Local property details

Land Registry recent sales
The table below lists the most recent transactions recorded by Land Registry near you. If you want to see more details, simply click on the property you are interested in. To see all the Land Registry data for ch4-0ls click here.
Postcode Address Price Date Profit/Loss
CH4 0JS 3, Towers Way £155,000 25/08/2011 more details
CH4 0JW 13, Corwen Way £95,000 02/09/2011 more details
CH4 0HR 34, West View £169,000 25/08/2011 more details
CH7 3AA 8, Acorn Close £185,000 26/08/2011 more details
CH7 2AR 5, Oakfield Road £95,000 23/08/2011 more details
CH7 3DX 96, Drury Lane £135,000 14/09/2011 more details
LL12 9RE Llwyn Owen Farm, Pigeon House Lane £555,000 31/08/2011 more details
CH7 2JL 9, Padeswood Road £125,000 24/06/2011 more details
LL12 9NE 11, Mountain View £150,000 29/07/2011 more details
LL12 9HA Rhanberfedd Cottage, Mold Road £125,000 20/09/2011 more details



Discounted property for sale
Are you interested in snapping up a bargain? Below are properties for sale where the asking prices have been reduced - simply click on any property to find out more. Search for all reduced property near ch4-0ls by clicking here.
Address Type Beds Price Listed On Reduction
Hawarden Road 3 £114,500 14-03-2011 8%
Hawarden Road Detached 4 £275,000 18-01-2010 8%
Little Mountain Road Detached 4 £300,000 13-05-2009 9%
Little Mountain Road Detached 4 £245,000 20-07-2010 16%




Other property for sale
The list below shows what is currently on the market for sale near you. To search for more property on the market click here.
Address Type Beds Price Listed On
Hawarden Road 3 £114,500 14-03-2011
Hawarden Road 4 £300,000 11-05-2011
Hawarden Road Detached 4 £275,000 18-01-2010
Penymynydd Road Semi-D 0 £140,000 08-08-2011
Allerton Close 3 £200,000 30-07-2011



Chain-free property for sale
Below are properties nearby that are available 'chain free'. These are often properties that have been repossessed, but will also include property where the seller is not buying a new home or has already moved out.
Address Type Beds Price Listed On
The Oaks Lower Mountain Farm Lower Mountain Road, Penyffordd, Chester CH4 3 £350,000 24-10-2011




Property for rent*
The list below shows properties for rent near you - select any property for more information. To view more results in your area, click here.

Address Type Beds Rent (pcm) Listed on Implied value*
Wrexham Road Detached 3 £875 12-04-2011 £224,754

* Penyffordd District knows that this list of rents is far from accurate.



From all of us here at Mouseprice.com

Funeral - Mr Murray Cowie - Tuesday

Penyffordd Crime September 2011

Overview here
http://www.police.uk/overview/?q=Penyffordd,%20Chester,%20Flintshire%20CH4%200LS,%20UK

Crime Map
http://www.police.uk/crime/?q=Penyffordd,%20Chester,%20Flintshire%20CH4%200LS,%20UK#crimetypes/2011-09

You can alter the month on the above crime map. The scheme started from last April.


Click here for detail
http://www.police.uk/m/crime/?q=Penyffordd,%20Chester,%20Flintshire%20CH4%200LS,%20UK

Two violent crimes and half a dozen anti social behaviours.

The two violent crimes are of concern.

Were the committed on open streets or in houses.
Were they committed during the day or at night.
Are the offenders out and about? (of course they are)
What was the reason and nature of the violent crimes?

Silver Birch Way 2 anti socials
Coed Y Graig  1 anti social
Cae Fawnog 1 anti social
Hawarden Road 1 anti social

Abbottsford Drive 1 violent crime
Hawarden Road 1 violent crime

Violent crime as described by NWP includes GBH, sexual assault, common assault.

The above blog was a voyage of discovery. The original link I got through a national newspaper had no links to such items as the crime map.

Web site navigation poor.

If you are going to Wrexham

by car towards the football ground ( Mold Rd) especially first thing add 40 minutes to your journey. Or try another way around.

Link ( read comments) http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/107558/easing-traffic-hell-at-wrexham-blackspot.aspx

Penyffordd Bonfire Night 2011

on Saturday 5th November at 6 o clock at the Penyffordd Institute.

keyword: fireworks

Penyffordd Community Council

reverts to mid 20th century mode. Hand scrawled agendas on the community board.
September council minutes nowhere to be seen.
My copy not delivered.
Post Office copy not available.

Standard Penyffordd Community Council practice.
Nothing online they like to keep the community like mushrooms, in the dark.......

Cllr David Williams is currently chairman.

Something to hide David or an administration hickup?

Leader - Bygones - The Opening of Abbotts Lane School 1978

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

There are four pages of photos to do with Penyffordd.



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

Cllr Edwina Davies being a good sport.

Edwina's the one showing leg and suspenders

Dobshill

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

The European Experiment

is currently looking a bit shakey. Last night 80 Tory MP's backed an EU referendum against the wishes of the PM.
Sovereign debt to Eurozone countries such as Greece, Italy, Spain and Ireland is unrepayable because they have spent so much. France is in big trouble over the amounts their banks have borrowed to the above countries.

A55 Warren Bank was built with EU money. As a village we should been given protection against short cut traffic. The Welsh Assembly government decided not.

We are run by unaccountable people who have no idea of what they do.
Most people have never heard of Von Rompuy ( Who he?)

It was always a recipe for disaster.

Link Von Rompuy

Plas Teg

is on the telly tonight. It's on More4, a repeat. Your chance to see the eccentric Cornelia. She used to keep the parrots in the kitchen. I think they were removed for the film shots.

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Latest Episodes
Next Time

Series 3 Episode 13
Plas Tag - revisit

Ruth Watson revisits Cornelia Bayley at Plas Teg, a Grade I listed Jacobean mansion that has remained virtually unchanged since it was built in 1610.

Next Episode: Mon 24 Oct, 10PM on More4

Penyffordd crash victim must learn to walk again

in The Flintshire Leader

Half term for school children

The village moves to a slower pace.

In Cardiff however the school run is a different matter. Walesonline

Rip Off Britain part 543

Pensions in The Telegraph

A Big Thank You to The Chester Chronicle ( my letter published today)

for helping to high light the continued daily assault by through traffic. Flintshire County Council and the Welsh assembly Government have long planned that Chester Rd would resume its former trunk road status as a large short cut to Broughton.

A pox on you all.

Our cllrs have just sat there like dummies. They won't get Gosafe and NWP involved in the morning rat run. Why is this so?

Why have HGV through the village.

Are we up to 4000 vehicles a day yet. Do our cllrs even care?

I am still of the opinion that former county councillors have sold us down the river.

