-friendly streets schemes and the council will be listening carefully to feedback from local people on the trials.’
There is evidence to suggest that councils are making lots of money from LTN-related fines.
That is because while some councils have installed large planters to physically block traffic, many use a no-entry sign and camera.
(There’s no suggestion that Marston will win a borough’s parking fine contract if it successfully implements profitable LTNs in those councils.)
Southwark Council in South London received an astonishing £6.62 million from just five cameras in the Dulwich LTN during 2021.
In Hackney, between February 2020 and August 2021, a single street gathered £4.12million in fines after it became part of an LTN.
All of this pain would be acceptable if there was noticeable gain in air quality or in reducing traffic congestion.
But there rarely is.
In Oxford, another city where LTNs have been implemented, there is very little data to compare, for example, air pollution before and after LTNs.
And yet nobody doubts the huge inconvenience to drivers.
Oxford, as a university town in a flat river valley, has a lot of cyclists.
An LTN might be expected to have increased the number of cyclists as people left their cars at home.
But buried on page 385 of a 556-page report, the council reveals that average daily cycling rates within the Cowley LTN were actually lower than before installation —in eight of the nine months evaluated.
Flowers have been dug up and plants destroyed in in Dulwich Village, South London as part of a protest against Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Richard Parnham is a legal researcher who helps run Reconnecting Oxford, which tries to interrogate some of the official data.
‘Is the medicine working? No, and it won’t work unless you remove all people in the area that drive and replace them with nice middle-class cyclists,’ he says.
Solicitor Sadiea Mustafa-Awan, 39, lives in Littlemore, a relatively poor suburb south of Oxford, with her husband, a van delivery driver, and two young children.
One of her children, Quasim, 8, has autism and ADHD.
Like Matthieu in Islington, Quasim gets agitated if his bus to his special school is late picking him up — as it now frequently is.
‘He can’t cycle to school,’ says Sadiea.
‘It’s just so unfair that he doesn’t get a choice about this.’ Sadiea is so furious that Oxford council seems to have ignored opposition to the LTNs that she has decided to stand as an independent councillor in the forthcoming local elections.
Oxfordshire County Council received about 2,400 responses in its LTN consultation. Of those, 63 per cent said they objected, 11 per cent had ‘concerns’, while 26 per cent supported the schemes.
But despite three-quarters of residents being negative about LTNs, the council intended to rubber-stamp the measures being made permanent last month.
It was only at the last moment, in the face of increasingly angry residents, that it agreed to delay the decision.
Oxfordshire County Council said: ‘Through the consultation process so far, we have received valuable feedback from people in these groups, which we will use to help shape the final plans for the LTNs.’
It is this reluctance to listen to residents that enrages so many people — those who want nicer streets, fewer cars and to encourage cycling.
But they also want to be listened to.
As Elodie in Islington says: ‘We live in a world where data is king. We need to focus on data. But then we discover bogus data about LTNs is being relied on, which shatters your confidence.
‘The trust between us residents and the council is absolutely broken. And that is a very dangerous place for the council to be in.’
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LONDON and NORWICH, England — If you thought British politics was just about Partygate and the war in Ukraine, think again.
While Westminster watchers will pore over upcoming local elections on Thursday as a barometer for Boris Johnson's premiership, many voters are focused on their own backyards — or rather, surrounding streets.
A pandemic push to improve the health of the nation by getting Brits out of their cars and walking or cycling more translated into more funds for local councils to "reallocate" road space for "active transport." As a result, since 2020 lots of roads in Britain's cities have been closed to cars or were narrowed to discourage drivers and whole areas have been transformed into "low-traffic neighborhoods" or LTNs.
What to the uninitiated might seem like an innocuous way to help both residents and the planet has become a vicious political fight, dividing traditional political parties, neighbors and even families.
“Someone who's been around the Labour Party for a long time said it's more controversial on the doorstep that the Iraq War and Brexit combined,” said Charlie Hicks, a Labour candidate for Oxford County Council.
Will Woodroofe, a Conservative standing in Labour-dominated Islington, north London, echoed the sentiment: “I could say quite confidently it comes up in one in five conversations. It's the biggest thing. We lead with it as well, because we're the only party standing to get rid of them.”
