Roger

It turned out to be David Keyte (Chairman) who was broadcast. He was very interesting to be fair. But sounded defeated. He said a lot about Simon Davey (£1.2M budget), Jamie Pitman, said the Police would have a 'field day' looking at the tweets on his ipad, and had a swipe at the Contributors to Bulls Banter (fan forum) who he suggested were not regular match goers. Also said budget for next season was potentially £250 K ... 

Asda are just as bad but their self serve tills are excellent.

They are better. There's about 10 small one's plus there's belt's for a larger shop. You got four at Morrison's with a bagging area as big as a postage stamp. Not good.

HUFC Manager is on BBC H+W shortly ... 

This is disgusting, this has been going on far too long now, can they not monitor the area with CCTV or something and catch these people?

Where do you think the CCTV extends to Colin? ... On a serious note there is a Council Public Protection Unit I think .... What are they doing? What are they focusing on? I hope it's not on people dropping a stray *** end when the problem is something like that minging mattress ! 

^^^ My post also got auto censored for using the term #f*g ... ludicrous! ;-)

Part time football is never going to challenge for anything ... Nor will it attract any half decent players' ... The attendance is at a low ebb as well ... Just looking like a downward spiral to me ... 

Threat of £85 bill for infringing the parking which has been farmed out to Parking Eye who attract a fair amount of internet moans. 

Latest Advice from the MoneySavingExpert website ... 

If I get a ticket I will be straight down to the shop to moan at the Duty Manager ... on the basis that I put quite a considerable amount of money through their tills ... 

Morrisons posted a profit warning recently ... 

Robert Peston (BBC) on the subject

So why are they trying to aggravate customers by having a TalkTalk hit squad hovering as you leave? I let it go last night as these salesmen have to earn a living somewhere ... but I got grabbed again tonight by the same guys who had forgotten we had a conversation last night which had ended with me saying I was not remotely interested in their product. 

I was also in a bad mood as the offer product I went in for was bare on the shelf.

Also the car park now has so many rules that it puts you off going there. Machines that need you to type in your car registration number for instance. That loses my interest straight away! Plus ANPR cameras.

And I've not even started on the till situation! 

I came past the churchyard, behind Morrisons this afternoon and witnessed the usual down and outs sitting on the grave stones drinking out of litre bottles. There is just no respect for those buried there. The whole site is covered and surrounded by litter as reported here (post 6). 

That area is not under a Council camera. So out of sight and out of mind? Sitting on the graves of the dead may not be an offence but it is dreadful behaviour. It's been going on for years there and so is hardly a secret. If I was you I would send a Publicly visible moan to a supervisor of the local Police team for that area. Twitter is always good for that. 

Yellow lines mean disabled parking for three hours ... It does not mean 'No Parking' ... 

I don't know the in's and outs of the myriad of traffic orders but the one way system starts at the bus station exit ... It's on google street view ... 

Massive pothole at the entrance to the Bath St. offices ... but as they are moving out it's been left ... Not on the road ... Just as you enter ... 

Windows have a life span of around 8-10 years, they had been installed  longer than this, also HH have not got any flats of this type that they could put them in.

I'd dispute the lifespan of a window Glenda ... But I agree that there is no salvage value, or use, for a Beattie Ave window frame/pane ... 

CPS guidance

If Mr. Eager was my Councillor I would hope that he would take a more constructive approach to his opposition other than to encourage people to wreck the place. 

Boycotting the car parks and clogging up the streets seems a reasonable idea from Councillor Jupp. This is exactly what's happened outside Hereford Leisure Centre! I know it's a short term solution to save yerself some cash as yellow lines will then get painted (as it happening on Aylestone Hill) but these things take time to meander through the system. 

Just before the Bus Station car park is a short strip of red and cycle logo'd cycle track across a short bit of pavement!!  What is that all about?  I don't know.

Rather pointless now you mention it ... 

Interesting piece in this weeks Journal, penned by Our Jesse Norman.

 

"Just as worrying is the increasing tide of illicit tobacco that is finding its way into Hereford. In the last 12 months, trading standards officers and West Mercia Police have seized more than 189,000 cigarettes and over 16kg of illicit tobacco from shops in Herefordshire.

But often cheap cigarettes are not just smuggled goods, but fake, and they can be especially dangerous......And the same people who don't care or turn a blind eye as to what is in the tobacco often don't care how old the people who buy it are.....one of the key obstacles that trading standards officers and the police face in seeking to control this problem, is that they are not able to shut down the shops which persistently sell this illicit tobacco."

 

For once, I absolutely agree with you Jesse!

The full article appears on page 6!

This is a pet subject for Jesse Norman MP. He raised it on 27th March 2012 when he said:

'In the past 18 months, some 360,000 cigarettes have been seized in Herefordshire alone.' ~ which averages out at 20,000 seizures a month up to March 2012. 

The last 12 months averages out at 15,750 per month so either the trade is decreasing, there are not as many raids, or the shops are getting a little more cute ... 

link below for his 2012 contribution:

Westminster Hall debate on illegal alcohol and tobacco sales, 27 March 2012

I was at The County Offices on Bath Street today. Two GB Liners removal trucks were there to move out the Council stuff. I think they have to take it to the new office 50 yards away ~ the old job centre opposite the John Haider building ... 

30 jobs to be shed to improve services! ~ I can't link to the actual story on the HT as it's been removed. It was only up for a short time ... 

A man has been charged and bailed. In Court 26th March ...  Link from the WMP website ... 

Looking at that ^^ perhaps the tarmac isn't thick enough? I don't know what the guidelines or recommendations are but that appears to be a thin layer of tarmac over gravel - like skin on custard - which would go some way to explaining why it fails so frequently. 

I think just a botched previous repair ... The new fault crept from the old repair! Just inept work! 

Try to avoid this crater if you are in Audley Crescent ... 

I agree with biomech, there was a news article on the TV yesterday and as the presenter walked along a street of terraced houses all you could see was a forest of dirty wheelie bins.

It once took the council over 4 weeks to empty the overflowing bin outside of St Martins School it involved phone calls to the council and the local member. I was told that nothing could be done until an inspector had visited and that he was busy, also that as they school was closed then there was no need to empty it, evan though it was full on the last day of term, keeping our city clean and tidy is not a new problem and if you live in certain areas you are at the bottom of the pile.

The dog waste bins behind my house in Churchill Gardens get emptied at least once, if not twice, a day. So I agree totally with your comment about there being a pecking order or 'pile' as you put it ~ with regards to rubbish collection.

It's rather like the grass cutting. Some areas are like a bowling green most of the time as they are top of the Council pile. Other areas are left for months on end. Which includes Churchill Gardens ... Unlucky as it's top of the pile for bin emptying. It must be different departments involved ... 

I thought that about a week ago .... email the WMP press office? 

So do the old tenants get a new house type house? (as opposed to a flat) .... Just asking as I don't know all the ins and outs of what has possibly been arranged ..... ? 

Eric Pickles (Govt. Communities Minister) pledged 2 years ago that a weekly rubbish collection was a 'fundamental right'.

The promises have unravelled ...

I know the link is from the Daily Mail, which I'm no fan of, but they outline some basic facts that appear to be true ... 

I had my green wheelie bin emptied on 12th December and it was next emptied on 9th January. The Council seem to be caught out by Christmas.

Imagine if that was a black wheelie bin and you were stuck with the rotting contents for nearly a month. And it would probably include the remains of a turkey carcass and probably some smelly fish as well. And if you got some really young kids' then a good few nappies that you could end up smelling the other end of the street. And if the lid was ajar then the cats will be getting in ...