Short Cuts

Chester Rd is currently a short cut for road workings at Posthouse A483 /A55 which is 4 miles away.
Saying that Chester Rd has always been a shortcut for the Penyffordd Bypass something I think should be prevented.

A commenter on the 2nd previous post states that Taylor Wimpey are looking to buy up property on the Towers estate to make an extra vehicular access for the estate they are building.

This is wrong. Most certainly outside the planning permission.

Estates are made cul de sacs on purpose, its good planning practice.

This is bad for the Towers estate. Some drivers disregard all safety issues whether its dashing to work or doing the school run.

If there are going to be holdups at Penyffordd Butchers planning permission in its current form should not have been granted.

Anybody's thoughts?

Millstone Refurbishment Pictures

link https://www.facebook.com/Millstone.Penyffordd?fref=ts

Community Recreational Green Space

Something Penyffordd has little of.

Higher Kinnerton have secured theirs.

http://www.newsnorthwales.co.uk/news/147292/higher-kinnerton-recreational-space-deal-is-signed-and-sealed.aspx

One wonders what's going on behind the scout hut ie. earth moving
I'm sure all will be revealed

Global Warming News

No Penyffordd news.

Chew on this.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11561629/Top-scientists-start-to-examine-fiddled-global-warming-figures.html

Penyffordd Football Club Fund Raiser

https://twitter.com/penyfforddfc/status/591249531435675648

Election News - Everything is Rosy

lastfreeman • 20 hours ago


1. National debt 4 times higher than 15 years ago. Even at low interest rates the payment is higher (much) than the defence budget. The annual Gov deficit still £90 billion.
2. Individual debt as high as Portugal's.
3. Individual savings including pensions, destroyed by 6 years+ of 0.5% base rate.
4. Unlimited immigration overwhelming housing, schools, health & transport.
5.Transport & energy infrastructure neglected.
6.Whats left of UK industry in foreign ownership.
7. A political class obsessed with gimmicks rather than boosting UK industry.
8. The 2008 Climate change Act that will cut UK emissions by 80% & shut British industry, with the jobs going to higher polluting China.
9. A political obsession with high foreign aid & crazy high subsidies for wind turbines.
10. Hugely expensive gold plated pensions for the high ups in the public sector.
11. A housing price bubble stoked by help to buy.

Link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11552693/Why-the-British-have-no-reason-to-be-negative-about-the-UK-economy.html

How to become a Billionaire

No news day in Penyffordd. Its sunny and the morning speedy rush is well gone. It's like the tide, its here every workday.
Anyway Elon Musk's former wife has something to say.

"One reason they become the entrepreneurs they become is because they can't or don't or won't fit into the structures and routines of corporate life," she wrote. "They are dyslexic, they are autistic, they have ADD, they are square pegs in round holes, they piss people off, get into arguments, rock the boat, laugh in the face of paperwork."

link http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/21/technology/justine-musk-quora/index.html?iid=HP_LN

Justine Musk reminds me of Rachel Allen the celebrity chef.

Justine forgot one " a touch of Aspergers"

Penyffordd to have its own Vets

Work is going on opposite The Millstone on a building which is being converted into a Vets.

Link   www.dalesidevets.co.uk

A Chinese Surprise

No , not next door.
A mystery package from the postman with Chinese characters on the outside.
Its from Gary Wang of Guangzhou, Guangdong.
The package has about 30 seeds in it.
No invoice
Ordered sometime in the last month after a glass of red.
Mostly 99p wins.

After that we're guessing.
Are they tomatoes or peppers?
They're not strawberries.
A look though my Ebay purchase list.
Names of the sender and supply company can differ
Final solution, plant them in the propagator
and see what comes up.

Penyffordd Recycling Centre

We haven't got one of course.
Some would say why do we want one?

Moves are afoot to close the centre at Hope.
They want us to recycle our rubbish but they want us to travel further by car to do it, using more fuel.
The bus is out of the question of course.