And while the policy and its implementation is provoking the wrath of drivers and non-drivers alike, many of the issues thrown up by the debate will outlast immediate concerns about today's LTNs and strike at the heart of some of the tough political choices faced by lawmakers across the world as they grapple with competing demands of environmental and cost of living crises.
Not listening
The LTN issue has splintered traditional party allegiances. Many Conservative council candidates are standing on an anti-LTN platform, even though the party at a national level is behind them, while Lib Dems are against them in some areas and in favor in others.
A rash of anti-LTN independent candidates has sprung up, threatening to disrupt the usual voting patterns. Labour has mostly been associated with implementing LTNs, as the boroughs where they have been rolled out tend to skew Labour, but some individual Labour activists have dissented or even quit over the policy.
The chief complaint against the policy is that residents weren't consulted properly.
“I think what gets people really upset here and angry is the feeling that these measures have been brought in and they [local people] have been ignored,” said Tristan Honeyborne, a Conservative candidate in Dulwich in south London.
A common gripe is that consultations have either not been carried out properly or not been heeded by the local authority.
With a varying degree of openness, local Tories admit to being frustrated with the policy adopted at a national level.
“These types of decision are best made close to local people working with communities rather than imposed from above,” said one prospective Conservative councilor, while pointing out that in London it was mostly Labour councils that had pursued them in an “inflexible” way.
The Department for Transport has defended the manner of LTNs’ introduction, saying: "Multiple independent professional polls over the last year, and the government’s own polling and surveys, show consistent public support for the measures on cycling and walking we and councils have taken."
Some would go further, claiming that the top-down imposition of LTNs was the only way to achieve a step change. “Radical ideas were needed to get people out of cars,” said an activist for the charity Living Streets who did not want to be named because of the hostility the issue attracts.
Andrew Gilligan, Boris Johnson’s transport adviser, is widely credited as the brains behind the scheme and has been given “free rein” to drive his agenda forward, in the words of transport campaigner and one-time mayoral candidate Christian Wolmar.
A Downing Street spokesman appeared to play down the central guidance ahead of the elections, saying decisions were "best taken at a local level."
Aside from process, the main charges leveled against LTNs are that their less desirable side-effects disproportionately impact groups who are already disadvantaged. In particular, campaigners highlight stories of disabled and elderly residents who cannot easily cycle or walk and who have missed hospital appointments or been unable to retain carers because of the diversions.
Similarly, the redirection of traffic to trunk roads implies more pollution on those streets, which are home to relatively high numbers of residents from lower-income and minority ethnic backgrounds.
This point is hotly contested, with DfT presenting evidence that redirection of traffic is a short-term effect of LTNs that eventually evaporates as more people choose not to drive in the long run.
These arguments still do not seem to fully account for the visceral loathing felt by some toward LTNs, some of which have been repeatedly vandalized, daubed in black paint or sprayed red. On streets near LTNs you can see the physical signs of a divided neighborhood, as some houses display “pro” posters in their windows next to those with “anti” posters.
The same campaigner quoted above posits that it is about “freedom — drivers are territorial about being able to drive, it’s a visceral sense of freedom of the road.”
Labour candidate Charlie Hicks added: “I get lots of quiet messages from people saying ‘this is the best thing that local authority has done in the 25 years that I've lived here’” even if they would not want to say so publicly “because they can see what they are up against.’”
“The fuss they have created is completely out of proportion to what they represent,” Wolmar argued. “This should be outside of the conventional political framework. It should be a no-brainer that people want to live in streets that fewer cars are going down, and better environmentally.”
For all the heat the issue attracts, some argue it won't make much difference at the ballot box.
Nick Bowes, director of the Centre for London think tank, highlights polling that shows that active transport is relatively low down on voters’ list of priorities for the local elections, after crime, housing and waste disposal.
In many of the metropolitan areas where Labour-controlled councils are being confronted over LTNs, the main viable opposition is from Lib Dems or Greens, rather than anti-LTN Conservatives.
Beyond the city
Outside Britain's cities, where the battle of the bollards seems completely alien, transport is also a key driver of local politics.
