Keepmoat & Contractors will be digging up the highways around the Oval (shop circle) over the next few days/weeks. This is to install new services to cooperate with the existing ones. This will cause obvious disruptions around that area. Certain areas will be closed off completely during scheduled works. Restricted access in places. Please use alternative routes as necessary.
The main disruptions will be the school run as Goodrich grove recieves more thoroughfare, could I ask Drivers using the A465 to be a little more considerate and allow a vehicle or two to exit in front at Goodrich grove? I also know that traffic volume on westholme rd will also increase. Please do keep the Tesco roundabout clear. Thanks.
This may also be the time to recampaign to switch off the traffic lights, to elevate the volume.

So the roof pours when it rains. I've rented it for years and years and it's just degraded over time. My stuff will be ruined when it's in there as I need storage for an imminent move. I only previously had my trailer in there, no biggie, yet been leaking at the back for years, now it's all of it! Phoned HA today, response was, "not priority, and they are only for car storage!" We'll send someone to look.

Well no1, nothing in the contract States it's purpose, no2, you can't get a modern car in it and no3 it was patched with a blob of silicon here and there many years ago!!

Where do I stand on this one? It's not fit for purpose, it hasn't been maintained in many many years previous phoned about roof again, nothing done, and the roof is asbestos? Yet I'm still expected to pay a monthly rent! Am I within my right to withhold rent until the roof is replaced?

Two fatalities in as many months. Almost in identical spots.

I knew Smiler........ Rip my friend.

Back to Sundays again for some absurd reason. Sunday Novermber 15th at 5pm. Also posting comments has been blocked on this topic,I wonder why 

http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/13899825.Date_announced_for_Hereford_Christmas_lights_switch_on/

I can't help but notice that these new houses at the Oval are going to be very dark inside, they have built them very close to the road compared to where the old flats used to be and directly in front of them is a whole avenue of large trees, great planning.

From recent reports received today we are to understand that Bill Norman has taken redundancy with immediate effect and no longer works for Herefordshire Council.

As I write this the HA have closed the near side lane of the new bridge northbound going into town. This maybe planned, but I have a feeling it is due to the high winds and the high structure currently being built!? The path is also taped off by asda. Inevitably either way this will cause chaos in the morning.

Driving home this evening there was a lot debris over the roads and all mobile road signs and fencing on the floor.

Please be careful

MET OFFICE WARNING.

Herefordshire is set to feel the force of storm barney from lunchtime today.

Gusts of wind set to reach 50mph this evening  following heavy rain at lunchtime.

The met office has issued a YELLOW  warning across Herefordshire and surrounding areas 

for winds which is active between 4pm today until 2pm tomorrow.

The weather experts are asking the public to be aware of the risk of disruption to travel, adding

gusts could bring down trees and damage to weakened structures.

Don't quite know why this has appeared in the Daiy Mail today

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3316291/Charles-s-10million-folly-s-personally-designed-grandiose-dream-home-scornful-architec

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Anyone who walks around Belmont Lakes beware there is a rat problem.I know you will get rats around any lake but People have been feeding them.People take there children up to the lake what if a rat bit a child .A lady who walks her dogs there was that worried she contacted Cllr Phil Edwards about this because he is in charge of the Country Park and a Councillor.But instead of sorting the problem out he passed it onto someone else. Has any one seen Cllr Edwards since the Election he seems to have disappeared except for the photo in the Hereford times a few weeks ago.

A robbery took place at the Premier Stores in Kilpeck Avenue last night.
Person with a baseball bat started smashing wine bottles and got away with
the money from the till.

Redundant South Wye Notice Board...

I could not help but take a picture of this notice board, all the leaflets and information within are totally faded and in some case completely blank due to sever fading or lack of up keep.

How much did this notice board originally cost? I remember attending a meeting of the Belmont Parish last year and the topic of a new notice boards came up and I could not believe the costs that were being considered for new signs! if I remember correctly a new aluminium notice board for Belmont was in the region of £4000+!! yes that's right you did read it correctly £4000+ I am not sure what the outcome was in the end.

Who is responsible for the notice boards and why is this particular one been left in such poor state?



"We can make it better" ha ha I wish someone would...

A disturbance early this morning had members of the public removed from store and police called.
A man grabbed a knife from an isle in Asda and ran to to changing rooms and started stabbing himself when police arrived.He was tazered to stop him harming himself further.

Lovely gesture in the Co-op at Bobblestock today. The whole store was silent for 2 minutes at 1100.  The only thing moving was the Christmas decorations in the air-con stream.  Well done staff and customers.

So I know that both parking and the OCM development are topics close to the hearts of many HV members so you will like this.

Mrs Knight and I decided to use the covered parking at the OCM today because it was raining and we were off to the back row to watch Spectre.

When we picked up the ticket driving into car park I made an observation and that was the registration number printed on our ticket, courtesy of the cameras, was an exact match....for the car just ahead of us!!!

So not to find ourselves in any conflict during our exit later I tracked down the management suite who explained that this can happen on occasion.

Enjoyed the film, the meal at Wildwoods and on leaving there was a moment's hesitation at the barrier and a voice from nowhere said ...That's ok he spoke us earlier...and we were gone.

It's pays to cover your bases or the thing you sit on because it would have spoilt a good day out!

Good luck to our friends the Beefy Boys currently stateside in the World Food Championships again, they are currently in the top 10 in the World! 

The Beefy Boys â€@thebeefyboys  2h

2 hours ago

Our final turn in! big thanks to @hereyoucan @HerefordBeefUK @WyeValleyBrew @officialcalor for making it all happen!

 

Hereford Cathedral 'Field Of Remembrance'

On Thursday 5 November, a Field of Remembrance opened in the Lady Arbour here at Hereford Cathedral as a county-wide focus for remembrance.

 

At least 4,052 personnel of the Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force and Merchant Navy from Herefordshire have died in service since 1914 and their names are recorded in two Rolls of Honour.

 

The Field of Remembrance will allow the public to pay their respects to our fallen soldiers and the cathedral have worked in conjunction with the Herefordshire branch of the Royal British Legion (RBL) to put this special tribute in place.

 

Poppies will be planted within the field and each remembrance tribute carries a personal message to someone who lost their life in the service of the country.

 

There are also books of condolence available to view in the on-site gazebo provided by the RBL, and members of the public will be able to search for, and ensure, their relatives' names are recorded in these books.

 

Visitors are able to purchase poppies and poppy crosses from the Cathedral shop - apart from on Sunday when they are available from the stewards on duty - and there is an area for people to plant a cross if they wish.

 

The field was dedicated at a short service at 11am on 5 November and is now open to the public every day from 10am until 3pm.

 

The Field of Remembrance will close on November 15 and the personal crosses planted by members of the public will then be recovered by members of the RBL, burnt, and the ashes scattered in First World War battlefields in northern France and Belgium.

 

Speaking about the opening of the Field of Remembrance, The Dean of Hereford, Michael Tavinor, said:

 

'Hereford Cathedral is proud to join with the Royal British Legion in creating this tribute in the Lady Arbour.

 

'We hope the Field of Remembrance will be a place of tranquillity and reflection in which to remember those who have fallen in the service of their country.' 

 

 

Hereford Cathedral Website