Penymynydd Car Collection Services placed in administration

Link Business Desk.com

To The Post Office

David has mentioned me in his latest councillor newsletter, perhaps the county's legal heavyweight Barry Davies will not be needed.

I see in Penyffordd Community Council minutes July 2010 that Chester Rd is to have it's road markings altered so that action can be taken against speeders. This was asked for months ago but county council moves in ways at it's own pace.

Will North Wales Police then do it's job, one of which is speeding? Not holding breath....

Public left to fight anti-social behaviour alone, says top policeman

Speeding is anti social behaviour. Chester Rd has been left on it's own for 4 years now. Perhaps this may change.

Quote "''They (the public) are on the streets and police are in buildings and vehicles, not doing other things. That is the critical issue."

Article in The Telegraph

Council to consider broadcasting meetings on the net.

No not Penyffordd silly, they still can't even get agenda or committee meeting minutes online.

Click Daily Post

UK a bad place to live

Read

The British Isles are the worst place to live in Europe, according to a new survey that claims residents endure higher prices, work harder and receive poorer public services than their counterparts on the continent. 

Link Telegraph

Also read 

UK pension gap worst in Europe

Britain has the largest pensions gap in Europe and people need to put £10,300 a year more on average into their pension pot if they want to keep their current standard of living in retirement, new research claims.

Link Herald Scotland 

Gordon Brown should be put in the tower ruining this country for personal ambition. Still you get the idiot you vote for on the ballot paper. 

Link Mailonline Crowded Britain

Postscript. The double dip second depression hasn't even started yet.

 

NWPA should go

The excellent Druid tells why here. They know speeding goes on in Chester Rd but do nothing, I've told them more than 50 times.

The Daily Post found out distorting information to suit their agenda

The comments on Druid needs reading.

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe

 

Which is the hot one?

Moe ,Capsicum Annuum Yellow hot pepper 3-6 inches long smooth skin 50,000-75,000 skus. Problem being you label plants then the sun takes the ink off.

Link www.dragonchillies.co.uk 

 

Life is changing fast

The Leader regularly has articles on how Buckley is turning into a ghost town and that pubs are closing. The credit crunch along with other factors have made people alter their lifestles drastically. We have had to alter ours and we have few overheads. In The Post there is an article on a pub landlord who has seen a 35% drop in turnover since last summer. These sort of figures are not sustainable and are being felt by a variety of business from top to bottom. I went in a BQ Super store last week. It was immediately apparent they were not doing very well. Stock levels of items was very minimal the racks looked three quarters empty.

There is no answer to the small shops closing unless there are radical solutions. What are required are very low business rates and low rentals without having to sign up for terms like 5 years.

This will not happen. The Private Sector which pays for the Public Sector is making large sacrifices. The Public Sector is going to have to change there is little money left.

The blogs I read say we are in for a double dip recession.

Penyffordd News - Little happening

We have a couple of lads with scooters buzzing around. Accidents waiting to happen, such is the current way of the world.
Oh! forgot the speeding traffic. Penyffordd councillors still collude with CBM Howie Williams to do nothing about speeding traffic on our major route to school.

postscript: scooters are breeding there are 4 of them now......eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Education, Educasion, Educashun

It would appear our previous government have cocked up our education system as well as allowing the bank crooks to spend all our money including that for the next 10 years. I took the 11 plus which I failed. My reasonable understanding of mathematics not good enough to counter my poor grasp of the english language. Technical college was taken up with the Theory of Flight, mathematics of stress, strains, etc. I have continued my education ever since in whatever direction was needed.


It would also appear our education system rewards those who make easier examinations. You would wonder which idiots would allow the dumbing down of education which is the hub of our future prosperity and culture. Step forward the Labour party. I am not expecting too much from the new incumbents, we will have to see.

Link Corrupt and Diseased Education System in The Independent

Dangerous Dogs in the Mailonline

 

Face like a box of frogs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1312606/Rescued-hyena-Odi-enjoys-better-good-bath.html

Millennium Milestone

Lisa's Kitchen Chicken Pasta

 

Chicken pasta with lettuce, grapes, various tomatoes out of the garden, avocado and parmesan cheese. Dressing made out of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic, chilli and basil.

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.

Link The Leader

The Fun about to start

The Prologue.

