Lisa's Kitchen

which isn't looking too good at the moment (diy issues me) . Any how the food that comes out of it is very good. Anyone who wants advice on how the dishes are cooked please ask. Below will be a hot index of each dish.

Red Dragon Pie ( Aduki Beans) with Baked Potato and Pasta

Tofu and Mango Kebab with Salad

Ham and Tomato Frittati with salad

100% beef beefburger with apple salad, lemon rice, deep fried cauliflower and tomato chutney

Mixed Berry Clafouti with Yoghurt

Link here

Baked Salmon with wholewheat spagetti, beetroot and green beans

Bobotie with pilau rice and beetroot tomato

Lemon Tuna Toasty with Salad

Indian Style chicken, deep fried cauliflower, home made coleslaw and lemon and corriander cous cous.

Home made Salmon Fishcakes with glazed carrots and beetroot

Cod in Beer Batter

Pork chops in sauce from Steve the butcher, tomato salad, cauliflower and mixed fried peppers

Chicken wrapped in bacon

Rib Eye Steak and Chips

Cod with a breadcrumb crust with sugar glazed carrots, baked beetroot
and tomato and cos lettuce

Chilli con carni with brown rice and cucumber salad and stuffed peppers

Vegetable pizza with spinach and dry roasted pine nuts

Toad in the Hole with onion gravy with carrot and swede mash

Vegetable frittata and salad
Link here

Wholewheat vegetable pizza, cucumber salad and baked potato.
Link here

Prawn Pirri Pirri

Rasberry Pavlova

Baked Salmon with wholewheat spaggetti and beefsteak tomatoes and cucumber

Ham and Pineapple Pizza

Tofu Soup
Soba noodles in miso soup with chilli and ginger

Sweet Pepper Pizza with Jamie Oliver rice and coleslaw

Spicy apricot-stuffed salmon

with

Simple Cauliflower

Asparagus and scrambled duckeggs on toast




Haloumi cheese and vegetable kebabs
with lemon and corriander cous cous
and avocado slices
with sweet chilli sauce.

In The Leader .....Oh dear

Perhaps a reading of my letter below and a re reading of the letter above may show you how
" a put down " can be constructed out of words I did not actually say. Its done a lot in politics.

The key word I said was "could" which is not definite. Anyway I thank Councillor McFarlane for allowing me the possibility of a reply letter to The Leader.
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Thank you Leader for publishing Flintshire County Councillor's expenses which

were very enlightening. The figures provided however could give a false impression

with regards travelling expenses. Those who took zero expenses for travelling could be seen

as being saints when in fact they never attend council meetings or visit Shire Hall.

Whilst attendances to county business at Shire Hall do not show the full picture they do give

rate payers an indication of a ward's representation in County affairs

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keywords: Cllr David Mcfarlane Broughton South

Flintshire Economic Outlook

Link The BBC

Belly Dancers at The Millstone

as advertised in The Leader on Greek Night 4th of June. May have to go down to do a story for the blog!

Also

Pensioner Meal Deals 2 for £8.
Also other special meal deals.

Email: themillstone@live.co.uk
Telephone 01244 548824

A new CBM for Penyffordd District

CBM Howie Williams is the new police officer for Penyffordd. He has worked previously in the Wrexham area. I had previously been told it was someone else. There will be a change over period due to communication issues.

Employment Concerns

for Penyffordd workers at Vauxhalls, Ellesmere Port.
Link The Guardian

North Wales Policing Pledge

Link http://www.north-wales.police.uk/nwpv2/en/yglas/newsDetail.asp?sid=PR654599

Do a 1000+ speeders a day qualify?


keywords: Chief Superintendent Ruth Purdie Commander of Eastern Division.

A request to Penyffordd Councillors

To: Cllr Cindy Hinds, Cllr David Williams, Cllr Linda Vidamour

Dear Penyffordd Councillors,

I understand that there is the Penyffordd Neighbourhood Forum at the Legion at 6.00 pm Wednesday evening. There is a notice in the Spar but not the Post Office.

Unfortunately I cannot attend.

As elected representatives of Penyffordd will you ask North Wales Police what they intend to do about 1000+ speeders each day through Chester Rd Penyffordd which is also a major route to school.

Can you also ask that the problem be added to North Wales Police's website whilst the issue is ongoing..

Speeding through communities is anti social behaviour.

As you are aware Flintshire County Council hold the relevant speed data which they refuse to release.

An example of wholesale anti social behaviour is the morning rat run 7.30 am to 9.00am weekdays.

http://penyffordd-district.blogspot.com/2009/05/penyffordd-community-forum-may-2009.html

Colin Hughes

Chester Rd Penyffordd

copied to Blog

Postscript. Cllr Cindy Hinds replies within 8 hours by email. Cllr Linda Vidamour will also respond. Cllr David Williams will not he ignores his councillor code of conduct.

Penyffordd Community Forum May 2009

At the Penyffordd British Legion on Wednesday (tomorrow) at 6.00pm. Our new CBM will be in the chair. Are we going to see a new accountable North Wales Police who work with Chester Rd Penyffordd community.

If you go here it says:-
What is North Wales Police's commitment to you?

To retain the highest standards of honesty and integrity at all times.

To stay responsive to the needs of the local community.

To provide an excellent policing service which exceeds public expectations.

To be at the heart of local communities, working with you to improve the quality of life.

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North Wales Police activity in Penyffordd here.

1000+ vehicles speeding through Chester Rd each day is NOT on the list.

Crime increase in Penyffordd District

There have been various vehicle break ins including the Wellhouse estate.

The Millstone does turn away business

Its Bank Holiday Monday, Penyffordd is dead. The Millstone has a couple of bouncy castles on the old bowls green. There is no car parking space on the car park. The place is buzzing. A far cry from the last 3 years where successive managements have tried to push food as the number one item which led to an empty car park 7 days a week.

Chirk Car Boot Sale - Getting Bigger

Click image to enlarge

Here's a nice couple with their daughter. Fighting Tesco in Ruabon. Tesco will decimate local shops. People who care about their local environment. He tells me Denmark are doing big things to reduce cars in communities.

An Email to Carl Sargeant AM - Re: A Greener Wales

Hi Carl,

Hope you are well.

