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http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/174830/developers-under-fire-as-proposals-for-almost-200-homes-in-penymynydd-thrown-out.aspx

Looks like I'm running the show...................

Many thanks to The Leader a very good article.
Many thanks also to FCC Planning Committee and Planning Officers.
Many thanks to Cllrs Cindy Hinds, David Williams and Penyffordd Group.

Penyffordd girl's leap of faith

Shannon Spicer, from Penyffordd, raised £1,100 for Alder Hey Hospital’s oncology ward by jumping 10,000 feet from a plane.

Read full story here  http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/126789/penyffordd-girl-s-leap-of-faith-to-say-thanks.aspx

One of the attractions of Penyffordd plus WAG Opt Out Organ Rant

The ambulance should get to you inside 5 minutes as the new base is at Dobshill.
We could discuss the Keystone Cops act carried out on my late mother in law but lets not spoil things.

Dobshill Ambulance Station in the Leader.

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Carrying on a medical theme

Rant

Would you let this lot below make decisions on whether to end your life and remove your organs?
( New Opt Out Organ WAG legislation)

Link http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-patients-give-evidence-westminster-4871740

Postscript: Look at the film plot for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma_(1978_film)

Cllr Colin Bithell for Hawarden Airport Expansion

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There will be plenty  more like Colin who wish to turn our environment into a crap hole.

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Regional Airport Searches

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/8977992/Local-airports-to-double-their-capacity-in-next-40-years.html

"A spokesman for the Campaign to Protect Rural England added: “It is not just that airport expansion of this scale would trample over villages and sprawl across Green Belts. All the extra flight paths needed would criss-cross the countryside so much that by 2050, trying to find tranquillity in much of the English countryside could become as hard as looking for a needle in a haystack.”

http://www.aef.org.uk/downloads/AW_Regional_Airports_Paper_Sept2009.pdf

http://www.airportwatch.org.uk/

http://www.airportwatch.org.uk/?page_id=4775

Local Blackspot claims another life

Link http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/116979/pregnant-woman-dies-in-horror-collision-on-a541.aspx

Condolences to the deceased's family.

My view is that accident blackspots such as this should be made compulsory 30 or even 20 mph and rigorously enforced.

Whilst not wishing to pre-empt any investigation it should be noted that all the usual elements are in place.

The Pontblyddyn to Penyffordd road is also a constant accident issue. You would not believe the number of vehicle drivers who go well over white lines on blind bends.

The authorities seem content to allow it to continue.

Penyffordd Train Chaos

TRAINS have been halted after a lorry struck a railway bridge.

The incident happened shortly after 3pm when the heavy goods vehicle hit the bridge on Penyffordd Road, Penyffordd.

A spokesman for Arriva Trains Wales said engineers were enroute to assess the damage to the bridge.
The 3.32pm train from Wrexham to Bidston is currently stopped at Penyffordd Station, while the 15.32 Bidston to Wrexham service is stopped at Shotton Station while checks are carried out.
Delays of up to 60 minutes are expected.

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Thus says The Leader on Facebook

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More information on Wrexham.com 

Complaints against Flintshire councillors increase

I think they're all marvelous !

Link http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/114465/complaints-against-flintshire-councillors-increase.aspx

Leader - Bygones - The Opening of Abbotts Lane School 1978

The Leader are running a new website called Bygones. Photos are available for sale, at the time of writing £1. Here above is one of my most favourite councillors.

There are four pages of photos to do with Penyffordd.



http://www.localbygones.co.uk/nearme/archive,t297.htm

Cllr Edwina Davies being a good sport.

Edwina's the one showing leg and suspenders

Dobshill

http://www.localbygones.co.uk/nearme/archive,t113.htm

Super Tony to the rescue

It wasn't so long ago Flintshire councillors were griping over out of ward interference by Cllr Klaus Armstrong Braun.

These rules of course are for Klaus only. Big beasts such as Cllr Bernie Attridge and Cllr Tony Sharps operate across Flintshire with impunity.

Super Tony has waded into the proposed gypsy site at Ewloe. Is this a fight against officers or are we getting near an election?

Read further in The Flintshire Leader

Tony's the one who thinks cars can hammer around Flintshire excluding Northop Hall where he is councillor.

Speeding ad nauseum..................

The last word on this issue for a few weeks (I also tell fibs)

1. Top of Penymynydd Rd Penymynydd Access Only. Short cutters have been booked.
This is long and ongoing. I had a mate get booked here 30 years ago.
Will White Lion development put a stop to this? White Lion development of course will have severe traffic calming and rat run?

2. Outside the White Lion ( now deceased) Apparently 40 drivers have been booked for speeding. ( its very near a school, very dangerous.)

3. Thank you to The Flintshire Leader for publishing my letter last Friday. The contents that are on another machine will appear shortly.

Penyffordd Bypass crash victim starts to rebuild his life

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The Leader comments system is a joke

I had two comments removed by someone yesterday. Anyone can remove comments. The comments were criticising NWP over token traffic policing that makes it look like they are doing something when in reality they are doing very little.

How many comments are reinstated? I think very few.

Half the comments could be removed because they are written by muppets.

1984 continues to arrive

Apparently such practices as keeping a personal diary and having opinions will land you in serious trouble.

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The Leader comments section

is becoming a joke. A valid comment about Penyffordd environment removed. Will the Leader put it back up?

postscript An email to The Leader ignored. So much for debate.

‘Forceful councillor orchestrated bullying campaign’

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New plan to tackle speeding in Flintshire

in The Leader. Can't see any mention of Penyffordd though..........................

And for those looking for a little S & M

It seems Chirk is the nearest. The comment section has a lively 17 comments which have been disabled, spoilsports?

postscript: comments have appeared again.

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Dobshill woman gets stolen bulldog back

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keywords Margaret Williams.

A Letter The Leader will NOT consider

The excuse a matter of semantics. They had the decency to say so though.
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Hi Leader

I see you are currently not allowing comments on cancer rates shock.

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/96598/cancer-rates-shock-for-north-wales-villages.aspx#comments

Shall I try a letter?

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With regards your front page headline "Cancer Rates Shock for Villages". It's interesting to note that you report that Llanfynydd which is miles away over Hope Mountain has a perceived higher rate for respiratory and cancer incidents over the normal national rates for Penyffordd which is half a mile down wind from the main stack which has a population many times that of Llanfynydd.

This would suggest a clean bill of health with regards Hanson Cement and the so called increased risks to health for Penyffordd, Padeswood and Buckley residents.

You also report in the above article that noise is an issue emanating from Hanson Cement for Penyffordd. Speeding traffic 24/7 on Penyffordd By Pass poor road surface and through unpoliced village centre traffic make an awful lot more noise than Hanson Cement. It would be good to see Penyffordd elected representatives concentrating on matters closer to home such as child and OAP safety and village environment.

Environment means more than planting daffodils cllrs !

Colin Hughes

Penyffordd


Further Links 
Daily Post
BBC NE Wales

postscript: I've spoken to someone about the statistics produced and they say the statistics are of little use because of what the statistics are and also not compared with.


ie. an area similar in geography but without a cement works stuck in the middle of the valley. 

The Compost Heap

Today I have been moving the compost heaps I have. I'm very rich I have four. The compost heap is the heart of fertility in the vegetable garden. Problem is they are all in the wrong place.

There's a resident of Cymau in The Leader. He found an adder (poisonous) with young in his compost bin. I have been taking things carefully. I have a friend who has grass snakes (non poisonous) in his compost heap. You draw the carpet back and they dive back down the holes in the compost.

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