I think residents should be able to swap rubbish at the tip if they choose. It's our rubbish. We should be allowed to skip dive, I'm often tempted lol.
A free mention in the local papers the outcome.

It helps to limit land fill. One person's rubbish another person's gold. It's how I make my living.

Instead recycling centres are built like prison camps with CCTV recording your every move. The council make a nice little earner on the scrap. They operate like Mafia.

For a long time now I've used Buckley Recycling Centre on the Spencer |Industrial Estate on Liverpool Rd. It can be got to via Wood Lane, Drury. It's a lot larger than Hope.

I don't recommend Saturday mornings ever.
I hate turning up with rubbish when the gates are shut and there's a queue

I think Queensferry is shut with Sandycroft being the one.
If you fancy a ride out into the country try Mold.

Aaron says closing sites will improve performance.
Aaron talks pants, he is however a very nice man.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/plan-close-hope-recycling-centre-9068801

Friday night Part II

Flintshire refuses to become North Wales' Incinerator

Well done FCC
Hope it sticks.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/deeside-incinerator-plans-rejected-flintshire-9068716

Co option of a Penyffordd Community Cllr

The council have received two applicants for the vacant position left by former Cllr Joe Bell.
The two applicants will now have been interviewed.

The position runs to the next local election in 2016.

Election News - Just fancy that !

Some of the more aware among'st you ( not me) may have spotted the Green Party election leaflet pushed through your door. The candidate Kay Roney.

Apparently The Green Party don't know their  Delyn from their Alyn and Deeside.
Last time I looked Penyffordd was in Alyn and Deeside.
Kay Roney is standing for Delyn.

To be fair Delyn also has a Penyffordd something I need to check when looking for news for the village.

Tx Gill for the heads up!

Friday Night Selection

Not recommended before bed..............

Penyffordd Pub wins award

The Millstone staff pictured in The Flintshire Chronicle have won a best new comer award 2015.
The car park at week ends shows they are very popular.

http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/pictures-winners-taste-cheshire-food-9020244

http://www.millstonepenyffordd.co.uk/

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186233-d2208034-Reviews-The_Millstone-Chester_Cheshire_England.html

Penyffordd residents complain about access to new Health Centre

Not the one in Penyffordd silly !
We haven't got one.

One of the biggest failures of Penyffordd Cllrs of various persuasions over the last 30 years is the non establishment of a permanent health centre in Penyffordd.  IMHO

I say this with 100% hindsight

The story is here

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/146684/call-to-help-residents-get-to-new-medical-centre-in-buckley.aspx


I recently had to go for a 3rd time to get a prescription arranged. (not the above centre, the one across the road)
It had gone through my mind, the messing around if I did not have the use of a car.

A complaint to Betty (BCUHB) did not go down too well with office manager......

Recent Property Sales

Sales recently added within 500m of CH4 0LS Edit location 8 Ferndale Close £150,000 Penyffordd, CH4 0NH 23rd February 2015 Sales recently added within 500m of CH4 0HP Edit location Coedllai Rhos Road £130,500 Penyffordd, CH4 0JR 19th December 2014

A Day at the Races

Oh dear !

Keep a look out for Lydia ( wardrobe malfunction )

Penyffordd Temperance Society would not be amused.

I have to admire the larger ladies................

In fact I have to admire them all for taking the effort.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3033363/Let-racing-revels-begin-Racegoers-strut-stuff-finest-frocks-Ladies-Day-Aintree-gets-underway.html?ito=social-facebook

postscript

The ladies going home and some who have had fighting ale.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3034286/Falls-brawls-horseplay-Hundreds-worse-wear-women-struggle-make-journey-home-Ladies-Day-Aintree-draws-close.html?ito=social-facebook

General Election with regards Penyffordd

Here below are I hope (you need to put your post code in the box)  the candidates for Alyn and Deeside

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/general-election-2015-find-seat-9018062

For me uncontrolled immigration is a big issue.
There are too many people in this country.

There are too many people using NHS resources for free who have never
contributed to it.