Gordon Brown took 13 years spending all our money and that of our children in an effort to keep any Labour opposition out of government for decades. Immigrants allowed in by the million to further dilute the opposition vote. He nearly did it.......

Fast forward to present day. Labour have rightfully been kicked out of office but instead of hanging their heads in shame at what they have allowed to happen to our country they try to mess things up further.

The unions are organising strikes against cuts needed due to Gordon Brown's purposeful mis management.

What we can look forward to?
Inflation  - reduced pensions - civil unrest - not many new jobs, industry including the automotive laying off large numbers of workers. They will be making cars that no one will buy. Houses are nearly impossible to buy for first time buyers. We know a couple whose mortgage has jumped from £450 to £900 per month. They cannot afford this and are now renting. More of this sort of thing to come.

Abroad.
USA is weak and will not recover. Obama wil be defeated.
Greece will default on its sovereign debt next year.
Portugal. Ireland, Italy and Spain are in big trouble, so are we.
The Germans are holding lots of Greek debt.
All the banks are telling BIG lies.

China will be the new world leader.

Batten down the hatches

Saint Les Rowlands of Leeswood

or an alternative heading " Creative Car Maintenance for Beginners"

The exhaust has been making a noise for about a month now. Time to get it fixed. Les finds exhausts a bit of hassle, there is little profit , he does not have the right equipment so we went to a garage recommended by "a friend ".

So up the car goes on the ramp for a check. A hand over the exhaust end shows the exhaust to be in good shape, then there are murmers about the inlet manifold. Further investigation shows that to be ok. Bonnet up bang bang bang goes the engine. Second opinion sought from another mechanic.

Questions - Have we had the timing belt changed recently, does the vehicle run well? How much are we willing to pay? Talk of taking it apart to see what's up. Murmerings about sticking valves.

Put us right off our sandwich from Philpotts off Watergate Street.

It is decided a second opinion is required. This garage are talking serious money plus vehicle hire whilst its in. Up to Les at Leeswood. Bonnet raised a few seconds attention to the air filter body - knocking noise fixed. Les recommends a hole drilled in plastic filter body for a self tapping screw to replace broken locking bracket. Total cost zero.
The garage involved is in Saltney.

Les prepares / takes cars for MOT's, does honest work if it's needed for retests.
Telephone 01352 770199

Uncle Colin with Trollie, Gregori and George

 

A Walk in the Dark

 

A walk in the dark and the wet tonight. Saw a barn owl and I think pipistrelle bats, dozens of them. Last week we saw another type of owl. I think a tawny owl although it was a bit dark in colour. You can't hear them fly they run on silent.

Experts discuss Hanson Cement Padeswood concerns

Click NE BBC Wales

North Wales Police management can't be trusted

Is it not time to call a moratorium on statistics issued by North Wales Police?

Daily Post quote " Police could not comment on why some incidents were not being recorded. But from statistics that had been recorded, a spokeswoman said anti-social behaviour had reduced in April-July 2010 compared with the same period in 2009 – 15,810 to 15,035, down 4.9%. Last year anti-social behaviour incidents reduced from 44,903 in 2008/09 to 41,584 in 2009/10, a reduction of 7.4%."

Read the story here

I complained about anti social behaviour two weeks ago. The result silence from NWP.

Hughes Family Greek Contingent

Visiting UK. All multi lingual even young Derek ( a little ). Michael my brother fluent in Greek, French, German and English. Currently teaching English.

 

Derek and Sophia

 

Lisa reads Thomas the Tank Engine to Gregori who goes to school this year but talks to me as if he were 25 years old. " Uncle Colin what do you think.............."  etc

Derek and Michael

Michael's family including George ( Go Go) second from right but
excluding Alexander who did not make the trip

Millennium Book Signing today

 

At The Institute

Property sales August update

32 Green Park £145,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0LY 8th June 2010

this excludes most probably sales on Meadowslea

China the new world power

The excellent Slog.

Call to keep HGV's out of village

Alyn and Deeside AM Carl Sargeant is calling for the county council to address the concerns over HGV's  after conducting a recent survey of householders in Hawarden.

Link  Flintshire Chronicle

Why should HGV's come through Penyffordd if we have a bypass?