Large chimney for sale

Dr John Marek has decided to offer a large 120 ft Victorian chimney for sale. It is in the middle of Wrexham. He has offered it for sale on Ebay after there was no local interest. It started at 99p and has so far got to £510 with 33 bids with 6 days to go.

You won't be able to buy it for its Ruabon bricks as it is listed.

links http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wrexham-Ruabon-brick-brewery-chimney-/140622023702?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20bdb9cc16

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2011/10/19/iconic-wrexham-chimney-up-for-sale-on-ebay-55578-29619849/

Alison on AD Waste, black bags, allotments, hostile meetings, spear tackles and shall I stand again as a county councillor

Amusing as ever.

Link Alison Halford

Super Tony to the rescue

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

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

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

Read further in The Flintshire Leader

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

Dirty brown drinking water last night

Left tap on all night now clear.

postscript: Not quite. Dirty baths until cold and hot water tanks change water.

The Internet is changing our brains

It changed mine quite some time ago. You have a question or project so you look on the net at all those that have struggled with your issue before you.
My current project to halve my energy bill inside a year has a very rich vein of knowledge on line

Some net knowledge is plain wrong. It's a matter of sorting the wheat from the chaff.
Apparently Facebook alters how various parts of the brain function.

I don't do Twitter of Facebook for various reasons.

Here's the story.

Italian and Sicilian Cuisine comes to Penyffordd

 

At The Millstone

Telephone  07590 753 884

The Capo Di Silva restaurants are around other parts of N Wales. Try this for a menu.

Penyffordd district houses for sale and rent

Discounted property for sale

Are you interested in snapping up a bargain? Below are properties for sale where the asking prices have been reduced - simply click on any property to find out more. Search for all reduced property near ch4-0ls by clicking here.

Address Type Beds Price Listed On Reduction
Hawarden Road 3 £114,500 14-03-2011 8%
Hawarden Road Detached 4 £275,000 18-01-2010 8%
Coed Y Graig 0 £120,000 20-06-2011 20%
Little Mountain Road Detached 4 £300,000 13-05-2009 9%
Little Mountain Road Detached 4 £245,000 20-07-2010 16%



Other property for sale
The list below shows what is currently on the market for sale near you. To search for more property on the market click here.

Address Type Beds Price Listed On
Hawarden Road 3 £114,500 14-03-2011
Hawarden Road 4 £300,000 11-05-2011
Hawarden Road Detached 4 £275,000 18-01-2010
Penymynydd Road Semi-D 0 £140,000 08-08-2011
Allerton Close 3 £200,000 30-07-2011



Chain-free property for sale further afield

Below are properties nearby that are available 'chain free'. These are often properties that have been repossessed, but will also include property where the seller is not buying a new home or has already moved out.

Address Type Beds Price Listed On
Chester Road, Dobshill, Deeside, Flintshire, CH5 Semi-D 3 £142,500 09-08-2011
Hewitts Lane, BUCKLEY 2 £85,000 19-09-2011
Brittania Road, Leeswood, Flintshire 3 £125,000 01-09-2011
Wellington Road, Broughton, Chester CH4 Semi-D 4 £200,000 23-08-2011
Ewloe Place, Buckley Terrace 2 £89,950 20-09-2011



Property for rent

The list below shows properties for rent near you - select any property for more information. To view more results in your area, click here.

Address Type Beds Rent (pcm) Listed on Implied value*
Wrexham Road Detached 3 £875 12-04-2011 £224,855
Chester Road 3 £625 18-06-2010 £160,611
Drury Lane Flat 1 £395 12-04-2011 £101,506
Drury Lane Flat 2 £550 23-02-2011 £141,337
Drury Lane Terrace 2 £500 23-05-2011 £128,489


*This is the current value estimate that is implied by the rental price and by typical rental yields in the area.

From all of us here at Mouseprice.com

Chief Constable Mark Polin's pathetic answer regarding bikers in The Daily Post

Biker speeding is at epidemic proportions on N Wales roads.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2011/10/17/q-a-with-north-wales-chief-constable-mark-polin-55578-29605378/

A reader asks the CC
Q What does Mr Polin intend to do about the influx of bikes that North Wales has to endure every weekend? We live on the A525, just past Bwlchgwyn on the Wrexham to Ruthin Road and we are constantly asking the police to do something about the speed of bikers that pass our home. On average a bike passes at speed every three minutes on Sundays in the summer and the danger this presents to residents leaving their drives is horrendous.

(from Sheila Brownhill,

Bwlchgwyn, Wrexham)

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The Chief Constables slime ball answer to their predicament which in no way solves their or many others issues over the bikers. All our politicians cowardly hiding behind the sofa on this.
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A North Wales has long been popular with motorcyclists. We use a mix of enforcement, engagement and education to try to ensure they use our roads sensibly and with respect for other users, as well as those who live alongside popular routes. We take a proportionate approach to enforcement, using unmarked cars and bikes on problematic routes, supported by our GoSafe speed enforcement vans. We also work with BikeSafe to get safety and consideration messages across to motorcyclists and together with our partners evaluate engineering solutions for our roads.

I'm pleased to be able to say that motorcycle casualty levels are down from 144 to 117, 18.75% down from January to September this year, compared with same period last year. Motorcyclists as a group are extremely vulnerable, and we will continue to target high-risk routes at various times of the day to deter inappropriate behaviour by all road users.
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Penyffordd District quote. Casuality levels will be down due to less drivers using roads due to credit crunch. Note the Chief Constable is a biker. No policing of exhaust levels either. An FOIE on the amount of bikers caught speeding would be interesting to read. 

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you Gosafe

for attending Chester Rd today. You have 3 sets of traffic data for Chester Rd you know when the issues are yet you turn up when traffic will be at its minimum and also at its most well behaved.

Do Penyffordd cllrs ask you to turn up when the village is quiet?

Airbus workers are the worst. Why are they immune from not having to do the speed limit?

You could always shut me up by doing a speed survey ( our cllrs are scared of surveys) and showing everybody rather than hiding it. There is no advantage to me telling anyone the equipment is set up on Chester Rd is there?

As unaccountable as ever, classic sign of a Quango. Paid by us but which over which we have no control.

Emailed to Gosafe and Carl Sargeant AM Minister for Welsh Roads.

keyword: keystone cops

postscript. I have written to the Gosafe representative for Flintshire. I have protested at the "pretending" to do the job. Time to get serious.

Lisa's Kitchen - Warm Caulflower Salad

View from Min y Ddol

Penyffordd Church Revamp

Penyffordd Bat House

 

Bats were found in the old Meadowslea hospital. This is their new home. There are slits in the walls for entry and exits. 

Carry on taking us to the cleaners

That's the energy companies and the government . Mixed in with energy bills are the green taxes to pay for inefficient generation such as windmills and loads of extra money to prop up the bankers.

