North Wales Cancer Data missing

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EPIDEMIOLOGIST SPEAKS OUT
Public Health Wales are supposed to be collecting cancer information from the rest of the NHS in Wales and feeding into a database which  gives us data on cancer rates, incidence and prevalence.

For some years the system for collecting death certificates has not been working properly so this has not been recorded on the database. The 'flagging' system has not been done properly either so does not follow people when they move between NHS areas, so records are not updated if that person dies from cancer or not. If you look at the reports that are published then rest of UK does prevalence and incident but Public Health Wales is under instruction to avoid doing incidence so that they do not have to admit that the data is not all there.

The official line for any query on prevalence rates that are missing is to try to persuade the person asking for the information that they do not fully understand statistics and as the experts in public health recommendincidence instead of prevalence then that is probably what they really want.

Hanson Investigation Sham
What this ultimately means is that the data that would be needed to do a proper health study in North Wales is not there. Mr Andrew Jones has known this all along and Edwina Hart knows it too so why are they leading the people of North Wales on?

Mr Jones promised that Public Health Wales were going to do a proper review of cancer rates after complaints that previous studies avoided looking in to the real problem. How can they make this promise when they know the data is not there? Well there are a few tactics in hand to try to keep it covered up. Mr Andrew Jones had chaired a lot of meetings with us and said it was to 'fully understand concerns' before deciding what data would be looked at.

In reality he knows the data is not there and he has chosen to try to persuade North Wales people that they really want something other than the cancer study and the meetings and press releases are designed to steer our attention on to environmental concerns instead.

The other con trick is that he is writing the Terms of Reference and any proper study into cancer rates is not going to be on there so that if we complain at the end then he can say ‘We just followed the terms of reference which everyone agreed.’ The plan is to make the terms of reference so limited that no studies will make it on there that need the missing data. That means the cancer studies. Or, to limit to restricted types of cancer is very specific locations where they happen to have a little bit of data even if it is not of central relevance.

The other plan is to run sessions with the people of North Wales to 'help them understand what public health does and how it can analyse information.’ The word ‘expert’ will be used a lot here. The purpose is to make anyone who thinks there should be some straight forward analysis of cancer rates see the error of their stupid ways when the experts explain why information completely unrelated is what they really want.

The other tactic is to 'put it in the wider health context of Wales' and this gives a chance to blind the village idiots of North Wales with hundreds of overly complex statistics and graphs showing every factor and trend line under sun apart from straight forward cancer rates. Anyone who spots that the emporer has no clothes on will be corrected by an ‘expert’. There are proper public health doctors out there with too much integrity to see this happen and this brings shame on the medical profession who should be honest and not side with the politicians in a game of cover up.

Another tactic is the 'Can't commit to a timescale in the interests of the North Wales Residents having a proper chance to meet with Mr Jones and his team a number of times' this is a delaying tactic that relies on the residents getting bored with the substance less waffle in the meetings and tune out until the report findings are published and when they complain that cancer statistics aren’t in there they will be told that everything was completed as per terms of reference (no mention that these were terms of reference not shared with or agreed by North Wales residents). Then we will have to wait another 5-10 years before we can persuade anyone to do another investigation.

If people were really getting cancer, and other awful diseases from the cement work emissions, why would any government be saying 'we have to take our time and do the analysis slowly' unless there is something to hide. The longer it goes on the more people could be getting cancer, if the information was really being collected as it should have been then the information could be produced in a couple of weeks maximum, and any unnessary cancer deaths could be prevented. It’s a disgrace if people are willing to let this happen rather than own up to management mistakes. We are being conned and bare faced lied to at these meetings.

Another tactic to watch out for is the diversion. This works by publishing whatever cancer statistics are available, even when they are not relevant to the investigation, and then claiming cancer issues are dealt with and it is time to move on to the environmental issues. Of course, the right cancer statistics were not published but they are hoping no-one will notice as they herd us like sheep into the ‘time to talk about environment’ pen.

Maybe there is something even bigger behind this. Its worth asking who set the emission rate for the cement factory in the first place and therefore would be liable to public outcry and huge compensation claims if they had to admit it was too low. Now was that public health or environmental health, or both? Perhaps Mr Jones could explain given that he worked in the environment agency at the time.

Well people of North Wales its time to wake up to how we are having the wool pooled over our eyes at these meetings and Mr Jones and Edwina Hart have known it all along. This is about our families and our community. It’s about our loved ones getting cancer and the tragedy of experiencing needless suffering and death. We deserve honest and genuine answers and not this political spin and cover up. They have known all along that they can’t do the cancer studies we want done but they are willing to cover it up. They would rather hide their own mistakes and even if it means letting the cancer continue.

Get coordinated people!
The final, and probably biggest tactics that will be used are the ones we have handed on a plate ourselves:
We have got a good sense of community and proper moral values. We are not used to politics and deviousness of this scale so we naturally trust the investigation team. Big mistake.
We do not have a single campaign group so our voices are diluted. Part of their plan will be to meet with us on an individual basis in a divide and conquer approach so that we never group together and find out everyone-else feels conned too.
If we had a co-ordinated group, we could insist on more power rather than being passive residents letting ‘experts’ take control.
We must insist on agreeing the terms of reference. We must make it public now that the terms of reference will be rejected by residents if it is a white wash. This is currently their master key and its one they have played hundreds of times in other political white washes and people fall for it every time.

