On Air Now: Joff Hopkins
Wednesday
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Current Poll
Everyone seems to be on strike at the moment. The Fire service, Postman and even our Bus Drivers have all walked out in recent weeks but do you think taking this sort of action gets you what you want? Does Strike action work???
55% Yes
45% No
Previous Polls
Free car parking is being introduced over the Christmas period on a number of sites in Tendring in a bid to boost festive trade. Tendring District Council will be axing charges at selected locations throughout the District after 2pm for five weeks from Monday December 7. But does this go far enough, would you be encouraged to shop in town centres more throughout the year if the scheme was extended?
In the countdown to Christmas one of the worst jobs has to be writing loads and loads of cards... but in these green times is the humble Christmas card way past its sell by date, and should it maybe replaced by something more 21st century like an email greeting?
Work on a new A12 junction for North Essex has started, its costing around £12million, but there are already 3 Colchester exits from the A12, do we really need another? or could the money be better spent elsewhere?
Already this year over 24,000 cars have been stopped in Essex as police crackdown on drink driving. Out of those tested 2,196 people failed a breath test. does it annoy you when the police stop you at this time of year?
Only 2 weeks left of X Factor, and we are down to the final 4... Who do you think will win it?
Drivers in Tendring payed out £315,000 in parking fines in the last year, but who is to blame for so many people parking illegally?
Water companies have been told they can't put their prices up. The regulator Ofwat says households will see their annual bills go DOWN by three pounds from 2010. Even with a decrease do you think your water bills still too expencive?
A campaign to tackle domestic violence is going to target children as young as five. From 2011, they'll learn about gender equality in a compulsory part of the curriculum. Is this the sort of thing you want your 5 Year old learning about?
A survey of nurses suggests 2 out of 5 believe their colleagues are fiddling figures to meet Government targets for waiting times. If you have visited an A&E Department in the last few years, whats the longest you have had to wait to be seen?
Young people caught carrying knives are to be shown graphic images of stab wounds to try to stop them re-offending. Do you believe that this kind of tactic will have any effect on the kids?
