Mick

What a wonderful picture

This is good news and moreover it is good to see that old building being used by a popular business.

40,000 visitors wow that is some going, keep up the good work and good luck with your nomination. 

Had dinner here yesterday, perfect pork shoulder with potato and salad, it was lush. Restaurant was very busy all tables taken at 2.30pm. I learned that they offer a take-away service too, there were people waiting to take their dinner home, good idea.

Shut the front door for me.

Not sure if the Council have powers to insist that the shop name is changed , unless of course the new proposed licensee is Polish "

No but they can refuse to give yet another licence waiting to be abused. The name of the shop has nothing to do with the licence application, it is more about who owns the stores and I think you will find the owners are still Mr Zardashit Karem Salh, he has just enrolled a new business partner to front the application. The name used in the case is legit national company in Poland. Kubus is a branded carrot juice in Poland, they have even stolen the logo!

It will appeal to local Polish people and is already attracting a lot of positive comments especially on our Facebook Page. A Polish restaurant in Hereford is very welcome within the Polish community, lets hope the new business is a success.

I agree and I will be visiting here for sure this week. 

I might go to this, sounds like it will be a good night, nice to see something different.

Hello mick well she may be 16 next year but she'd only just turned 15 when Johnson started grooming her…but the fact remains she was still underage...its obviouse she played a part that of the victim…he should of know better given his age,he'd be more than aware that what he was doing is wrong,it's not as if he wasn't aware of her age either…

 

If he had not been caught there's ever possibility that he'd go on to do it again?…

 

I suppose you have to ask yourself if that was your daughter how would you feel about a guy who's 28 grooming her when she's still at school?

I agree with you 100%, but I know at least 2 families that allow their 15 year old daughters to sleep over with their 18 year old boyfriends and visa versa because both parents agree, but thats okay?

I just do not put this guy in the same category as Gary Glitter for example. 

I don't have too much sympathy for Johnson he was a high profile footballer who took advantage of being in such a privileged position …I'm sure he could of had a pick of a whole host of different girls? but instead he chose a girl who was still in school why? Lucky he got got caught when he did otherwise who knows how many other under age girls could of become victims?

Thou there is a stark comparison in his sentence & that of the teaching assistant Berriman who got off without a prison sentence (was the judge male?)

Personally, I think the girl played a part too, believe me some girls who are 15 can pass for 18+ so it is not always that black and white. I am not suggesting for one minute he is innocent but next year it would be legal wouldn't it? Yet he will be on the same sex offenders lists as Gary Glitter and I don't think that is right, do you?

Good to see the roadworks have been completed.

2 years suspended sentence. Meanwhile Johnson gets 6 years.

A BOY held back tears yesterday as he told how he was groomed at 15 by a teaching assistant twice his age — and made her pregnant.

 

He said two months of abuse “scarred him for life†and added: “I’ll never forget it.â€

 

The boy, who we are calling Jack to protect his identity, told his story after Berriman, 30, walked free from court, despite admitting three charges of sexual activity with a child.

 

Jack, now 17, said the pair did not have sex until five months into their relationship.

 

But from then on it was regular and “always unprotectedâ€.

 

He said: “The first time it happened I was sat on the couch and she put her arm over me and started kissing me.

 

“I started kissing her back and it just went on from there.

 

“It must have happened over 50 times in the space of those few months.â€

 

Jack believed he was in love but his world started to unravel when Berriman told him he had got her pregnant.

 

He said: “Stuff like that has scarred me for life.â€

 

The stress of the relationship led him to confide in his older brother. Jack’s mum then got wind of it and ordered him to end it or she would call cops.

 

But when Jack told Berriman his mum knew he said she “flipped†and attacked him.

 

He said Berriman, who gave him one-to-one tuition in maths and English, began grooming him in January last year after he saw her using Facebook on her phone in class.

 

That night Jack, who had a huge crush on Berriman, found her profile and made contact.

 

She was quick to reply and asked him for his mobile number so they could flirt by text.

 

Soon they were going on long drives into the hills around Manchester and going to her house to talk and watch TV.

