Roger

13 hours ago, Slim said:

Have they the right to ask for name and address - to send letter - or fine on the spot. I only ask as I thought it was only a Police Officer that could ask if committing a crime or a traffic offence! Might be wrong!

They can certainly ask for details. How enforceable that is with an uncooperative customer is a bit vague. In practice. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/16/section/7

There is an obvious trend here. Serious organised crime on an ongoing basis at the same shop. If they raided the shop every month they would probably get the same result! 

The enforcement agency is The local Council generally. It's well documented how they (various Councils) home in on the smallest item of litter possible. Usually patrolling in dark clothing ~ with a bodycam of course. Hiding behind street furniture so as to catch someone dropping a fragment of something. Usually a crisp dropped from a pram. Or some old fella dropping a dog end. Constables can enforce virtually anything, litter included, but I think that litter angle went out of the window some time ago! 

There's a trend here. All these immigration/tobacco raids are happening within a 2 minute walk of the local Police HQ. Serious Crime is permanently operating right next door to the people tasked with sorting it out. There is a bust every once in a while but you can walk into town later today and still buy under the counter tobacco. This must be very time consuming and expensive to try and sort out as a total 'fishing' trip for the authorities is never going to happen. The infringements are outpacing the enforcement and penalties imposed. Duncan Reynolds must be tearing his hair out over this!

16 hours ago, Denise Lloyd said:

The Cathedral would be fairly high up on the to visit list surely 

People (visitors) do 'buy into' local history. And ancient buildings. I accept that. But I think Hereford has not got enough 'bucket list' type draw factors, or events, to attract a steady stream of people regardless of the time of year. One major event that does act as a magnet is the beer/cider thing at the side of the Wye. People travel miles to spend money in Hereford for that. And camp. 

I think this is money badly spent by the investors'. Premier Inn by the football ground is being built. When punters search for hotels online I doubt The Green Dragon will hit the radar. Hereford City, in my opinion, has very little to offer to tourists' from further afield. 

It's an obvious improvement but is this free work and paint for the buildings in that passage? 

I never buy a parking ticket at Morrisons in Hereford. I also never abuse the parking facility as such. I don't need to. If I walk into town from their car park to do other stuff I will have invariably bought an item from Morrisons as well. Either before or after going into town. I've never had a private postal fine from them. 

I was in High Town today and the vehicular/cyclist movement in the 'zero' movement window between 10.30 hrs and 16.30 hrs was totally flouted. The white van on the left was being driven around as I took the picture. Behind me I nearly got knocked over by a cyclist who is not in the picture. The photo was taken at 15.55 hrs. 

On 11/08/2018 at 09:42, stephen said:

All I know they are quite insular, religious and have modesty codes which sometimes makes them appear standoffish , but I hope they are welcomed.    I think you mean Hebrew when you say "Jewish dialect!!

Nope. I didn't mean 'Hebrew'. Otherwise I would have said so. There are several variations of the languages they use and as I don't know the differences then I tried to be non specific in my observation. 

13 hours ago, megilleland said:

On Twitter:

Maybe they can sweep the kerbs and unblock a few drains in the meantime.

The 'before' and 'after' pics on that Twitter link were taken from entirely different angles. I presume they are trying to say they cut a hedge. They also seem to suggest that if the grass was growing quicker then that hedge cutting may not have taken place! 

On 06/08/2018 at 10:25, Victor Wright said:

Roger, I never suggested that you don't know? I merely suggested that maybe you should go and have a drink in the city centre and see it for yourself. This is an issue that the police and CPO's shop;d be dealing with and handy out fines etc.

You are digging an even bigger hole with your reply. Suggesting I don't see the problem in person. I don't live on Mars and I do actually visit Hereford City Centre. I was born here. And I live here. I'm not trawling the internet for facts' to react to. 

1 hour ago, Victor Wright said:

I am obviously referring to times outside of the delivery time window. I see people riding bikes all throughout the day in town. I suggest you sit and have a drink in the city centre for an hour and you will see it for yourself. As for cyclists using footpaths, well that has just become a complete joke.