Will the watchdogs do anything, not really. Over paid non jobs.

Who will suffer? The poor and the elderly..

" It emerged yesterday that recent price hikes have increased the profit margins enjoyed by Britain’s big energy firms to £125 per customer a year from £15 in June."

read further Walesonline 

The Milky Bar Kids are coming to town

 and will be in the Penyffordd British Legion on Friday 4th November between 1 and 2 pm. (Mark Tami MP and Carl Sargeant AM, Assembly Minister for Roads and Communities.) to look at your concerns and issues.
I have been to see them about speeding through the village. They have helped not at all, although they do know WAG have vandalised the village by not protecting us against A55 Warren Bank traffic

They are however up against the dark forces of evil, Flintshire Highways and North Wales Police who stand in the way of any community who want serious speed reductions.

Since Flintshire County Council are doing a large foot dragging exercise with extremely high Olympian qualification bars for compulsory 20 mph zones is it not time for Carl to get serious, he is after all head of Welsh roads.

All this red tape to justify simple community decisions needs to be swept aside. Here's something to make your name Carl.

Are you for the "Jeremy Clarksons"  Carl or are you for long suffering Welsh communities? Flintshire Highways and NWP want a good kick in the pants. Are you the one to do it? You have the power, use it for the good of communities.

ps I am of the opinion that police kill more people on British roads than the supposed blood bath that would happen with a reduction in speed limits through communities. ( What other excuse do police have for their foot dragging apart from the fact they currently have the power to do so?)

Wood Lane Farm Application Further

The planning application has been amended.

It is here. 


If you have made objections they need to be restated or new comments made.
You have 12 days to make your views known (26/102011)

If you follow the link it can be done online.

North Wales Police Brass Neck

NWP traffic policing in N Wales is just about non existent. A former bobby let out of the bag that former Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom decimated the traffic division.

Gosafe are supposed to do NWP traffic policing but are just a bit beyond the joke stage. They are unaccountable to communities, they hide their speed data. I take Gosafe as a marker of how awful the Welsh assembly Government are.

Any alteration of speed limits NWP have to poke their nose in. I am of the opinion if they object you have no chance.

Here is the agency that allows wholesale speeding by bikers all over N Wales at the weekend. No traffic policing between 5 at night and 10 in the morning. An agency that will not police vehicle exhaust law demanding a say in matters involving communities but have all but withdrawn traffic policing.

They have just turned down a communities plea for 30 mph. Instead they have insisted on 40 mph which is double the noise in decible terms.
This community lives between two roundabouts that are three hundred yards apart. All traffic has to stop at the roundabouts.

Altering the speed limit to 30 mph is a no brainer

NWP are luddites. They stand against better environments in communities. Traffic policing and its funding should be removed from them altogether. I like to think they are better at other forms of policing.

keyword: Keystone Cops.

Internet Difficulties

All day the internet has been highly intermittent. Outlook Express not down loading messages. 15 restart computers and modem to try to clear things.
20.20 hrs suddenly we are going like a train on speed.

BT do my head in. World class company? P*ss poor ex public monopoly and still behaving like one.

Do the Daily Post know what day it is?

Quality reporting here in N Wales.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2011/10/13/first-minister-carwyn-jones-to-open-new-factory-at-airbus-55578-29589069/
WALES’ First Minister Carwyn Jones will officially open the new north factory at Airbus Broughton today.

DAVID CAMERON opened the new £400million Airbus factory yesterday and thanked the plane maker for safeguarding thousands of jobs for decades to come.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2011/10/14/pm-opens-400m-broughton-factory-safeguarding-6-000-jobs-55578-29592994/

postscript: Perhaps for security reasons they couldn't say the Prime Minister was opening the factory so they used First Minister Carwyn Jones as a decoy !

Airbus 350 Wing Factory now open

 

This is the Beluga aircraft we see most days.

A section of the new carbon fibre wing arrives from Germany 

Links  

Flightglobal 

Flintshire Chronicle 

I served my apprentice at Hawker Siddeley. Jack Garston was MD

Later I returned and worked on Airbus wings 300 and 310.

My background is light alloy machining pre cnc 

Although I do fancy building a cnc machine. You can get the bits on the net for a diy project. CNC is where the computer directs the machine to make the part.  CNC machines at Airbus are two cricket pitches long

Can any of our politicians lie straight in bed

This chap is running defence. Perhaps he couldn't run a party in a brewery. Is it arrogance?

Here's a version of what's happening you will not read at the BBC

Links http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/10/the-real-werritty-scandal/

Gareth Williams of Mold calls continues to call for traffic survey in Mold

in the letters page in The Flintshire Chronicle. I know we are talking Mold here and not Penyffordd. Gareth who is an ex deputy leader of FCC says that around Mold schools there are no speed restriction, no traffic calming measures, nothing. Do we have to wait for accidents he says.

Well Gareth you most probably know that this is the modus operandi of Flintshire Highways. Talk about lowering speed limits and they bring the fatality book out. What! you haven't had three fatalities ! You have no chance!

Flintshire live in the mid 1950's. They care nothing for communities. Qualification bars for 20 mph zones are at Olympic height. WAG need to force Flintshire they are hopeless.

Visit Wrexham communities. 30 years ahead of Flintshire.

I hope Gareth gets in next May. He could have Sharpie's job.

Questions

1. Which party will Gareth be standing for
2. Which ward will he be contesting

ps calling for a traffic survey and not being a councillor.  Flintshire don't like that.
I don't like the relationship between councillors and county. We residents don't count one iota.

Playtime more fun than ever at Penyffordd school

Headteacher Dawn Westaway said the school’s PTA and the Friends of Penyffordd Schools group helped raise the £3,000 needed for the revamp.

Read further in The Flintshire Chronicle

Ted Plevin RIP

Opening missiles fired

 

Our councillors might wish to live in a village that's an un policed short cut for everywhere. Because I live on the main road I don't. My fault again, silly me living in the middle of the bypass ( sorry I mean village)

I have sent out three letters in email form to The Daily Post, The Flintshire Leader and The Flintshire Chronicle. My election campaign starts here.

Perhaps they might reach the printed page. 

 Cllrs Arnold Woolley and Tony Sharps are top of the list.

Part of the problem is that everyone else is hopeless as well. 

Motorist Behaviour

Tonight I was driving up the A5104 at Coed Talon doing the 30 speed limit. A look in the mirror revealed a car steadily gaining on me. I have dogs in car the with out seat belts. It's been raining and the car is attempting to push me first in a 30 zone then a 40 mph zone.

So I put my foot on the brakes. This of course is the last thing these idiots expect you to do. Queue very fast breaking behind. He then overtakes pointing to the side of his head.

You see I am in the wrong. ( he a middle aged male, white collar worker)
Nothing a base ball bat in the side of the head won't fix or perhaps just his legs as a warning.