Penyffordd Community Council Meeting 2010

Half way through. Have just seen Howie. Is he to be let off speeding duty in Chester Rd? FCC have still not altered road paint on Chester Rd. Has anything been done over the impending increase in traffic from A55 Warren Bank exit that is currently being constructed?

When are we to get council agenda online?

Postscript: Was there a meeting? 
Further postscript: No there wasn't a meeting as some councillors were still in the Bahamas.
Meeting next Wednesday. Clerk Nigel has very kindly put all agenda sheets plain to see on the council notice board.

Moel Famau to become a Beacon

in the Daily Post. It would appear this will not be permanent though.
The lights will be set up for a week after 25th October 2010


Link http://www.jubileetower200.co.uk/

Vehicle Noise

At last some common sense in Walesonline

Lisa's Kitchen - Lemon Meringue

Antiques Road Show comes to Penyffordd

or I wish it would. Here is a fly door knocker made out of cast iron or steel. It has been cast. Has three different paint colours. The underside including the legs are painted black. The paint looks pretty tough could be stove enameled? It's about 5 inches long. The wings are used as the door knocker mechanism.

 

Link http://antiquedoorknockers.co.uk/

Unusual Traffic Calming Method

because the police have given up on Flintshire communities courtesy of our politicians. A community reduced to gimmicks.

 

In the Flintshire Chronicle

More Mushrooms

Found this during the walk today along with a good soaking from a shower. It's called Fly Agaric it was used by Russian noble men instead of vodka or whatever. Not recommended unless you know what you are doing. No I have not tried it. The Carlos Castaneda books cover this subject plus a few others. The books can be read as fiction. They are about men of Knowledge in Mexico an alternative view of the universe.

Links

Amanita muscaria

Ladylisabooks

Arnold in trouble with Pensions

No not our Arnold, I mean Arnold the Terminator. This shows how public sector pensions will sink the ship if not brought under control.

Links  
The excellent Cynical Tendency 

 Zero Hedge
 

Welsh Newspapers continue to shrink

This is depressing for local democracy. The newspapers themselves and or their websites need to survive so that local issues can be fully discussed. I am of the opinion that newspaper websites do not make much profit.

Link BBC News Wales

keywords, Leader, Daily Post

Latest Welsh Voting Intentions

read UK Polling Report

A County Councillor's Dilemma

in Alison Halford's Blog.
The Welsh Ombudsman still looks at her blog every two weeks. My Blog log records search entries in Google.

One in a million

Schoolboy takes action over speeding in The Daily Post

Speed Cameras for Flintshire Communities?

A big thank you to the Leader

The Chronicle

Have you ever tried to find the letters page in The Chronicle. It takes about 5 minutes. Today I have made the letters page. More later.

Snouts in the trough continued

So our government stood by whilst the city bet our country in a card game and lost. Then Mp's were caught fiddling their expenses (very small beer compared to former). Now it seems they have been handing out more of OUR money to civil servants and ramping up their own pensions whilst our schemes fall through the floor. ( courtesy of Gordon Brown)

Link The Slog

"Deputy Prime Minister without Portfolio (or Party) Nick
Clegg said six weeks ago:
Private sector workers have already seen final salary schemes close, while returns from defined contribution schemes fall. So can we really ask them to keep paying their taxes into unreformed gold-plated public sector pension pots? It's not just unfair; it's not affordable."

Banks

I used to have a business account in Hawarden. I ran it by the seat of my pants expanding business with what ever was available ( credit cards were still to come ). It got to the stage where the manager wanted the banks money back so I would get phone calls most days to say money was needed for the account. The sound of the old fashioned dring dring phones still still causes me to pause. I finally had enough money to clear the loan and I foolishly let the bank manager know. Next day he was around knocking on the door wanting his cheque.

Times change my problem was a bit of over trading. Current banking problems remain. We the tax payer will be paying for these idiots for the forseable future. The Slog reveals that Barclay's Italian sovereign debt stood at £790 million during the recent stress tests designed to test the banks robustness. Two months later the debt has strangely gone up to £8.6 Billion -- Crooks! They are all in it together banks and government. No more boom and bust said the man. lol

Link The Slog tells it as it is

Penyffordd Crime Wave Update

My sources tell me it's Penyffordd Holywell not us that's having the issues.

Traffic Jams

You do not know what you are missing.