In rural parts of the U.K. where public transport is often scarce or even non-existent, concern about soaring petrol and diesel costs, and even access to fuel, could particularly hurt the Conservatives.
Pump prices rose more in March than in any previous month on record, according to insurance company RAC, which tracks fuel prices. Last month it cost nearly £90 to fill a 55-liter family petrol car — £22 more than a year ago. It was £28 more than a year ago to fill a diesel tank.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak, whose own constituency of Richmond in North Yorkshire is heavily rural, tried to address concerns with a fuel duty cut of 5 pence a liter last month, but campaigners say it has not done enough to ease the burden.
People are “going nuts about fuel prices,” said former Brexit campaigner and MEP Richard Tice, who said his Reform Party is fielding around 120 candidates on a "cost of living" ticket.
“You are now at the point where lots of people are saying 'I can't go and have Sunday lunch with my in-laws,’ or 'I can't go and see my son at university for the weekend’ because it's just too expensive.
“It's absolutely hitting people right in the solar plexus. I think it is far worse than Westminster realizes, far worse.”
Howard Cox, who runs the FairFuelUK campaign, said there was a lot of anger that the government had not done more to make sure fuel duty cuts were passed on to drivers.
“I'm a One Nation Tory and I won't be voting for them. I'll be voting independent in our little local election that's going on here in Cranbrook in Kent, and frankly, the Tories have lost my vote until they get their act together and start actually lowering taxes, and particularly get rid of the green taxes,” he said.
Price rises have come at a time when drivers have struggled to fill up at all after environmental campaign group Just Stop Oil blockaded oil terminals with the result that many petrol stations ran dry over the Easter holidays.
Labour, which has traditionally tried to position itself as stronger on the environment than the Conservatives, has sought to capitalize, demanding the government bring in an injunction that would ban protests at oil terminals.
In much of rural England, though, the Liberal Democrats are the bigger threat to the Tories at this week's election than Labour.
Ross Henley, a Lib Dem who is fighting in a crucial Conservative versus Liberal Democrat ward in Somerset, said: “There are lots of people, particularly in rural areas, who are actually telling us that they are going to vote for us this time.
“Some of the reasons relate to national issues about the Partygate issue, some of it is on things we do as local councilors, personal votes, but there are people every time we go out who are telling us that they are voting for us this time because of their concerns over the state of the economy, because of inflation going up and prices,” he said.
In some parts of his patch people are having to drive 10 miles to their nearest petrol station.
Despite the shift in public opinion in favor of driving down emissions, it still seems that when politicians try to get between a driver and their car, they do so at their peril.
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How eco-crazy councils turned our streets into Gridlock Britain: HARRY WALLOP examines how 'low-traffic neighbourhoods' have added to congestion on our roads
Matthieu Denjean, 13, adores transport.
‘He loves to be on a plane, train or boat, but it’s got to move or he becomes upset,’ says his mother, Elodie.
This is because Matthieu is disabled.
‘He has a rare genetic condition,’ continues Elodie.
‘He is profoundly deaf and has ASD [Autism spectrum disorder]. He has severe and complex needs and is very delayed cognitively.’
Despite Matthieu’s difficulties, Elodie and her husband, along with Matthieu’s two older siblings, ensure the boy has as full and rich a life as possible.
That includes being picked up by car every morning from home in Islington, North London, to his special-needs school in neighbouring Camden.
The four-mile journey used to take 25 minutes.
It now takes up to 50 minutes in slow-moving, sometimes solid traffic.
‘He doesn’t understand sitting in traffic and gets very agitated and becomes aggressive because he’s distressed,’ says Elodie.
A few weeks ago, an 11-mile round trip — from school to a hospital appointment then back home — took three hours.
Elodie shakes her head as she tries to explain the effect it has had on the family.
‘Matthieu is non-verbal. It’s very distressing to see your child upset at the best of times, but when you ask them, they can’t verbalise it. It’s tough.’
Why has the traffic suddenly become so bad?
Elodie believes it is because of new ‘low-traffic neighbourhoods’ (LTNs) in Islington.
LTNs see cars banned from certain side streets and forced to drive only on main roads.