Doctors queues are ridiculous.

Non Doms? Couldn't give a monkeys.

A very large prison to be built that I do not want.

Too many kids going to university building up debts.
University should not be for nearly everyone
Some courses are a joke.

Too much tax on car fuel.

The main parties take too much notice of vested interests ( lobby groups)

Windmills are a token energy solution. The electricity they produce is expensive.

Which set of jokers to vote for?

Or perhaps not bother.

Vehicle Fire

Daily Post Tweet

VEHICLE FIRE: North Wales Fire service is saying a car was deliberately set alight last night at

Pen y Ffordd, in Buckley. There is 50% damage to the car which was a VW Golf. One fire engine was sent from Buckley.


I'm sure there will be more about this in the Daily Post tomorrow.

Further
Sources say it happened about 5am and was deliberate. The car is something of a tourist attraction. It must be all over social media. One young man in a car of 4 said "Glad it wasn't mine"

On the dog walk

Less than one week old

Speed News

NWP are launching a campaign against speeding bikers in N Wales. They wish to persuade them of the folly of their actions. Public relations exercise? I think so. A proportion of bikers come to N Wales to use it as a race track. Some have illegal exhausts which NWP completely ignore. I think it was last year when up near Llandegla on the A494. I couldn't understand why the bikers behind me were observing the speed limit and the Highway Code.

It became apparent later when looking at the Daily Post. About 20 bikers had been booked for speeding. This is the only language they understand NWP.
They are a nuisance and a menace. Our politicians all hide behind the settee on this one. Not one with any back bone.

Link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-32176039

More locally.
Drivers are speeding over the speed bumps at Chester Rd a major route to school. I think some are taking them at 40mph. My wife thinks not.

The profile of the static speed bump needs altering so that speeders are stopped. I don't think this will happen until a child or lollypop is run over.

If I was in charge of the village, through HGV would be banned and the only things flying through the village would be birds

Austerity Drive for Community Council

Notices on the notice board are curling up due to damp and using one drawing pin. If you have a spare box of drawing pins please help. ( just ignore Sarah, its a low news month)

The Mountain

Not much happening Penyffordd. There has been a series on ITV about Snowdon.
Links to the series are here.

http://www.itv.com/news/wales/story/2015-02-16/the-mountain/

Local Councils in Wales are being changed. Have your say

Tell WAG your views

http://gov.wales/topics/localgovernment/councils-to-change/?lang=en

Football

Football must be by many times the most popular sport enjoyed by villagers either playing or watching.

Penyffordd Seniors play at Hanson Cement pitch in Padeswood

Penyffordd Juniors play at Leeswood.

Why is this?

Friday Night on Early Monday Morning

Flintshire County Council are hard up so we are going to have to pay more

If you look at your council tax rate schedule for the coming year you will notice the Penyffordd Community Council precept has increased by over 23%.

This sounds an awful lot. Someone I know is raising unnecessary blood pressure because of it.

Haven't got the sheet in front of me but it's about £25 for us in Band C. ( 50p a week)

Flintshire County Council and I suppose all other councils in UK are looking to make major savings
due to the greed of the banksters circa 2008.
This hangover will run for years.

Over the next 12 months organisations within the village will have the chance to take over community assets. Also Xmas street decorations, street lighting, playing areas will be transferred from county to village.

Hard times ahead unless villagers are willing to pay.

Seen Locally

Shotton is now sporting a Latvian and Russian restaurant. A Polish acquaintance says the food is good.

More Traffic News - Hope

TRAFFIC: Advance warning: Gas main work and temporary traffic lights in Hope, Flintshire, on A550 Hawarden Road around Sarn Lane.
From March 10-13.


Source Daily Post Live

This is near Red Lion, Hope. This looks like trouble for those travelling to and from Wrexham.

Penyffordd, Pontblyddyn, Caegwrle, Wrexham might be the way to go.

Traffic News

North Wales Police are holding high profile attendance in Penymynydd Rd, a major route to school. There must have been complaints of speeding over the speed bumps outside the school which has an advisory 20mph limit.

