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    Another Bright Idea...

    Colin James
    By Colin James,

    No words required..

     

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    Public Exhibition for South Wye Transport Package.

    Glenda Powell
    By Glenda Powell,

    I received this today from Herefordshire Council Newsdesk.

     

    Quote:

     

    19th Aug 2014

     

    Public Exhibition for South Wye Transport Package

     

    Herefordshire residents will have an opportunity to view plans and give feedback about traffic and transportation issues affecting the South Wye area of Hereford.

    The council will hold a public exhibition from Tuesday 1st to Thursday 3rd July (from 12 noon to 8pm each day) at the Three Counties Hotel, Hereford. The exhibition will display a number of options that have been considered for addressing problems in the area.

    Residents are encouraged to come along and give their views and opinions on the transportation problems and the options that have been identified to deal with these. Following the exhibition people will be able to feedback their comments until 8th August 2014.

     

    Cllr Price, cabinet member for infrastructure said: " traffic flows on the A465 are forecast to increase over time as a result of economic growth. The aims of this study are to look at ways to reduce congestion, pollution and social deprivation in the South Wye area. In order to do this, it is important that we consult widely with local residents and stakeholders. I would urge anyone with any interest in this project to come along to the public exhibition and see the options that have been identified to deal with the continually growing transport problems in the South of the city. everyone will be given the opportunity to voice their opinions on the outcomes of the initial stages of the project and we welcome them to do so".

     

    More information about the South Wye transport Package and a link to the online consultation can be found from the 1st July on line HERE.

    For a hard copy of the consultation brochure and consultation questionnaire please contact 01432 349505 or email Hereford@pbworld.com

     

    End.


    Bonfire Night Event

    Colin James
    By Colin James,

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    Central Park Family Play Day - Sunday 23 November

    twowheelsgood
    By twowheelsgood,

    Central Park is off Central Avenue, behind the Fire Station (or via Daws Road).

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    Lobby Your MP please.

    bobby47
    By bobby47,

    In this age of poverty that sees good people reliant upon food banks, hand me downs and any help they can get from friends and relatives, isn't it crazy that the State demands that we all waste.

    It's true. It's madness but it's all entirely true. Nowadays if you live in Social Housing and you die and you've no surviving spouse or partner, you've no relatives and you do not leave a sworn will, every single piece of furniture, fixtures, fittings and household equipment gets removed from that home and it's thrown on the tip.

    No matter how good the carpets are, no matter how recently they were laid they go straight to the tip. It's the same with a lovely new three piece suite, a television or any other piece of household property that you can think of, no matter if it's only a few days old, it all goes into the Council refuse tip.

    And this ain't the fault of the Council. Im given to understand that because of agreed protocols at national level, every single local authority up and down the Country does exactly the same. It seems to me to be a madness that we can't allow our local authorities to judge the condition of a now empty Council house and make use of something that another family would love and appreciate. It makes no bloody sense.

    They tick boxes for this, that and the other to satisfy the EU that they are recycling yet they are compelled to throw away perfectly good stuff because of some silly and outdated rule, law or protocol that demands we throw away perfectly good property so that we can say, 'nobody has appropriated an advantage following the death of this poor soul. And that's all it is! Nothing else. We are throwing away vast quantities of household stuff just so that nobody can be critical at some later date.

    This is what I'd like you to do and by doing it you'll help the weak, the poor and the vulnerable within our society. Please contact your MP, either Mr Norman or Mr Wiggin and ask them to represent your view that this is waste on a grand scale and consideratiin should be given to amend this national agreed protocol and give our Councils some freedom to dispose of property in a more sensible way and allow commonsense to replace the madness that sees this activity going on every single day of the year

    My very warmest regards. Please help.


    "There's a bloke called Farrage who wants you to ring him back..."

    SON OF GRIDKNOCKER
    By SON OF GRIDKNOCKER,

    I'D BEEN down to the Lugg Meadows car boot. There weren't a lot of bargains to be had as half the site was under water, but I managed to pick up a near-new copy of 'Call Of Duty 27'. If you're not familiar with it, that's the one where you join an elite squad of killers, which includes Barack Obama and George Osborne. Your mission is to assassinate Angela Merkyl, who's spending the weekend in her schloss, locked in a lesbian triste with Paris Hilton. After despatching Frau Merkyl, you elope to the Cayman Islands with the delightful Paris (and her equally delightful bank balance) to spend the rest of your days consuming Class A substances, swilled down with Bollinger Grande Crux.