Low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) see cars banned from certain side streets and forced to drive only on main roads Pictured: A cycle lane on Kensington High Street
These controversial measures have been implemented in cities and large towns across the country, not just in Islington, where the bicycle-loving local MP is one Jeremy Corbyn.
From York, Bath and Oxford to Sheffield, Manchester and Dundee, local councils have implemented schemes that aim to limit car traffic and promote cycling and walking.
Encouraged by charities and environmental pressure groups, the aim is to reverse the impact of the car.
Living Streets, one of the leading charities pushing for these schemes, points out that in 1970, there were 13 million vehicles on Britain’s roads driving 145 billion miles.
Last year, there were 38 million vehicles driving 329 billion miles.
LTNs have been wholeheartedly backed by the Government.
The Department for Transport announced in November 2020 an extra £175million in funding for councils to support cycling and walking schemes whilst saying eight out of ten consumers support lower car traffic.
But there is increasing disquiet from residents.
Many resent how schemes were rushed through under the guise of Covid social-distancing, without proper consultation or rigorous analysis.
Many cities introduced LTNs soon after the first lockdown in March 2020, then kept them later as part of their policy to reduce car traffic.
Often, no proper pre-LTN monitoring was undertaken.
Islington claims the zones were intended to ‘make our neighbourhoods better and safer, for living, working and playing, for everyone’.
But earlier this month the council was forced to admit that some of its findings about LTNs were ‘misleading’.
Islington confessed that data for one key section, near the council’s Holloway Road, ‘was found to be of unacceptably poor quality to use for analysis’.
It went on: ‘It is therefore recommended that any conclusions related to this site are revoked’.
Until now, Islington had been at pains to suggest its LTNs — while no doubt a huge inconvenience to families such as Matthieu’s — were making the air in London easier to breathe.
The ‘interim report’ predictably found that traffic fell on side-roads that saw cars banned under LTNs.
But, surprisingly, it also suggested that traffic fell on some of the main roads on which cars were still permitted.
The report claimed that the Holloway Road — a stretch of the A1, ultimately heading all the way to Edinburgh — saw a 42 per cent fall in traffic.
This claim was trumpeted on a leaflet sent out to residents, boasting that air quality had improved.
A Railton low traffic neighbourhood by Lambeth Council
But Elodie and many Islington residents smelled a rat.
‘I thought there was no way that was true,’ she says. ‘Because I have eyes.’
I knew she was right.
I too live in Islington and have sat far too often in stationary traffic on the Holloway Road.
I was equally sceptical about the claim that traffic had fallen on this thoroughfare.
When I dared to complain on Twitter, someone told me that slow traffic on the Holloway Road ‘is hardly the end of the world if it saves thousands of others from the constant noise, pollution and danger of rat-running traffic thundering down residential roads.’
In short, a bit of inconvenience is a small price to pay for saving the planet.
But had the air quality actually improved, as the council insisted?
No. Islington’s own detailed report — though not the rather one-sided leaflet posted to residents — showed that nitrogen dioxide levels, a key pollutant caused by cars, had soared 44 per cent outside Highbury Grove School, a secondary school on a main road.
So is Islington a one-off?
Or have councils up and down Britain brought in LTNs which have made the problem they purported to solve far worse?
Certainly, across Britain, the weight of opposition to LTNs is clear.
Take south Birmingham’s Kings Heath suburb and its bustling high street, the Alcester Road (A435), which features residential streets on either side.
In order to stop drivers using these side roads, the council implemented a series of LTNs in 2020. A year later, it asked locals to fill in feedback questionnaires.
The results?
‘The responses to this consultation show that the options we presented have some but not full support,’ says the official update, optimistically titled The Way Forward and published last month.
On further reading ‘some but not full support’ is something of a euphemism.
Kings Heath residents roundly rejected LTNs — 62 per cent were opposed to the LTN east of the High Street versus 26 per cent who backed it, with similar figures for the eastern side.
So is the council going to remove the large tree planters that are blocking the residential streets and admit the experiment has not worked?
No, not quite.