The First Minister mentions this today

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/arts-in-wales/2009/05/22/rhodri-morgan-outlines-blueprint-for-a-greener-wales-at-hay-91466-23686216/

I think this is rather excellent.

This all ties in with Route to Schools and Manual for Streets.

With Chester Rd, Penyffordd in the firing line of Warren Hall A55, Warren Hall Business Park etc I hope that

FCC can be persuaded of the argument for no through traffic for Chester Rd when the above developments go ahead.

Or at the very least a system which forces vehicles to do 20 mph with HGV's banned.

At the moment Chester Rd acts as an alternative trunk road rather than a village road that has a bypass

regards Colin

Penyffordd District

still 1000+ speeders every day..........................

Penyffordd County Council Expenses

With all the furore over expenses The Evening Leader has obtained expenses for county councillors for the year ending 2009.

Cllr Cindy Hinds Basic allowance £12,831, Travelling Expenses £182.85, Subsistence £0.
Cllr David Williams £12,831, Travelling Expenses £0, Subsistence £0.

Cindy goes to Shire Hall at least twice a week. David visits Shire Hall about 5 times a year.
As I have said previously. If you do not play the game (representing Penyffordd at Shire Hall) I cannot see how you can be anywhere except the bottom of the queue when funding is available.

The top amount claimed by a county councillor for travel was £1300.

The basic allowance might seem a lot to some people but it will be well below the minimum wage level when time spent on council matters is added up at the end of the year.

Community and Town Councillors receive nothing.

If you have a responsibility at Shire Hall such as Council Leader ( Cllr Arnold Woolley) you get the £12,831 plus a special responsibility allowance of £28,920. Other Cllrs such as Patrick Heesom or Tony Sharps get a £14,686 and £16,496 repectively.

Special responsibilty councillors have to spend much time at Shire Hall.

The government of Flintshire County Council is a minature version of national government. The leading party governs in this case The Independents, last time we were Labour led.

Birthday

I am 55 today.
The presents.
The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Peter Green's Biography
A Purple Orchid

My daily presents include long walks in the country.
Being able to do what I like with who I want.


Goals. To live in a village and not a race track

Tx to Sue Postoffice for the birthday present.

Credit Crunch Strawberries

Mid May fruiting, can't be bad. Can I eat strawberries from May to December?

A Big Thank You to The Evening Leader

Click to image enlarge

It must be said I have never met or spoke to Cllr Patrick Heesom. I regularly send him emails about speeding in Penyffordd because of his position. I also send them to all the great and the good up to First Minister Rhodri Morgan.

I sent the letter to The Leader because I am fed up with the manner that officers deal with me. They have tried for two years to deny me traffic data collected on two occasions in Penyffordd. This data could be read by MS Excel (still can) . They have recently bought new software so that I cannot read the data. Wasting rate payers money to deny me an FOIE.

These officers need to know that they work for us ( as do North Wales Police).

There should be total transparency and scrutiny except for exceptional circumstances. Denying me traffic data that shows the true extent of speeding outside my house is not one of them.

The hiding of Chester Rd traffic data allows the All Wales Safety Partnership, North Wales Police and Flintshire County Council to work against the interests of Chester Road instead of working for Chester Rd.
This is totally counter to the published aims of the above agencies.

The statement that we need more Cllr Heesom's can be expanded to include politician's of all parties including The Independents.

Still over a 1000 speeders in Penyffordd each and every day.
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The unedited version (I have no issue with The Leader editing letters)

cc: Welsh Ombudsman

Dear Leader

A letter for consideration.

I read with interest in The Leader the battle between members and officers of Flintshire County Council over members rights to manage county affairs. I'm sure I am not the only one to be frustrated when dealing with county officers. My own experience being that FOIE's disappear or not answered properly, a blackmail attempt to stop my wife standing for community council unanswered, a scrutiny officer failing to respond to valid complaints over FOIE's. Highway officers withholding important traffic data at meetings and requests for data ignored that has very important consequences for Penyffordd village safety.

(One reads with incredulity that FCC officer's wish to bring auditing back in house after many years of regular appearances in Private Eye's Rotten Boroughs.(edited out) Penyffordd County councillor David Williams is frustrated that his correspondence is ignored. I'm sure my issues are the tip of the iceberg. Rather than trying to get rid of Cllr Patrick Heesom may I suggest that Flintshire County Council Executive look a little nearer to home. A good start would be for senior officers to re-read their codes of conduct and apply them properly to themselves and their departments. Flintshire residents and councillors deserve much better. We need more Cllr Patrick Heesom's not less, to build a strong well run county.

Colin Hughes

Penyffordd District

http://penyffordd-district.blogspot.com/

links

http://www.alisonhalford.co.uk/2009/03/audit-commitee-the-facts-dont-add-up/

Richard to get his own back?

It would be fair to say there is no love lost between the Chief Constable and certain politicians.
Payback time?

Link The Daily Post

Meanwhile his force continue to ignore our daily rat run that's part of the 1000 speeders a day. Recently North Wales Police have been publicizing a new Pledge Policy where they are promising to deal with residents complaints about North Wales Police. Time to put it to the test?

Postscript: The Leader

To The Duke's Garden Centre

To replace the melon plant the snail killed. Why can't they wait till the plants get some leaves?

Not the best day to go as its the Chester Half Marathon, a 30 minute wait whilst they trundle past. In another life time 3 stone and 25 years lighter I could manage a half marathon in 1 hour 35 mins, a marathon in 3 hours 23 minutes.

Marathons are funny affairs in that you hit a wall about 20 miles in. This is where the body runs out of glycogen and starts to use body fat as energy. It affects runners differently usually in an emotional way. It can make you cry.

I met Lisa when I was a jogger.

Marathons that I have run include the North Wales, Liverpool, Manchester and Barmouth. I have had a look at the rain radar which is not good. A band of red and pink moving up the country. It was at Mid Wales when we came out. Red and pink means a downpour. Sure enough the heavens open. Running in cold rain is uncomfortable, a pace is required that keeps body temperature up. Stopping is not an option unless there is somewhere warm to go.

The White Lion Penymynydd

Click image to enlarge

I used to go in The White Lion in my 20's when I did not live in Penyffordd. It was like having a pint in your house. Three old ladies ran it. Nigel the Clerk to the Community Council is related.
They had pickled eggs in a jar.