On Chester Rd, drivers are driving too slow for some. Drivers have been seen overtaking 4 cars on the bumps up towards Broughton.

Again an issue on why some drivers should have licenses.

I should point out that some drivers take the fixed speed bump at about 40mph.

The Steely Dan

Video content is not to be encouraged.

To the doctors

I have an infection in the hearing dept which won't go away. The waiting list to see any doctor is 2 weeks.

Didn't ask about the list to see a particular doctor.

Decided to rough it at the open surgery 11am to 12.
One and half hour wait for a 5 minute consultation and an antibiotic prescription.

How did we get this bad?

Congratulations to Penyffordd Community Council

After 3 years, up to date minutes and agendas are now appearing on the community council website.
Can we please get rid of the fir trees councillors?

postscript: a live link to the comedy minutes mentioned in comments.
http://penyfforddareacc.com/images/Daves_Files/Meeting_Minutes_/Minutes_January_2015.pdf

"Item 123:  The Clerk also advised the Council that the Millennium Clerk will be serviced on 15th January 2015 by Smith of Derby Ltd."

Penyfforrdd Community Councillor Vacancy

Elected Councillor Joe Bell has been disqualified because he doesn't attend council meeting. Joe has been rather unwell for some time and should not have stood at the last election. ( keywords, sour grapes )

It would be fair to say a proportion of our active electorate would vote for the village clock or a sheep if asked to do so.

That's politics for you.

Details of how to apply for the vacant position are on the Council notice board outside the post office.

Next full community council elections will be in 2016.

Airbus comes to Gladstone's Library

A photographic exhibition of De Havilland, Hawker Siddeley and Airbus comes to Gladstones Library.

Link https://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/news/volume/airbus-comes-to-gladstones-library

Best Fish and Chip Shops in North Wales

As voted by Daily Post Readers.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/national-chip-week-top-10-8689055?utm_content=buffere338e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Not on the list but worthy

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g1918560-d3163485-Reviews-The_Galleon-Rhos_on_Sea_Conwy_County_North_Wales_Wales.html

and The Galleon, Conway, bottom of the High Street,
near the entrance to the sea front through the arch.
(shut out of season)


Not sure if the two are related.

Speeding

A week last Sunday I went to Northampton. I haven't been down the M6 for some years. The traffic was awful around Birmingham. A sign to me that there are too may people living in this country. The traffic horrendous.

There are now overhead gantry affairs every quarter mile around Birmingham with a speeding camera sign on them.

You ignore the speed limit at these gantries at your peril. On the other side of the gantry are a row of cameras to sense your speed. I was amazed at the number of drivers who were ignoring the speed limit. I thought they must know something I did not know. ie cameras were switch off. Silly me!

It would appear the many drivers I saw breaking speed limits will have been booked. The Treasury must be raking in money by the million.
Speed Awareness Course companies must be doing very well indeed.

An article in the ST were branding them stealth cameras. I thought this a bit silly as the speed camera sign was two foot square and reflective white. They also had a list of the top speeds for various cameras. 135, 140mph, etc.

Doing 50mph through road works with no road work being done was purgatory.

Penyffordd Lad aims for Parliament

Daily Post quote "Alasdair Ibbotson, of Penyffordd, is a politics student at Stirling University and is the youngest candidate on the ballot paper in Flintshire."

Full story here.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/penyffordd-student-hoping-elected-one-8676963

Some of Alasdair's aims hold water, some don't.

I thought the small series on Parliament currently happening on BBC2 interesting.

Wrexham Prison Survey

Glyndwr University are under taking a survey on the effects of the Wrexham Prison now being built.
Would have been nice for the WAG to carry out a survey before the decision to build the prison was made.

It was always a done deal. Democracy bypassed by Cardiff.

All those local Wrexham Borough Council members and local AM's, MP's who sat on their hands knowing this was going through should be voted against come the next elections in my view.