Link The Independent

MARK ISHERWOOD: HUGE CHALLENGES FOR NORTH WALES POLICE

Mark Isherwood AM explaining the future police cuts required for N Wales. You may think I've turned into a true blue. This is not the case. The blue yellow team are pandering to the speed lobby. I have a letter in the tubes about today's Leader comment on speed cameras. If published it will not go down well. Although the letter could be used to say that things are going to change... I doubt it.

Link Mark Isherwood AM debate at the Welsh Assembly

Village Gossip - Break ins

I am told there have been 4 break ins recently, one near where I live. Should the village not be told if the gossip is correct? Also where the break ins are happening.

Gwernto Newt

This little lady found sitting on the road in Gwernto Woods. There also many toads. Toads are nice not slimy like frogs, they seem to have calmer personality too.

keywords Common Newt

James Reid a Giant amongst Men

Nothing happening in Penyffordd except rain

Link The Independent

Dismissing a county councillor

on Walesonline

Link Haverdfordwest Council

To eat or not to eat?

Found these growing near the greenhouse in wood chippings from the shredder. They look for all the world like mushrooms but mushrooms grow in fields in grass.There was a party of fungi gatherers who went to Scotland. They ate a toadstool and became very ill. I think they are still on kidney dialysis machines and will continue to be. They are not that sure what they ate.

Here is one to stay away from. The Destroying Angel found in UK woodland.

Here's one that can open your head Magic Mushrooms

Greenhouse produce

A lemon apple cucumber, they're prickly.

Farmers working late

Elwyn the farmer we know is having his hay baled. It's 9.30 and the baling people still have more fields to do for others.

Joan of Penyffordd in the Leader

Joan Hassall, of Penyffordd, near Buckley, said: “Since I lost my husband golf has been my salvation. “

Link The Leader

Good Game

So we are going across a hill in a field near Nant Y Ffrith when a dozen large bullocks come running at us. We have the English bull terriers on leads with us. Do we run or do we stand our ground? The standard advice at the moment is to let your dog off the lead to fend for itself should there be trouble. As there also 20 sheep in the field this would be pure folly. One of ours would chase the bulls around then when he got tired attack a sheep or three. One has to be pragmatic. I see the dog's reactions when confronted by sheep that's why he is never allowed off the lead in sheep country or almost anywhere as his recall ability depends on what's happening.

So off we go across the hilltop running with dogs on leads with a dozen bullocks in chase 50 yards behind us. I see a chance to put some space between us and the bulls by going around a shallow ravine that can't be crossed. This is good enough to stop the bulls and they watch us walk away from the top of the hill. Last year there were atleast 5 people killed by cattle in UK. It would be fair however to say that the young cattle were just up for some fun, the dogs however have far more deadly intentions. A kick in head by a bull is not to be taken lightly, the dogs are however fearless

On a legal point a field with cattle and footpaths in is the responsibility of the farmer. Last year a farmer was found against where a woman was brain damaged by cattle when walking along a footpath.

Four Girls Coach Hire

Four Girls

The Old Post Office Yard
Corwen Road
Pontybodkin
Mold
Clwyd
CH7 4TG

Tel: 01352-770438

For reference purposes 

keyword: email

Football in Penyffordd

in The Daily Post. I presume we are talking us and not Penyffordd near Prestatyn.
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Division One (14): Acrefair Youth, Borras Park Albion (R), Buckley United, Castell AC (R), Communities First, Garden Village, Glyn Ceiriog, Hawkesbury Villa, Llanuwchllyn, Mold Juniors, New Brighton, Penley, Penyffordd, Saltney Town.

Rich Speeders

Read in The Cynical Tendency

Warren Hall Business Park Update

Link BBC NE

keyword Cllr Derek Butler

Police back the use of speed cameras

in Walesonline.

The Government are kow towing to the speed lobby. This will cost lives. The amount of idiots who have car licences is legion

key words Britain’s top traffic police officer Mick Giannasi

Walesonline Comment Quote A voice of reason amongst the muppets

Moz1 wrote:

Of course speed causes accidents, if you go too fast you have less time to react to something. Also, the speed you are going greatly increases the chance of someone being killed, if you are hit by someone going at thirty you are likely to die if hit by someone at twenty - you'll probably live. Being hit by cars is the biggest cause of death of children in the UK - that's right it really is. Lets get sensible about speed and stop pandering to the idiots who think the road was put there for them to drive like lunatics and who then complain because the police enforce the LAW. If you don't like it, vote for an MP who will change it, but first go and see the family of a child killed by a speeding motorist and tell me that speed doesn't matter.

