Penyffordd man in The Leader

Andrea’s brother, Wayne Russell, of Hillside Road, Penyffordd, rushed to help Andrea when she began to have a fit in her hotel room.

Link The Leader

This letter on the short comings of North Wales Police from my perspective

Which was published yesterday in The Leader.

Thank you Leader.

Dear Leader

A letter for consideration

In your article " North Wales Police call in extra officers at Treuddyn blackspot" it is stated that 10,000 motorcycle riders can pass through Treuddyn in a weekend. Whilst behaviour by motorcyclists visiting North Wales is improving there is still a substantial element who import extreme danger and unacceptable levels of noise. Is it not time for North Wales Police to throw down the gauntlet and apply the law? Why do we who live near the A5104 have to put with this constant flagrant breeches of law. North Wales should be a green and pleasant land and not a race track. I and other law abiding citizens pay our rates and expect North Wales Police to do their job.

Colin Hughes

Penyffordd District

Still no law and order in Chester Rd

1000 + speeders everyday

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I presume they used Hugh Jones' little magic box to count the motorcyclists.
Hugh Jones is a Road safety Officer for Flintshire County Council.
Postscript. North Wales Police made the figure up that was very wide of the mark and makes them look silly.

I wrote the above letter after a day clearing the shed and listening to regular weekend traffic hammering through Chester Rd. Also the other week end it sounded as if we were next to Oulton Park with the noise coming off the bypass as many 100's of motorcycle's with illegal exhausts flew down the bypass. You cannot hear the noise of a legal motorcycle which is travelling along the bypass.

Will anybody write a letter for or against my issues. We have too much apathy in this country.

Have your say about how Wales should be run

All Wales Convention

Our financial futures

I used to be very interested in systems that made money on the stock market. Systems using Technical Analysis to buy and sell. The last year has been a good opportunity for those with the knowledge to make good money in the volatile markets. I get an email twice a week from Colin Twiggs a trader who I have a lot of respect for. This is what Colin has to say about our financial futures. The red bit at the bottom is the bit that matters. You should take note, weigh and consider.

His comments are with regards recent "green shoots" in the US financial markets. They also apply to here. Colin I repeat is a trader and not a politician.
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This is no blue sky rally. The bear market is taking a rain-check while equities undergo a period of hopeful exuberance. Unemployment is rising, however, and the economy contracting — albeit at a slower pace. Rallies are not always driven by improving fundamentals, but those that are not seldom last. Bear market rallies are mostly sparked by the contraction of short interest as an initial price surge forces shorts to cover. But unless joined by long-term investors, spurred by improving fundamentals, they soon run out of steam as the short interest dwindles.

The current up-trend has shown more stamina and cannot be dismissed as a typical bear market rally. Some long-term investors have obviously drunk the Kool-Aid. But how long will this last?

This is not a typical recession. Our global monetary (and banking) system is broken and we will have to invent a new one. The US, UK and Japan are accumulating debt at an alarming pace, with no serious prospect of repayment — other than monetizing the debt, which would cause hyper-inflation. The situation is massively unstable.

Enjoy the rally while it lasts. But bear in mind that it could end badly. And keep your stops tight.

Link Incredible Charts

Mr Buzzard

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On our walks we see this magnificent bird that rides the thermals. They are a Welsh version of the vulture. Not too dissimilar to a small golden eagle. I say similar to the vulture who eat carrion but not quite, the buzzard is far more catholic in its tastes. Rabbits, moles, voles, frogs, birds, worms and anything carrion.

The buzzard has been badly treated by man up unto the 1970's. Make's one ashamed to be part of the same species. Times have changed however and their numbers have grown

The farmer where we walk uses the time honoured method of dealing with fallen stock. Leave it to the foxes, ravens, crows and buzzards. This is against the law and perhaps will disappear with new EU legislation for recording all activities of sheep from birth to abbatoir.

Less food perhaps for the undertakers in the natural world.