Make your views known.
The survey is anonymous excepting GCHQ having a look of course.
The survey in my opinion fair, you can even make comments to some sections.
It's a short survey.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wrexhamprison

The Penyffordd photos of Mel Jones

30 years gone past

This is one of the photos put on the net by Mel Jones.
There are more below.

Sports - https://www.flickr.com/photos/90385000@N02/sets/72157632107228072/
Arthur Arnold is in the one above.

Below - Local buildings including pubs long gone
Plus local people inc a councillor
https://www.flickr.com/photos/90385000@N02/sets/72157632106979854/

Houses for sale

Hawarden Road £149,950 2 bed	Poplar Court £265,000 4 bed Detached
Well House Drive £229,950 4 bed	Penymynydd Road £200,000 3 bed Semi-D

http://www.mouseprice.com/info/blog/

View more results in your area.

Work on Penyffordd Medical Centre has started.

Ah! you think where is it?
It's in Hope on the main road on the left opposite the Indian Restaurant.

You may ask why does Penyffordd not have a medical centre?
An interesting question.

Looks like we missed the boat on this one.
To be fair to our elected representatives current and past, Betsi Cadwallader seem to be a law unto themselves.

There's always the Penyffordd Pharmacy..................
Or Wrexham Maelor A&E out of hours..............if you are particularly ill.

I should point out to those new in the village that our surgeries are in Broughton, Buckley and Hope.

The Global Warming Con

I get a slight annoyance when global warming is stated as fact.

Below the excellent Christopher Booker explains the data fiddling.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html

If this interests you look here too

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/temperature-adjustments-transform-arctic-climate-history/

Pro active policing in Penyffordd

A letter pops through the door from PC Hazel Goss MBE who is a Crime Prevention Officer at County Hall, Mold.
Hazel tells me there is increased crime involving the theft of motorcycles throughout Flintshire and Wrexham.

My brother's son who lives in London parked his motorbike behind my car on a few occasions last week. We were perhaps being a little lazy and should have made sure the bike was in front of the car and not behind in view from the main road.

It was wheel locked and alarmed, perhaps this isn't enough to stop theft.

Many thanks NWP for the heads up.

Telecommunications 4G

According to a twitterer on Wrexham.com 4G is available in the Penyffordd area by EE.

We only use O2 for mobile as its the only one that works in our house. Having no mobile signal in the house a particular pain.

link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G

Recent House Sales

27 Hawarden Road £320,000 Penymynydd, CH4 0JD 13th October 2014 44 Coed Y Graig £195,000 Penymynydd, CH4 0XD 5th December 2014 Old Horse & Jockey Hawarden Road £210,000 Penymynydd, CH4 0NA 4th December 2014 12 Melwood Close £128,000 Penyffordd, CH4 0NB 7th November 2014 You can search all these sales totally free of charge by going to OurProperty.co.uk.

Welsh Assembly Government mark Penyffordd schools as effective

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/north-wales-schools-ranked-new-8548031

Scroll down page, put your postcode in.
You can toggle between primary and secondary education.

Some Flintshire school ratings surprising.
My old school, Sandycroft got Highly Effective..........

Follow the Beluga

If you go to http://planefinder.net/flight/BGA114F

You can follow the progress of one of the Belugas taking Airbus wings to France.

One supposes you can also follow the progress of relatives and friends returning to
the UK (free taxi rides R Yu) if you have their aircraft number.

As you can see from above this particular Beluga is BGA114F

Tree blocking road

Between Penyffordd Station roundabout and Pontblyddyn A5104
Its blocking at our end

Source Daily Post

Parking News

Going after his second booking.

Someone has just been booked for parking on the pavement outside my house.
They won't be happy!

postscript. And someone further up the road towards the Millenium Clock.

It's like shooting fish in a barrel. I go through Hope regularly always one or two parked on the double yellows opposite the doctors.

Infinite revenue for the council.

