Place the potatoes in a pan of boiling salted water. Cook until just tender. Drain and cool a little.
Heat a large frying pan with olive oil. Add onions and chorizo and potatoes, season with sea salt and black pepper.
Cook until the onions are soft and the potatoes start to brown a little, and then add the garlic, paprika, chilli powder, cumin and tomatoes.
Cook until the potatoes are completely cooked and the tomatoes have thickened. Then add the peas and cook for a further 2 minutes.
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Dr Meurig Gallagher, 29, a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, hailing from Tongwynlais, Cardiff, is attending Parliament to present his mathematics research to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of STEM for BRITAIN on Monday 12 March.
Meurig’s poster on research about the use of mathematics in understanding the microscopic world of biological fluids will be judged against dozens of other scientists’ research in the only national competition of its kind.
On presenting his research in Parliament, he said, "STEM for BRITAIN provides an exciting opportunity to present my work to politicians and to highlight the importance of the use of mathematics in understanding everything about the world around us.”
“This annual competition is an important date in the parliamentary calendar because it gives MPs an opportunity to speak to a wide range of the country’s best young researchers. These early career engineers, mathematicians and scientists are the architects of our future and STEM for BRITAIN is politicians’ best opportunity to meet them and understand their work.”
Dr Meurig Gallagher is a Teaching Fellow in Applied Mathematics. Meurig's research concerns the utilisation of numerical and analytical techniques to solve problems relating to fluid dynamics. His work to date spans several aspects of fluid behaviour, from free surface flows to the stability of non-Newtonian fluids, and has recently found interest in modelling behaviours of biological fluids.
Meurig’s research has been entered into the mathematical sciences session of the competition, which will end in a gold, silver and bronze prize-giving ceremony.
Judged by leading academics, the gold medalist receives £2,000, while silver and bronze receive £1,250 and £750 respectively.
The Parliamentary and Scientific Committee runs the event in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Biology, The Physiological Society and the Council for the Mathematical Sciences, with financial support from the Clay Mathematics Institute, UK Research and Innovation, Warwick Manufacturing Group, Society of Chemical Industry, The Nutrition Society, Institute of Biomedical Science and the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research.
But the security arrangements certainly haven’t been. And the failure of security firm G4S to deliver on its promises must throw West Midland Police’s plans for “Business Partnering” into doubt.
It says proposals to sign contracts with private sector partners, which could be worth up to £1.5 billion, are simply about providing a better service to the public in the West Midlands (and in Surrey, where the force is also part of the plans).
The idea, staunchly opposed by trade unions, has been put on ice until a new Police and Crime Commissioner is elected in November.
Perhaps that’s code for saying it’s been quietly cancelled, because there’s a good chance a Commissioner will simply refuse to press ahead with the policy. But officially at least police are still planning to do a deal. And officially they still have a shortlist of six potential partners – including the likes of BT, IBM and, yes, G4S.
MPs such as Khalid Mahmood (Lab Perry Barr) have insisted the force end negotiations with G4S as a result of the Olympic fiasco.
* PERHAPS the police force’s continued enthusiasm for the plans reflects the view of the Home Secretary Theresa May, who backs the business partnering idea.
She confirmed this again in the Commons this week, when Birmingham MP Jack Dromey (Lab Erdington) asked her: “The public have confidence in our police service but no confidence in G4S, yet the Home Secretary has spent £4 million promoting privatisation of essential police services, the principal beneficiary of which would be G4S. In light of the Olympics debacle, will she now abandon her reckless plans?”
Mrs May insisted: “It is not a reckless plan for police forces to look to ensure that they make the best use of their budgets, so that they can put as much money as possible not into back-office functions, but into getting police out on the streets.”
* IT was a pleasure to see David Cameron and Nick Clegg in the West Midlands this week. Mr Cameron told a press conference in Smethwick that the Conservative Coalition with the Lib Dems would last until the next election. The fact that he had to say it, however, reflects the pressure he is under from some of his backbenchers to arrange a divorce from the Lib Dems.
After losing England C striker Nick Wright to an ankle injury in the first five minutes the Lambs found themselves a goal behind after half an hour.
Tamworth goalkeeper Danny Allcock pushed Josh Burge’s header onto the post but then deflected it over the goal line as it came back off the woodwork to give the home side the advantage at the break.
With the wind behind them Ilkeston had had the better of the early chances through Amary Morgan-Smith’s blocked shot and a Paul Dempsey header which cleared the bar by only a few feet as Tamworth ravaged by injuries looked second best.
Michael Blackwood thought he had got Tamworth back into the game 15 minutes after the restart only to see his close-range finish ruled out for offside.
Then two minutes later Ilkeston made sure of their place in the first round draw when Morgan-Smith robbed Des Lyttle to set up David Graham to fire home the home side’s second of the afternoon from the edge of the area.
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