Link Geograph.Org

The All Day Breakfast

Today, its up and running at the Institute.
An annual event to raise money for the youth of the village.

Postscript: The good people of Penyffordd and district raised a sum of £1000+.

The Bus Stop to nowhere

You talk about traffic calming for the village and the instant response is that there is no money available. A raised platform bus stop has been constructed by Flintshire County Council at the border of Penyffordd district on Chester Rd. Arriva the bus company refuse to stop there.
The cost to the ratepayer £10,000.

Penyffordd Community Council May 2009 meeting

at 6.30 pm.

Main points.

CBM Chris Pullen is moving to Penerlag.
Inspector Alun Oldfield is moving to become a Detective Inspector. On the point of speeding traffic ( a 1000+ a day) they have been a dead loss. There has been progress however with our "youth". Will this be temporary or lasting?
Link The Evening Leader
On the plus side Inspector Oldfield got rid of the travellers who were trespassing pretty smartish.

Four CBM's have applied for the position of CBM for Penyffordd district and Higher Kinnerton.
This is somewhat unprecedented according to CBM Chris Pullen.

We have acting Police Inspector Alan Massey until the Inspector Martin Best is ready to take up his position.

Two community councillors tonight were rather unwell.

Cllr Cindy Hinds is the new Chairperson for the next year.
Cllr Linda Vidamour is Vice Chairperson.

Speeding was brought up. Vounog, Penymynydd Rd.
Possible 20 mph for outside Penyffordd junior school. 30 mph for Dobshill.

Chester Rd continues to have a 1000+ speeders each day.

Cllr Colin Bithell ("I stand for the family"local elections 2008) of course is dead against 20 mph in the middle of the village. I will campaign actively against Colin if he should stand again for councillor if he will persist on being against 20 mph in our village centre.

Cllr David Williams is having trouble with Flintshire County Council. Apparently they are not answering his correspondence. David will not answer any emails I send him either.

What goes around comes around David. lol

Is Cllr David Williams for traffic calming in the middle of the village? Or a wide open road for his speeding mates at The Red Lion.

The bridle path in Lower Mountain appears to be a success. I managed to get The Leader to do a story. FCC has filled in the bog as they said they would. The horse riders are happy with it.

Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom to retire

as I said a month ago.

Links

WalesOnLine

The Evening Leader

Pothole Hotline

Cllr Tony Sharps, Head of Roads at Flintshire County Council has initiated a pothole hotline. He would very much like to hear from Penyffordd residents who spot potholes in Penyffordd district.
Telephone number 01352 701234.

Arrive Alive in Penyffordd

at teatime. Saw a stupid female who actually lives on the Vounog flashing drivers to slow down. What an idiot.

North Wales Police Activity in Penyffordd

We have a new inspector and a new community sargeant. Also there are a list of asbo and crimes in Penyffordd District

Link North Wales Police in Penyffordd

keywords:
District Inspector - Insp. 1160 Martin Best
Community Sergeant - Sgt. 1861 Katie Newby

Penyffordd pubs merry go round

At a time when public houses are going out of business by the score, strange things happening in Penyffordd. The other month I said the owners/tenants ? of The Red Lion were leaving to take over The Swan in Higher Kinnerton.

Now it appears the tenants of The Millstone are moving to The Swan in Higher Kinnerton and the Red Lion People are staying put. Also the people who previously ran The Millstone and left are coming back!

Postscript. Whilst driving passed tonight we notice Red Lion closed, The Millstone carpark full.

Further Postscript: Or current licencee's of The Millstone are staying put and their daughter is going to run The Swan and the former manager of The Red Lion is going to run the red. Take your pick!

Our National Debt Gains Momentum

National debt: Taken from public sector net debt figures (PSND) in Table C4 of Budget 2009. PSND rising from £609.1 billion on 5 April 2009 to £792 billion a year later. This is the most conservative of the available debt indices as it excludes liabilities for PFI deals, public sector pensions and bank bailouts.

Family share: Calculated by dividing the national debt figure by the number of households in the UK. Number of households taken as 25.7 million, as per the written answer to a Parliamentary question in March 2009.

Colin Bithell in The Daily Post

Link The Daily Post

Speeding

With over a 1000 vehicles speeding through Chester Rd each day here is an article by Peter Preston in The Guardian.
The comments are worth a read.
Link The Guardian

Men walking in suits

Apparently today's home Wrexham FC match is attended by Wrexham fans wearing suits. At lunch time various Penyffordd men folk were seen making their way to Penyffordd train station for the match. Sad to see that they have not managed to return to league football this season.

An accident waiting to happen

Not many people know this but apart from being a race track for cars Chester Rd is also a training ground for about 6 lorry training companies. Training lorries stop here on a daily basis.

Is it for handbrake starts?

Cars come from the opposite direction over the brow of the hill at speeds of up to 70 mph. You take your life in your hands when you pull out from behind the lorry.

I think the lorry training companies need a talking to. Have they done risk assessment on their practices. I think not.

Waiting for the day when lorries are banned from Penyffordd as we have a bypass that is very suitable for through HGV traffic.

cc: Inspector Alun Oldfield, Dave Faulkner Flintshire County Council,

Links
Chevron Training
Emerald
Gatewen

Meadowslea awaits its fate

The newly named Elan Homes from the defunct David Mclean's building firm have got their houses up for sale on the old Meadowlea site. Penyffordd has lost two facilities, Meadowslea and Dobshill hospitals. What do we have to show for it? Nothing. No proper health care centre, medical advice dispensed from the Chemist. Who has taken their eyes off the ball. Previous county councillors?

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Meadowslea is a stunning collection of 2, 3, 4 and 5 bedroom homes in a beautiful rural spot just seven miles from Chester

Just across the Welsh border, just seven miles from Chester, Penyffordd offers the perfect balance for a modern lifestyle. Excellent road and rail connections keep you in close contact with some of the UK’s finest shopping and culture, with links to the north west motorway network making commuting effortlessly easy. Step back across the border and you enter a hikers paradise, with the stunning beauty of North Wales right on your doorstep, stretching from the Cambrian mountains to Snowdonia and beyond.

plus over a 1000 stunning speeders, quite a few with illegal exhausts a day through the village centre. Make sure you take your child to Penyffordd Primary School by car as Chester Road is deadly.

