Penyffordd Advice Surgery

by Carl Sargeant AM and Mark Tami MP was at 3.00 pm in The Penyffordd War Memorial.

Missed it!

Missed the notification in The Leader.
Someone has put Carl and Mark's literature through the door this morning but work got in the way and I didn't read it.
Not to worry. Speed and village environment issues will not be sorted in 5 minutes.

A visit by Arrive Alive

Up the Vounog around 2.15 pm and Chester Rd at 4. 15 pm.

Penyffordd Community Council Meeting October 2008

Tonight at 6. 30 pm.
It would appear the council may take a more enlightened view of the speeding in future, a big thank you to Cllr Tom Jones.

Cllr Colin Bithell launches into a tirade with regards my blog and what I have said about GNI Jones the Clerk to the Council. One supposes you read an online diary with your own baggage. Emails or blogs can be taken in various ways as they are one dimensional with no visual or other inputs.
Quote "The whole point of blogging is that people state their thoughts, opinions and observations. They state their likes and dislikes."

The Internet offers better democracy better transparency. My point of view being my own. In fact I like Nigel very much, a character in a world of faces.

Cllr Colin Bithell praised Castle Cement for its efforts to clean up fugitive dust.

Cllr David Williams is to be congratulated on trying to get "access only" signs for the village.
I think we need a regime change in Flintshire Highways.

It would appear there are a few on Corwen Rd who object to the speeding. If they fly past here they must get it too. Also noisy vehicles coming out the Red Lion

Carl Sargeant AM and Mark Tami's Christmas Card Competition

The Alyn and Deeside Labour tag team, Mark ‘The Enforcer’ Tami, and Carl ‘The Governor’ Sargeant have launched a competition to find a design for their 2008 Christmas card. Children in the constituency are being asked to come up with designs, with the winning image being printed on the Labour politician’s official Christmas card.

Link The Steamer

Klaus gets money for Penyffordd footpaths

Mayor of Saltney, Flintshire county councillor Klaus Armstrong-Braun regularly inspects footpaths and says he has been appalled to find so many blocked and obstructed, highlighting areas near Penyffordd and Caerwys.

Of the cash, £60,000 is from the Welsh Assembly Government and £100,000 from Flintshire County Council capital fund of £500,000 for environmental works.

Full Story Link The Daily Post

Yours truly in The Leader

Eagle's Meadow Development comments in The Leader

Colin Hughes, of Penyffordd, said: "I welcome the new developments. For some time Wrexham and its shops have been seen as a 'poor man's Chester' but this is just the kind of change needed to bring the town up-to-date, not just in terms of retail but leisure activities too."

I am quoted on one of the worst days so far for the Stock Exchange. Interesting times ahead.

Castle Cement Jobs to go?

Jobs could go at Flintshire's Castle Cement due to credit crunch.

Click The Evening Leader

Lisa and I to borrow £2000 each to the banks

It would appear every tax payer is having to help to keep the banks going. Our bank the Natwest used to charge us £25 for going overdrawn by 25p. A rather large amount of money passed through my account recently. They were on the phone pretty smartish offering various schemes.
How stupid do they think we are?

The banks thought they could hand out shifty loans, bundle them up, sell them on and walk away with good bonuses up front. Their greed and stupidity knows no bounds.

The bailout is equivalent to £2,000 for every taxpayer in the UK.

Link The Guardian

Penyffordd Woman on arson charge

Click here The Daily Post

POLICE last night charged a 29-year-old woman with arson and recklessly endangering life after a fire at a house in Penyffordd on Sunday night.

I have the gossip on what happened but can't say before the trial I presume.

Something Unusual

Link Scroll down page

Police interview woman after fire in West View

POLICE are interviewing a woman after a fire at a house in Penyffordd last night.

Just after 7pm North Wales Fire and Rescue Service received a call about a house fire at West View in Penyffordd near Mold.

Links
The Daily Post
BBC
The Leader

House Sales in Penyffordd

I get a monthly newsletter on house sales from the site mentioned. It would appear only one house has been sold in the ward of Penyffordd district.

There have been no recent sales added within 500 metres of CH4 0LS, we have widened your search region to CH4 0
• Dale Cottage, Old Warren, CH4 0EG - Sold for £360,000 on 14-08-2008
• 102, Broughton Hall Road, CH4 0QN - Sold for £154,000 on 01-08-2008
• 29, Fairfield Road, CH4 0PD - Sold for £99,000 on 28-07-2008
• 40, Warren Drive, CH4 0PT - Sold for £90,000 on 22-04-2008


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

I take property websites with a pinch of salt. I know of various properties for sale in our area which are not apparent using search engines.