 

He said: “We would call and text each other all the time and it got more and more into a sort of relationship.

 

“Then she started ringing me on weekends, asking if I was going round to hers. It slowly got more serious.â€

 

Berriman introduced Jack to her two-year-old girl.

 

He said: “It got to a point where her daughter was calling me ‘Dad’. I used to say to her ‘I’m not, I’m your mum’s friend’.â€

 

Recalling when Berriman realised their relationship was exposed, Jack said: “Caroline started flipping out, she started hitting me because I had told my mum.

 

“She was screaming and shouting saying ‘Why have you put me in this position? I’m going to lose my daughter.’ Blaming everything on me like I was in the wrong.â€

 

Jack tried to distance himself from her but Berriman kept texting and calling him. She then rang saying she had borrowed £20,000 from her parents so they could run away together — before turning up on Jack’s estate.

 

He said: “She just started crying and punching things in her car, smashing her glasses and just saying ‘please please’.â€

 

She drove the teenager back to her house where she carried on pleading with him.

 

Jack said: “She was like ‘if you don’t come it’s going to break my daughter’s heart, it’s going to break my heart, everything that I’ve risked for you’.

 

 

“I said I’ve been through enough pain and abuse. I want this to end.â€

 

He went home and reported the abuse to Childline. She was suspended by her bosses at Abraham Moss Community School in Crumpsall, Gtr Manchester, as soon as they became aware of the allegations and is no longer employed there.

 

Jack has now left school and is looking for a job but is still reeling from the effects of his first real “relationshipâ€.

 

Last week Berriman, of Oldham, got a two-year suspended sentence and 250 hours of community work at Manchester Minshull Street crown court.

 

She had pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual activity with a child, and a further charge of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.

 

Holding back tears, Jack said: “The sentence was atrocious. If it was a man and a 15-year-old girl I’m sure the prosecution would have been harsher.â€

 

Berriman was unavailable for comment last night. Her dad Keith said the charges against her were “a load of b******sâ€.

They didn't signed up to take thousands upon thousands of migrants or refugees, Angela Merkel has shot herself in the foot by allowing far too many of these people into Germany and has lost huge votes and is no longer as popular as she may of once been. She is trying to distribute these people throughout other member countries. I think every country has a right to refuse entry to anyone and protect their borders whether you are in the club or not! The initially agreed to take only Christian refugees, they have now refused to take any, their call not ours or anyone else's for that matter. Hungry and a few others have taken the same stance.

Good luck today to the Bulls 

Your photographs speak volumes, who was it that said no bin is required here? I can see and imagine how bad that would be with ice on the ground. I reckon you need more than one bin down there.

The press release is quite vague. Were these two separate incidents on the same night? because the wording almost suggests that the two girls were raped at the same time, very odd police statement, more details would help.

Congratulations inspector and well deserved, keep up the good work. 

All very positive in the proposal, good to see. 

Dear Mick, I am aware of your Polish ancestry and Colin's partner being Polish and I would never do or say anything deliberately to hurt your feelings. That said Mick, this is not an apology because nothing I've said warrants any offence to be taken and if you read my piece again carefully you'll hopefully discover that the 'Poor Poland' remark was based on the EU policy of asset stripping a nations greatest wealth. Their young people.

I don't want you to be hurt Mick. Any argument I have is with the economic structure of the EU and not its component parts 'the people' who are required to move around, abandon their homeland and provide labour to the ever expanding policies of the EU. I've said many times, if I were born within the Have Not group of the EU I'd be here with my loved ones making the best of what life dished me out.

As for the growth in the Polish economy, it's not the result of an expanding manufacturing base or a rise in productivity. It's entirely down to a huge drop in resident population and EU investment in the Polish infrastructure and to argue that Poland is on 'the up' without understanding the economics that drive an economy is foolhardy and blinkered.