Lisa has nearly got used to seeing fallen sheep. I think she must be on her 20th.

1st Penyffordd Guides

‘Guides is fun and cool. You go on trips and camps and try things like clothes design and archery and you get to have a say and do stuff that makes a difference, too. But the best part is you get to hang out with your friends and be yourself.’

Penyffordd Guides and Senior Section meet every Monday during term time at Penyffordd War Memorial Institute 7.30pm - 8.30pm. If you are interested please contact myself, Claire Walker on 01244 544647 or just turn up.

Don't write off summer yet

Link Walesonline

An email to Inspector Martin Best of North Wales Police

cc. Chief Superintendent Ruth Purdie, Cllr Ian Roberts Head of North Wales Police Authority, Cllr Tony Sharps Environment Portfolio Flintshire County Council, Carl Longland Director of Environment Flintshire County Council. Cllr Arnold Woolley Flintshire County Council leader.
Jim Moore All Wales Safety Partnership.


Dear Martin,
Congratulations on your new position as District Inspector for Mold, Buckley and Penyffordd. I hope you enjoy your time here as Police Inspector. I've been in the shed this morning sorting through 20 years of items that " might come in handy". A look on Ebay shows I have a few surprises to sell. Nearly every minute or two you can hear cars flying through the village, its Saturday morning no police presence and they all know it. They have no respect for Chester Rd, Penyffordd whatsoever.

You might like to visit Cllr Sharps' domain in Northop Hall and see how he has stopped any speedy rat runs through his manor. You might then like to visit Rossett that is exactly the same as Penyffordd. An old trunk road that has been succeeded by a bypass. Notice the 20 mph bumps and limits.

Then back to Chester Rd, Penyffordd which is wide open and used by over a 1000 vehicles each day as a short cut to and from Broughton and beyond. There used to be 2000 vehicles speeding through Penyffordd each day but now its nearer 1000 due to the credit crunch and articles and letters that have appeared in The Evening Leader.

There appears to be an unofficial moratorium on speeding by North Wales Police. Flintshire County Council have a variable moratorium on speed bumps ( an oxymoron?) Arrive Alive have disappeared off the planet in name and function.

I remain to committed to living in a village centre and not a race track. I hope you can help transform Chester Rd back into a village centre environment.

Colin Hughes

Penyffordd District

ps CBM Howie Williams suggested pushing back the speed limit up the hill which is a really excellent suggestion. I hope you can help our county councillors push this.


pps Hugh Jones Safety Officer for Flintshire County Council has two sets of traffic data for Chester Rd but his bosses won't let me have a copy because it's that bad.

ppps. Can we have speeding put on here please.
http://www.north-wales.police.uk/nwpv2/en/nptSearch/wardResults.asp?ID=06&WID=F51

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Best Kept Village Flintshire

My hedge most probably precluded Penyffordd of any chance.
Or perhaps the morning rat run?

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The winners of this year’s Environmental Competition have been announced.

Best kept village under 1,000 population:

First prize: Ffrith
Equal second: Llanfynydd and Llanasa
Certificate of Merit: Ysceifiog

Best kept community over 1,000 population and under 5,000:

First prize: Caerwys
Equal second: Northop
Certificate of Merit: Higher Kinnerton

Best kept town centre with a population of over 5,000:

First prize: Holywell
Equal second: Mold and Mynydd Isa
Certificate of Merit: Buckley

Best kept senior citizens’ estate:

First prize: Och'r y Bryn, Halkyn
Second prize: Llys Mostyn, Trelawnyd
Equal third prize: Bryntirion, Rhewl, Mostyn and Blaenwern, Gwernymydydd
Certificates of Merit: Belvedere Court, Queensferry, Stoneleigh Close, Garden City and Hafan Deg, Treuddyn.