We need to record every commitment they make as they will rely on us not having any evidence that promises were made and not fulfilled.
Can we get together one central website so that we can coordinate our power and passion in one place?
We need to meet as a group and agree a ‘list of demands’ based on the precise investigations we want done and not let ‘experts’ roll over us. If the issue is about expertise, then let’s get some independent people on our side.
By inviting separate submissions, they have control over what they report the key concerns of residents to be. So we need to make sure we can list as much of it as possible in case they conclude most people are more interested in things other than cancer!

Keep an eye on dates and deadlines. This can be used to limit our influence.

Insist on a copy of all documents otherwise ‘decisions’ will be recorded in documents we don’t see.

Ask Mr Jones why he has refused Freedom of Information act requests on cancer data?

Ask the Office of National Statistics to confirm what is missing from the Welsh submission as they will not be over-ruled by Mr Jones’ cover-up team.

Do freedom of information requests on how many information governance incidents there have been in last two years at Public Health Wales.

This will prove they know about the data problem.
There is a deliberately plan to push us towards thinking that we want environmental factors looked at and not cancer. This would be done by setting the agenda of meetings, by ‘closing that phase’, by bringing specific experts, by pretending it is what we asked for. If this happens, and it already has, and it does not get challenged, then we will be seen as agreeing implicitly. We need to talk up at the time.
There are many public health consultants and statisticians with real morals who would not lie and cover up at the meetings. That is why they are not there. That doesn’t mean we can’t invite them to meet with us so we can talk this through and see honestly and openly what can be done from the information that is there. It is not part of medical ethics to lead people on and leave their communities with cancer just for political gain. This is negligence beyond words as he is willing to let people go on dying just to cover up for Edwina Hart. This is corruption on its grandest scale. Many doctors and statisticians in Public Health Wales would break silence if we could speak to them directly.

A visit to Utopia away from the damp and the cold

Lord Howe Island where everyone knows everyone and everyone says hello to one another. They can ditch the compulsory cycle helmets though. A good job for Howie.

Links
Lord Howe Island
Google Maps

Cease Fire

Gosafe have said they will answer my FOIE with regards speeding in Chester Rd. They hold three lots of data for May 2007, June 2008 and December 2010.

Lisa's kitchen - chicken gnocchi bake

Alison, Patrick, Paula, Arnold and the Ombudsman

Link Alison Halford

Penyffordd Post Office

The state of play between main post offices and sub post offices such as Penyffordd run as a business.

Amad3us

Today 06:26 PM

To give the readers' an overview:


Out of 11500 post offices across the country, 400 are company operated also known as crown network. The rest are owned and operated by private individuals also known as Sub-office network.


The private investors have brought in £3billion worth of their own life savings into the company.


400 Crown Offices lose to the tune of £55 million every year and generate only 10% of the company income. Compare that with the fact that the Sub-office network generates 90% of the company income.


The sub-office network, by CWU's own admission, has had a pay cut for the last 4 years. And CWU is moaning about a pay freeze for one year?!?!


About time these crown offices are shut and this money down the drain saved.


Link Telegraph

Making Chester Rd less attractive to through rat run traffic

I came across the following links by accident. It's a response to a traffic calming evaluation FOIE in area of Rhondda Cynan Taff council.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/traffic_calming_evaluation#incoming-25554
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/9666/response/25554/attach/html/4/Table%202.doc.html

Cllr Cindy Hinds and Cllr David Williams are currently in discussions with Flintshire County Council.

Gosafe add Chester Rd to their duty roster again

http://www.gosafe.org/en/cameras/Details.aspx?ID=462&UAID=17&UA=Flintshire

If you look here
http://www.gosafe.org/en/cameras/Details.aspx?ID=462&UAID=17&UA=Flintshire#details

It all looks dinky fine, average speed of traffic 28 mph, what's that idiot blathering on about. I consider Gosafe to be the propaganda arm of the Welsh Assembly Government. They are just the paper over the cracks. Over 600 N Wales communities want their services. Their system of which tiny minority get the services is neither fair nor transparent. A unaccountable Welsh quango.

One figure partly gives the game away the 34% of vehicles exceeding 30 mph.

The other figure of interest is the traffic flow of 2489 a day.

Any councillor worth their salt would be pushing Gosafe for the full data and a new analysis now A55 Warren Hall exits are open.
They should be asking how many HGV's take a short cut, how many vehicles come through the village each day? how many vehicles use the village as a short cut?

Gosafe has equipment that can count HGV's, motorbikes, buses etc. The equipment just has to be set up proper. They can even work our car types by measuring the distance between the front and back wheels as the vehicle goes past as well as the speed.

Links

Alyn and Deeside Conservative Welsh Assembly candidate unveiled

the story in the Flintshire Chronicle. Would John Bell be any better than Carl Sargeant for Chester Rd, Penyffordd?

keywords: conservative, Will Gallagher, Clwyd South, Councillor Paul Rodgers, Chancellor George Osborne, Mark Isherwood.

Rant at Councillors

Last night I went out for a drink. It's best to stay away from emails after a drink but I didn't. So I launched into a " if you were proper cllrs " against Cllrs Cindy Hinds, David Williams, Linda Vidamour. I'd have included the other councillors but they hide their email addresses from me. Yes that's right elected representatives hiding email addresses.

I expected better from Linda as council chairman this year but she has gone along with the non action by North Wales Police and Gosafe removing Chester Rd from their road for concerns database.

It's 4 years now and traffic still hammers through the village every morning. We have had Howie finally out with his speed gun. He was there at 2.30 in the afternoon possibly the quietest time of the day for speeding traffic.

I am told by Cindy that she and David have approached highways there is no excuse however for not having our CBM out and about during the rat run.

