Last Sunday my Wife & I enjoyed a great day out at Sellack ( less than 10 miles from Hereford city centre ) the whole event as I saw it was generally a great success. With all aspects of country life showed & celebrated by many people, including many who I saw there who live in the city. I was appalled to see that the organisers are thinking of leaving this land at Caradoc which has of late become the home of HCF and relocating to the Bishops meadow ! To try and engage with City folk ! & also to make a joint celebration / memorial of the 1st World War.

I see a fantastic event becoming a disaster that will antagonise and disrupt the South Wye area, not be able to provide the area of land needed for parking of visitors , competitors etc. If per chance it were to be wet what would all those vehicles, feet and the pounding of horses hooves do to the cricket square & football pitches ? Where would the shooting events be held ( need to be away from main arena area etc for noise reasons alone. I am sorry organisers but you surely must think again!

The setting at Caradoc is superb, the size of the meadows area means it would be easy to enlarge the arena, create another smaller arena, enlarge car park and still remain within the confines of the grounds.

I am not saying the current format is perfect, the catering stalls, burgers, pork rolls & general fast food were generally of a poor standard ( my pork roll was almost twice the price of the ones sold in High Town with half the meat in it & no crackling ) such a shame for a County that provides quality food for so many throughout the Nation. Such a shame when Hereford boasts some of the finest Indie restaraunts around, why couldn't we have had the choice of a Rule of Tum or Beefy boys burger, or a Shack Revolution pizza or indeed a baked potato or Pork roll as served in High Town ! Perhaps it may be an idea to invite the Hereford Indie Food guys to go on tour with a pre event taster tour next year !

Really organising committee , don't do it you will spoil a great event just work on what you have already got and here's looking forward to Caradoc 2017.

Pete

Stand for West Midland Combined Authority and Herefordshire council is ploughing £25,000 of our money that we have not go into this. Nice of them to ask us, Another waste of money into another useless organisation that will do nothing for us.

Money going to a CEO, managers, board members and anyone else tyhey want to keep in a job, Birmingham and all the other big cities will grab our money and well will get nothing out of like normal.

Instead of wasting £25,000 on this rubbish use it to clean this stinking city up.

Was out on the town last night. First in a while. The new Hogwarts pub is well presented and maintained. A group of lads were getting a little over excited and had their ear bent by security, allowing them to continue their enjoyment but toned down. Well tackled. I digress......

Walking from one establishment to the next I encountered a 'bare' High Town - and what an eyesore! The place was covered in litter from the day traders, it consisted of pop bottles coffee cups wrappers of sorts fast food tubs etc etc. Does it not get cleaned after hours? It really was a shocking sight. Disgusting. Why do I pay my council tax again?

The thing to note is After the shooting BBC interviewed 2 witnesses one was American one was English you did not see there faces .Ask yourself the question no French people around in that part of Paris seems odd it is the contrived plan by the Illuminati to put everyone in a false sense of fear. They create a problem wait for the peoples reaction then offer a solution that fits there agenda. Go on you tube and read about Albert Pikes letter to Manzzini written in 1878 then try and tell me i am wrong in what i have just written.

For those that are not aware when a housing development is built a CIL's charge is made by the Council.  Once upon a time this payment was used in the area affected by the development.  This has now changed to those that have Neighbourhood Plans receive 25% of the charge those that do not have a NDP receive 15%. The remaining amount goes to the Council. This is quite a considerable amount of money going into the coffers of the Council but is little mentioned and is fairly ironic that the people who have actively objected to the Link Road and the SLR find that the money that should have been spent to improve their community is now being used on some white elephant.   

I may have my facts not quite spot on and if anybody is the wiser please correct me.

Well what can I say, other than a huge THANK/ YOU! To everyone who joined for the Great Western Way Clean Up. This was really a brilliant example of a community working together. We had senior Police Officers, Police Cadets, Community Support Officers, over 10 Councillors, several members from Hereford Voice, the Hereford Mayor and an army of volunteers from within the community.

We have made a big improvement along here and cleared away lots of overgrown trees and bushed allowing more light in. This event I would like to run every year so that we can keep on top of this.