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Coloured Water

is what we have this morning. A 7 inch pipe burst near Hope Motors at 11.00 pm last night. Dee Valley Water recommend running the cold water to get rid of the muddy water. This is what I recommended to Lisa before she rang. The tap to turn on is the cold water tap connected to the rising main, not the connected to the water tank. Ok for us as we have no water meter............

Info Jim in the Penyffordd Post Office.

A Letter to The Leader

Just to show I can do other letters than whinging speeders through the village types.

Early this year I stood with my wife Lisa and two very excitable english bull terriers the other side of a rickety gate that could have blown down with a feather opposite 10 cows and their calves. I did not realise what peril we were in.

The Letter

Dear Leader

A letter for consideration.

As a dog walker in countryside containing cattle I have become increasingly alarmed at recent events where dog walkers have been trampled to death by cows and calves. Leader readers need to be aware that taking a dog into a field with cows and calves is total folly and should be avoided at all costs. Conversely farmers need to be aware that if they know that footpaths or bridle paths are used by dog walkers they have a duty of care towards the dog walkers. A recent legal precedent has been set where a dog walker was brain damaged by cattle and costs were awarded against the farmer to the tune of many hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Colin Hughes
Penyffordd District

Links
The Daily Mail
The Daily Mail Robin Page - Cows
The Telegraph - David Blunkett
Vet trampled to death
The Guardian
The Daily Post

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Blunkett has been inundated with messages from people who have suffered similar attacks. "I have had letters flooding in - from people telling me about personal experiences, family experiences, who have been in hospital for three weeks after an incident, who have had family members killed, and a couple of letters from people whose dogs were crushed," he said. People had also thanked him for drawing attention to the problem: "If I hadn't been who I am, no one would know about it. Although I went to hospital I doubt they would have reported it. There is usually a category for road traffic accident - but for being crushed by a cow?"

Evening Leader website is back up

but will all its links return.............................................

Evening Leader website still down

A nightmare for the likes of Christian Dunn who works on the website for the newspaper. They said they were changing the way the comments section worked................................
Temporary News Link here

Some bloggers have moved servers to outside UK jurisdiction to escape any legal challenge by individuals to their blog content. Moving 100,000's of files to different computers maintaining the correct structure, not for the faint hearted.

Currently all my links to Evening Leader articles are also down. One hopes they can get them working again. Flintshire County Council recently changed their website. I suspect they have 1000's of dead links on Google. Perhaps they just work out of the system through indexing.

Swine flue precautions

Swine Flu is a virus. It spreads by being near someone spluttering and sneezing who have the virus. Transfer from off your hands seems the big risk by touching surfaces that someone infected has touched such as door handles, money, etc. The name of the game is washing hands regularly. Keeping wet wipes on you seems sensible. I've told Lisa that being touchy feely with friends should be off limits until we know what's happening. Masks seem not to work very well unless you take precautions. The virus could be present on the outside of the mask and will be transferred to the inside of the mask if you are careless adjusting or removing your mask with your hands.

Those at risk of fatal reactions to the swine flu appear to be pregnant women, people who have underlying health issues. People with compromised immune systems.
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Wikipedia says

Prevention of human to human transmission

Influenza spreads between humans through coughing or sneezing and people touching something with the virus on it and then touching their own nose or mouth.^[76] Swine flu cannot be spread by pork products, since the virus is not transmitted through food.^[76] The swine flu in humans is most contagious during the first five days of the illness although some people, most commonly children, can remain contagious for up to ten days. Diagnosis can be made by sending a specimen, collected during the first five days for analysis.^[77]

Recommendations to prevent spread of the virus among humans include using standard infection control against influenza. This includes frequent washing of hands with soap and water or with alcohol-based hand sanitizers, especially after being out in public.^[78] Chance of transmission is also reduced by disinfecting household surfaces, which can be done effectively with a diluted chlorine bleach solution.^[79] Although the current trivalent influenza vaccine is unlikely to provide protection against the new 2009 H1N1 strain,^[80] vaccines against the new strain are being developed and could be ready as early as June 2009.^[81]

Experts agree that hand-washing can help prevent viral infections, including ordinary influenza and the swine flu virus. Influenza can spread in coughs or sneezes, but an increasing body of evidence shows small droplets containing the virus can linger on tabletops, telephones and other surfaces and be transferred via the fingers to the mouth, nose or eyes. Alcohol-based gel or foam hand sanitizers work well to destroy viruses and bacteria. Anyone with flu-like symptoms such as a sudden fever, cough or muscle aches should stay away from work or public transportation and should contact a doctor for advice.