Hikers paradise? Get run over by shift workers on Lower Mountain Road.

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Link Elan Homes Meadowslea Penyffordd

Dumped Syringes found

in Penyffordd. The Evening Leader.

Free Drug Advert

The Daily Post.

Our Feudal Ancient Institutions

In the Leader ( no link as the story is not online yet) Treuddyn are trying to get the speed limit changed from open 60 mph to 30 mph. As a daily traveller on the A5104 I am uncomfortable at its danger. White lines on bends are regularly crossed as motorists who are going so fast that they cannot stay on their side of the road. I stay well away from the white line hugging the kerb.

If you talk to Flintshire County Council about speed reductions or controls they immediately get their book out which shows fatalities in Flintshire. Accidents serious or otherwise tend to be ignored. You have to have three fatalities to get attentiom. North Wales Police are also in the mix. They have a say on speed reductions or the banning of HGV's along roads.

Treuddyn and Rhydymwyn have for years suffered serious injuries and fatalities on their roads. Flintshire County Council's response, nothing!

There is this we know best attitude. You stupid communities aren't bright enough to deal with important issues such as speed reduction.

The Road Haulage Association lobby too powerful for local communities?

All this needs to change.

Here is a letter emailed to Flintshire County Councillor Carolyn Thomas, The Minister for Roads Ieuan Wyn Jones and the great and the good including Chief Superintendent Ruth Purdie of North Wales Police.

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cc. Dave Faulkner Flintshire County Council Roads; Cllr Cindy Hinds ; Mark Isherwood AM ; Cllr Tom Jones ; Evening Leader ; Oldfield, Alun (A/Insp 1371) ; Peter.J.Evans; Daily Post ; Sargeant, Carl (Assembly Member) ; Cllr Tony Sharps ; Cllr Linda Vidamour ; Cllr David Williams ; Arnold Woolley Flintshire County Council Leader.

Dear Carolyn,

Hope you are well

I read with interest the Leader story about the Treuddyn speed protest. How good to see a community standing together against speeding.

Good to see you have a proper police inspector too.

We have over a 1000 speeders each day through the village. I have managed to upset most councillors, the police and Flintshire County Council so they are all pretending its not happening, risking lives in our village community.

Last election we had someone stand for county council whose literature said he stood for Penyffordd families whilst we had about 2000

speeders a day. You really couldn't make this nonsense up!

Our children are subject to a daily rat run, no one even comes down to watch it happen.

FCC have the traffic data but are actively hiding it.

I get depressed when I read your statement about a reduction in speed limit is a long way off.

I find it difficult to get my head around why its so difficult to change a speed limit form 60 mph to 30 mph. Is it to make the county council look important?

What exactly is the down side?

A lorry taking 30 seconds more to go through a section of road.

Its time communities had the main say on traffic speed through their communities.

Flintshire County Council are currently showing themselves as complete failures and have done for many years with regards speeding in communities. I was expecting the Independents to show some leadership.

Cllr Tony Sharps recently made Head of Roads knows exactly the proper thing to do.

He has his village stitched down with 20 mph bumps.

FCC have a covert device that can measure each vehicle's exact speed, vehicle length, exact time so you can work out exact speeds

of all the lorries, motorbikes and cars that hurl along the A5104.

They are pretty shy on showing the data though as it gives communities a tool by which to measure the performance of FCC and North Wales Police.

Perhaps you may have better luck. If you wish to know the full specifications of FCC's covert speed measuring device please ask.

kindest regards

Colin Hughes

Penyffordd District

Living in a village centre with more than 1000 speeders a day.

ps. as a daily user of the A5104, I had to laugh at the Garner statement.
(Garners are a road haulage firm, I have reported to Garners, drivers who speed through Chester Rd.)

The Budget 2009

According to Colin Twiggs who I have a lot of time for.

U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, delivering the annual budget statement, forecast a rise in net borrowing to £175 billion in the current financial year and an increase to £606 billion by 2013. He also announced a series of tax increases on higher income earners to help rein in the deficit. That is a mistake. Whether you tax the rich or the poor, the result is the same. Raising taxes reduces consumption. And falling consumption causes further job losses — reinforcing the downward spiral.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd appears to be following a similar path, attempting to spend his way out of a recession. Having inherited a clean balance sheet from its predecessor, his government is fast running up debt in order to fund new stimulus programs. Despite stimulus spending amongst the highest (as a percentage of GDP) in the G20, according to the IMF the economy will shrink 1.4 percent in 2009 — faster than the global average. Government revenues are already 63 per cent below estimates from last May's budget and expected to worsen further. The trap is when tax revenues shrink and the budget deficit starts to balloon, it becomes difficult to resist increasing taxes. The same mistake that Alistair Darling is making — and the Obama administration is likely to follow. Raising tax rates needs to be avoided at all costs.

Another alternative would be to increase the tax grab on what's left of your retirement savings. Australians' massive superannuation fund investments are an easy target. That would save jobs, but may prove highly unpopular with voters.

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Our years of living beyond our means, of buying everything on credit and on money printed out of thin air, are over. Sure, our government will carry on with its nonsensical policy of curing indebtedness with more indebtedness, inflation with more inflation, but the game is up. It's not going to work.

~ Congressman Ron Paul in the foreword to Meltdown by Thomas E. Woods Jr.

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So batten down the hatches..............................

A step nearer to sanity?

Link
The Times
Evening Standard

Penyffordd's Own Security Camera

Some people do not like surveillance cameras. Quite handy however for catching or preventing idiots within the village causing trouble.

postscript: Or pointing it at my house. Taken down very quickly when I posted the above photo. This camera could have been put to good use elsewhere in the village. The bracket is still there on the post. Enquiries reveal that FCC say they knew nothing about its use or why it was put up on council road furniture. I have a look around but have not seen one of these cameras anywhere else in Flintshire. North Wales Police instructed FCC to put the device up. After that things get a bit blurred..............

keyword: secret, undercover,

Potholes the new traffic calmers

Link The Daily Telegraph

An email to Jim Moore - Manager of the newly formed All Wales Safety Camera Partnership.