Our idiot politicians have left us on our own no mechanism is available to deal with the idiots until they severely injure or kill someone. Whether they be bikers, cars, lorries or buses.

I refuse to be pushed along the road by any of the above in fact I've nearly stopped police in the past. Advance police driving now includes pushing cars along the road, I've seen , I've watched. I steer well clear of police they kill lots of people.

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So we get home. A vehicle is blocking my drive. The same vehicle whose owner I have asked to move said vehicle four times. Part of the issue with blocking vehicles is that there about 5 places the miscreant could be. They are just leaving a neighbours house. I say " I wouldn't block your drive , why block mine ? "
An apology.
Neighbour will know be non speak for a while. See it's all my fault again.
Could be worse, years ago hubby would have been around for an argument.

The mate of a neighbour four doors up  blocked my drive, had left it unlocked. So I pushed it into the middle of Chester Rd. This neighbours mates have blocked drive about 6 times. Stewart has I think got the message now. He still says hello, I make him.

The world record for blocking me in my drive is 15 hours ( police came out, they don't normally though) . I have three signs on my gate for the above people. It's routinely ignored. I've considered clamping vehicles and calling the police as they are on the path as well as blocking my gate.

This of course would then be all my fault.

One couple had their house on the market three days after an argument with one of my neighbours . ( not me)

Part of our sick society, just keep your head down , keep out the way.
We pay police 40 k a year for little in return.

Ted Plevin has died

Ted has been active in Penyffordd society for many years as a councillor and held various society memberships.

 

keyword: funeral

Lounge Lizard Transport

Also good for carrying logs.
Apparently it's not their transport
They are just posing. 

Penyffordd Bypass crash victim starts to rebuild his life

in The Leader

Flintshire County Council Power Balance

Question. Who do Klaus and Plaid Cymru side with? 

Independents 19
Lib Dem 9
Conservatives 9

New independents 9

Plaid Cymru 1
Klaus 1

Labour 22 (Opposition)

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Lib Dem Hilary McGuill
Lib Dem Richard Jones
Lib Dem Neville Phillips OBE
Lib Dem Grenville James
Lib Dem Nancy Matthews
Lib Dem Robin Baker
Lib Dem Robin Guest
Lib Dem Quentin Dodd
Lib Dem Chris Dolphin

9


Independent Arnold Woolley
Independent Tony Sharps
Independent Helen Brown
Independent Carol Ellis
Independent George Hardcastle
Independent Mike Peers
Independent Dennis Hutchinson
Independent Eric Owen
Independent Brian Dunn
Independent Dave Mackie
Independent Rosetta Dolphin
Independent Fred Gillmore
Independent Colin Legg
Independent Norma Humphreys
Independent Haydn Bateman
Independent Marion Bateman
Independent David Williams
Independent Veronica Gay
Independent Doreen Mackie

19


Conservative Nigel Steele-Mortimer
Conservative Clive Carver
Conservative Adele Davies-Cooke
Conservative Alison Halford
Conservative Norma Jones
Conservative Matt Wright
Conservative Jim Falshaw
Conservative Owen Thomas
Conservative Hilary Isherwood

9


Labour Aaron Shotton
Labour Bernie Attridge
Labour Mike Reece
Labour Billy Mullin
Labour Ron Hampson
Labour Stella Jones
Labour Peter Macfarlane
Labour David Barratt
Labour Ian Roberts
Labour Alex Aldridge OBE
Labour David Cox
Labour Trefor Howorth
Labour Ted Evans
Labour Peter Curtis
Labour Alan Diskin
Labour Glenys Diskin JP
Labour Chris Bithell
Labour Cindy Hinds
Labour David Wisinger
Labour Christine Jones
Labour Ron Davies
Labour Ann Minshull JP

22


New Independent Patrick Heesom
New Independent Carolyn Cattermoul
New Independent Peter Pemberton
New Independent Emlyn Cooke
New Independent Rita Johnson
New Independent Tim Newhouse
New Independent Raymond Hughes
New Independent Carolyn Thomas
New Independent David McFarlane

9


Plaid Cymru Gareth Roberts

Eng. Klaus Armstrong-Braun

How to get your own back against the Bankers and Government

The other day our Prime Minister David Cameron was urging us all to fight against our economic woes.

Some things need to be put straight David. The economic woes are nothing to do with us. We pay you all very good money to stop such disasters you have all failed us miserably. Gordon Brown as Chancellor and Prime Minister opened the flood gates.
You continue to spend our hard earned money like water. Current government spending will be at its highest £1.5 trillion by 2015. That's with cuts. Gordon Brown should be in the Tower of London for what he has done to us.

The government have been printing money which lowers the value of our hard earned cash. They give it to the banks who just use it to try repair the enormous damage they have caused to their companies.

Banks have made trillion £ derivative bets that are  still to come to the surface. Do I want to help private companies that made these extremely silly bets and of which I was not going to share in the success of if they had turned positive.

Why should we get these greedy idiots out the lurch over the next 30 years?
They should all go to the wall.

No David, you can take a hike !

It's fair to say some of the measures below will affect the weak and the innocent, this cannot be helped in the short term.

The way to hit the government and bankers is as follows.

1. INCOME TAX. Consider working less if possible. Less revenue for the exchequer.
2. VAT.  Spend less. Consider pass times that attract little spending past an initial spend. Cycling on cycle tracks or walking. Tell the children to take up hiking lol.
Oh the social stigma of not having an iPhone ! lol

3. ENERGY. Consider wood instead of gas. It is possible to make solar hot water heaters that don't cost the earth.
4. CLOTHES. Consider using charity shops and car boot sales ( not to everyone's taste)
5. FOOD.Establish a program to grow your own. Swap food with others. Organise a group.
6. PETROL /DIESEL. Consider using your car less each week.
7. Car boot sales are good for quite a few items. Not much government tax.
8. CASH. If have any spare cash don't put it in the bank or building society. Hide it.
9. SAVINGS. Consider moving your savings to a prudent bank. ( Is there one?)

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Additional methods by the governments ( I'm joking)

1. Get rid of all the QUANGO's
2. Cut AM and MP pay and pensions by 30% to start with.

What we need is a revolution. Consider how you can legally limit government tax.
They need to be taught a lesson they won't forget.

The bottom line is UK governments have little idea what makes us tick.  They are in for a huge awakening. Lets have the two jokers Ed and Gordon back in, the sheeple demand it. Lets make it a 1000 times worse.


Link The French Revolution   ( not for the squeemish)

But mum all my mates are going to university

It's warm in Penyffordd today. Some darts team have traveled from the other side of the country (Cumbria) to play darts at The Legion on Saturday and Sunday.