Social distancing is another tactic. It means staying away from other people who might be infected and can include avoiding large gatherings, spreading out a little at work, or perhaps staying home and lying low if an infection is spreading in a community. Public health and other responsible authorities have action plans which may request or require social distancing actions depending on the severity of the outbreak.

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Possible carriers: The Postman, shop assistants, The Post Office, The Spar.

Airbus workers. Broughton Tesco customers, assistants.

Possible objects. Your friends mobile phone, computer, money, post.

Link Wikipedia Swine Flu

Leader website at 22.00 hrs

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oh dear!

Businesses volunteer help St John the Baptist Church, Penymynydd

A CHURCHYARD which had fallen into a state of disrepair has been given a new lease of life thanks to local businesses.

When the pathways at St John the Baptist Church, Penymynydd, churchyard became impassable the church struggled to find funding to restore the hazardous paths.

Church warden Andrew Bronnert said: “It is rare for there to be a churchyard still open for burials but the old pathways have made access difficult for people visiting and tending graves.

“The ground has also caused damp in the church building itself.”

Nearby Hanson Cement, formerly Castle Cement, stepped in and donated cash for materials to get the project up and running.

Work started in the grounds of the grade two listed church to replace the paths, improve the drainage and alter the ground to prevent further damage.

As word spread, Marshall Paving, Travis Perkins, Read Construction, AH Plant Hire, Scarfo & Sons and DP Williams all came forward to offer their help.

Vicar, the Rev Paulette Gower held a special service recently to thank the local businesses for their generosity.

I've taken the unusual step of copying all this story from The Evening Leader website instead of pointing you in the direction of their pages. The Leader are currently struggling to get their new website up and running, this is from a temporary blogging site they have set up. Hope you get it sorted shortly Leader. The sort of stuff they must be involved in changing must involve tens of thousands of files, plenty of programming code change, rocket science stuff.

Swine Flu gets nearer

AIRBUS is refusing to comment on reports of a swine-flu outbreak at its Broughton plant.

More than 6,000 people work at the wing-making plant, and the Evening Leader has been told that about 10 employees are off work with suspected cases of the virus.

Link The Evening Leader full story

In my opinion Airbus who are currently saying "mind your own business we are not telling you" are guilty of breaking their corporate stated commitment to local environment.

A Letter published in The Leader

Dear Leader,

With four new eco towns given the go ahead in England and Flintshire County Councillors rightly demanding the end of "bolt on" housing estates in their communities is it not time for our county leaders to travel further along the track to consider the formation of a new "state of the art" town off the A55 which will prevent further grid lock in Flintshire and help villages and towns to retain their identities?

Colin Hughes

Penyffordd District

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As a rate payer I have a right to argue for certain courses of action. Penyffordd will nearly double in size should Flintshire UDP be implemented in its curent form. Double in size will mean more trouble with youth and more traffic passed my house.

Inspector's report on Flintshire UDP

contains the comment that housing development should not be allowed on the old council depot at Dobshill.
Flintshire County councillors voted to accept the inspector's decision.

It has been suggested elsewhere the site may be a good place to house an ambulance base.

Upton, Chester environment has been ruined by the constant sound of sirens as ambulances go and leave the hospital. Is this in store for Dobshill residents?

If I lived there I would prefer houses over ambulance sirens.

Another Community Council website

Link Northop Hall Community Council

keyword Cllr Tony Sharps