Bannel Farm Auctioned

£17,948 per acre for Bannel Farm

Parcels of land reached £17,948 per acre equivalent when the 107-acre Bannel Farm at Penyffordd, Flintshire, was auctioned by Wright Manley.

The house, buildings and 27.36 acres made £470,000;

5.88 acres £82,000 (£13,945)

; 37.42 acres £165,000 (£4,402)

; 17.48 acres £110,000 (£6,292)

; 13.21 acres £100,000 (£7,570)

; 1.97 acres £28,000 (£14,213)

; 1.55 acres £27,000 (£14,193)

; 1.95 acres £35,000 £17,948).

Link Farmers Guardian

Broadband Blues

No Internet for 3 days. We have been reduced to going around to friends to borrow broadband for 30 mins. A £30 investment for a new modem adsl router from Maplin this morning. Although at teatime it was not looking like a good investment as it would not work. Four hours of head scratching and that was just today. A hard reset to default via the pin hole reset in the back gets us on our way. 20 emails to repond to.

When broadband goes down what's the problem?
1. Firewall
2. Broadband Router
3. Your Isp
4. A Virus or malware

Part of the afternoon BT conversation led Lisa to say " There's no need to take that attitude with me!" The return phone call much more polite. I think the manager must have replayed the conversation lol

BT seem to have stopped using Scottish and Asian in the technical departments. They are equally difficult to understand.

To an Environment Agency Wales Exhibition on the monitoring of Castle Cement

In the Penyffordd Institute. The lovely Ann Weedy on reception. I see from the visitors list that Cllr Colin Bithell and Cllr Hadyn Bateman have been to the exhibition this afternoon. My wife Lisa looking at the information boards.


We speak with Chris Jones from Environment Agency Wales. I raise various issues regarding furnace temperatures and the above spike in dioxins in 2004. It was explained to me that 2004 was the last year that the old kilns were in operation which may have accounted for the rise.


I said I was very pleased with the reduction in cement dust in Penyffordd. Castle Cement have made serious efforts to deal with fugitive dust. Cement dust no longer gathers on our car.

Enforcement notices against Castle Cement.

The exhibition is also on tomorrow between 1 .00 pm and 9.00 pm. Your attendance is welcomed.

Links

Environment Agency Wales

Castle Cement

The beginning of the end for Airbus Chester?

Airbus have opened their first factory in China. How long before all Airbus aircraft are manufactured in India and China?

Labour costs in China and India are a fraction of the costs of Airbus Chester.
China will have the largest market in the world.

Showing China how to manufacture Airbus aircraft is a step in the wrong direction.
It reminds one of the courting spiders. The male embraces the female, they mate, then she eats him.

keyword: Broughton, inscrutable,

Link Airbus China story

Penyffordd Power Cut

Electricity went off 2. 00am. Flickered back on around 4.00 am then went out. Flickered back on at 6 ish then went out. Came on finally about 8.45 am. Areas affected, centre of village. Up as far as Abbottsfield Rd and over to the Coed y Craig estate Penymynydd.

Since this is becoming a fairly regular occasion I am going to make alternative arrangements. Not to save the world but to have a cup of tea when I want to.

Also an UPS (Uninterrupted Power Source ) for our servers.

Link : Me and the fragrant Mary Foley Postmistress in The Leader

Amazon Type Service for North Wales Police

cc: North Wales Police, Cllr Cindy Hinds, Cllr David Williams, Cllr Linda Vidamour, Cllr Tom Jones, Cllr Patrick Heesom, Cllr Tony Sharps, Carl Sargeant AM, Mark Tami MP.

Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom wants police force to emulate Amazon's customer service
Click here The Daily Post

Here in Penyffordd we appear to have no problems at all according to North Wales Police website as of today

Click here North Wales Police Penyffordd Area.

( I have reported website to NWP as it does not scroll down, it may be fixed by the time you see it)

Over a 12 hour day period in Chester Rd Penyffordd a major route to school we have 2.25 vehicles doing more than 35 mph every minute of that time of 12 hours. (worked out using limited FCC traffic speed data for Chester Rd)

We also have anti social behaviour ongoing.

There are illegal exhausts by the 100.

Some way to go.

NWP need to be pressed to update their website Penyffordd councillors.

As a seller on Amazon I get charged a hefty price to use their services. Their terms are dictatorial and final with no form of comeback, you are dead, gone, such is the Amazon way of doing things.

One hopes North Wales Police do not emulate this part of Amazon.

Environment Wales - Castle Cement Advice

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Sgt Katie Quinn's Blog

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