There may be two, three hundred cars that speed past each morning. Our road was measured in December for traffic speeds FCC who have a Gosafe Safety Officer say they have not got the data, just more stonewalling. There are three sets of speed data for Chester Rd that I know of. May 2007, June 2008 and December 2010.

You would think any councillor with any idea would be demanding this data. Well you can think again they are like a row of ostriches with their heads in the sand. I am of the opinion that there are still over a 1000 vehicles who speed each day through the village from a high of 2000 in 2007. I have a new FOIE with Gosafe in place which they are currently ignoring and I will be going all the way to the Information Commissioner's office to force their hand over it. They are just an unaccountable Quango. Carl Sargeant AM knows the score but just sits on his hands.

I can only assume that votes take priority over village environment and safety.

The member for crayfish, red squirrels and damsons asks

Written Answers - Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Shellfish (9 Feb 2011)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2011-02-09a.38065.h&s=speaker%3A11267#g38065.q0
Mark Tami: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs what progress her Department has made in reducing the incidence
of crayfish plague.

Written Answers - Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Squirrels (9 Feb 2011)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2011-02-09a.39113.h&s=speaker%3A11267#g39113.q0
Mark Tami: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs what estimate she has made of the size of the red squirrel
population for each of the last five years.

Future Penyffordd housing developments

I read here that Broughton community are to receive about £500k when Broughton Park residential area for 260 houses is developed. The money is supposed to be for education but why the narrow strictures, schools are closing?

Does that mean with the White Lion and Mr Hewitt's land being developed in Penyffordd in the near future that Penyffordd district will benefit by a sum somewhere near 500k ?

I don't think we should have any further developments and I think a lot of other people in Flintshire communities think similar. Perhaps we should tell those in power ( EU) to bugger off.

Waste collection changes

1. Weekly Kerbside recycling collections
2. Weekly food waste collection
3. Fortnightly non recyclable waste
4. Fortnightly garden waste.

On the day containers must be placed out by 7 am for collection.............or else !
It's getting more like a communist, dictatorship council everyday.

An email to Chief Constable Mark Polin with regards hiding of traffic data to North Wales communities

cc Home Secretary, Minister for Policing.


Good Evening Chief Constable

The wind at last has died down, I've put my slates back on the roof. You should be careful of those that advise that I too have a few missing.

It doesn't seem 5 minutes but it must be over three years that Charles Hughes, Head of Engineering of Flintshire County Council sat opposite me at a meeting to discuss speeding traffic knowing full well that 2000 vehicles a day  were breaking our village speed limit. He decided that this information was not relevant to the meeting

Then we had a surprise visit from your predecessor former Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom who managed a village audit that was 2 inches thick in pages without going near the thorny issue for Chester Rd of 2000 vehicles speeding each day.

Then we had Inspector Martin Best playing down traffic volumes and speeding in the village in The Chronicle last week.
I say playing down but really I mean misinforming, lying.
CBM Howie Williams our local bobby told our community council that speeding through the village was 5 % for June 2008 when he really should have said it was 34%. His apology is minuted, it only happened because my wife noticed the falsehood.

You can see the pattern here of course.  Hide the data, tell falsehoods, put communities at risk, ignore their environments.
How far does this falsehood go to? The Home Office, The Welsh Assembly government?

Last night I put in two Freedom of Information requests, one to you ( NWP) which you replied to and another to that bunch of spiv management Gosafe ( The All Wales Safety Partnership) which has not been replied to as yet. I can imagine them in a meeting discussing ways that the data I have asked for can be denied yet again.

My question is. Are you comfortable with your partners Flintshire County Council and Gosafe hiding traffic speed data from communities such as Chester Rd, Penyffordd?

I hope you will take the time to consider this which is an issue in over 600 North Wales communities.


Colin Hughes
Chester Rd
Penyffordd


copied to blog as a matter of public record

Peace in Penyffordd after the storm

This is the damage to a neighbour. Many fence panels in other neighbours gardens have been ripped out. The wind perhaps from an unusual direction with severe gusts.  My stuff just about repaired, slates back on the roof. Design modifications needed in case any of this stuff passes again.

Houses for sale Penyffordd

Link Rightmove

An email to Carl Sargeant AM - Local Government Corruption

Morning Carl

Another windy one my shed roof's blown away, it's all down to this global warming we need to pay more tax! Big mess in Anglesey must be taking up all your time. Your oppo Eric the Pickles continues to play a blinder. Now I read councils are going to have to publish local government salaries over £58k.

From my and other Chester Rd residents point of view  there's a rather large stink closer to home ( Sharpie's dept) . Last week we had North Wales Police in The Chronicle playing down speeding (lieing)  in Chester Rd with the full collusion of Flintshire County Council ( Highways and Road Safety) . The proof being they continue to hide the speed traffic data recorded on our road. I live here I see it I know the truth.

Your chance Carl. Are you a man of the people or are you just like "them" ?

Colin Hughes

Penyffordd

copied to blog

ps. I can't currently see why anyone in Penyffordd or for that matter N Wales should vote in the upcoming Welsh elections

Recent house sales in Penyffordd district

4 Hulleys Close £180,000
Penymynydd, CH4 0YX 6th December 2010

4 Orchard Place £277,500
Penyffordd, CH4 0GY 8th December 2010

3 Westfield Drive £173,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0HY 1st December 2010

2 Westfield Drive £80,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0HY 19th November 2010

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

Erddig Fruit Trees

1. Upton Pyne
2. Twenty Ounce
3. Gascoynes Scarlet
4. Millicent Barnes
1903 - Chester - Scarlet flushed Sharp crisp juicy -  P-Sept - R-Oct/Nov
5. Golden Pippin
6. Cockpit Improved
7. Emperor Alexander
8. Lewis' Incomparable
9. Kidd's Orange Red
10. Crispin
11. Howgate Wonder
12. Adam's Pearmain
13. Wormsley Pippin
14. Margil
15. Hambledon Deux Ans
16. Orleans Reinette 
17. Wyken Pippin
18. King Charles Pearmain
19. Lord Lambourne
20. Costard


The following fruit trees of Erddig are mentioned in "The Servants Hall " by Merlin Waterson. There were various alterations to the walled garden so the position of trees mentioned below my not be correct. The book as a history of Erddig is recommended, the Marquis of Anglesey's foreword I particularly liked, perhaps without the Marquis' persistence Erddig may have been lost to the nation.
It is out of print but can be bought online.