‘We are very clear that doing nothing is not an option. To reach net-zero carbon, to improve air quality and to enable our growing population to travel around the city efficiently, we must take action to reduce trips taken by private car,’ the report concludes.
One resident despondent at all this is Roger Palmer, 58.
He owns the Parkview gallery and picture framers on Vicarage Road, a boundary street still used by car drivers.
Roger loves the area but says it is ‘now turned into a misery because of the wall-to-wall traffic’ jams outside his home and shop. He lives above the gallery with his wife, Manjinder, and one of his daughters.
Cyclist on a City of London cycle 'superhighway' path in Billingsgate
‘I agree that doing nothing is not an option. But a poor option is worse,’ he says.
‘I just can’t bear to see all the traffic any more. It’s been horrendous.’
He has had to install blinds on his windows.
Some of Roger’s neighbours have moved home to escape the pollution apparently caused by the local LTNs.
‘But I can’t — this is my livelihood.’
Needless to say, his customers can’t cycle to his shop — they need a car to collect the framed pictures.
Roger calls the level of consultation from the council ‘shocking’, adding that the authority ‘denied there was a problem.’
The council responded saying that it had listened to residents and altered the design of its Places For People layout, replacing some tree planters with a one-way system, but it reiterated that ‘doing nothing is not an option’.
Islington’s faulty data was processed and written up by a company called Project Centre, part of a larger outfit called Marston Holdings.
This earns most of its money from enforcing court and parking fines and maintaining parking meters.
During the year to May 2021, Marston’s revenues fell from £287million to £255million, as lockdowns stopped people travelling.
But one division did well: Project Centre, where turnover jumped from £17.6million to £18.5million.
It is understood that Project Centre recognises that some errors, spotted in a subsequent audit, were contained in the interim report that it drew up for Islington, but that the erroneous Holloway Road data was caused by the technical issue of an unrelated third party, and Project Centre did not collect the relevant data.
It is also understood that the statements about improved air quality were not contained in the main report but featured in the executive summary as well as a leaflet that was posted to residents, neither being their responsibility.
Islington Council said: ‘A final decision has not yet been taken on the future of Highbury’s people-friendly streets schemes and the council will be listening carefully to feedback from local people on the trials.’
There is evidence to suggest that councils are making lots of money from LTN-related fines.
That is because while some councils have installed large planters to physically block traffic, many use a no-entry sign and camera.
(There’s no suggestion that Marston will win a borough’s parking fine contract if it successfully implements profitable LTNs in those councils.)
Southwark Council in South London received an astonishing £6.62 million from just five cameras in the Dulwich LTN during 2021.
In Hackney, between February 2020 and August 2021, a single street gathered £4.12million in fines after it became part of an LTN.
All of this pain would be acceptable if there was noticeable gain in air quality or in reducing traffic congestion.
But there rarely is.
In Oxford, another city where LTNs have been implemented, there is very little data to compare, for example, air pollution before and after LTNs.
And yet nobody doubts the huge inconvenience to drivers.
Oxford, as a university town in a flat river valley, has a lot of cyclists.
An LTN might be expected to have increased the number of cyclists as people left their cars at home.
But buried on page 385 of a 556-page report, the council reveals that average daily cycling rates within the Cowley LTN were actually lower than before installation —in eight of the nine months evaluated.
Flowers have been dug up and plants destroyed in in Dulwich Village, South London as part of a protest against Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Richard Parnham is a legal researcher who helps run Reconnecting Oxford, which tries to interrogate some of the official data.
‘Is the medicine working? No, and it won’t work unless you remove all people in the area that drive and replace them with nice middle-class cyclists,’ he says.
Solicitor Sadiea Mustafa-Awan, 39, lives in Littlemore, a relatively poor suburb south of Oxford, with her husband, a van delivery driver, and two young children.
One of her children, Quasim, 8, has autism and ADHD.
Like Matthieu in Islington, Quasim gets agitated if his bus to his special school is late picking him up — as it now frequently is.
‘He can’t cycle to school,’ says Sadiea.
‘It’s just so unfair that he doesn’t get a choice about this.’ Sadiea is so furious that Oxford council seems to have ignored opposition to the LTNs that she has decided to stand as an independent councillor in the forthcoming local elections.
