toilets

International development aid is one part of the UK budget unlikely to be cut in a squeeze on public finances. But questions are being asked about how aid is used, and which countries need it. India last year got almost £300m from the UK, some of it spent on toilets in the country's financial capital, Mumbai.  

FINDING better ways to spend a penny is something Stirling Council officials are asked to do a lot of. But now they are looking at how to flush out any problems with the area's public toilets in a bid to improve the service. A review of public toilets is to be brought to a meeting of Stirling Council before its summer recess.

I welcome any input by any members for improvement of the service.   -Scott Farmer

 

A residents' association has slammed its own councillors' decision to close a public toilet and has launched a campaign to get them to change their minds. Epsom and Ewell Residents' Association councillors were caught by surprise when Stoneleigh and Auriol Residents' Association (SARA) voted to start a campaign last week against the closure of the only public toilet in the area. The campaign, complete with a logo, calls on residents to help "to persuade RA councillors to think again and reverse their  

Let's catch up. I got a new kitten and I was training her to use the toilet instead of a litter pan. Everything was going great with only a couple bumps when I forgot that in the middle of the whole process I had scheduled little Kumo to get spayed.  

Jamie Michelle Campbell, 26, was "too high to be able to care for herself" from illegally obtained prescription painkillers, according to Clearwater police. But she was taking take of a two-year-old. She lost her balance and fell to the ground, police said, leaving the toddler "unattended at night" alongside a busy Clearwater road at night, naked from the waist down in the cold.  

NATIONAL Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Members serving in Anambra state will soon have one of the best camps in the Federation, if the Anambra state government intervenes in some of the teetering problems that they have. State Coordinator of NYSC, Sir Abu Joseph Apaleokha stated this during the swearing in ceremony of 2010 Batch 'A' corps members deployed to the state at the Permanent site of the NYSC orientation camp. According to Apaleokha the camp is in dire need of perimeter fencing ; tarring of the  

I never realized how much money I was literally flushing down the toilet each month. Last summer I purchased a 1964 ranch house in need of a lot of updating. Most of the home was at original builders' grade, including the toilets.  

I never realized how much money I was literally flushing down the toilet each month. Last summer I purchased a 1964 ranch house in need of a lot of updating. Most of the home was at original builders' grade, including the toilets.  

"Awas! Tandas!" should be the sign on many public toilets in the city instead of "Tandas Awam". This was the wry observation of a tourist after a nasty experience at the KL Bird Park's public toilet recently. And, the tourist is not alone in her observations.