Is it have a drink, play darts, have another drink, play darts, go out to Chester. wake up Sunday with a thick head, play darts, eat hamburgers, play darts, have another drink, fall asleep on the coach on the way home? Work tomorrow.
Postscript. Go home bankrupt.

Chirk Carboot this morning remained dry. Didn't expect to buy any stuff to sell on the net came back with £200 worth. Such is the car boot sometimes a pleasant surprise. We once bought a couple of hundred books from a chap we call "the scouser" He had done a house clearance of this professor who was moving in with his girl friend. She said " you can get rid of all those books for a start" His loss our gain. We still sell his books each year, his chosen subject rare and complex. His name neatly printed in pencil in the top corner, a very clever man, but not too clever, women can cloud the mind.

and so to the title.............

The current fees charged for offspring to go to university are eyewatering.
I would prevaricate greatly on spending tuition fee sums involved on a dead cert business idea. Borrowing the money against the house even if the banks were lending would be a big no no.

Here's some big university failures. Bill Gates, Steve Balmer, ( Microsoft)  Mark Zuckerman, ( Facebook) Larry Ellison ( Oracle) , Michael Dell (Dell Computers) , Brin and Page (Google), Steve Jobs (Apple).

Nearly all billionaires

This is Steve Jobs' story.

in The Guardian 

and Finally

One of the gypsy spokesmen defending the recent battle in the high court against being kicked off land was talking to DM reporters. His mate butted in " Don't tell em your name Eamonn ! "

The State we're in

Don't read if you are in a good mood.
The comments as interesting as the article.
Tontohombre explains the politician's dilemma.

Watch Russell Grant on Strictly instead..........................


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/liamhalligan/8815636/Talking-up-austerity-will-never-bring-down-the-UKs-debt-Mr-Osborne.html

Hedge Laying Competition - Flintshire Farmers Ploughing Society

Have the Independents hung Cllr David Williams out to dry?

Council Leader Arnold Woolley's Buckley, the centre bypassed of vehicles.

Deputy Council Leader Tony Sharps' Northop Hall has bumps at both ends and an HGV ban to repel the masses from CQ.

Penyffordd a quick unpoliced short cut to A55 Warren Bank, Airbus, Broughton Retail Park, the village a gateway to Mid Wales, the bypass ignored.

Are they not betraying David, treating him as "soft lad" ?

Is this what's called team playing ?

David should dump this group of Independents they are hypocrites of the highest order.

Energy

I and I would imagine a lot of householders are getting sick of being taken to the cleaners by the energy companies and the government. It's a joint effort.

This next year they will get somewhere near half they got this year. Then the following  year half again with biomass* , solar and high insulation.
I also have some serious 12 volt led equipment.

They all need teaching a lesson. What we need is a revolution. Small honest government, small taxes and no investment banking if they are using our money.
An end to this dependent culture.

*biomass is the new word for wood burning

We have won the lottery

Lisa says it was £10. It turns out to be something like £70.
Another number might have made it interesting
Perhaps we need a double check on the numbers?

Google have sent us a cheque as well

So we have squirrelled it away so our nice bankers who have bankrupt the country for the next 30 years can take it to the derivative casino

We are whizzing with the wind so to speak.

Speed Limits in Penyffordd

made it to Penyffordd Community Council October agenda. The Independent led Flintshire County Council have so far proved useless in the role out of 20 mph compulsory zones. All talk talk. Cllr David Williams is a member the leading group. So is Cllr Tony Sharps. One rule for Northop Hall David and one rule for Penyffordd with regards traffic calming

Neal Cockerton Head of FCC Road Assets seems to be a speed man. What exactly is Carl Longland, Director of Environment's function?

Job Cuts

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/ 

Steve Jobs RIP

Jobs on [the blue screen of] death:

“Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

Link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

Concert to celebrate life of Joy Soffe

A MEMORIAL concert in tribute to a popular teenager killed in a road traffic collision (Dobshill)  is to be held in Hawarden.

Link http://www.flintshirechronicle.co.uk/flintshire-news/local-flintshire-news/2011/10/06/concert-to-celebrate-life-of-joy-soffe-51352-29543616/

Cllr Tom Jones in The Flintshire Chronicle

Tom's a trustee of Flintshire Local Voluntary Council. The FLVC have had another successful year.

Links
http://flvc.org.uk/about-flvc/our-trustees/

http://www.flintshirechronicle.co.uk/flintshire-news/local-flintshire-news/2011/10/06/flintshire-local-voluntary-council-celebrates-successful-year-51352-29543825/ 

Castell Alun demanding £1,000,000 from Penyffordd

Well its just about a million give or take a few bob. Castell Alun in Hope is the secondary school that Penyffordd children go to. With the development of Wood Lane Farm's 234 houses the Director of Flintshire Education has named his price for Wood Lane Farm estate children going to Castell Alun. The money would give us a few sporting facilities. The above issue was raised two council meetings ago and is minuted.

I thought education money came out of central funds.

Solar Furnace

Here is something I have an interest in. The French have one somewhere in the south. The mirrors produce heat a million degrees or so. Molten salt is pumped through the tower and the super heat transferred to tanks which can produce steam which will drive turbines even when the sun goes in.

I'm going to make one "sans" the molten salt as you can't get molten salt pumps on Ebay.

 

Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_furnace

http://amasci.com/amateur/mirror.html 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6616651.stm

Am I obsessed?

A commenter rightly asks. If one is almost daily subject to environmental issues it does get under the skin. It does affect one's health, physical, mental and spiritual.

I modify my environment each week to remove this nuisance outside my front door.
I have further projects to make our house totally inward looking towards the back garden

When our council go digital with their agendas and minutes there will be more grist for the mill.

I will make a promise to keep my traffic whinging to the minimum in future. The Betrayers of Chester Rd will stay on the side link.

We have an election next may. I intend to try my best to make local politicians pay for 5 years of foot dragging. I'll try keep it away from Penyffordd District though.

Further thoughts post bath. Perhaps I'll start a new blog called "Chester Rd Betrayers which will catalogue past and continuing non action of our elected representatives.

Penyffordd Community Council further

Apparently the village scribe Nigel is unhappy. Tonight's meeting is going to take forever.
324 house development and 40 grant applications for local organisations to be discussed.

It's dead easy really. Just go along with what the developers want to do and be thankful for whatever crumbs they gives after agreeing to development (Cllr Colin Bithell and Cllr Tom Jones) and give every local organisation the same amount of money. This will not do though as the Penyffordd wine society to which I belong will get more than the pittance we got last year. ( Cllr Tom Jones saw to that, very petty Tom)

Penyffordd Community Council Meeting

is most probably tomorrow night. I've been passed the notice board twice but didn't look. Doh.