Here are just a few photographs I managed to grab.

Authorised Travellers sites public consultation

Out walking on this beautiful sunny morning and saw this eye sore! 2 mattresses just dumped on the footpath between Sydwall Road and Belmont Road, what is wrong with people? I noticed there is plastic on the one end perhaps they can grab a finger print and prosecute these vile people. 

The aforementioned formally known as, has now been closed to through traffic until further notice. Access for Trevanent Court flats and Woodward Avenue residents only via Kilvert Road end.

The road has been barricaded shut from the Oval end to deter any wouldbe sign movers but Pedestrian do have access through to the shops.

Despite the clear signage folk are still attempting to shortcut! I've never seen anyone make a nine-point turn before.........

Another one..

Syrian Refugee Wielding Machete Kills Woman

"Sorry to disappoint you but the election was far from a forgone conclusion and given that there were large numbers of Lib Dems before and that they were wiped out is not the fault of first past the post but of the lib dems themselves."

The road in front of the Oval shops will be closed for 16 weeks from Monday June 6th 2016.

This is the reality of cycling in and around Hereford (and the County at large). Potholes and dangerous surfaces everywhere. Take your eyes off the road for a second and, at best, you've lost a tyre (3 this year so far - £105) or, worse, you're off and costing the NHS a lot of money.

Yet another attack in Germany

Shots have been fired at a shopping centre in the German city of Munich, according to local police.

 

German media is reporting that there have been multiple deaths following the shooting at the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum (OEZ) - Bavaria's largest shopping centre.

 

The Muencher Abendzeitung newspaper is reporting that up to 15 people have been killed in the shooting, while the German NTV says 10 people have possibly died.

 

A witness live-streaming from outside the mall said: "(The gunman) ran into the underground station. Police are looking for him. I don't have a description of the shooter."

 

An employee who is still inside the shopping centre told Reuters by phone that "many shots were fired" and they have seen at least one person with serious injuries.

 

People gathered around the shopping centre 

 

One person has been confirmed dead so far and 10 are injured, according to the AFP news agency.

 

There are currently no details on who was responsible for the shooting, but Munich Police are urging locals to stay in their homes as a "large police operation" is under way.

 

Footage from the scene appeared to show people running away to seek shelter - and there are local reports that some civilians are still trapped inside the shopping centre.

 

 

A wide area around the complex has been cordoned off.

 

This is the second attack in Germany in less than a week. On Monday, a 17-year-old Afghan wounded four people in an axe and knife attack on a train near the Bavarian city of Wuerzberg.

It will not end here either, mark my words

As we were going off topic regarding "Choose How You Move - hollow Council rhetoric" ie cycliing hazards and moving into financial matters concerning how others spend our taxes this topic is to draw attention to how the other half live.

Why are the HT allowing comments on some Drink Drive Cases and not others. When I first read the below a couple of hours ago article comments were allowed - now mine has been deleted and

" Comments are closed " it did flash through my mine that perhaps the Reporter uses the Managers restaurant ........I am sure that's not true . I am sure that the HT can defend their decision - but they should be consistent

From the HT website today ......

A RESTAURANT manager was found to be three times over the drink drive limit after police found her car blocking a junction.

Erika Biro, 30, of Chesham, Buckinghamshire, was found asleep inside her Mini which was on the B4224 How Caple to Fownhope Road just after 3.30am on June 27.

The manager at the Old Market branch of Chimichanga in Hereford admitted to drinking three large glasses of wine earlier in the evening

The aftermath of a fire in Holmer Hereford. Lady rescued by neighbours. You can see the fire crews cutting away and carrying out salvage.

From the HT:

Phil Fussell had returned to his home in Turnberry Drive in Holmer when he heard screaming, a smoke alarm and muffled explosions coming from next door.

 

He ran to the front of the house and saw Susan Kitson, who suffers from MS and is unable to walk, in her front room surrounded by flames and smoke.

 

Mr Fussell shoulder-barged the door and battled through the smoke to pick up Ms Kitson and drag her to safety.

Photograph courtesy of Adrian Lloyd (firefighter)