Traffic News A483 Wrexham Chester

Apparently traffic was backed up all the way from Dobshill backwards to the Equestrian Centre past Hope this morning. This is an awful lot of traffic trying to avoid bedlam.

Source Wrexham.com forum

http://www.wrexham.com/forums/wrexham-surrounding-area-forum/1480-wrexham-chester-alternative-route.html

Ambulances - what sort of navigation do they use?

This afternoon there was an emergency in Chester Rd. The advance medic was on the scene. The ambulance was driving up and down Hawarden Rd....................

I use Google streets to find places I need to drive to. I usually do a dry run using my mouse.

One wonders what the ambulance service uses?

Local History 1282

Click image to enlarge.

Taken from Wales by Owen M Edwards 1912

Page 184

Penyffordd didn't exist (IMHO)

Penyffordd Motorbike Accident Further

Daily Post http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/a550-closed-penyffordd-after-motorbike-8513851

Road Accident

I can hear the bobby chopper and police car sirens.
This below will explain it.

Wrexham.com

@wrexham

16 mins ago

Two RTC's reported this afternoon, one on B5373 Gresford Road around Pentre Lane - & another on A550 by Penyffordd. Avoid areas if you can.

Daily Post update @ 15.47 pm

CRASH UPDATE: The smash on the A550 at Penyffordd in Flintshire looks serious and has involved a motorcyclist according to an eyewitness. The road is still closed in both directions. Emergency services are at the scene.

CRASH UPDATE: The A550 at Penyffordd is still closed after a serious crash between a motorbike and a car. No indication when road will reopen.

Walesonline

ROADS: The A550 in Penyffordd is closed in both directions because of an accident involving two vehicles between A5104 (Penyffordd Roundabout) and A5118 / A5104 (Penymynydd Roundabout). Police are currently at the scene. No estimates as to when the road is likely to reopen. Sensors suggest that traffic in the area is coping well.

End of a 700 year pub?

There are plans to knock down the Golden Groves.
A sign of the times.
Used to get lost looking for it..............

http://www.wrexham.com/forums/wrexham-surrounding-area-forum/1471-golden-groves-rossett.html

http://www.wrexham.com/news/demolition-of-13th-century-golden-groves-pub-in-rossett-proposed-51829.html

Morning Traffic

A55 Broughton to Chester crawling 8.45 am both lanes
A55 back of Chester to Wrexham turnoff murder
A483 Wrexham Chester will be bad, bad, bad.

I have three trips today on A55 around Chester
I may be coming back via Farndon or perhaps through The Duke's estate......

Beluga

Look inside that familiar aircraft that daily flies around Penyffordd.
Link: http://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/look-see-inside-airbus-beluga-8496882

A483 Chester Wrexham Bypass Chester End

Two hour queues this morning. Maybe the same tomoz.
http://www.wrexham.com/news/traffic-chaos-a483-continues-motorist-misery-51807.html

Snow

According to my Met Office page it is going to snow from now until the day after tomorrow. I hope it is not going to stick. Lets hope the forecast is wrong.

postscript: letters handed out to children's parents advising about snow conditions and school.  The BBC saying its currently snowing in Penyffordd. The Met Office saying its going to snow on and off for 36 hours.

Still no snow.....................

Further Driver Issues

* The A5104 in Flintshire is partially blocked after two accidents between Pontblyddyn and Penyffordd Roundabout, Penyffordd.

reported Daily Post.
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The roads were bad this morning. Still plenty of drivers around who think they are immortal and accidents happen to other people.
They ( the roads) are also going to be bad tomorrow morning for work according to The Daily Post..

Driving issues hit train service

TRAINS: A replacement bus service is running on Arriva Trains Wales between Wrexham Central and Bidston due to road vehicle hitting a bridge at Penyffordd.

