at this time of year my mind turns to the seafront fire of 1998 when i was fresher at Aberystwyth.

Since then the halls have all bee n refurbished and better alarmed under a private company like the hotels and care homes.

However these seafronts also have nineteenth century buildings or HMOs which have large numbers of residents unable ot maintain both the insurance premium and the day to day maintenance unless they are under housing association or local authority / county council ownership where differring laws of tenancy apply.

As such a housing assn is needed for teh Town council to use WDA grants to buy the less repaired housing such as South Marine Terrace and turn it inot postgrad housing at better maintained standards, after all its what the Polish builders did for Acton and Ealing in London.

This requires a civil contingencies map and assessment as done during teh second world war in london after each nights blitz or doodlebug damage and displayed on the uni website like the walking speed and pacing initiative of a few years back in conjunction with the environment agency. The person there to contact is Cedric Moon.

Then teh College can finally sort out teh basement of its old college building (probably the location of Neil Hamiltons and my exam papers).