Frank Smith

It is a shame about the low turnout but a good excreted nevertheless. 

I'm not sure what I think about this, I do think its a good idea but are we not already paying a contractor to do this???

Clear Up Herefordshire! On behalf of Balfour Beatty Living Places

Herefordshire Council contractor Balfour Beatty Living Places (BBLP) is backing the first national Community Clear Up Day on Saturday (March 21), the first day of spring.

A hundred “available to borrow†litter pickers are being lent to community groups and BBLP has arranged to pick up all the extra rubbish at pre-arranged collection points.

Cllr Paul Rone, Herefordshire Council’s cabinet member for transport and roads, said: “This is a call to arms for communities great and small to help us end this litter scourge by taking greater pride in our neighbourhoods.

“It is time to roll up our sleeves and bring the broom back out of the cupboard because by looking after our local areas we can help make them better places to work and live.â€

The Bromyard Downs Common Association, working with the Herefordshire Wildlife Trust, is leading a big clear-up on Sunday.

Project Manager Hannah Welsh said the Downs was a popular beauty spot: “There’s quite a bit of rubbish and we want to clean up this beautiful area. Volunteers are welcome to come and join us.â€

Herefordshire Council spends nearly a million pounds every year on street cleansing. Cllr Rone said that people had to recognise that dropping litter and forcing councils to clear up the mess meant that they had to divert cash from key areas like caring for the vulnerable.

He said: “Those irresponsible individuals who are dropping litter divert our limited resources away from the elderly, very young or a whole range of vital services.â€

BBLP supports community clear-ups picks and supplies litter packs and can arrange rubbish collection.

To request a litter picking pack which contains litter pickers, gloves, high visibility vests, hoops and black rubbish bags, and arrange for collection following a litter pick, please call 01432 349504 or use the “contact us†link on the Herefordshire Council website: https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/contactus

 

Its this same in France Colin. Personally I think that providing you have spent at the shopping centre then parking should be free and I am not talking a minimum spend of £20 either.

Just counting the empty shops thus far (not including Watercress) we have a staggering 54 empty shops in 2015 in Hereford, this is scary! Compare that to the large number of empty shops that Colin highlighted last year of 41 empty shops and it's not looking good.

This is a very good exercise Colin and obviously a tremendous amount of effort on your part, thank you for highlighting this. The HT would be well to publish your findings too.

I am fed up treading on eggshells with these fanatics! They preach on our streets and nothing is done, yet when someone says the slightest thing the events of today happen over and over, I hope they rot in hell! Yes yes masked always! Such cowards!!!!!

All in the name of so called religion. This magazine has every right to publish and criticise all religions (which it often does) politicians etc..why should Islam be immune?

Nice one Colin, think I must just do that.

This is disgusting and something and the council should look at this, taxis cannot pick and choose between fares.

Good call Colin. 

I have a question:

1. Can I request a larger black bin? (The same size as my recycle bin would of been ideal. I fail to see how you can physically manage to put 4 black bags in this little wheelie bin? If it were the same size as my green recycle bin I may have a chance.

BB should now totally remove this weed at their expense and without any charge in my opinion, they will have already been paid to complete the work, it's not the tax payers fault that they are incompetent!!   

I have had a look at some lovely old photographs and there are over 90 pages to go through. This is a lovely website, thank you for the link Colin. 

Good to have another local advertiser onboard. 

Good to see the place re-open. Really like the photographs Colin, well done. 

I was just reading about these scammers now operating in the new shopping centre.

Police need to move them, they will leave a mess too!

They are filling the stores slowly, good to see something new in Hereford. 

I have never seen Hereford look so rough, long grass and overgrown trees's and weeds everywhere. I even noticed weeds on top of the old city wall, what does that tell you about our council? 

I think todays weather will have had a huge effect on this.

Unless the owners were prepared to refurbish this pub it was always on a road to closure.

There are some very smart/trendy pubs throughout the country in hidden back streets just off the main area's. If this pub had of been completely refurbished and made more modern, turn the car park into a beer garden, I'm sure it would of been okay and survived but without any cash injection it's dead and almost buried unfortunately, easy for me to say I know but that's what I think was missing. Real shame. 

Interesting video on watchdog. Thank you for all the information provided it may come in handy one of the days.

I walked past here this morning, the back looks complete on the outside, it's the front that looks so bad.

Victory for common sense. Can you make a tutorial on what do do if you receive one of these private car park charge notices please? Just a thought..

Ha ha this is funny 

These should be permanent signs? Unless the Algae is not there all of the time.

I was reading this article in the Hereford Times informing us that a defibrillator has been installed at Asda Hereford and that 14 members of staff have been trained to use it. Excellent news, I think all supermarkets and large stores should have them as standard.