    Leftbank

    sophie910
    By sophie910,

    So the opening has been delayed, I hear as they are not ready. Shame!


    Getting the message across?

    megilleland
    By megilleland,
    1st August 2014 in News Hereford Times

     
    THE leader of Herefordshire Council has accused this paper of not supporting a company set-up by the council to save it money.
     
    A cabinet discussion yesterday about joint venture firm Hoople, which itself needs to find savings of more than £1 million, turned into an attack on the Hereford Times for being too negative in its coverage of the company.
     
    The council's own communications department was also told by one backbench councillor, who is also a Hoople board member, that its press releases could be more positive.
     
    "If the Hereford Times sees the value of Hoople it would be great," said Cllr Attwood, the Independent member for Hope End.
     
    He said there were currently "too many question marks" in this paper's coverage which yesterday ran a story saying Hoople could split in two.
     
    Council leader Tony Johnson agreed saying; "A positive from the Hereford Times. That would be a first."
     
    The future for Hoople is seen as two entities - one delivering specific services directly to the council and the other delivering a range of commercial services to the market.
     
    Cabinet members agreed to back the council drawing up a business case and 'implementation plan' with Hoople and its board that allows the split.
     
    The council's deputy leader Cllr Philip Price said Hoople has saved the council significant sums of money since it was established in 2011.
     

     

     

    It appears the Council appear unhappy that the local media isn't putting the right spin on their activities. Well done the Times and Bill Tanner. Lets hope there is more serious delving into the way this Cabinet system works and arrives at its decisions. Long live the free press!


    St Paul's Primary School Xmas Faye

    Colin James
    By Colin James,

    St Paul's Primary School Christmas Faye 


     


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    The Pet Cat.

    bobby47
    By bobby47,

    She said, 'Oh lets have that one. The little one. We'll call it Daisy Belle. It'll be something I can love instead of having to look at your fat face'. I said, 'I ain't so sure. It's got a mean menacing look about it. I mean look at its claws and its teeth. We could be picking a killing machine here'.

    'No', she said, ' I want Daisy bloody Belle.'

    And we did. Of the litter of nine, we picked Daisy bloody Belle who, in the fullness of time turned out to be the most spiteful and mean spirited cat I could have ever encountered.

    To the wife and every single person that crosses our bloody threshold, its, 'ain't she sweet' and 'oh she's so beautiful and gentle'. To me however, I've other conclusions about this beast from hell that's now camped up in my humble dwelling.

    The bloody cat, who I refuse to call Daisy bloody Belle, hates me. She, you see, sees me as her prey. She's entirely instinctive and when she decides to hunt and she hunts moreoften than I'd like her to hunt, its bloody me that gets it.

    And when this horror of a feline menace pounces, drags her claws down my fat legs and I howl, 'bloody hell!', she the wife says, 'don't scream in pain. You'll scare Daisy Belle'. And this is now the way of things in this once peaceful home. Im sat there minding me own bloody business whilst the cat decides on how to attack me, what weapons to use from her considerable armery and from which position she'll pounce and inflict her wounds.

    And when, as I often do, I stagger home, pop the bloody key in the door, the game begins for this cat that now has become the centre of my wife's world. No matter that when I get in through the door and I've got a scratching, clawing and biting member of the animal kingdom dug into my neck, its always the same, 'Dont you scare Daisy Belle'.

    Well I'll tell you now, not that anyone has asked, the clock is ticking on little Daisy Belle and I'll be damned if I sit back and put up with this unprovoked onslaught any longer. Course, its how to do the job isn't it. How to commit the crime and escape any blame.

    I've thought about staging a Road Traffic Accident. I get into the car, Daisy Belle is nibbling on some salmon that I've covertly placed at the back of the car, I then reverse over her and rush in shouting, 'Honey. It's a tragedy, I've flattened Daisy Belle. Our lives will never be complete again'. Course, me problem is I've got the Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator living opposite and she's a curtain twitcher. Nosey bloody woman! And worse, she's got her own Camera Security system which makes the whole accident scenario near on impossible to carry out.

