Why is UK PLC in so much trouble?

Because we hold a quarter of the world's bank debt. This will affect Penyffordd residents in some way for quite some time.

Link  The Slog

The days of Wales’ 22 local authorities having 22 chief executives are coming to an end, writes local government minister Carl Sargeant.

Carl wearing rose tinted spectacles also says
"I do not underestimate how tough a local authority's job is. I pay tribute to councils for the vast range of services they provide. The quality of these services is the direct result of the hard work of all the staff and elected Members to ensure that our communities are served well."

Link Walesonline

Penyffordd District says
I see officers who evade FOIE's
Officers who give us half a rumble strip so that traffic can hammer passed my house.
I had a senior officer sit opposite me knowing 2000 vehicles a day ( 2007 April)  broke the speed limit.
I see officers who have stuffed Chester Rd with regards A55 Warren Bank exit
I see officers who hide traffic speed data and conspire with NWP to downplay speeding in Chester
when advising Penyffordd Community Council.

Lets see Carl Sargeant put the servant back in Public Servant

Min Y Ddol

has severe traffic calming installed. The residents there however will be able to hurl through Chester Rd as do many others. Penyffordd Council have no interest in Chester Rd.
100% traffic policing free.

keyword: Meadowslea

No Policing changes for Chester Rd.

Theresa May scraps Labour police beat pledge

Home secretary warns attempt to set national minimum policing standard is unsustainable in face of big budget cuts.

Since NWP will not traffic police Chester Rd there will be no change here.

Link Guardian

So you think the government is doing well with cutting wastefull spending?

It's still rising..........................  Link The Raccoon

UK Debt Graph

Being a Numpty Neighbour

Number 1 - Have 7 fires in 7 days like this one.

Number 2
Set hedge on fire. He was seen according to a neighbour watering the hedge to stop the huge flames from setting the leylandii trees on fire.

Number 3 Cut off all the damaged branches making it look a bugger. 

Number 4
Have another fire to get rid of branches. He also does noisy chainsaw cutting on Sunday afternoons and late evening. 

Flintshire County Council in trouble?

As will all other local councils be. The Slog

Is Shire Hall like this?

I'm sure it's not but there's been local press stories on the subject that pop up once every few months
Link http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1289702/Public-sector-inertia-council-office-employees-month-sickies.html

The Hounds Of Winter - Sting

This is sad.

Sting - fortress around your heart

Kings of Leon - Use Somebody

Congratulations to Superintendent Simon Shaw

Road deaths in North Wales lowest since records began.
Daily Post quote by Superintendent Shaw "

The number injured in North Wales has also fallen from more than 4,000 a year in the mid 1990s to 2,610 last year, a 36% drop.

This varied from 541 casualties on roads in Flintshire to 225 on Anglesey."

He added that from January to May 2010 the number of casualties is down by a further 10%.

North Wales Police said enforcement and road safety measures had led to the sizeable decrease.

Or has it anything to do with us being in the middle of the largest depression in over a century

Link Daily Post

Cllr Chris Jones' commitment to road safety in Sealand

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An email to Cllr Chris Jones

cc. Home Secretary, Chief Constable Mark Polin and others

Dear Cllr Jones 

I read your letter in The Flintshire Chronicle with interest. I have followed your protest campaign also with interest. I live in the village of Penyffordd nr Buckley on a major route to school in the middle of the village. Where you are interested in road safety my community council Penyffordd are completely disinterested in fact I'm sure they would rather I just go away. When someone gets run over one of our elderly cllrs who lives up a cul de sac will be wheeled out to say that they had done all that they can which is a lie because they have all foot dragged for three years plus.

Whilst I admire you standing up to the speeding in your community I feel less enamoured with what you say about the Flintshire Road Safety Team. My experience of the road safety team is the following. They come out to your community once every Preston Guild. They carry out speed education in working hours when few of the main culprits are on the road. They measure speeding vehicles for you then refuse to hand over the data. They conspire with North Wales Police to down play the level of speeding. Recently our CBM told our community council that speeding was 5% over 30 mph when the actual figure is 34%.

You mention that education is the way forward. Cllr Alex Aldridge (former Flintshire County Council Leader) recently made this claim in The Leader. The Leader were good enough to allow me to ask Alex through the letters page how he would educate the legion of low life that race around our roads Alex never came back.

I consider your letter propaganda and little more. There is a speeding epidemic out there that is not being addressed.

1. We currently get around 700 speeders a day through the Penyffordd village. NWP, FCC, Penyffiordd Community Council  are not interested at all.

2. At night the roads are left to the youth to tear around with the results such as in your manor where two fatalities happened on consecutive nights

3. North Wales as whole is used as a race track at the weekends by bikers and tourists.

4. We also have the additional insult where bikers with illegal exhausts can be heard two miles from the road on which they are screaming along.

The new policing is engaging with the bikers and the young drivers. So people will go on killing themselves and others such as Danny Evans. I note his mum wants the death penalty for the offender.

 Engaging with speeders is doing nothing and allowing NWP and FCC to get off from doing their job which is to police and control the roads so they are safe for us to travel on. I would hope you will consider this before appearing in any further propaganda exercises which do nothing to alter what is actually happening on our roads.

You say education is the key factor. I would say humbug. Good luck on your attempt to get a pedestrian crossing.

Colin Hughes
Penyffordd

keywords: Cllrs Shelley Webber, David Wisinger, John Dodd, Mary Southall.

Lisa's Kitchen - Asparagus with scrambled egg and salmon on toast

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Vounog Vehicle Accident Update

Caroline Roberts says
" Hi, my friend Emma told me about the photos of my dad's accident when he had a stroke driving his RANGE ROVER on 23 December 2009. He is doing well now after all the care he received from Countess of Chester Hospital and Stroke Rehab at H M Stanley St Asaph. Thanks to everyone. "

Penyffordd District hopes Caroline's father recovers well.

Link http://penyffordd-district.blogspot.com/2009/12/car-accident-on-vounog.html
 

The Slog Viewpoint of the Election

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The Budget 2010

# VAT to rise 2.5% to 20% from January 2011
# Deficit reduced by 77% spending cuts, 23% tax rises
# Departments face cuts of 25% over the next five years
# Two-year pay freeze for most public sector workers
# Child benefit frozen for three years and tax credits cut
# Disability benefit claimants face new medical checks
# Corporation tax cut from 28% to 24% over four years
# Capital Gains Tax hiked to 28% for top-rate taxpayers
# Bank levy from 2011, raising £2bn a year
# Income tax threshold raised £1,000 to £7,495
# Pension link to earnings restored or 2.5% rise from next April
# Civil list frozen at £7.9m as Queen also feels the pinch

Link Mailonline Full Details

Airbus gets 32 new A380 orders

Link coastweek.com

First Minister Carwyn Jones AM - Vision for Wales

To be written later

Kingfisher babies ready for bed

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Link Mailonline