Poor Poland has, since 2004 seen millions upon millions of people leave their Country for a better life and money. I say that this is very wrong, it's a recipe for disaster and in the fullness of time there'll be an historical acknowledgement that 'the free movement of people' and an acceptance of rule dished out by an unelected elite from Brussels, will be seen as the greatest man made mistake since Germany and the Nazis decided that their peoples required more living space.

I do hope Mick that you are not hurt by my views and I offer up my very warmest regards to you and yours.

I am sure your comments were not set out to hurt anyone bobby and thank you for pointing that out. Can I ask you something, have you ever been to Poland? I am curious because I think you would be pretty impressed. I am of the opinion that a large percentage of people have this picture in their minds of a cold snow covered country dark and dismal with remnants of the former communists state. It is the exact opposite to this and if you were to take a trip I think you would be pleasantly surprised. The summer months are usually VERY hot (often hotter than here in the UK) last year temperatures reached of over 40c in come places yet winter can go as low as -25+ that said, this year has seen mild temperatures similar to us here.

I do not entirely agree with your view although I can see where you are coming from to a degree. 

Bobby I think your comments about a brain drain in Poland are pertinent, although I find your attitude towards migrant workers hard to take. If the UK decides to leave the EU, this will not affect Polish migration, they will still continue to work in Ireland and elsewhere. At the time Poland joined the EU in 2004, the country’s unemployment rate was 19%, and a youth unemployment rate of 40% made employment in the UK, even in low-skilled jobs, an attractive option for young Poles. A convoluted tax system in Poland makes starting a business and creating jobs extremely difficult. For the millions of Poles who emigrated over the last few years, there were no viable employment opportunities at home. But Poland's own economy is developing. It was the only EU country to avoid recession during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Poland does not want to leave the EU despite this brain-drain - they are benefitting enormously from EU funding, which is as it should be given the disadvantages Poland endured economically after the war. Brexit will make no difference to Polish emigration or the Polish economy, other than to deprive it of funds which expat Poles send home. 

PS I employ a young Polish man, and know many others. He has been here for eight years. I have only ever found the Poles to be courteous and appreciative of everything they have here. They are not freeloaders. They are not the something-for-nothing types who spit on the cash dispensers and spend all day outside MacDonalds dropping rubbish and puking up outside nightclubs - how much civic pride and love for country do you think these natives exhibit?

PPS Your words "Where's the economic sense inlosing their best and brightest to the West?" remind me of Paul Nuttall and Stewart Lee's riff on his comments - worth watching if you haven't already seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HMhWB95ldQ

I completely agree with you Osmosis, I have many Polish friends and they all work very hard. I am not sure about this illusion that all Poles living in the UK send buckets of money back to Poland comes from? Some will of course but in my experience most of the people I know have very little money left at the each of the month and what they do have left they use for trips back home during the holidays.

I am slightly offended by the term bobby47 uses "take poor Poland" I am sure he has seen to many old movies and has not visited this country at all.

Good!

 

I for one am more than happy to pay a little more to help those who need it most, and protect the services which are vital to them.

 

Who is going to 'police' how this extra revenue is spent? Because I don't trust Pat and her cronies as far as I could spit.

 

I would have far more faith in an IOC administration when it comes to truly protecting the most vulnerable citizens in our society.

Unfortunately, this lot were voted in. I would also prefer IOC.

It has been offline for hours I also tried earlier so there must be some technical issue I guess. 

Succinctly put, Osmosis. This is exactly what the Tories want.

 

Interesting to note that nobody has picked up on The Guardian news story, that a German teen age girl has now admitted that she lied about being kidnapped and raped by migrants.

 

I guess this wouldn't fit the agenda of the majority view on this thread.....

I am sure all of the other woman from Cologne will come clean too eh... So blinkered

Succinctly put, Osmosis. This is exactly what the Tories want.

 

Interesting to note that nobody has picked up on The Guardian news story, that a German teen age girl has now admitted that she lied about being kidnapped and raped by migrants.

 

I guess this wouldn't fit the agenda of the majority view on this thread.....

You two must be joined at the hip! 

Asylum seekers will cost Germany an estimated €50 billion by the end of 2017, a new report has found.