Oxfordshire County Council received about 2,400 responses in its LTN consultation. Of those, 63 per cent said they objected, 11 per cent had ‘concerns’, while 26 per cent supported the schemes.
But despite three-quarters of residents being negative about LTNs, the council intended to rubber-stamp the measures being made permanent last month.
It was only at the last moment, in the face of increasingly angry residents, that it agreed to delay the decision.
Oxfordshire County Council said: ‘Through the consultation process so far, we have received valuable feedback from people in these groups, which we will use to help shape the final plans for the LTNs.’
It is this reluctance to listen to residents that enrages so many people — those who want nicer streets, fewer cars and to encourage cycling.
But they also want to be listened to.
As Elodie in Islington says: ‘We live in a world where data is king. We need to focus on data. But then we discover bogus data about LTNs is being relied on, which shatters your confidence.
‘The trust between us residents and the council is absolutely broken. And that is a very dangerous place for the council to be in.’
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One good thing about local elections is that they reveal what people actually care about. Not the stuff we claim to care about in surveys, or on Twitter, or in conversations with friends. Not climate change or foreign policy or even, really, politics.
Getting from A to B. That’s what matters – at least in my patch of north-east London. We haven’t been able to get from A to B since September 2020, when, seemingly overnight and with no consultation that anyone can recall, the streets of Hackney and Islington were suddenly reconfigured into strange new contortions.
Enormous flowerpots containing tree saplings were plonked onto residential roads to stop cars passing through, and signs promising a greener future redirected traffic onto main roads, which were suddenly choked with angry motorists.
It took me a few months to come to terms with not being able to go anywhere. I miss, especially, being able to visit my aged mother on the other side of London without having to pack an overnight bag. But it could be much worse. At least I am middle class. I have the kind of job that can easily be done from home, and the kind of home that really benefits from one of these “low traffic neighbourhood” schemes (LTNs).
Our pretty, tree-lined street is now quieter than at any time since the invention of the combustion engine. Sitting in my back garden, I can hear my environment more clearly than in half a century of urban living. Different kinds of birdsong. The thwock of tennis being played in the nearby park. And only very faintly – so mercifully faint – the grumble and honk of the hoi polloi, still valiantly attempting to get to and fro.
LTNs are a class issue – but one that, like so many class issues now, doesn’t map neatly onto old political loyalties. Funded by a Tory Government, they have been eagerly implemented by Left-wing councils, even though the people who hate them most tend to be traditional Labour voters. The low-income workers who have to leave the house to get to work, and whose bus journeys are now even slower.
These voters can’t afford to live in the quiet “residential” streets, so they don’t get to hear the birdsong. For the 10 per cent of Londoners who in fact reside on the main arterial roads, the noise and smog is incredible. Traffic on my nearest main road has risen by an estimated 40 per cent, no doubt aided by the redirection of cars from quieter residential areas.
Our Labour council introduced the LTN as a temporary measure, accompanied by honeyed promises of a local consultation and debate. When it finally got round to holding that consultation, 62 per cent of respondents said they opposed the LTN. The council reacted by making it permanent.
“I’m never voting Labour again,” a cab driver told me, last time I was foolish enough to leave my immediate neighbourhood. He waved a hand around to indicate the Islington perma-jam. “Look at this! How is this helping the working man?”
A florid Cockney from a long line of Labour voters, he told me everyone he knew would be voting Tory this time, because of the LTNs. “It won’t make any difference,” he then conceded. “This area is a one-party state. I’m moving to Essex.”
I tutted sympathetically, paid my fare and walked the rest of the way home – away from the traffic, and into the silent, expensive streets.
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Intuit (INTU) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Intuit (INTU) closed at $481, marking a +1.92% move from the previous day. This change outpaced the S&P 500's 1.57% loss on the day. At the same time, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.09%.
Heading into today, shares of the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and other accounting software had lost 2.89% over the past month, lagging the Computer and Technology sector's gain of 4.23% and the S&P 500's gain of 5.37% in that time.