    Mind, I could creep out late at night and smash the lens of the camera. That'd sort it. But, what of the film footage that's captured of me creeping across the road carrying a hammer to do the smashing. That'd have to be destroyed, which means, if I want to get away with the crime Im going to have to break in to the Cordinators house and steal the film footage.

    Mind, then its, what happens if the Cordinator wakes up and challenges me as Im about to make off with the stolen property. I'd have no choice would I. I'd have to strangle her and then dispose of the body. But where to get rid of the evidence. Say someone sees me racing across the Lugg flats carrying the body of the local Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator.

    There's no end to is there! In the space of just a few minutes, I've flattened the cat, burgled a house, murdered a woman and been caught dumping a body on the Lugg flats. And for what? A bloody cat!


    Hererfordshire landmark parent's rights case

    megilleland
    By megilleland,
    The Independent 30th October 2014 by PAUL GALLAGHER

     
    Mary Kidson said questions need to be asked about the 'monopoly' the NHS has on child medical care
     
    A mother cleared of poisoning her daughter after taking desperate measures to treat a chronic condition has said that the case should be used as a landmark for other parents finding care for their children outside the NHS.
     
    Mary Kidson said questions need to be asked about the “monopoly†the health service has on child medical care. Her circumstances echo the way Ashya King’s parents were treated when they left the UK last month to seek proton therapy for their young son, and will add to the debate whether the NHS should improve access to alternative therapies.
     
    Speaking to the Independent on her first full day of freedom following her acquittal on Wednesday at Worcester Crown Court, Ms Kidson said she felt anger and relief, adding that she could not wait to finally be reunited with her 16-year-old daughter.
     
    “I was tense, very tense in those moments before the verdict,†she said, having faced a jail term of up to 10 years if found guilty. “I didn’t know how it would end until just before we went into court.â€
     
    Her barrister, the former Conservative MP Ken Hind, gave her the good news moments before she returned to the dock to hear the jury’s verdicts and told Ms Kidson the prosecution were not going to appeal. She bowed her head and wept.
     
    “I let some of the emotions out before I went back in. I just sobbed outside in the waiting area. When the verdicts were read it out, it was amazing, absolutely amazing. In some ways it was quite surreal. Not guilty was always the verdict that would be the just verdict, I just never knew what would actually happen.â€
     
    It had been a three-week trial but an 18-month nightmare for the 55-year-old, who stood accused on three counts of poisoning her daughter, who cannot be named for legal reasons, through unnecessary medication. She had been accused by prosecutors of “doctor shopping†by touring hospitals and clinics in Britain and abroad until she received a diagnosis for conditions which NHS tests showed were not present in her daughter.
     
    In 2012 she travelled with her daughter, then 14, to the Brussels clinic of Dr Thierry Hertoghe, a Belgian physician and expert in hormone therapy, or so-called “anti-ageing medicineâ€, desperate for help. The girl was suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome that had left her virtually bedridden.
     
    Once under Dr Hertoghe’s supervision, the prosecution also said Ms Kidson administered toxic levels of three hormones prescribed over a five-month period in which the Belgian physician said all but one of the teenager’s ailments improved. However, when Ms Kidson’s ex-husband John Guilding discovered what was happening he called the police.
     
    “On 5 March 2013 they just turned up at my house with social services, arrested me and took my daughter away,†said Ms Kidson. “I’d never had any previous involvement with any of them at all.†
     
    Ms Kidson, a specialist in special needs education who ran an online tutoring company that helps children with autism, dyspraxia and auditory processing disorder from her farmhouse in Ledbury, Herefordshire, has been separated from her daughter ever since. In January this year she was charged under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act with poisoning her daughter with thyroid extract, oestrogen and hydrocortisone. 
     
    Ms Kidson was then only allowed two hours supervised contact a fortnight with her daughter, until her daughter suffered a breakdown after the pair had been separated and was detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act. Ms Kidson has still not been given a date when the pair can reunite.
     
    She said: “My daughter’s on other medication at the moment but she does appear to be physically fit and well which is great. Her health has improved dramatically and she’s on the verge of discharge, but I still haven’t been told when I can see her. 
     
    “I’m very angry with the way the Crown Prosecution Service, social services and the police all dealt with this. I don’t know who they’ve been listening to. It appears they formed an opinion of me without even meeting me. There was no contact at all until they knocked on my door.
     