I'm a bit disappointed that you suggest I don't know about the cycle issue in town in the daytime shopping type hours. 

13 hours ago, Victor Wright said:

I don't agree, people should be able to walk about in a PEDESTRIANISED area without having to worry about cars and bikes! 

High Town is not a pedestrianised area per se. How do you think the shanty town stalls' arrive and leave? There are numerous exemptions in High Town. High Town is probably one of the least pedestrianised spaces in the County. 

I was in Churchill Gardens today and saw and heard a large extended type family walking past in normal Orthodox attire. Various ages from about 4 years to 50. About 10 or 12 people in total. It was a quite surreal experience. They were all in their own 'bubble'. All talking to each other in, what I assume, was a Jewish dialect. Obviously connected to the gathering at Point 4. I immediately wondered to myself about where they all usually live. 

11 hours ago, Hereford Voice said:

AN elderly woman was in a collision with a cyclist in Hereford High Town yesterday.

Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident.

If you saw what happened or helped the woman call police on 101 with reference 583s 020818.

The HT report doesn't indicate the time of the collision. Quite how that got missed out is anyone's guess as it is quite important. Cycling is permitted in High Town between 16.30 hrs and 10.30 hrs. Obviously 18 hours of cycling there per day is not a licence to knock people over but the mixed use of High Town makes it anything but a 'pedestrian' zone. There are habitual hazards in the 'pedestrian' spaces in town and people should assume that a vehicle, or cycle, could appear at any time. 24/7.

The comments section on that video suggest he was a cult hero. Did he make a positive impact on Hereford? I think not. 

They have been back in Hereford for the past week. Usual venue. Point 4. 

I haven't got a problem with someone balancing litter on top of a full bin. Or, indeed, placing rubbish next to a full bin. I'm being realistic. At least they're trying! I've witnessed the unwashed student types from the Hereford 6th Form College just dropping their lunch detritus at their feet in Churchill Gardens as they can't be bothered to carry the empty bottle or packet 20 feet to the very visible bin nearby. 

I will add that those overflowing bins' pictured in High Town and Eign Gate indicate a Very Heavy Footfall. So how come all the shops have shut? Maybe analyse the bin contents'? And work out from that data what is selling? And then replicate that demand in a shop? 

2021 City of Culture is Coventry by the way ..... Hereford entered but was easily seen off ....  Coventry City Of Culture Winning Bid

I'm not a lawyer but there may well have been tax evasion here as well. The article doesn't explicitly say what exact offences were punished. If HMRC got involved they could potentially get some tax back. In the event of non payment of that tax then give him another 12 months in the can. 

Not giving way to on coming traffic

Some right turns against oncoming traffic are allowed. Others are not. Just a total abitrary mess. 

I know, or did know, Manny James. Why he agreed to go on tv in that vest is anyone's guess. Was he paid any money to appear? My own personal guess is that the show producers' encouraged the attire worn. As it fitted the agenda for that show which is very downmarket. I turned over half way through to watch 'University Challenge'! 

These shops are just taking the pi*%. Get busted and they are fully operational the next day. Hoping for a couple of weeks/months until the next bust. Just a joke. 

I've just spoken to someone who went to the International Food shop on Commercial Road, Hereford this morning. They bought 50g of Cutters Choice hand rolling tobacco. Very cheap. I've seen the yellow pouch and it's a bona fide product as opposed to counterfeit. Obviously packaged for sale in Luxembourg. So the cops' who read this site can make of that what they will. I interpret this as the shop just sticking two fingers up at the system. Yet again. They couldn't care less. 

So much happens at Zabka. In Eign Gate. I don't even know if it currently has a booze licence to confiscate. If it has I'm not aware of how The Council could refuse a new booze application if the person 'fronted up' has a clean record with no links to the previous regime(s). Zabka is obviously forming a small piece of a major criminal pyramid. Chipping away at the bottom of the chain is obviously not solving any sort of problem. A new and expendable stooge, or stooges, will always appear to replace the anonymous people who were previously caught.