South Wall
Kanatian Peach
Old Newington (peach)
Fruit, large, roundish, marked with a shallow suture. Skin, pale yellow in the shade, and fine red, marked with still darker red, on the side next the sun. Flesh, yellowish white, deep red at the stone, to which it adheres; of a juicy, rich, and very vinous flavour. Flowers, large, Leaves, without glands. Ripe in the middle of September.

White Magdalen
A tolerably large, round peach, of a yellowish-white, but of a lively red on the south side: its pulp is mellow, and very grateful to the palate; of a rose-red tint about the stone, and yielding a sweet juice : it is eatable about the middle of September.


Burden Peach


Blew Peralrigou Plumb
Scarlett Newington Nectorn
The Virginall Plumb

East Wall
Queen Mother
Robin Pare  (robin pear)
Lemon Pare
Bury Pare
Virh Long Pare
Jargonell Do  ( jargonelle )
Virtlong
Jesus Coll Warden
Rhine Clan Plumb
Orange Apricock

(Early Orange; Persian; Royal Persian; Royal George; Royal Orange)
Fruit, above medium size, roundish, one side swelling more than the other. Skin, pale orange in the shade; deep orange, tinged with red, next the sun. Suture, well defined, deep towards the stalk. Flesh, deep orange, firm, and adhering to the stone, which is small, smooth, thick, and impervious. Kernel, sweet. Ripe in the middle of August.


West Wall
Gross Blanquett Pare
White Mogull Plumb

White Magnum Bonum (Askew's Golden Egg; Bonum Magnum; Dame Aubert; Dame Aubert Blanche; Egg Plum; Grosse Luisante; ImpeHale Blanche; White Mogul; Yellow Magnum Bonum)
Fruit, of the largest size; oval, with a rather deep suture extending the whole length on one side. Skin, thick and membranous, and adhering to the flesh, deep yellow, and covered with thin white bloom. Stalk, an inch long, and inserted without depression. Flesh, yellow, firm, coarse-grained, with a brisk subacid flavour, and adhering to the stone.
A culinary plum highly esteemed for preserving; ripe in September. The young shoots are smooth. The tree is a strong and vigorous grower and bears well either as a standard or an espalier, and when grown against a south wall the fruit is considerably improved both in size and flavour.


The Petit Russell Pare
Blew Mussell Plumb
Green Impardigall Do
Spanish Musk Pare
Burgamy Pare

The above written in Eighteenth century English.

The BBC website mentions two further fruit tree types.

"The park was landscaped by William Eames (1729-1803) between 1768 - 1789. Erddig's walled garden is one of the most important surviving 18th Century gardens in Britain and was planned around a canal, and features a Victorian parterre and yew walk, as well as the National Collection of Ivy. The walled garden has many rare historical varieties of apples, pears, plums and apricots training along its walls, carefully labelled with names like Bon Chrétien d'Hiver (a pear of the late 15th Century) and Edelsborsdorfer (a 16th Century apple)."

1. Bon Chrétien d'Hiver

Winter Bon Chretien (D'Angoisse; Bon Chretien d'Hiver; Bon Chretien d'Auch; Bon Chretien de Tours; De St. Martin)
Fruit, large, and very variable in shape, some irregularly pyriform, and others obovate-turbinate, uneven and bossed in its outline. Skin, dingy yellow, with a tinge of brown next the sun, and strewed with small russety dots. Eye, open, with long segments, and set in a deep basin. Stalk, an inch to an inch and a half long, obliquely inserted in a close cavity. Flesh, white, crisp, juicy, sweet, and perfumed.


A dessert pear; ripe from December to March. The tree is tender, and requires to be grown against a wall, when the fruit is excellent and richly flavoured. In France this was for centuries considered the finest of all winter pears; but of late years, since the introduction of so many superior new varieties, it is only fit to be grown as a standard, and cultivated as a first-rate culinary pear; for this purpose also it is used in France. A French writer of the last century says, "If you are curious in large fruit, plant the Catillac Pound Pears and Double Fleur; but if you want quality, no pear surpasses the Martin Sire and Winter Bon Chrêtien for compotes. The coarse grain of the latter being fined by cooking, its juice becomes a syrup, and contains a perfume and natural sugar which cannot be communicated artificially."


In the Horticultural Society's Catalogue the Bon Chrêtien d'Auch is made synonymous with this variety, and doubtless what was received proved to be so; till February. The tree forms a handsome small pyramid, is quite hardy, and an excellent bearer. As grown at Teddington it is a good pear, but of rather flat flavour. "Not to be compared with Josephine de Malines."


This was raised early in the present century by M. Jean Charles Nélis, of Malines, in Belgium, and was introduced to this country in 1818 by the Horticultural Society of London.