Dear Jim,

Congratulations on your new position as manager of the newly formed All Wales Safety Camera Partnership which is an amalgamation of North Mid and South Wales Partnerships.

Carl Sargeant AM has written to me enclosing a letter by Ieuan Wyn Jones AM Minister for Economy and Transport explaining the new system and your appointment.

I live in Chester Rd, Penyffordd, Nr Mold and have been campaigning with the help of the Evening Leader and Carl Sargeant AM about a daily 1000+ vehicles which speed passed my house which is in the middle of Penyffordd, a major route to school with a 30 mph speed limit. At one stage is was around 2000 vehicles a day but has lessened due to Evening Leader publicity and a pro active speed sign installed in one direction with half a set of rumble strips.

Quite frankly it has been an uphill struggle from the initial "its nothing to do with us" attitude from certain councillors within the village.

Then followed a struggle with the Arrive Alive Partnership for the data harvested on two separate occasions. My first communication with Arrive Alive was met with the request to take some registration numbers of speeders. I can't get my CBM interested in speeding traffic so a couple of 1000 speeder's registrations seemed like a wasted effort.

My 1st Arrive Alive FOIE for data held was thrown into the long grass with eventual rejection for operational reasons.

The use of operational reasons to block anonymous data that shows the danger to Penyffordd village I found reprehensible.

My 2nd Arrive Alive FOIE for the traffic speed data for the whole of Flintshire was rebuffed on the grounds that it would take too many man hours to fulfill

As someone who has had a computer for 20 years and knowledge of current DVD copying and storage I found this excuse risible.

I am fully aware of the equipment and software used to measure traffic speeds in Flintshire.

I have tried various FOIE's to Flintshire County Council. This has led to a "loss" of about 4 FOIE's that didn't get there.

FCC now have an auto system in place that gives you a number. - Progress!. Still no success though, plenty of stonewalling, FOIE rules appear to be for other county councils. Currently my complaint is with FCC scrutiny. Again emails go missing.

Flintshire County Council is like a black hole for emails.

Their latest ploy has been to change software wasting rate payers money so that I am unable to look at traffic data on MS Excel

Currently I have Flintshire County Council, Arrive Alive and North Wales Police all acting in synch to avoid doing anything about speeding traffic in Chester Rd, Penyffordd. Quite frankly the three agencies are a disgrace.

I hope your tenure in charge of the All Wales Safety Camera Partnership will be one of leadership, transparency and of being pro active in helping Welsh Communities fight the modern plague of anti social speeding in communities. This I am sure will help to bring down serious accidents and death caused by vehicles in Wales.

Sincerely Colin Hughes

Penyffordd District

key words: Chief Superintendent Ruth Purdie, Cllr Tony Sharps Northop Hall, Carl Longland Director of Environment Flintshire County Council

Link Sites
Deadly Mates
Road Safety Wales

The New All Wales Safety Camera Partnership Manager.

Jim Moore


Industry Security..
Level Managerially Qualified
Salary
Country United Kingdom
Location Swansea - Wales.
Company Pembrokeshire County Council - Jobs Vacancies

The All Wales Safety Camera Partnership is committed to reducing the number of people killed and injured on Welsh roads. With core partners in the Local Authorities, Police Services, Her Majestys Courts Service and Welsh Assembly Government it brings together many road safety groups dedicated to reducing road casualties. The Partnership enforces the law, but also encourages legal and safe driving through investing in driver education and engineering improvements. With your input and strong influence, this is a huge opportunity to have an impact on road safety for every person in Wales. This hands-on role has a high degree of strategic working and will see you taking forward the All Wales Safety Camera Partnership, bringing together the partner organisations. Working towards current targets set for 2010, you will be responsible for developing a policy to achieve them, with effective and co-ordinated management of resources and budgets. Also influencing debate on future targets post 2010. An appropriate qualification or equivalent experience will be required, but more importantly you will need a background of partnership work and change management at a high level. A technical competence in work related skills essential, you also possess knowledge of the Safety Camera regime and legal framework. An asset to the team, you have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate at all levels.

keyword: Jim Moore

Flintshire County Council Scrutiny. Are they up to the job?

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An email to Peter J Evans with regards lack of communication over my complaint.

Dear Peter

The continuing 1000+ speeders through Penyffordd each day reminds me that I have not received a reply from Flintshire County Council over my complaint that FOIE's are thrown in the bin or avoided by buying different software to avoid showing the true shocking picture of speeding traffic through Penyffordd. Has my complaint also been thrown in the bin?

Arrive Alive and North Wales Police have given up on Chester Rd. Can I add the name of Flintshire County Council to the agencies that have given up on Chester Rd Penyffordd to my up and coming new poster campaign that will have 3000 viewers a day every day.

regards Colin Hughes

Chester Rd Penyffordd

Where's our Metal Mickey?

North Wales Police have been promising the installation of a metal mickey (lamp post camera) in Penyffordd for over 9 months in the Neighbourhood Forums.
Other communities seem to be having better luck.
Postscript: It would appear that Mickey has been installed whilst I was not watching lol. Have you seen it yet?

Link Metal Mickey The Evening Leader

To Chirk Car Boot Sale

Click image to enlarge

This is the business end of a microlight aircraft, the propeller connected to an air cooled rotax engine. In a previous existence I manufactured parts for Raven a microlight company based in Sandycroft run by the legendary Roy Venton-Walters. Lisa and I have both been up in one of these. A quick Google shows him busy issuing patents for designs he has created.

The above shed houses the collection of aircraft owned by the man who runs Chirk Car Boot Sale. A 2 mile queue this morning and over 2000 people present.

Links  
Roy Venton Walters
Raven Southdown

Penyffordd Junior School Inspection

Penyffordd Junior School has received a successful inspection report. Head teacher Jayne Jones says we are proud our school provides a welcoming , safe, secure and caring environment.

The same of course cannot be said for Chester Rd which is a major route to school and centre of our village.
Over 1000+ speeders each day.

Currently enjoying less speeding due to the credit crunch.

The Welsh Assembly have released further money for safety around schools. Have we applied for any of the money to Flintshire County Council?

Are we asking North Wales Police to deal with speeding no!
Are we asking Arrive Alive to attend Chester Road?

