herefordman75

They are either really small then, or invisible - it was still fields last weekend

It wouldn't even need to be a full on tram system (with tracks etc) what about some compact electric buses? Inductive charging at each stop, simple one at a time system on the Hunderton bridge, and a turning point at each end. As long as the driver is competent, and watches carefully, then mingling with pedestrians should be no issues at all - they do wander around town with big industrial vacuum cleaners (pedestrian controlled ones) and never seem to manage to damage any pedestrians. I am thinking along the lines of the little electric trains that you see at the seaside - slightly bigger with enclosed carriages, have solar panels on the roof to aid charging, regenerative braking etc - they would be sustainable, require little or no changes to infrastructure and could be paid for with an oyster card type system.

Don't know if anyone else has spotted it, but the planning has been granted for 300 houses to the North of Roman Road - more traffic on already clogged roads when they are finished. I can see that we desperately need more housing, but the infrastructure cannot cope now. https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/development-control/planning-applications/details?id=160299&search-term=decided in the last 28 days&search-service=recent&search-source=items&search-item=decided in the last 28 days (hopefully the link will work)

Probably 6000 shift workers - 6 factories employing 1000 each, all on split shifts at 500 per shift (still a lot, but then break that down into smaller units and it soon adds up) - although, yes, still quite fanciful - I doubt there is close to that number currently working in Rotherwas as a whole

Isn't there some legislation somewhere that states if an elected official isn't performing in the best interests of their constituents that they can be relieved of duty as a vote of no confidence?

This time they should not have any licence for alcohol or tobacco issued - simple. It's costing huge amounts of money each time they are raided in police time and resources, if anything, the owners should be fined enough to cover these costs - make an example out of them.

Which is similar to what I do during the warmer months between March and September/October - I use my bike. In fact it takes the same amount of time to do the 8 miles to work on my bike, as it does in the car! The reasoning (in my opinion) behind the Western "relief" road, is simple - it opens up huge tracts of land (a lot of which is on the council owned farm land - and land owned by councillors, strange that) for housing development. Grafton, Stretton Sugwas, Holmer etc - all of which attract a kick back to the council per house built of a few thousand £££. They know what they are doing at the council, even if some of it is slightly dubious.........

They don't need to re phase the lights to get people to shout about a bypass - we have been shouting for 40 years

Good idea - car sharing - something that should have been promoted more I think. If there are 5 of you then it's £1 each per day to park, take it in turns each week on a rota and the savings add up, as each only uses their car for one week in five, saving fuel and parking charges. And before anyone raises the issue of insurance being invalidated, as long as you do not profit from the usage, then it is all perfectly legal. So that's £5 per person per week to park, plus a small contribution of say £5 each per week towards fuel, and in a modern car, the benefits add up quickly for all.

We have had similar along the Bridge Sollars road before now, a pair of dear wandering around. As has been said, refer everything to your insurance company - safer that way

The PFS will be going on the grass between the A49 and the allotments, pretty much where the old station and Greyhound Dog used to be years ago. I was told ages ago (can't verify accuracy) that the tanks are already in place, and that is also why there is an extra exit leading towards the bridge from the little Asda painted on roundabout

more like if you could be a) bothered to read said certificate and b) if you hadn't used the certificate to skin up with :D

Maybe it's because those poor souls haven't got any money for the thrift???

Why? When there is already a crossing by the Post Office and Chippy anyway?

...and most of that in Hereford, where I am sure the council have a special deal to get traffic lights at cost price :) Seriously though, count the number of lights (including pedestrian crossings) between Belmont Tesco and leaving town towards Worcester.....I think it's about 16 sets (going via Commercial Road

Portugal (I think) took the step of de criminalizing all "hard" drugs a few years ago. Rather than making it a custodial punishment ie prison, they offered rehab and help to addicts to get off whatever they were using. Maybe worth our government looking at this option instead. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/portugal-decriminalised-drugs-14-years-ago-and-now-hardly-anyone-dies-from-overdosing-10301780.html Decriminalize it, regulate the supply and make some revenue from the sales. If it's grown and distributed properly, then the criminal supply will eventually fall off, as it becomes non profitable. There are (effectively) co-ops in operation around the country, groups of tokers who grow and distribute between themselves, thus keeping the quality the same, and avoiding the criminal funding element by re investing the money into supplies. Personally, as long as you are over the age of 21, then I see no problem. The biggest issue is where teenagers use it while they still have "squishy" minds that are developing, then it can cause longer term effects. I know a few people who use it regularly and have no issues with it, mental or otherwise, and they all hold down full time jobs - obviously they do not have any while working, only during their own out of hours time.

Someone has already reported it to Tesco by posting it on their corporate Facebook page (can't link from here - work PC :( ) although it was later removed by the OP, unfortunately the damage was already done from what I was lead to believe

All of the mainstream media are restrained as to what they report (my suspicion anyway), as the government etc only want us to hear what they think is relevant. Way too much corruption in the media these days.

It's happened to a lot of people - modern cars have the air intake quite low down due to packaging constraints within the engine bay, leading to a large number of water damaged blocks

The power of nature really is amazing! Think of the amount of water flowing through there per second, and the mind boggles (I did A level geography, and we had to work out the flow rates for river cross sections, and even with a small river the numbers are staggering) Could potentially get worse yet, as we are forecast for heavy rain in the welsh mountains today (Wednesday) and more Thurs/Friday, plus over the weekend - be prepared everyone and stay safe. Also, if you have to drive through flood water, keep the speed low - 2nd gear with higher than normal revs is sufficient, max of probably 10 mph. You don't want a big big bow wave to swamp your air intake - or indeed smaller vehicles coming the other way. If you are unsure, find another route.

Where will the unmarked police cars sit when this is built? Surely there must be some provision for a police vehicle parking area? :)

Don't know how relevant this is now, but spotted on the planning applications yesterday that someone is after permission to demolish the manor and build 5 properties - won't link for some reason, but the application reference is P153090/F

Have you seen the proposal to ask the residents if they would allow a rise in CT next year?

Haven't they been in place for a few years now? Very prominent at the end of East St/Broad St junction, so not easy to miss. Something in my mind is telling me that when they were put up, that they would be monitored via cctv/police/traffic wardens etc and people would be fined?

So, apart from some new looking benches, and repaving the entire area again, what exactly is new in that proposed image? I am assuming that the "ghosts" in the image are there to represent the people that are stuck in the traffic chaos at Asda roundabout trying to get into town? :)