Councillor hits out at speeding

No silly not Penyffordd. Cllr Chris Jones of Sealand in The Leader

House sales in Min Y Ddol

Link Ourproperty.co.uk

keyword CH4 0EB

Speed reductions

Why do councils drag their feet over speed reductions on dangerous roads and roads through communities? In nearly all cases a lowering of speed limits does no harm, it has only benefits

Link Daily Post

Tory MP behaving like Penyffordd Cllrs

We are in the 21st century just a few clicks from your local councillor. Penyffordd residents are supposed to stand for council to help residents and the village. However  a few cllrs hide their email addresses or never return an email. We have 12 cllrs, only three respond to emails.
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Cllr Linda Vidamour, Cllr Cindy Hinds and Cllr David Williams.

Not all the others use email but those that do and hide them should consider why they stood for council.

Link The Guardian

Quote from above puts it succinctly
"
Johnny Chatterton, the digital campaigns manager for 38 Degrees, had asked the MP to clarify that he did not want constituents to be able to contact him "quickly and easily".
Chatterton said: "It appears that you are asking to be removed from a system that quickly and easily allows your constituents to get in touch with you about issues they care about.
"You mentioned complaining to the information commissioner. As an MP you are paid, with taxpayers' money, to represent your constituents, and we believe that as your parliamentary email address is in the public domain it's legitimate to use it to facilitate your constituents getting in touch with you. We have been in touch with the information commissioner to confirm this.
"Before the election, when you were still a candidate, you were happy to encourage people to email you and provided an email address for us to use – I expect some of your constituents would be disappointed if it was the case that you were less happy to be contacted now you have been elected."

Local Councils

How they are run and how they used to be run on the Walesonline site

Retiring Police Chief tells it as it is

In an interview in today's Daily Telegraph, the outgoing Cambridgeshire police chief said: 'Driving without care or consideration for other road users is probably among the worst kind of antisocial behaviour in its truest sense, because serious offenders can, and do, kill.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1301463/Police-chief-blasts-middle-class-wont-abide-criminals-speed-cars.html#ixzz0w6yzpdPN

It's across the spectrum though from 17 to 70 across all the social classes. There is also the issue of environment which is not mentioned by and large. More speed more noise.

English Bull Terrier Forum

http://thebullterrierforum.proboards.com/index.cgi

Bull Terrier

English Bull Terrier.
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I've put this on for a friend. Getting recognised by Google takes sometime, one of our business sites took nine months to appear on the google search engine. It helps if a site with a rating mentions a new site. It's the way the Google algorithm works..

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keywords: dangerous dogs, bill sykes, oliver twist, charles dickens, bullseye, breeds, dangerous dogs bill,

Saving Flintshire Council money

Get rid of Chief Executive Colin Everett and make Cllr Arnold Woolley Chief Executive as well as Leader of the Council. Pay Arnold an extra £40,000 saving the council and us long suffering ratepayers £100,000 per year.

Postscript: The piece was done "tongue in Cheek". Arnold informs me the cost of extra assistants required far out weighs the current cost of our Chief Executive

The full story Link Ian Dale 

Tigerella Tomato

Melon - will it reach maturity?

Lemon apple cucumbers wrong shape

 

Postscript Or maybe they are white cucumbers.

Garden Produce

Lisa's Kitchen - Balsamic roasted sausages with red vegetables

Penyffordd Businesses affected by Warren Bank divert to Dobshill

The village is relatively quiet at the moment. School holidays, the credit crunch and the Warren Bank divert. This suits me but I don't run a business in the village. Quite some time ago Cllr Tony Sharps told Northop Hall community that they needed to use their shops or they would lose them. The same applies to Penyffordd. Councillors should be encouraging residents to use local busineses or our nearest shops will be Buckley or Broughton Retail Park.

House Sales Penyffordd District July 2010

Those below exclude any sales from Meadowslea development for some reason best known to Ourproperty.


28 Penymynydd Road £137,500
Penyffordd, CH4 0LQ 4th May 2010

Helygen Newydd Wrexham Road £315,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0HT 18th June 2008


You can search all these sales totally free of charge by going to OurProperty.co.uk.