    “This whole case raises the question of a parent’s right to go and find treatment outside the NHS for their child. It seems that the NHS has a monopoly on children’s medical treatment. Adults have total freedom to go where we want in the world [for healthcare] but when you’re a child it appears that only the NHS can treat you. This raises the whole question of the ethics around that.â€
     
    An attempt by her daughter to contact her in April led to a breach in Ms Kidson’s bail conditions, and she was remanded in custody at Eastwood Park, a closed category women’s prison in Falfield, Gloucestershire. Ms Kidson immediately used her teaching skills for the benefit of fellow inmates.
     
    “It wasn’t the hugely negative experience I was expecting,†she said. “I tried to make the best of my time there. I got involved with the education department and helping people on a one-to-one basis with their maths and reading.â€
     
    Dr Hertoghe said last night Ms Kidson’s trial “should never have taken place†and called for widespread NHS reform to allow parents greater choice over their child’s medical care. 
     
    “What a mess everyone has made,†he said from Brussels. “Two lives have been broken. I don’t think the NHS doctors who gave evidence [against me] are untypical of other doctors in the NHS in their way of thinking. The whole system needs reform. We have to give people the right to choose their doctor without fear of prosecution.
     
    “What Mary and her daughter went through is exactly the same as what Ashya King and his family endured. Doctors are not gods; they can make faults. People shouldn’t have to go private and pay a lot of money for specialised treatment.â€
     
    Dr Neil Fraser, the paediatrician in charge of child safeguarding in Herefordshire and also a specialist in hormonal disorders, said in a report for the trial that he strongly disagreed with the Belgian physician’s methods. Dr Hertoghe, the author of an internationally accepted guide on hormone therapy, told the court his treatments were based on redressing imbalances which he claimed are disregarded as medically insignificant in Britain.
     
    Already head of the 3,000 member International Hormone Association, Dr Hertoghe told the Independent he is now planning to set up an organisation akin to Amnesty International for anyone seeking hormone therapy.
     
    “I want to set up a ‘Hormone Rights International’ so people have a right to that treatment and doctors have a right to prescribe it, because cases like Mary’s are failures of the system. The NHS is decades behind its time and its doctors are too traditional.â€
     
    Sue Hind, practice manager at Ms Kidson’s defence team Newham Chambers, called it a “David and Goliath†case. She said: “It was a privilege to be part of Mary Kidson’s tiny defence team in the face of Hereford police and social services. Mary showed great dignity and stoicism throughout the trial but was passionate about the world understanding she wanted only the best for her daughter. It was a bit like David fighting Goliath so thank goodness sense prevailed.†
     
    Ms Kidson paid tribute to those who pulled her through her ordeal. “My sister, all my cousins, all of my friends – I can’t thank them enough,†she said. “They have all been absolutely amazing."
     
    Another familiar face pleased to see Ms Kidson following her acquittal is that of Daisy, her cavalier King Charles spaniel, who had been staying with friends of the family while she was in custody.
     
    “I’m just looking forward to relaxing for the rest of the day, talking with friends and family and catching up on six months’ of post which has piled up; and, of course, taking Daisy for a walk. I haven’t done that for quite some time.â€

     

     

    Did we not meet this lady at one of our Voice gatherings at The Victory? Yet again we see the full force of the state come down on an individual trying to do her best for her daughter when everything else was failing. This on a day when a child in the north of England went blind through neglect and the squalor the child was living in went unnoticed by social services for years. It said social workers had several chances to intervene after concerns raised by doctors and a school nurse, but that the boy’s case was closed twice.


    Poisoned chalice anyone?...Bill N? Bobby47?

    WirralPC
    By WirralPC,

    Left Bank Is 'Lively'

    Colin James
    By Colin James,

    I took this photograph of the Left Bank tonight, a day after the alcohol license was granted. There is an event tonight, its great to see the Left Bank back open and all lit up after several years being closed.

     

    'Lively' by name and tonight it certainly is living up to it's new owners name already.  :Happy_32:

     

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    Council force repossession and take control of HUFC grounds

    Biomech
    By Biomech,

    http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/11556396.Herefordshire_Council_attempt_to_take_possession_of_Edgar_Street/

     

    Do who didn't see this coming? It's amazing how untransparent this council is yet everyone can see right through them.

     

    Nothing but lies, deceit and plotting behind the scenes at EVERY SINGLE turn.