2. Edelsborsdorfer
1544 - Germany - Pinky orange flush over yellow  sweet elderflower scented  firm white flesh - P-Oct - R-Nov thru Jan



Information will be added when found. Please feel free to email ( tresmegistes@gmail.com ) if you anything extra that might be added

The Prime Minister talking sense

France and Germany are taking a similar stance. The Prime Minister in The Telegraph.

It's been a bit windy

Someone on the Leader comment section says I need to take pills, yesterday I would agree. Four slates have come off the roof. I've got what's called lazy nails holding the slates on. Needs roof re doing 5 k.

A bit worse here though.

I hate the wind. I'm not on my own though some winds make you ill. Some evil winds here

Llanfynydd Tourist Attraction

for my mates at The Leader comment section, its been there three weeks so far.
http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/98579/is-this-the-safest-village-in-wales-.aspx

Carl Sargeant AM is busy

Link The Druid

Next time you are tail gaited

You might like to bear in mind my experience. Pushed along Corwen Rd, Penyffordd. Pulled over for a British School of Motoring Instructor on a 60 plate in a hurry in a 30 mph limit who doesn't know stopping distances. Time 7. 50 pm.

Emailed to British School of Motoring

Link http://www.bsm.co.uk/

keywords:dangerous drivers, no idea, Buckley, Broughton, Chester, Wrexham, Flintshire.

Postscript. I am told BSM Chester or whatever have gone into administration, not surprised.......

Penyffordd Institute Annual General Meeting 2011

PENYFFORDD AND PENYMYNYDD WAR MEMORIAL INSTITUTE


ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING


TUESDAY,  22nd. FEBRUARY, 2011 in  the

COMMITTEE ROOM  of  the  INSTITUTE  at 7pm.


 EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO ATTEND

Penyffordd and Penymynydd Pantomime in final rehearsals

in The Flintshire Chronicle.

keyword: 2011

And finally crime in Penyffordd district

For the month of December 2010 all is quiet well just about. Five crimes reported here.

Former Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom was quoted as saying that speeding was anti social behavior. It would appear this is no longer so.

Further if you zoom in on the google map you can see where the incidents took place. Anti social behavior next to my house, a burglary in Hazel Drive, violent crime in Berwyn Avenue.

The anti social wasn't me.......................

Mark Tami MP has damsons on his mind

Not a lot of people know this but I intend to grow damsons and other fruit trees in test tubes. I have emailed Mark of my new interest. Further on this bizarre political topic on the Hansard link.

Links
 Hansard
Damsons
Welsh Fruit

Google is watching me

Why do I merit a daily scan from Google headquarters in Mountain View and New York?
The hydrogen peroxide is for gardening guys !

Penyffordd Crime

From today (sort of) it will be possible to see a map of crime levels in England and Wales. The naysayers of course are saying its a map for criminals. It will show the glaring short falls of some police forces if the data is collected properly. North Wales Police for example are very good at taking the bright side of data even though they had little to do with why data shows certain trends such as the lowering of recored crime by 11% recently that had more to do with social change than police management effectiveness.

Here's the link  Its currently not working due to overload, not a good start........................

Postscript: Told you so

Quote by Mark Burns Williamson 'The popularity of crime mapping shows people identify with, and want to influence, their neighbourhood and their district, and that accountability must be accessible.'
I hope Penyffordd Cllrs will read the above and digest.

Last year Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Sir Denis O’Connor, said police had staged a 30-year retreat from the streets, allowing the ‘disease’ of anti-social behaviour to thrive.

Fuel Price Issues for Penyffordd

Fuel is an easy target for government to raise taxes. The problem being freedom to travel is the oil that lubricates the economy. It's alright the green's wanting everyone to use less petrol and diesel ( China has just announced plans for a new 42 million people city who will be wanting personal transport whether it be cars or airbuses ).

Put fuel prices up and most modern human activity is affected.

Resentment is stirring here in The Daily Post. Small lorry firms suffering greatly.

Done my accounts last week. My fuel bill half the year before so nearly half the revenue for the chancellor.
Trouble is these public servants and politicians who decide policy don't live in the real world. They don't run businesses they just have this task of spending x amount of billions before the end of the financial year. This may be about to change in the next few years.

To Talacre Beach

A5104 shut again 4.00 pm today

Another accident, North Wales Police in attendance. The A5104 between Penyffordd and Pontblyddyn one of the most dangerous roads in Flintshire.

North Wales Police presence on Chester Rd.

Freedom of Information Request Time

Yesterday Inspector Martin Best made certain assertions in The Flintshire Chronicle. Time to ask what he bases his assertions on.

Link What do they know

To the best pub in Penyffordd

which happens to be The Bridge in Pontblyddyn.............. more later.

Penyffordd dancer to perform live on TV

Nicolette Whitely is hoping people in the county will pick up the phone and vote for her this weekend.

The 22-year-old, of Penyffordd near Mold, began dancing six years ago and went on to pursue her passion by training at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA).

Link Flintshire Chronicle

Does Inspector Martin Best misinform?

Quote "South Flintshire police inspector Martin Best said: “North Wales Police have continued to monitor the effect of the highway alterations to both speed and traffic flow along Chester Road.

“To date no increases have been identified. However, the South Flintshire neighbourhood policing team will continue to monitor and take appropriate action when offences are disclosed.”

Link Flintshire Chronicle

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It would be fair to say that no increases have been identified because NWP never look.

NWP do not monitor traffic in Chester Rd. When Gosafe last monitored traffic in Chester Rd the road to Broughton was shut due to the building of A55 Warren Hall exits. Flintshire County Council representative for Gosafe refuses to hand over the last set of data taken on Chester Rd.
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The following are facts Inspector Best

1. Traffic hammers through Chester Rd at various parts of the day. We have a rat run every working morning, neighbours over the road will back me up. Gosafe have the data. Let's have it all out in the open. Let's see the unedited Gosafe data taken in 2007, 2008 and 2010. Prove me wrong. 