Source: the Daily Post recorded 1.52 pm

Local Property News

Sales recently added within 500m of CH4 0LSEdit location 2 Lilac Drive £206,000 Penyffordd, CH4 0GF 16th October 2014 Sales recently added within 500m of CH4 0LJEdit location 1 Ffordd Las £95,000 Penyffordd, CH4 0LZ 14th October 2014 Sales recently added within 500m of CH4 0HPEdit location 11 Alyn Drive £141,500 Penyffordd, CH4 0HP 24th October 2014 Rhos Farm Rhos Road £355,000 Penyffordd, CH4 0JR 1st July 2013 You can search all these sales totally free of charge by going toOurProperty.co.uk.

Parking in restricted areas

When Flintshire CC first took over policing of parking last year there was an initial flurry of fines for parking on yellow's in Penyffordd. Just to remind, traffic policing is still active. One old lady opposite Hope doctors was seen clutching a parking ticket. They are taking no prisoners.

A Happy New Year to All

What does 2015 hold?

Wrexham Borough Council to amalgamate with Flintshire County Council?

Will Penyffordd Community Council Website be run in a proper manner?

Will younger people come forward to help run things Penyffordd?

Hanson Cement Alleged Fallout

A Happy Xmas to all.

This week the windscreen of my car on at least two morning maybe three has shown a deposit that does not remove when windscreen washers and wipers are applied.

This is a classic sign of fallout from Hanson Cement.
As is the deposit appearing magically overnight.

Someone in the Post Office told me that certain parts of the village have received letters from Hanson Cement recently offering a free cleaning of their vehicles.

Why only parts of the village? My house was in the main zone for fall out when the previous plant was running.

I'm not looking for a free valete I just want my car to be free of cement fallout.

The new plant works well most of the time. What's the issue here?
Pushing the limits of the filtering system?
Production over environment?
Maintenance work not carried out?

Any further instances will result in an official complaint to Hanson Cement with copies to Penyffordd Community Council, Flintshire County Council and Natural Resources Wales.

Penyffordd Christmas Eve Celebrations

Hard Times to come for Flintshire

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/142037/-council-services-hit-tipping-point-.aspx

Upcoming Events

Wrestling returns to Penyffordd British Legion.

It's £50 for New Years Eve at The Millstone
Car park was packed at 3ish this afternoon

The Weather

Horseshoe Pass closed till after lunch and loads of idiots on the A55. This snow stuff makes roads slippy apparently..................

The wintery weather caused the accidents not the idiots in the cars.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/a55-snow-hail-storms-cause-8244314

Penyffordd Pedestrian Improvements

Modifications to further slow traffic in the middle of the village. I salute those with vision. We do not have to be a fast short cut, we have a bypass.

postscript: This will upset those who come flying around the bend over the no go area.

Further postscript: How about compulsory 20 mph zones outside the Post Office and Spar?

It may be a bit cold but

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30311816

In my opinion a load of tosh

Still it keeps a lot of people in very well paid jobs.

Wish I didn't have to help pay for them.

Former Penyffordd Headmaster collects MBE

I of course mean where most over 11's go to school.
http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/141263/former-head-collects-mbe-at-the-palace.aspx

Wrong Timing

So they want to pay Welsh AM's an extra 10 grand a year. This is at a time of zero hour contracts, employment migrating from full time to part time, declining job security, serious cuts to local services, poor NHS service, etc

They're taking the P aren't they.

Hanson Cement's Economic Barometer

I use the sign of emissions (mostly water vapour) from Hanson Cement as an indicator of national economic activity.

Haven't seen too many emissions lately or for that matter years but it appears the outlook may be getting better.

link http://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/flintshire-cement-plant-doubles-staff-8172017

One hopes the increased grinding capacity will be quiet...............

New Powers for Flintshire County Council

Another article on deeside.com..................

http://www.deeside.com/all-news/new-powers-flintshire-county-councils-tackle-anti-social-behaviour-come-force/

If the powers are used well, a power for the good. One presumes NWP will be helping!

The decline of local newspapers, the way it is.

A good article on Deeside.com on the relationship between local government and local newspapers.