Chester Rd you can be sure will not be discussed. David's mates down the pub want nothing in their way when they fly through each morning. I remember one chap stopping when a previous CBM had his traffic speed gun in his hand. The basic spiel was haven't you got something better to do.

This sums up quite a lot of  Penyffordd. They don't care. They even speed passed Colin the lolly pop. My possible actions are unprintable and will get me a police warning.

Rest assured short cut traffic speeding or not will NOT be brought up by Cindy (quote  "there's not much speeding" - how does she know she's never found out ?) Hinds or David Williams.

Both are the speeders, short cutters and HGV drivers mates.



As per usual no meeting agenda on line and no minutes.

Flintshire politicians dragging us all down to the lowest common denominator.

Children settle into life at Abbot’s Lane Infant School, Penyffordd

Miss Lovelock’s reception class are finding their feet after starting their school life earlier this month.

by Dave Goodban, Flintshire Chronicle

The Betrayers of Chester Rd ( Urban Vandals )

 

be·tray (b-tr)

tr.v. be·trayed, be·tray·ing, be·trays

To give aid or information to an enemy of; commit treason against: betray one's village.To deliver into the hands of an enemy 

(FCC and WAG) in violation of a trust.

To be false or disloyal to: betrayed their cause to the village

To lead astray; deceive. To hide information from village residents that affects
their environment in a detrimental way.

From now until the next election and further I am going to remind people of the active betrayal of Chester Rd. Each culprit will named and their crimes against Chester Rd described. From turning a blind eye to being in on the grand plan.
We should be a quiet village with a bypass. Instead we have up to 4000 vehicles a day with peaks of 20 vehicles a minute including HGV.
The example of a village that has been allowed to do the job properly is Rossett
in Wrexham Borough. Many of those below should hang their heads in shame. Let this be a true record of their vandalism. Comments are open for the guilty or other readers.

The Prologue

Chester Rd is an old trunk road declassified to a C or group III road. As a trunk road it was known as a gateway there and back to mid Wales from the North of England and Scotland.
After much protest about levels of traffic within the village our Penyffordd Bypass was built.
Our former councillors with hindsight should have pushed to have through traffic bypass Penyffordd village centre by making it awkward coming through the village using civil engineering solutions. They didn't.

Chester Rd is currently totally unpoliced by Gosafe and North Wales Police who have quietly moved from traffic policing with the full knowledge of Flintshire County Councillors. We are a major short cut for many of the 6000 Airbus workers, Broughton Retail Park and the new A55 Warren Bank exits.

We are a good HGV short cut.

We have returned to a trunk road status in all but name. This has been long planned.
Some of our cllrs have known this.

The Welsh Assembly Government have always known traffic levels would increase through the village.

Our elected representatives have stood around whilst the above is happening like Dad's Army. (writing letters is no action cllrs)

Each name will become active as their "hand sitting" or active involvement  is analysed.

Cllr Linda Vidamour
Cllr Jane Hopwood
Cllr Edwina Davies
Cllr Stan Davies
Cllr John Bell
Cllr Margaret Jones
County Cllr Cindy Hinds
Cllr  David Williams
Cllr Colin Bithell
Cllr Tom Jones

Cllr Derek Darlington (deceased)

Cllr Arnold Woolley
Cllr Aaron Shotton
Cllr Tony Sharps

Neal Cockerton FCC Head of Road Assets
Carl Longland FCC Director of Environment
Flintshire Gosafe Officer


Mark Tami MP
Carl Sargeant AM Welsh Assembly Minister for Roads
Chief Constable Mark Polin
The N Wales Head of Gosafe
NWPA
Airbus Chester

An object lesson on how elected representatives and agencies shouldn't act.
We need a revolution. We need more than talk shoppers.

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Quite a sophisticated phisher. One presumes they make a claim for an illegal refund once they have your details.

Could Carl Sargeant AM* be collecting a P45 ?

French central bank chief signals support for Geithner plan as Berlin lays the ground for a potential eurozone exit.
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The text is financially complicated. The comments by very clever people. Bottom line if Germany leaves the Eurozone can the EU survive?

Revenge for Chester Rd betrayal by WAG.

Link The Slog

*Carl and his wife earn over 100k a year through the WAG

Concert to remember talented musician Joy

Joy Soffe, 13, of Mare Hey Lane, Ewloe, was killed after her bicycle was involved in a collision with a car while she was riding on the A550 on Chester Road, Dobshill in July.

read further The Leader

Council Tax to be frozen next year

the Chancellor has announced. Will this help to make Flintshire County Council join the real world?

To Erddig Apple Festival 2011

 

Erddig boast more than 180 varieties of fruit trees

Many very old. Here are some. Glyn Smith the head gardener did a very interesting talk on Erddig to Penyffordd Wine Circle last year.

 

 

This chap must 7 foot tall, I checked for stilts.

Future profile articles

on those who have let Chester Rd down. From community cllrs to AM to MP.

Chester Rd has increased HGV levels, increased levels of traffic, no traffic policing. Cllrs have no idea of speeding levels, they don't want to know.
Over a 1000 short cut vehicles a day who do not live in the village. We have a bypass cllrs for speed not the village. 

If minded the guilty persons or organisations can reply in the comments section. Perhaps in the rare chance of a reply you might consider dealing with the section in bold orange.

Since at present I am "the only voice in town". You might consider how your descendents will view your non concern of Chester Rd environment.

To Prestatyn

It's the first of October. The place is packed. Campsites that would have been closed two weeks ago are full. Hotels and pubs doing turn away business.
Good for business this global warming.

Klaus - the opposition gathers its forces

That's quite a lot of cllrs in Flintshire. The Flintshire Chronicle has three knocking letter against him today. One from former Chronicle editor Kevin Hughes and two from county cllrs. There is no love lost in Penyffordd towards Klaus either. Which FCC cllrs has he not upset?

Why can't Klaus get interested in speeding traffic and villages that have rat runs. Plenty of new material there. He can do what my current cllrs David Williams and Cindy Hinds refuse to do.

You need people like Klaus if you have cllrs like ours. Four years is too long.

keyword KAB, Klaus Armstrong Braun.

A little known fact. Klaus added the Armstrong bit.

How to get rid of a county councillor - the traveller camp gambit

Inspired by comment here
http://penyffordd-district.blogspot.com/2011/09/alison-challenging-climate-at-housing.html

A few years ago a retired county councillor told me the following story. It may not be entirely correct because I had had a few wines. The substance is correct however.
One Friday night this councillor received a phone call, a meeting the following Tuesday to discuss the siting of a traveller camp within the county*. Quick thinking cllr said that's not three full working days notice. Chairman said the meeting was taking place anyway.

More quick thinking. Cllr rings chairman back and says the meeting is illegal and he will be applying for a court order to stop meeting.
Tuesday arrives cllr turns up at meeting and places a plain white envelope in front of him on the table.
The cllr involved is being set up for a traveller site in his ward the sight of the court order makes chairman go for plan b.
Another ward is put to the vote. Carried. Unfortunate cllr looses his seat at the next local elections.