Your statement to the Flintshire Chronicle stinks, have you had training in the Met?. I expect better from a police inspector.

postscript. Will Penyffordd Cllrs demand new traffic speed data so we can all see what's happening? Don't hold your breath!


Leader quote


South Flintshire Inspector Martin Best received a commendation for his leadership.His commendation reads: “Martin has made great endeavours to seek out best practice and support when required and has never failed to take personal responsibility for his area’s performance.
“Martin has quickly become well known and highly regarded by our partners outside North Wales Police, including local councillors and other elected representatives. He is a model leader and an inspiration to a number of staff.”

Ongoing speeding in Chester Rd

Many thanks to the Flintshire Chronicle for printing my letter on NWP large lack of enthusiasm for traffic policing in communities such as Penyffordd. It's funny how we have had no traffic policing in Chester Rd for maybe 2 years yet yesterday afternoon our CBM Howie was on Chester Rd with a speed gun.
Communities want more than gesture policing  NWP.

Question. Where are Penyffordd Community Council on this? With Chester Rd residents and school children or North Wales Police?

Continuing from previous post

Simon Jenkins puts everything into perspective. This is stuff that will affect Penyffordd.

Link The Guardian

The current state of the nation ........................

So we have had a bubble economy for the last how many years. House price rises built on nothing. Mortgage holders using their houses as banks spending unearned money on holidays and everything else.
The banks have stopped lending to business, a lot of business are drawing in resources to consolidate rather than expand, a lot of building firms are just existing keeping their infrastructure in place.

Shock horror today our economy shrunk by half a percent.(in the real world shrinkage it's a lot more)

Up pops the arse who was architect to all this bubble spending Ed Balls. Saying the government are doing things wrong. Ed Balls should be in jail as well as Gordon Brown for destroying our economy.

The national newspapers are no different. The Guardian that lost £40 million last year claims shock horror at the state of the nation.( Here)

Penyffordd Panto 2011

Penyffordd and Penymynydd Pantomime Group

proudly present

Treasure Island

by Tony Bradford and Tina Webster

at

The War Memorial Institute

Chester Rd.

Performances

Fri 4th February @ 7.00pm

Sat 5th February @ 1.30pm

Sat 5th February @ 7.00 pm

Sunday 6th February @ 2.00 pm

Admittance Price

Adults £4

Children and OAP's £2.50

Family packs price available

Tickets are available at Penyffordd Post Office

Credit Crunch Effects on private business

Accounts have to be sent into HMRC by the end of the month. So I am sorting through figures. I have always hated doing accounts but you do need to know what's going on for your own sake and for our government that spends our money like water. In 2005 we started a new venture by 2007 our sales were going through the roof then the credit crunch hit. Also our competition increased vastly with competing companies using computer programmes to drive us smaller people out of business.

Say I alter the price of a 100 of our products so they are the lowest on the internet. Tomorrow morning our competition will run their computer programmes automatically scanning our products against their products. Their computers will then alter all their prices so that they are lower than ours.

It's called the race to the bottom. The bottom line being is to sell stuff the competition don't have.

At the moment there are a lot of businesses struggling out their. Shops unless they are selling mobile phones or food must be having a nightmare. High monthly costs with income steadily falling.
Bank behaviour to private business is a disgrace. A friend of mine advised many years ago not to borrow money from the bank unless you have the means to pay it straight back should they ask for it. This is a very hard task in the modern world. His advice however has paid large dividends.

The car industry must be feeling very uncomfortable, its very easy to put off the buying of a new car.

Government have failed to look after the golden egg ( private business) which pays for everything they spend. Health, education, social services.

Government bills for public pensions are colossal, they are in the trillions.

Until the government gets radical with conditions that favour private companies expanding business and taking people on UK PLC will continue to drive along in the ditch.

The Chancellor George Osborne would love my account graphs. Costs getting lower and revenue climbing........................

Mark Tami MP takes a swipe at BT for us long suffering customers

Commons debate
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Oral Answers to Questions - Culture, Media and Sport: Community Broadband (20 Jan 2011)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2011-01-20a.990.3&s=speaker%3A11267#g991.1
Mark Tami: What discussions has the Minister had with BT and other
suppliers who still produce maps showing broadband coverage, sign people
up and take their money, only for them to find that broadband does not
work and probably will not work for many years?

The Old Establishment Media v The New Media

The Guardian

Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson resigns for personal reasons

Guido

Alan Johnson caught bonking a civil servant.
Outed by a special advisor to Ed Balls
Step forward new Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls !

Link http://order-order.com/2011/01/20/balls-spad-outed-alan-johnsons-family-problems/

Postscript: Or in today's Telegraph Johnson's wife having an affair with security, take your pick I'm sure the truth is in there somewhere.

Fact: The Guardian lost £40 million last year....................

Meet my new mate Janez

Current EU Commissioner for the Environment, I'm hoping that includes Penyffordd which was part of the EU last time I checked.

Links
Janez Potocnik
Facebook

Welsh Assembly Government Bull Muck

"As highlighted within the Transport Impact Assessment for Broughton, Flintshire County Council view the construction of the new eastbound-on slip-road and westbound-off slip-road as being of network benefit to the area, by providing a 20% reduction in traffic passing through Broughton village to link onto the A55 to and from the east, thereby significantly improving environmental and highway safety conditions within local communities."

But not Penyffordd!Traffic levels in Chester Road are rising.