Also there are large losses in national newspapers such as The Guardian which loses about £50 million a year at present.

http://www.deeside.com/all-news/leighton-andrews-latest-review-local-authority-spending-signal-end-many-printed-newspapers-wales/

Down memory lane at De Hav's

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/massive-investment-airbus-broughton-like-8148723

Ambulance Issues at Dobshill

http://www.newsnorthwales.co.uk/news/141103/matters-of-life-and-death-like-a-game-of-chess-.aspx

Lorry hits bridge - trains cancelled

Is it not time to have an active warning system for lorries over a certain height?

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/hours-disruption-train-services-wrexham-8164740

Something Funny

Millstone Developments

I believe they open next Friday 28th of November.

You can see the new wall paper here
https://www.facebook.com/Millstone.Penyffordd

Menu here
http://www.millstonepenyffordd.co.uk/

Llywelyn ap Gruffydd

A letter in the Flintshire Chronicle. 

Seems our government don't want to encourage too much nationalism.

link: http://www.gurfal.com

Websites a bit short of stuff ie. a few images as I write.

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

Dog Poo Dodge

I took a parcel to the Spar this morning. It was £5 (edit £7) cheaper to send than Royal Mail (over 2kg). You sign up with Click Plus online, pay, print off a sticker for the parcel then drop it off.

Between the Millenium Clock and the Spar which is less than 200yds there are 4 lots of dog mess that has been trodden along the path.

So its eyes down rather than straight ahead.

Rather impossible to miss in the dark...................

Accidents galore

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/140847/motorcyclist-taken-to-hospital-after-crash-near-buckley.aspx

Cyclist killed last week near St Asaph

Cyclist seriously injured near Rhostyllen this morning
http://www.wrexham.com/news/male-left-injuries-rhostyllen-rtc-49809.html

4 cars involved last night at Broughton

Dobshill biker injured last night.

Accident this morning at Post House roundabout, two cars.

Had an idiot biker behind me trying to kill himself and other people between Penyffordd and Pontblyddyn this morning.

Nothing is done about it.

No road policing and nobody cares except those affected.

Accident

ACCIDENT: There's also been a collision between a car and motorcyclist on the A550 near the A549 Dobshill Roundabout, no word on an any injuries as of yet.

Daily Post 6.16 pm

and some Coldplay

Friday Night

20mph signs

are to be put up outside Penyffordd schools very shortly.

Calls for action with regards N Wales road deaths

Time for North Wales politicians to stop hiding behind the sofa.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/shock-figures-reveal-death-north-8093402

Last years fatal accident court case

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/sarah-jepson-mold-teens-fateful-8100130

British Legion concerns

“Many RBL branches are hanging by a thread,” said Mr Parry, chairman of Penyffordd RBL. “The age of the RBL is coming to an end in Flintshire and around the country.

Full story: http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/140609/help-needed-to-save-dying-legion-branches.aspx

Winter Fair this Saturday

Remembrance Sunday

Penyffordd remembered those that fell today with the annual march. The weather has been kind this year.
An alternative view of the great wars is put forward below.  In the comments section it is stated that WW1 didn't need to happen, that a million people volunteered to go to war in this country.

link http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/an-alternative-view-lest-we-forget-on-remembrance-sunday/

Bonfire Night for Penyffordd

All the good people of the village are building the bonfire.  Weather forecast not bad. Showing chance of rain at 6, but its only a chance.

postscript. It's 4.30 pm, volunteers are still at it loading the bonfire. So that's nearly 8 hours and counting. Damping down after the bonfire will require effort past 8 this evening.

Millstone Update

https://www.facebook.com/Millstone.Penyffordd?ref=ts&fref=ts

Pool table is going............

Pub surrounds are being modified.

Local Government issues - Mergers

County reorganisation.

“They have gone quiet. Some of them need to stop hiding and grow a backbone.”

Leader of Wrexham Borough Council.

Full story here. Comments worth a read too

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/140146/council-leader-slams-welsh-government-dictators-over-merger-plans-and-cuts.aspx

Penyffordd Musical Tribute to those who served in the World Wars

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