Intuit will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. In that report, analysts expect Intuit to post earnings of $7.60 per share. This would mark year-over-year growth of 25.21%. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $5.52 billion, up 32.24% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $11.66 per share and revenue of $12.29 billion, which would represent changes of +19.71% and +27.61%, respectively, from the prior year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Intuit. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Our research shows that these estimate changes are directly correlated with near-term stock prices. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.1% lower. Intuit is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Looking at its valuation, Intuit is holding a Forward P/E ratio of 40.47. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 30.82, which means Intuit is trading at a premium to the group.
Meanwhile, INTU's PEG ratio is currently 2.63. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. Computer - Software stocks are, on average, holding a PEG ratio of 2.63 based on yesterday's closing prices.
The Computer - Software industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 190, putting it in the bottom 26% of all 250+ industries.
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Intuit (INTU) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Intuit (INTU) closed at $434.74, marking a +0.01% move from the previous day. This move outpaced the S&P 500's daily loss of 0.93%. Meanwhile, the Dow lost 0.43%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, lost 0.17%.
Heading into today, shares of the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and other accounting software had gained 8.47% over the past month, outpacing the Computer and Technology sector's loss of 12.29% and the S&P 500's gain of 6.31% in that time.
Intuit will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. In that report, analysts expect Intuit to post earnings of $0.99 per share. This would mark a year-over-year decline of 49.75%. Meanwhile, our latest consensus estimate is calling for revenue of $2.35 billion, down 8.1% from the prior-year quarter.
For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $11.72 per share and revenue of $12.67 billion, which would represent changes of +20.33% and +31.48%, respectively, from the prior year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Intuit. These recent revisions tend to reflect the evolving nature of short-term business trends. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-team stock moves. Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This model considers these estimate changes and provides a simple, actionable rating system.
The Zacks Rank system ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell). It has a remarkable, outside-audited track record of success, with #1 stocks delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Within the past 30 days, our consensus EPS projection has moved 0.07% higher. Intuit is currently a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Valuation is also important, so investors should note that Intuit has a Forward P/E ratio of 37.08 right now. This represents a premium compared to its industry's average Forward P/E of 25.24.
Also, we should mention that INTU has a PEG ratio of 2.38. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. Computer - Software stocks are, on average, holding a PEG ratio of 2.33 based on yesterday's closing prices.
The Computer - Software industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 99, putting it in the top 40% of all 250+ industries.
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Make sure to utilize Zacks.com to follow all of these stock-moving metrics, and more, in the coming trading sessions.
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Intuit (INTU) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Intuit (INTU) closed at $481, marking a +1.92% move from the previous day. This change outpaced the S&P 500's 1.57% loss on the day. At the same time, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.09%.
Heading into today, shares of the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and other accounting software had lost 2.89% over the past month, lagging the Computer and Technology sector's gain of 4.23% and the S&P 500's gain of 5.37% in that time.
Intuit will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. In that report, analysts expect Intuit to post earnings of $7.60 per share. This would mark year-over-year growth of 25.21%. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $5.52 billion, up 32.24% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $11.66 per share and revenue of $12.29 billion, which would represent changes of +19.71% and +27.61%, respectively, from the prior year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Intuit. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Our research shows that these estimate changes are directly correlated with near-term stock prices. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.1% lower. Intuit is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Looking at its valuation, Intuit is holding a Forward P/E ratio of 40.47. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 30.82, which means Intuit is trading at a premium to the group.
Meanwhile, INTU's PEG ratio is currently 2.63. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. Computer - Software stocks are, on average, holding a PEG ratio of 2.63 based on yesterday's closing prices.
The Computer - Software industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 190, putting it in the bottom 26% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
You can find more information on all of these metrics, and much more, on Zacks.com.
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It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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Intuit (INTU) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
Intuit (INTU) closed at $389.66 in the latest trading session, marking a +0.87% move from the prior day. This change outpaced the S&P 500's 0.07% loss on the day. Meanwhile, the Dow gained 0.27%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, added 0.02%.
Coming into today, shares of the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and other accounting software had lost 6.8% in the past month. In that same time, the Computer and Technology sector lost 7.26%, while the S&P 500 lost 7.99%.