Link Warren Hall Strategic Business Park - construction of the A55 Warren Bank Interchange Improvements.

Flintshire councillor bullying probe begins

First day The Daily Post and The Flintshire Leader

Second day The Leader and The Daily Post

Third day The Leader and the Flintshire Chronicle

Further day The Leader 16/02/2011

4/03/2011 The Leader

keywords: Barry Davies, Patrick Heesom, Susan Lewis

Our MP to go?

Will Mark Tami have to fight David Hanson for the same job?
MP's get a lot of stick. Would you take a job on the basis you could get kicked out in 4 years time? From local hero to zero. You get kicked out due to massive mistakes from the likes of Gordon Brown. I emailed David Hanson ten o'clock one Thursday night when he was police minister. He was in the house just going through divisions to vote, he replied on his blackberry.
Alright if you have a separate income but not alright if you haven't.

Link The Daily Post

Albania, Romania or Penyffordd?

 

Chester Rd pothole watch

Email to Cllr Tony Sharps Head of Roads and Environment

Morning Tony,

Here's a glitch in Flintshire's trunk road system.

 It's next to the half a rumble strip highways gave us. I've travelled far and wide but I can't ever remember coming across half of one. The locals drive around it and there's nothing to impede those building up speed from the middle of the village on their way out.

You of course have everything sorted in Northop Hall no one is going to come hammering through your village at any time of the day or night due to measures you have had put in place.

Well done!

Take Chester Rd, Penyffordd as a contrast. Wide open as fast as you like. Our CBM is not interested and neither are our councillors.

Our shortcut traffic really appreciate what WAG have done at Warren Bank.

Are we up to 3000 vehicles a day yet?

Everything you stand for at a Northop Hall and fought for with regards the A494 development we have here in Chester Rd, Penyffordd even though we have a bypass. 

Colin Hughes

Penyffordd

postscript: Cllr Cindy Hinds informs me her and Cllr David Williams are in discussion with FCC over the above. Pot holes have already been reported but I guessed that. 

To Hawarden to plunder Sir William Gladstone's library

The library has a s*ale on. Next time we go we will perhaps concentrate a little less on the books and take in the atmosphere. They have too many books so they are getting rid of some. Always willing to oblige.

Advert. House clearance of books, libraries in Flintshire, Cheshire, North Wales, Wirral and Liverpool.
Non fiction in the main but we take the lot.
Excess or unwanted books given to local charities.

Lisa :  tresmegistes@gmail.com

Penyffordd Bypass Noise Map

The much maligned EU has set forth directives making members take noise maps of areas of large traffic flow. South Wales has had quite a few maps done already. There is the first band which are the worst areas affected by traffic noise then there are the secondary areas and so on. I was of the opinion that N Wales had not done any since none are published. I'd even got a letter sorted for the papers to go on about the north south divide etc.

I was talking to a Flintshire County Council officer the other day who informed me that noise measurements have been taken.

People in the local papers go on about Hanson Cement making noise and avoid the primary source of noise which is the bypass.

When money is available ( there is some actually ring fenced ) our bypass will get a new surface. A reduction of the speed limit from 40mph to 30 mph enforced would also make a big difference.

postscript. Chester Rd is a primary source of noise if you live here, the road at  the back of where Cllr Cindy Hinds lives is also a primary source of noise.

Links Environmental Noise Directive

Who is this man?

He is Herman Van Rompuy, he is President of the European Council, Head of the EU. Most people in the EU have never heard of him, you didn't vote for him yet his power is immense.

Link Wikipedia

Chester Rd Traffic Update

Now that A55 Warren Hall new exit and entrance are open Chester Rd is a nice easy short cut for anyone South of Penyffordd going to Broughton, Chester or beyond. The morning rat run is busy. Cllr David Williams had speeding on the agenda at the December Penyffordd Community Council meeting. Both him and Cllr Cindy Hinds have been talking to Flintshire Highways I presume over short cut traffic that sees the village as a better option than sitting in a queue on the Penyffordd Bypass.

And the picture............... This is Delhi where there have been 78 road rage deaths in the last year. It's what happens when you allow uncontrolled breeding.

Penyffordd in Europe

What is the present situation of the EU?

Greece has overspent and can't keep up with the repayments. The EU has bailed out Ireland and might help Italy and Belgium. It can't help Spain which has when I last looked a million unsold apartments.

Germany is refusing to pay for anymore bailouts backed by France.

The Slog puts it more eloquently here

Oh! and what does Penyffordd have to do with this?. Well you'll be helping to pay for it all.

Google gets radical

Being very clever can have it's down side. UK's attempt to make everyone equal downgrades cleverness.
Google take the lead over mass education.

Link The Independent

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.

Link The Leader

More global warming propaganda

The excellent Christopher Booker

Kingfisher seen in Penyffordd

There's not much running water in Penyffordd. There's a quite a large brook next to where the old railway used to run to Kinnerton by the children's playground. There is also a stream that runs down Penymynydd Rd. Years ago George Jones tells me the stream used to be open. Now it runs under the pavement.

It eventually comes out by the farm next to George's house from a culvert it then joins the stream previously mentioned which flows down passed Bramley Lane to Kinnerton then into the River Alyn then on to the River Dee. In this stream next to the footpath are tiny fish. Not sure what they are. This is where I saw the kingfisher when the snows were last here. Karen in the post office tells me someone else has seen it too.

Apologist for speeders

Some one called Andrew P Withers on Anna Raccoon

postscript: I've had an email of sadbutmadlad putting me to rights, can't see the point of replying. People have no respect for communities when they get on their bikes or in their cars. You would most probably find quite a lot fancy they have green credentials but it doesn't stretch to respect for communities.
As I said apologists.