Penyffordd Post Office in line for an award

Sue's hard work at the Post Office has paid off. Penyffordd Post Office is on the short list to attain an award for The Best Post Office in Wales.

Google street van spotted up the Vounog

Lisa is in The Leader today after me emailing them to say we have seen the Google streets vehicle in Hulley Lane in Wrexham. Anyway Ralph in the Post Office says he's seen it up the Vounog. Google are doing video of all streets. This is causing issues in some streets where they have even been known to block the road on grounds of privacy.

Link The Evening Leader

Overton Village gets serious about speeding

It's taken the death of a poor little boy to do it. Meanwhile Penyffordd sleeps on.. ...........
Link The Daily Post

What's Cllr David Williams doing about our speeding of over a 1000 vehicles a day?
Building a village website and wanting to titivate roundabouts that's what.

Road Safety Wales

Link http://www.roadsafetywales.co.uk/

For Penyffordd Councillors.

Penyffordd Community Council Website

Penyffordd and District Community Council now has its own official website. I think Cllr David Williams has brought it all together. The front page looks pleasing with a photo montage at the top. Progress into the 21st century. It will be interesting how long it takes for it to appear on Google searches.
It took me 9 months to get Lisa's commercial site to be indexed on Google. To get onto the first page of a Google search is a very large task. Internet firms will pay £100's of thousands to get to the top of the first page. So there has been great cheating by "black hat programmers" to get certain webpages to the top. Google's search algorithm is one of the best kept secrets in the world.
Lets see how long the website takes to be seen by Google.

Just to be little there is a spelling mistake on the first page.

It says I can advertise on the site. Since David does not even answer my email's I think this will prove difficult.

My website is free, easy to use with the likes of Cllrs Linda Vidamour or Cllrs Cindy Hinds or David being able to put stuff on every day where the Penyffordd Community Council's new site although prettier than mine will cost money on a monthly basis ad infinitum (might be wrong we shall see) . Updating the site will have to be done by a programmer of html.

I did offer to do one for free and turn it over to the Penyffordd Community Council..................

I thought I'd have a look at prices for the website but the owners are just setting up although they do say they are carbon neutral. I find this hard to believe given all the waffle (most probably wrong on that bit) they manage to put on the main page. It looks like Penyffordd Community Council is their first customer. (wrong see below)
Good luck SequentialDesigns.

Link http://www.sequentialdesigns.co.uk/

Postscript:
Second time in 14 days I jump to conclusions that are not correct
Paul Grant is owner of Sequential Designs. Paul has done work for many companies.

Paul says " we have designed websites for many companies and also been responsible for several of the graphics seen at the Wimbledon Championships 2008 as well as many LTA events, see http://www.crosssports.co.uk for one of our latest websites, if you look in its gallery of wimbledon you will see the graphic design dotted around the Wimbledon grounds we completed last year - just one example of a recent client of ours."

Paul is doing the website as a favour for Cllr David Williams.

Penyffordd Community Council Meeting April 2008

Lisa normally goes but a bad back has put her out of kilter. Now that we are in the digital age it is possible with a few mouse clicks to forward dates to all interested parties. There are kids screaming and shouting on the main road. Whilst the councillors will have been in the meeting about 100 speeders wil have gone passed their meeting room. Will speeding in Chester Rd make it onto tonight's agenda?
Will my meeting with Edwina be discussed.
As usual Clerk Nigel hides the agenda at the Post Office. This came in handy the other month when Cllr Colin Bithell was trying to get Flintshire County Council to take me to court for slander. The agenda items being 15 and 16.

Double Standards at Flintshire County Council

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Hi Leader . A letter for consideration.

Re Speed Humps plan to halt dangerous drag racing.

I read in The Leader that Flintshire County Council's Director of Environment Carl Longland is considering speed humps to stop illegal drag racing where vehicles compete over a fixed distance in Deeside and Flint. Here in Penyffordd we have rat runners who hurl through Chester Rd each morning by the 100 on a major route to school. At weekends we have motorcyclists doing 140 mph along Penyffordd By Pass which due to illegal exhausts can be heard for miles. Cllr Tony Sharps Head of Roads meanwhile sits behind 20 mph humps in his village of Northop Hall.

Are double standards being applied here? Northop Hall all tied down and Chester Rd Penyffordd a major route to school as open as the A55.

The constant refrain is we have no money but Carl Longland manages to find money for roads that are not centres of communities at the drop of a hat.

regards Colin Hughes

Penyffordd District

Link The Daily Post

I'd put the Leader link down but can't find it. The Daily Post and Chester Chronicle ignore any letters I send. Perhaps the letters aren't good enough. lol

Postscript. Cllr Tony Sharps in Friday's Leader says the money needing to be spent could have been put towards better use on safety in other parts of the county. Quite right Tony.

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The Chief Constable scorns North Wales communities

In The Daily Post Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom scorns the lack of residents who attend neighbourhood forums. It would appear I am a "grouser". He criticizes those who go on about dog fouling. I know a Buckley councillor who puts dog fouling at the top of his priorities.

North Wales Police have been amateur in the way they arrange meetings if Penyffordd is anything to go by. Here a leaflet would be put up the day before a meeting. Most people have busy lives and next day is too near the event.

Residents in communities tend to get on with their own lives. The only time they will go to a forum if they know about it is if they have issues.

The main issue in Penyffordd as far as I know is outstanding with no improvement. ( this is not speeding cars)
Over a 1000 speeding vehicles through the village centre each day, the police do not want to know.
I don't go to the neighbourhood forums as CBM Chris Pullen took speeding off the list. He has as far as I know never asked Flintshire County Council to look at the speed data for Penyffordd.

Here's his say on the matter The Daily Post

Policing Pledge

A few residents in Penyffordd maybe interested in this.
Will it make any difference?
In my case there are over a 1000 vehicles a day that speed through the village.
Also North Wales Police will not support an HGV ban even though we have a bypass

Link Direct.Gov Uk

Goings on at Shire Hall March 2009

Alison has changed the web colours from the lime green so it is now possible to read the blog without risking a headache.

Link Cllr Alison Halford

Union dismay at Airbus job cuts

Link Walesonline.

Apologies

An unreserved apology to Cllrs Edwina and Stan Davies for comments made in the link below. I added 2 + 2 and came up with the wrong conclusion. Comments made have been edited out. A lesson for me to learn.