     

    With November 5th coming up, I think someone needs to go and burn that ******* place to the ground. Nowhere have I seen so much ineptitude, lying, secrecy and ripping off of the public.

     

    Literally putting the CON into Conservatives.


    Left Bank Sold to "Local" Family

    Biomech
    By Biomech,

    So reports the HT Here

     

    I "" local because I don't know how local or who they are - according to the Knorr gravy advert, 70 miles away is "local" :P

     

    Anyway, risky business, but well done to them for having the balls to invest in a side of the city that the council has left to squander.

    Here's hoping they get the work done swiftly and have some nice things back up and running. Personally, I think the resturaunt and bars were fantastic, ideal for the locality and, from an investment and development point of view, a good cheap bet.


    Is it possible to post too much???

    dippyhippy
    By dippyhippy,

    This is the question!

     

    We all know that Our Good King Bobby has retired from blogging....exhausted by his efforts over the past few years!

     

    We've all suffered bouts of "The Tappers" over the years, but is it really possible to post too much??

     

    In seven months I've clocked up nigh on 1,100 posts. Beyond ridiculous!

     

    This really is a heartfelt plea, to all those who have signed up in the last few months, and indeed, those who have been members for years,(You know who you are...you log in regularly!!) to post your thoughts. Share with the group!

     

    This forum is being read by many. The next 12 months are crucial. We want our voice to be heard, but to keep a forum like this vibrant, we need as many views as possible.

     

    Too often, there are only a dozen or so who post regularly.....so I ask you politely....Get Involved! Get Busy! and Get Posting!!

     

     

     


    Getting Old!

    bobby47
    By bobby47,

    I've absolutely no problem with the ageing process. I'm more than happy to be the age that I am and frankly, I wouldn't want it any other way.

    The fact that I'll never see my testicles again is of no concern to me. As my waist size gradually catches up with my years upon Earth I know that unless I take the trouble to stand above a mirror my testicles will never be seen by my eyes ever again. I'm comfortable with that.

    I'm also content knowing that I talk to myself and have done for years. Truthfully, I enjoy talking to me. I find myself to be a very interesting character and given the choice I'd rather It be me than some other fool who you've no wish to talk to down the battle cruiser.

    Whether its my thinning hair, an ability to repeat myself over and over again until someone says, 'we've heard that before' or that when I gaze into the mirror to shave I no longer recognize the man I once was, I couldn't care less. I'm happy getting old.

    What does bloody bother me is humming. Yes! Humming. I wake up humming, i spend my day humming and I've absolutely no control over it. Worse still, its Delilah! This song, originally gifted to us by Tom bloody Jones is a melody strongly associated with men who get drunk and for no apparent reason, climb upon a table in the pub and start singing it. This is the tune I hum over and over again.

    It's bloody relentless. I'm humming the blasted tune now!

    Couple of weeks ago I was sat in the fourth row at The London Palladium listening to bloody Nadine Coyle, her of Girls Aloud, who was appearing on the Michael Flattley production, Lord of the Dance. Dangerous Games. While she was slaughtering some melodic ballad I was humming Delilah.

    Course, not only did everyone around me here my senile humming, bloody Coyle did as well. As she gradually raised her tones to follow the progression of chords in the song, she glanced down at me, threw me a glare which moreorless said, 'I'm going to jump off this stage and crack your skull if you give me one more note from Delilah'.

    Course, whilst no words were exchanged, I gave her a look didn't I. I moreorless said, ' just you bloody try it Coyle. Leave that stage and attack me with your hand held microphone and I will defend myself'.

    And, on the subject of Girls a bloody Loud, if bloody Cheryl Cole or whatever her name is nowadays, delivers me more tears on the Xfactor I'm for turning the tele over. She's got that Scarey bloody Spice doing it as well. They're trying to outcry oneanother. It's a bloody disgrace to light entertainment.

    Bloody Scarey Spice my right nut! There's nothing Scarey about her. If she wants to meet Scarey she should pop down the Commercial for an half and hear the list of girls we'd like to kiss. That'd scare her. That'd make her think that perhaps she ain't as Scarey as she claims to be.

    Anyway, I'm content getting old!


    Vandalised picnic benches

    twowheelsgood
    By twowheelsgood,

    Did they respond with a date? A month on from my last cycle ride past these vandalised benches and, guess what? Nothing done. Why am I not surprised. In fact more pieces have been removed.


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