Mark Isherwood AM stands up for Flintshire walkers

in The Flintshire Chronicle

link Mark Isherwood AM

Bullying allegations have cost Flintshire councillor Patrick Heesom ‘thousands of pounds’

Quote: Cllr Heesom said the ‘costs and the losses’ he has incurred during the two years since the allegations were made have been ‘punitive and damaging’.

He added: “I am looking forward to getting the hearing out of the way. It’s not just about clearing my name, but it’s about putting the record straight.

“After this is all over some big questions will have to be asked about the whole process and why it has taken so long.”

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I think "they" want Patrick out the picture permanently, he's been kicked into the long grass for two years so far. Perhaps lead boots off Connah's Quay bridge the better option for some.

In my opinion without any inside knowledge the above stinks and is bad for democracy. As Patrick says big questions need to be asked,  don't hold your breath though Patrick.

Links
Flintshire Chronicle

Cllr Patrick Heesom

Nigella's Fish Cakes for Tea with deep fat fried chips

A million miles better than Captain Birdseye.

Links
Panko Japanese Breadcrumbs
Goujons of Sole
Nigella.com

keywords: sex and cooking

A5104 Penyffordd to Pontblyddyn

blocked this morning. Most probably due to an accident with snowy road conditions. As a near daily traveller on this road I find this road to be one of the most dangerous in the area. How many accidents have there been on this road in the last 5 years? I would say over 50.

It reaches a stage where idiots who drive cars, buses and lorries need guidance as in lower speed limits.

Muppets everywhere reported in The Leader

Penyffordd Weather Outlook

It's snowing at the moment but will cease and warm up later on. South Wales and the Midlands look like they have had a shed load. Traffic in the middle of Chester is bedlam. (not due to snow)

Chester Rd is currently white in colour.

Recent house sales in Penyffordd district

41 Well House Drive £182,000
Penymynydd, CH4 0LB 5th November 2010

143 Penymynydd Road £153,500
Penymynydd, CH4 0LG 29th October 2010

10 Kent Close £185,000
Penymynydd, CH4 0LP 25th October 2010

16 Holly Drive £200,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0NE 20th October 2010

5 St Johns Close £245,000
Penymynydd, CH4 0YT 16th July 2010

31 Min Y Ddol £135,000
Penyffordd, CH4 0EB 15th October 2010

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

A New Email Feature for me

10. Undo Send

We've all been there: you spend half an hour writing a strongly worded letter, hit send, and realize you probably shouldn't have done that. Thankfully,Gmail Labs' Undo Send feature is there to save you from yourself. After sending an email, Gmail will wait a predefined number of seconds (5, 10, 20, or 30, configurable in Gmail's settings) before sending—at any point during which you can hit the "undo" button to take back your mistake. Even if you don't foresee needing it, it's a heck of a lot better thanyanking out your Ethernet cable, so you might as well keep it around just in case.

The secret of blogging by Guido

"Across all distribution platforms last year the blog had approaching 30 million views and Guido would like to thank you readers who make this blog possible."


Link Guido Fawkes

So long Gerry Rafferty RIP

Link Obituary Guardianonline

Sharpie tells it how it's going to be

in The Post

Hanson Cement in The Leader

Link The Leader

Mystery Apple

Found an apple tree still full of fruit in mid December. The apple is three inches long. It looks like the flesh is light yellow. I have posted this picture on an apple forum for an answer. 

One year later, a better photo, well slightly.

Link All about apples

Two Predictions for 2011

1. Chris Jefferies didn't murder Joeanna Yeates.
2. Manchester City will win the Premier League.

postscript: One correct, one to go. I didn't know that CJ had been released at the time of writing. You could see the police were struggling though when they decided to pull in another neighbour. My qualification for holding forth on such matters is that my wife watches CSI and the Mentalist. I also watch Match of the Day.

If you want to know what sort of mess UK PLC is in and where we are heading read the Slog but not if you are feeling depressed

Secret Footpath

The above stile is in the middle of a wood. 

Forward it is blocked for 50 yds, behind is the picture below.

(not Penyffordd)

To the good doctor (retired) for New Years Eve. These days being a member of Penyffordd Wine Circle has it's plus points. The plan is to leave car at his house and walk home at 2 in the morning, pick up car next day, it's a 40 minute walk. It appears we are among the great and the good, a charity organiser, a professor of biology his wife a Phd, a software designer, a head of trading standards and a few further down the social ladder like ourselves. Smoked salmon nibbles on arrival with meat and fish buffet to follow. After a few glasses of social lubricant everyone is at ease ( well I am anyway).

I am under orders, no embarrassments and no shouting ( I call it social exhuberance).  

Talk gets around to the Hartsheath estate that is on the boundaries of Penyffordd. The great man who lived there a true British eccentric past away a few years ago, himself a professor of Oxford and Cambridge. It is possible to visit Hartsheath it's behind the Bridge Inn (he owned that as well)  at Pontblyddyn near the cricket club during the summer. It's best to ring to see about opening times.

Finally the good doctor has a little surprise he has made a supply of damson gin. This is something special if a little sharp on the tubes. Then I spy an opportunity for a lift home and we are deposited next to the Legion where a local who fancies Lisa can't believe his luck, it is after all New Years Day. 

A pleasant night with very good company. I need to get out more.

This morning I find half those assembled had colds ( new year kisses), then there's this poor chap who has died of swine flue.

No one is saying why this chap gets swine flue and where he got it.............................

And hangovers? no not me....

Link Hartsheath