The cllrs envelope contained a blank sheet of paper, he was bluffing.

Coincidences. Cllr Tony Sharp is currently deputy leader of FCC. He was also a county councillor when the above incident happened.

Is Cllr Alison Halford between a rock and a hard place?
http://www.flintshirechronicle.co.uk/flintshire-news/local-flintshire-news/2011/09/29/ewloe-travellers-site-protest-planned-51352-29503405/ 

* Not Flintshire in its current format

Flintshire towns and villages battle it out for Best Kept Communities titles

I have however let the side down. I keep my hedges thick and uncut to try to drown out all the short cut traffic. This however is impossible with the illegal exhaust brigade.
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Cllr McGuill said: “Taking part in the Best Kept Communities competition helps to improve the environment of villages and towns throughout Flintshire. It encourages community spirit and improves the appearance of the area.
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Our councillors have no respect Hilary. They won't even press NWP to do their job over speeding. Is it because of mates down the Red Lion I wonder?

Alison - Challenging climate at Housing Meeting

http://www.alisonhalford.co.uk/2011/09/a-week-someone-will-wish-to-forget-2011-14th-22nd-september/

Trouble at Dobshill

Barrister was assaulted after minor Flintshire road accident

in The Leader

Airbus competitor takes off

 

This will be good for UK companies who will make 25% of the aircraft. This aircraft is made of advanced materials of which Airbus Chester is currently making its first prototype.

Link Telegraph

Penyffordd District Gardening - Rea Mammoth Quince

 

These look very nice. As hard as a cricket ball. The tree in its first year.

Link Quince 

Flintshire Road Fatalities An email to County Councillor Mike Peers

Hi Mike
You're concerned about road fatalities in Flintshire. You won't get any proper help from FCC and NWP because they are part of the cause.

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/106532/probe-call-into-worrying-death-toll-on-county-roads.aspx 

Shall I offer my three penneth worth?............... I'm going to anyway.

1. N Wales. Each week end N Wales is used a race track by bikers and tourists in cars. What are NWP doing about it? Very little, just pretending. They are scared of the bikers and the Daily Post.

2. Flintshire. Each morning major roads are used as race tracks by rush hour traffic. Try the A5104 Pontblyddyn Penyffordd between 7 and 9. Lots of drivers coming dead fast around blind bends 3 foot over the white line. What are NWP and FCC doing about it ? Nothing.

2a There is NO traffic policing after 6 pm and 10 am the following morning. Youth can  hammer around until they crash. Cllr Sharps even suggested in The Leader that speeding after dark was ok. They published my protest letter.

3. Flintshire Highways are stuck in a mid 20th century time warp. They are not interested in speeding in Flintshire communities, unless we are taking Northop Hall.

4. Flintshire Highways staff lied to NWP officers over the amount of speeding traffic in Chester Rd., Penyffordd. They hid the data from me then told police it was 5% when it was really 34%. This was minuted at Penyffordd Community Council meeting.

5. Gosafe turn up at 10 am in the morning when the rat run rages between 7 and 9.
Amateurs? or doing what Penyffordd cllrs want.

6. Gosafe / FCC have persistently denied me April 2007 traffic data for Chester Rd. FOIE's mean nothing to them.

The number of speeders each day through the village at that time was about 2000 a day. Of course Penyffordd cllrs are gagging to look at the data not !

7. County Councillors Cindy Hinds and David Williams know speeding goes on
and do nothing.

8. Carl Sargeant AM Minister for Roads knows speeding goes on he will do nothing.

9. Mark Tami MP  knows speeding goes on he will do nothing.
10. Neal Cockerton  knows speeding goes on he will do nothing.
11. Cllr Arnold Woolley  knows speeding goes on he will do nothing.
12. Cllr Tony Sharps  Head of Roads knows speeding goes on he will do nothing.
13. Carl Longland Director of Environment  knows speeding goes on he will do nothing.

14. Future Flintshire 20 mph zones for communities have very high qualification bars.

Most of the above is about Penyffordd but it happens in lots of places in Flintshire.

The controlling Flintshire group walking the walk but not talking the talk.

Wrexham has loads of controlled speed  areas. Flintshire back the speeders.

What will happen? nothing. Lots of you should be out of a job.
But you won't the electorate are too stupid

NWP are reduced to controlling the traffic at fatal accidents , writing reports, dealing with grieving relatives. Stable door policy. As effective as eunuchs at an orgy.

 Do Flintshire Highways still have the practice of needing three fatalities in one place before they will do anything?

Flintshire Highways need tearing apart it's full of Jeremy Clarksons.

So have you got that?  It's the fault of FCC, NWP, NWPA, our elected representatives and loads of idiots who shouldn't have a license.

What will happen? Nothing. We just have pretend politicians in Flintshire. 

best wishes Colin

Probe call into ‘worrying’ death toll on county roads

Perhaps its something to with no traffic policing. Gosafe are a joke. It's also down to cllrs like Cindy Hinds and David Williams who are scared to do anything about speeding in Chester Rd, Penyffordd.

They won't ask for a speed survey, scared of the results, scared to loose votes. Votes over village environment and safety.

Link http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/106532/probe-call-into-worrying-death-toll-on-county-roads.aspx

Wales buckles down in the face of cuts

by increasing public sector jobs. I also see UK PLC spending reached its highest point ever in August.

So much for hard times !

Our leaders do not live in the real world. Very shortly they are going to be rudely awakened by the reality of the Eurozone and USA.

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According to Nomis, there was a rise in public sector employment of 35,800 jobs between June 2010 and June 2011 – equivalent to 8.7%.

Over the same period, there was said to have been a decrease of 35,000 jobs (3.7%) in the Welsh private sector. In percentage terms, this was the biggest private sector drop behind the East Midlands at 4.2%.
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Link Walesonline

Look out !

Link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/

 

Residents urged to become councillors

Link Daily Post

Do they have many "sheets of ten" in Denbighshire? A Penyffordd "sheet of ten" is where an individual in this case Cllr Tom Jones gets himself and 9 mates to sign up to stand for 10 out of the 12 places.

No work required, no need to plod the streets, just hand over a tenner and a photograph, we''ll do the rest.

Last time someone was signed up to stand whilst on their death bed.

It takes about £150 for printing, about 10 hours to deliver leaflets. If you're a Tom "yes person" you don't need to do this.

Tom has total control because if you "act up" a bit not going along with what he says you do not get invited the next time on to the sheet.

Last election time my wife was sent a black mail note advising her not to stand. NWP and FCC would do bugger all about it. I did however get Colin Everett the returns officer on to me over an omission on my election literature after a Cllr Colin Bithell complaint.