Wall Street will be looking for positivity from Intuit as it approaches its next earnings report date. On that day, Intuit is projected to report earnings of $0.99 per share, which would represent a year-over-year decline of 49.75%. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $2.35 billion, down 8.05% from the year-ago period.
Looking at the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of $11.72 per share and revenue of $12.67 billion. These totals would mark changes of +20.33% and +31.49%, respectively, from last year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Intuit. These revisions typically reflect the latest short-term business trends, which can change frequently. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-team stock moves. To benefit from this, we have developed the Zacks Rank, a proprietary model which takes these estimate changes into account and provides an actionable rating system.
The Zacks Rank system ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell). It has a remarkable, outside-audited track record of success, with #1 stocks delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Within the past 30 days, our consensus EPS projection remained stagnant. Intuit is holding a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold) right now.
Looking at its valuation, Intuit is holding a Forward P/E ratio of 32.96. This represents a premium compared to its industry's average Forward P/E of 26.52.
Meanwhile, INTU's PEG ratio is currently 2.1. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. INTU's industry had an average PEG ratio of 2.2 as of yesterday's close.
The Computer - Software industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 183, putting it in the bottom 28% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
You can find more information on all of these metrics, and much more, on Zacks.com.
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It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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Intuit (INTU) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Intuit (INTU) closed at $481, marking a +1.92% move from the previous day. This change outpaced the S&P 500's 1.57% loss on the day. At the same time, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.09%.
Heading into today, shares of the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and other accounting software had lost 2.89% over the past month, lagging the Computer and Technology sector's gain of 4.23% and the S&P 500's gain of 5.37% in that time.
Intuit will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. In that report, analysts expect Intuit to post earnings of $7.60 per share. This would mark year-over-year growth of 25.21%. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $5.52 billion, up 32.24% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $11.66 per share and revenue of $12.29 billion, which would represent changes of +19.71% and +27.61%, respectively, from the prior year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Intuit. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Our research shows that these estimate changes are directly correlated with near-term stock prices. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.1% lower. Intuit is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Looking at its valuation, Intuit is holding a Forward P/E ratio of 40.47. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 30.82, which means Intuit is trading at a premium to the group.
Meanwhile, INTU's PEG ratio is currently 2.63. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. Computer - Software stocks are, on average, holding a PEG ratio of 2.63 based on yesterday's closing prices.
The Computer - Software industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 190, putting it in the bottom 26% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
You can find more information on all of these metrics, and much more, on Zacks.com.
Zacks Names "Single Best Pick to Double"
From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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Intuit (INTU) Dips More Than Broader Markets: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Intuit (INTU) closed at $490.21, marking a -1.18% move from the previous day. This change lagged the S&P 500's daily loss of 0.97%. Elsewhere, the Dow lost 0.42%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.49%.
Coming into today, shares of the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and other accounting software had gained 12.18% in the past month. In that same time, the Computer and Technology sector gained 6.06%, while the S&P 500 gained 4.71%.
Intuit will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. The company is expected to report EPS of $7.60, up 25.21% from the prior-year quarter. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $5.52 billion, up 32.24% from the year-ago period.
Looking at the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of $11.66 per share and revenue of $12.29 billion. These totals would mark changes of +19.71% and +27.61%, respectively, from last year.
Any recent changes to analyst estimates for Intuit should also be noted by investors. These recent revisions tend to reflect the evolving nature of short-term business trends. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
Our research shows that these estimate changes are directly correlated with near-term stock prices. Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This model considers these estimate changes and provides a simple, actionable rating system.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.1% lower within the past month. Intuit is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Valuation is also important, so investors should note that Intuit has a Forward P/E ratio of 42.53 right now. This represents a premium compared to its industry's average Forward P/E of 31.29.
Meanwhile, INTU's PEG ratio is currently 2.76. The PEG ratio is similar to the widely-used P/E ratio, but this metric also takes the company's expected earnings growth rate into account. The Computer - Software was holding an average PEG ratio of 2.56 at yesterday's closing price.
The Computer - Software industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 161, which puts it in the bottom 37% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
Make sure to utilize Zacks.com to follow all of these stock-moving metrics, and more, in the coming trading sessions.
Zacks Names "Single Best Pick to Double"
From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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