Link http://penyffordd-district.blogspot.com/2009/03/chester-rd-speeding-update.html

Environment Agency Newsletter March 2009

Penyffordd drop-in sessions
Two drop-in sessions were held in
Penyffordd Memorial Hall on 30th September
and 1st October 2008.These gave a chance for
people living near the Castle Cement plant to
find out what we were doing and to raise their
concerns with us.People who attended said
they wanted the ability to contact us direct if
there is a pollution incident and also for us to
provide an update on our work in the area at
least once a year.
If there is a pollution incident contact us on our
24 hour incident line 0800 80 70 60 and we will
investigate.

Penyffordd drop-in sessions
An update on Castle Cement

During 2008,odour became a concern for some
people.The temporary nature of this type of
complaint makes it difficult to investigate.We
will continue to work with Castle Cement to
identify all possible causes of odour.We have
also identified other sources of odour nearby
including burning of cables and rubbish and
landspreading.

Complaints about noise and dust were
significantly down in 2008
Numbers of complaints 2007-08
Site audits.
We recently carried out audits of Castle
Cement's management system and their
arrangements for monitoring emissions from the
site. The management system audit was carried
out jointly with the Health &Safety Executive.
We examined how they manage risk,comply
with their permit,how well they monitor
airborne emissions and how to improve
environmental performance.
The control room at Castle Cement
In general the audits showed the site complies
with the permit,has effective systems to control
environmental risks and the people working
there have a positive attitude towards
environmental performance. They also showed
that some management systems need to be
reviewed to make sure they continue to
improve.
Arrangements for monitoring emissions to air
from the permitted release points were generally
satisfactory although some further information
on the calibration of the monitors has been
requested.
We have completed our investigations into the
noise,dust and fire incidents of 2007 and the
file is currently with our legal department.
For more information or if you wish to provide
comments or suggestions relating to the content
of future newsletters please contact Julia Frost
on 01244 894558 or email
julia.frost@environment-agency.wales.gov.uk.
www.environment-agency.gov.uk

Will your child or grandchild be next?

Arrests after cyclist boy's death

Link The BBC

With over 1000+ speeders through Chester Rd Penyffordd every day the above scenario is a distinct possibility. We had a near miss last year a young girl on a green bike, most councillors have no interest in village safety whatsoever. I cannot think of any other village road that is as fast as Chester Rd.

Wrong priorities - child safety relegated below pathwork

cc Chief Superintendent Ruth Purdie and Inspector Alun Oldfield.

I tend to stay away from the road. I live in the back of the house and spend most of the day in my greenhouse which is an extra 75 yds from Chester Rd. I understand CBM Chris Pullen has deigned to visit Chester Rd and opines that there isn't much speeding traffic.
Today I have decided I have had enough of some mature leylandii so I have been around the front of the house loading cuttings into the car. Traffic continues to hammer through the village every minute or two. Why should it not? We have no speed camera, Arrive Alive have given up, CBM Chris Pullen has no interest what so ever in speeding the road is wide open with no traffic calming. I'm sure over a 1000+ speeding vehicles each day will not even reach the pages of his next village audit.

This portion edited out.

FCC seem fine adding to Penyffordd pathways but have no interest in child safety.

Village safety appears to have been forgotten......................

Community Policing a sham....................................

North Wales Police currently refuse to back an HGV ban even though we have a bypass.

Flintshire County Council refuse to cough up the speeding traffic data allowing agencies to sit on their hands.

Will Peter J Evans of Flintshire County Council Scrutiny do his work properly or will he side with the agencies of Flintshire County Council, North Wales Police and Arrive Alive who conspire to do nothing thereby endangering Penyffordd children and OAP's? Our village environment trashed everyday by unwanted speeders by the 1000.

Internet Problems

I hate these. We have 2 or 3 machines networked then out through a BT 205 box. Internet is off.
Well it isn't really as 2 emails have crept through. Web browsing will not work.

The BT box says we are synchronised.

The dreaded phonecall. The person of course is of foreign extraction and English is not her first language. So she has Lisa try various ping tests. Looks impressive but shows nothing is wrong.
This goes on for 30 mins. So she passes us onto a different department. The man on this end says it will cost £25 if they fix it. We decide to decline.

So still no internet

Before ringing BT I have restarted the computer, turned off BT box for a few minutes.
So I have the idea of turning network box off.

Put this back on after a minute, hurray we have internet.

How does a network box allow 2 emails through but no browsing?
We keep a spare BT box adsl modem after years of problems.

Briefing - Penyffordd Community Council Meeting March 2007

Cllr Edwina Davies not present.
CBM Chris Pullen no report - council moved meeting date.

Cllr Cindy Hinds brought up the issue of having a PCSO part time. This has been discussed previously and voted out. Council is to write to Chief Superintendent Ruth Purdie to discuss this further.

Cllr David Williams has been working on a Penyffordd Community website. It continues to trundle on to completion. Costs yet to appear. Our's costs us £20 a month, plus web domain name charges plus me who puts stuff on our commercial website for free. http://www.ladylisabooks.com/

Discussed a review of the electoral arrangements for Flintshire. ie which houses are in Penyffordd and District electoral ward. It was decided to get the definitive map from Flintshire County Council. We currently have the issue where half the houses on Wrexham Rd are in Penyffordd and the other half in Hope.

Quite a lot of issues discuss correspondence between FCC and councillors. It is not seen by residents.

To be continued........

Time to buy our red wine from England?

Link Wales on Line

Flintshire County Council and Speed Limits

In the the Flintshire Leader tonight Treuddyn residents protesting against the 60 mph speed limit passed their village. The road is the A5104 the same one that is our Penyffordd By Pass. I travel from Penyffordd to Treuddyn most days. Tonight I was nearly taken out by a Volvo driver between Penyffordd and Pontybodkin on the bends, 3 foot over the white line, its a dangerous stretch of road.
From now until late Autumn this road will be race practice for many 1000's of cars and motorcycles. Motorcycles are allowed highly illegal exhaust systems and 100mph speeding with impunity.
North Wales Police seem impotent to deal with speeding or illegal exhausts in North Wales.