Who sent the note? I still have it in a plastic bag cllrs.

The whole system is full of poo. The Welsh Assembly Government talk about having vibrant local democracy. They're full of poo as well.

Penyffordd is an example of what happens when people like Tom Jones can operate in the way they do.

Are you listening Carl*?

* Carl Sargeant AM Minister for Local Government.

ps. Tom, any "sheets of 10" this time will get massive negative publicity

pps. Still no traffic policing in Chester Rd Tom, it's 5 years now. Lets hope loads of your voters have "gone" or are in old folks homes out of the area. Time to go Tom you have done enough damage.

( Cllrs Tom Jones  and his lieutenant Cllr Colin Bithell are two of the councillors who hide their email addresses. ) more later on that.

Have a nice day !

Letter to The Flintshire Chronicle - Why don't the thieves do us all a favour?

As criminal gangs are regularly stealing everything from power cables to metal railings in order to cash in on increasing scrap metal prices, why don't they go for something that would benefit almost everyone?

I refer of course to on and off-shore wind turbines. Those of us who live along the North Wales coast would rejoice if we looked out one morning and they had all gone, returning one of the world's most spectacular seascapes to the way nature intended.

The other bonus is that we tax payers and electricity users would no longer have to keep subsidising these inefficient white elephants.

And politicians would be happy as it would get them out of the green hole they have found themselves in.

Brian Christley

Letters to the Editor

I'm a keen reader of the letters page whether it be local or national. For years I read Private Eye. If you like such stuff the Henry Root books are worth  a go. Henry used to send highly entertaining "piddle take" letters to the great and the good with a crisp twenty pound note attached. The books are his highly entertaining letters with the reply from whoever usually someone in the public eye. Some realised the letters for what they were others were hooked, line and sinkered.

As someone pointed out in the comments the other day letters pages all end up for recycling. I've previously copied a Gareth Williams letter from the Chronicle. Here's another from a favourite local writer of mine Brian Christley who also gets letters posted nationally in such papers as the Telegraph. Wind turbine fans might need to look away now. Any writer who takes offence at letters copied can have them removed if they send me a bonafide email.

Friday night entertainment

The streets of our capital Cardiff. Click half way up the image on the right to scroll through.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/8784306/Cardiff-after-dark-Maciej-Dakowicz-photographs-the-nightlife-of-the-Welsh-capital.html?image=1

Local Pub in The Flintshire Leader

THE Spinning Wheel* in Broughton is a cosy inn offering visitors a warm welcome, home-cooked food and real ale.

The pub, which was built in about 1815, is owned and run by Mike and Maggie Vernon, who bought it 30 years ago.

“We bought it in 1981, before that I think it had been closed for a while,” said Mike. “I do know that it used to be called the Old Hawarden Castle Inn, but it changed its name in the late 70s.”

http://www.flintshirechronicle.co.uk/flintshire-news/local-flintshire-news/2011/09/22/save-our-flintshire-pubs-the-spinning-wheel-broughton-51352-29462880/

* The Spinning Wheel is currently part of the ward of Penyffordd.

Gareth Williams of Mold on long standing traffic issues in Mold

On the letters page in The Leader and most probably in The Flintshire Chronicle next week. Gareth gives a full analysis of the issues and finishes off with a suggestion that a traffic survey should be arranged in October.

Would this be a Flintshire County Council traffic survey where all data is given to concerned rate paying residents? This will be something brand new. Traffic data for Chester Rd April 2007 has been consistently denied me with the full knowledge of Penyffordd councillors with the full complicity of Flintshire Gosafe officers, road safety officers and highways officers of FCC

Gareth also mentions 20 mph zones being kicked into the long grass. We couldn't possible have 20 mph zones in Chester Rd anyway now we have returned to trunk road status. 20 cars a minute in the morning cllrs. Just a rat run for through traffic.
I'm going to put a big board saying "Penyffordd Council Rat Run. Speed as fast you like they don't care. "

Perhaps if Gareth gets back in next May he can look at the "can of worms" which is Flintshire Highways dept.

Gareth is a former deputy leader of FCC. I like the cut of his jib.

Chester Rd Rat Run 5 years on

It still happens every work day
Penyffordd Cllrs are scared of the speeders.
No NWP or Gosafe.

Time for action councillors.

3000 vehicles past the house each day and rising due to A55 Warren Bank.
A big protest poster for every one to read
Letters to the paper

postscript, apols for the revolving record.

Congratulations to Sue in the Post Office

who is getting married today.

Welsh Politicians bending over backwards to support business

Things must be serious.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-14766581

I think it's too late. Private industry provides the capital for society to exist the way it currently does. They have been taxed and red taped to the hilt.

The far east is a lot leaner than western europe industry.

This will take some time to undo. If ever........................

How to get chucked out of Tesco's in Broughton

Write prices down on a piece of paper. Look what's ahead when Tesco rules the country. Read comments below story.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/blog/2011/sep/16/tesco-shopping-supermarket-prices-check-writing 

I 've got a mate called Whitey. He used to get chucked out of supermarkets for writing prices down. His dad owned a supermarket.......  They later sold out to Albert Gubay's Quicksave.

Welsh Education bosses having a laugh

Wales has the poorest education metrics of any country in the UK. So lets brain wash them with so called global warming.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/sep/20/wales-climate-change-schools-education

If global warming is real why don't politicians discuss the answer?

Population control.

If population was cut down the so called carbon outputs would fall. So would methane output as less cattle would be needed.

The above doesn't quite fit into the grand plan for sheep people though.

Watch out on the 23rd

The above lump of metal is coming back to Earth.

The problem is they don't know where. 

Odds are that nobody will be beaned by any remaining chunks of the nearly $750 million spacecraft, with NASA experts forecasting a remote 1-in-3,200 chance of a possible injury from the satellite's debris.

Here's Dave's link if you can understand it................

The Leader comments system is a joke

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

How many comments are reinstated? I think very few.

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

£2.2trillion in orders will secure 6,000 jobs at Airbus in Broughton for the next 20 years

Good news for Penyffordd in The Daily Post

The Millstone further

Apparently the new people taking over run 20 pubs. They are also looking for a new chef.

Our morning rat run continues unabated

Our councillors do nothing, so NWP and Gosafe do nothing
Flintshire County Council does nothing.
Welsh Assembly Government do nothing

I once said to a councillor I though the village full of philistines.
She protested, I still think the same a few years on.

I use Rossett as an example of good village traffic calming.

We are a major short cut for trunk road traffic including HGV even though we have a bypass.
No traffic policing.
Gosafe will not release traffic data in a proper manner
Flintshire County Council lies over the amount of speeding.

Here's a token effort in The Leader just to show NWP appear to be doing their job. Meanwhile the rest of us suffer.