Footpath No Entry

A footpath in Gwernto Woods. Both ends blocked. Half of it looks like it has been blocked for 20 years. We call it the peacock footpath as there are peacocks in the area. A favourite by farmers in the area is to run barbwire across the top of the stile.

Postscript: Half sorted. Farewell to Jimmy the local sheep farmer
who was found dead tending his sheep not far from here.
Always willing to stop say hello and pass the time of day.

keyword: Gwernto Fach

A strange Heron

Story in The Post

Politicians kow tow to the speeding lobby

There is nothing wrong with the speed camera at Coed Talon, Chester Rd Penyffordd should have one. Even an empty gatso would be ok. It slows the idiots down.
Top Gear idiots rule the roost over long suffering communities

Read here Link Walesonline

keyword Jim Moore, Gosafe

We join the 21st Century

We now have a Blackberry just like Howie. Email and web browsing on the hoof. Just a few little problems as always with technology. The BT email does not like being set up on the Blackberry. Also why can't all phone systems be Nokia? I have previously had a Samsung and Motorola operating system both rubbish in my humble opinion. This phone saves us £70 a quarter on our previous setup. Business at the speed of light.....

Moscow looking at blog

It is a little disconcerting when you find someone has been looking at the blog from Moscow with no Google link to see where they have come from.

Alison goes to the Queen's Garden Party

Link Alison Halford

Dog's Toilet

That's outside our house. Same dog has deposited stuff outside on sucessive days, pedestrians are spreading it around............. I've been looking at deterrants such as Jeyes fluid, bleach  or chilli pepper flakes. Forum people recommend the following, they say it works. 

http://www.pestfree.co.uk/get-off-my-garden-crystals.htm

May add a few chilli peppers as well.....

Decline of Law and Order

Comment Quote by Spiral Architect on Thaddeus J Wilson's Decline of law and Order

The police is run by politicians – in Westminster, in council chambers and in the headquarters of the various forces.
As we all know – whilst feigning altruism (and efficiency), politicians have only their own interests at heart………both financial and ideological.
The end result is that nothing of any value ever gets done, the lives of decent, law-abiding people become blighted and criminals and yobboes have licence to operate with impunity.
The public is being ripped off and let down, it’s time to act.
How did it come to this?……………….(he asked rhetorically).

Read more: http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/decline-of-law-and-order/#ixzz0va0a5gJt

Postscript Crime rates in England and Wales 'worse than US'

The police is run by politicians – in Westminster, in council chambers and in the headquarters of the various forces.
As we all know – whilst feigning altruism (and efficiency), politicians have only their own interests at heart………both financial and ideological.
The end result is that nothing of any value ever gets done, the lives of decent, law-abiding people become blighted and criminals and yobboes have licence to operate with impunity.
The public is being ripped off and let down, it’s time to act.
How did it come to this?……………….(he asked rhetorically).

Read more: http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/decline-of-law-and-order/#ixzz0va0FqAMJ

Leader Letter " Look after your own ward and stay out of others"

Click image to read

Klaus interfered over a gate that was stopping anti social behaviour on a public footpath in Penyffordd. The gate did not stop access to the footpath. Klaus forced its removal. The gate that was doing no harm cost a considerable sum of money
That's the 3rd county cllr to have a go at Klaus in a week.  Cllr Bernie Attridge, Cllr Chris Dolphin of Whitford and now David.

postscript: Klaus of course is taking plenty of no notice he's in The Leader today over a dangerous wall near a footpath in Connah's Quay.

Police, Government and Statistics

"The fall in serious crime is a fiction as far as I'm concerned. It changed in nature, and it didn't get detected anything like as much as previously.....and of course, middle ranks came under pressure to 'change' the definitions."

The former detective is referring to credit card, identity and internet crime. He goes on:

"It was unbelievable. There we were in an electronic crime wave, and the rug gets pulled out from under the SFO [Serious Fraud Office]. It was a case of 'we can't solve it, so lets make it disappear'. I took early retirement after that. The dishonesty was sickening."

Read the rest  The Slog

A New Manager for Hanson Cement Padeswood

Stewart Jones has taken over as Hanson Cement Plant Manager from Mark Cox who has been given promotion. Mark is to become UK Operation Services Manager.

Link Daily Post