Arrive Alive and Flintshire County Council will not share data with communities.
They hide their gross efficiency by hiding the true statistics.
The system for getting Arrive Alive shrouded in secrecy.
Their qualifying system a load of bull.

In The Leader it says Treuddyn have been trying for 15 years. What is it about Flintshire County Council and speed limits?
Is it not time for communities to have the ultimate say on speed through their communities whether it be 20mph or 70 mph.

Lord of the Manor?

About 2 weeks ago I wrote an email to County Councillor David Williams asking him about his efforts in stopping over a 1000 vehicles speeding through the village everyday.
He has of course ignored my email.

Is their grounds over his conduct?
Perhaps.
David thinks he can do what he likes.
He forgets he signed up to work for us.

Vandalism in Chester Rd Penyffordd

Click to enlarge. Carried out Wednesday night, Thursday morning.

Airbus Parent Company spells out the financials for 2009

Link FT

Carnage on the roads continues

1. Two funerals in Angelsey this week after a young man hit a tree with 4 occupants in the car.

2. Vehicle leaves road at Rhydymwyn 54 year old male killed the day before yesterday.

3. Five killed on the Wirral including a 6 year old from Wrexham

Tomorrow night Penyffordd Community Council meet. We have over a 1000 vehicles speeding through the village everyday. Speeding is usually ignored by most councillors and CBM Chris Pullen.

Is this carnage not a wake up call?

North Wales Police are talking tough about speeding. Are they just smoke and mirrors though?

Is it not time for action from Flintshire County Council and the Welsh Assembly?

Penyffordd Community Council continues to sleep walk with regards village safety.

Penyffordd to have it's own official website?

Penyffordd Community Council on Wednesday has an item on the agenda about a community council website. As per usual Nigel the clerk puts the agenda on the notice board showing the first page and hiding the others.
Hope Nigel's dog has fully recovered after it's recent vehicular altercation.

Recent House Sales in Penyffordd

Sales recently added within 500 metres of CH4 0LS
• 25, Hazel Drive, Penyffordd, CH4 0NF - Sold for £145,000 on 23-01-2009
• 17, Bilberry Close, Penyffordd, CH4 0LT - Sold for £87,000 on 19-12-2008

In future I will have figures for most of Penyffordd. One wonders if the Billberry Close sale was a distressed sale.

Enterprise blossoms in Penyffordd

One young gentleman is buying sweets in Penyffordd Post Office for 5 pence and selling them for 7 pence at school. A good profit margin with few overheads.

Play Area to be built

on over grown land at the side of the Millstone. The new facility will consist of a sand/play area and community garden and allotment.

Ref. The Leader

Castle Cement to go

They are going to call it Hanson Cement instead. I think Hanson are to run Heidelberg's cement interests in the UK.

A Letter published in today's Leader

Dear Leader

A letter for consideration.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So Martin Phillips feels we have gone too far with CCTV. I see none of the main political parties
promising to dismantle our "Orwellian Nightmare" system as he calls it or to guarantee the proper use of data collected.

CCTV does have community benefits, it acts as a deterrent, it stifles criminal movement. It can gather evidence that can be

used in prosecution of anti social behaviour. There are times when witnesses are too fearful to give evidence, CCTV circumvents

this issue.

In the near future I hope communities will make full use of technology available. North Wales Police, local councillors
and communities have the tools to drive anti social behaviour into the ground if managed properly.

It could be an electronic neighbourhood watch.

Communities could have local networks of cameras guarding their streets and properties. With the use of camera networks,

police bodycams, emails, text, Blackberries, Facebook and Twitter to give full communications with our CBM's we

communities have the power to turn our CBM's into RoboCop.
The future does not have to be 1984 if the politicians have the foresight to see this and make laws to satisfy the electorate.

Colin Hughes
Penyffordd District

Many Thanks Evening Leader

The letter started out in the shape of wanting covert speed cameras in Chester Rd but had to take it out as it was too off topic, never mind perhaps another occasion will present itself. Still over 1000 vehicles speeding through Chester Rd, Penyffordd each day.

keywords. Inspector Alun Oldfield, Chief Superintendent Ruth Purdie.

An email to Flintshire Community Safety Partnership

Dear Flintshire Community Safety Partnership,

I read with interest that you are to hold a public meeting

in the Alyn and Deeside Room at County Hall about Community Safety today. ( correction Tuesday March 17th 5.45 - 8.00 pm )

I understand that Cllrs Cindy Hinds and Linda Vidamour from Penyffordd

will be attending. (not so they are going to a neighbourhood forum) ( all these meetings lol)

As you hold data that shows Chester Rd, Penyffordd to have well over

1000 vehicles a day that speed through our village perhaps you might

wish to discuss with Cindy and Linda actions to be taken to stop this daily gross abuse of our village that has its own by-pass.

regards Colin Hughes

Chester Rd Penyffordd.

A Major Route to School.


keywords: Colin Everett Chief Executive, Hugh Jones, Safety Officer, Gerraint Jones.

Alcohol

In The Independent

Healthy living: There's always been something about the tone or manner or nature of health advice that didn't chime with the claimed intent. You can almost believe what you want. Studies say that red wine halves the risk of cancer, or doubles it. That alcohol causes dementia, or prevents it. That it's a life extender, or a life shortner. It's a lucky dip.

But the number of recommended alcohol units has been falling inexorably since the idea of units was invented. If you consume, oooh, 100 units a week, you get some quite judgmental looks. That's the only constant.

A hundred units is probably a bit much, but I find it better than abstinence. When I gave up alcohol entirely for a couple of years I wanted to die.

It was the boredom. The undifferentiated day. The watchfulness. Perpetual sobriety simply doesn't suit some people. It would definitely be a life shortner in my case. So when reports came through last week that two glasses of wine a day increases a woman's chance of breast cancer by 12 per cent ... I decided not to believe it. I know nothing about statistics, or epidemiological research, or cancer – but I just don't believe it. Maybe it's the researchers or maybe it's the news editor that reported it. But I'll bet my whole life savings that it's baloney. Anyway, I've decided to be one of those people who live as long as they want by doing what they like.

Simon Carr

Link The Independent

McClean's continue with Meadowslea

Building starts again. There is a crane putting scaffold up and men working on the service road.

Would I commit millions of pounds in this property downturn which is currently not at its bottom?

Brave People.