Well done and Congratulations from Hereford Voice to La Roche Restoration who have in their own words "been lucky enough to be able to offer our help across the two week schedule, helping a very deserving family to create the home of their dreams" working and supporting the BBC show DIY SOS who have been filming in Monmouth from Tuesday (5th April). 

They are a very small business ( basically one man with a van and a knowledge of many trades!) based in Hereford.

Can someone please explain how the picture on the left with a few added tree's (WHICH WILL NEED MAINTAINING unless, they are just going to plant them and leave them to eventually become overgrown and meet the tree's either side of the road causing a dark canopy, so basically a tick box exercise) will suddenly become the picture on the right?

This is clearly only one section that I have highlighted here for South Wye. Personally, I think the tree boulevard is a stupid idea that will achieve nothing.

See the full report below and make up your own minds.

Herefordshire Council Local Transport Plan 2016-2031

These are new parking signs which have been put in some car parks at the top of Newton Farm.They are a private parking firm.Does anyone know why they have been put up and are they legal.

It says this is private property,is it Highways or Hereford housing land.

Congratulations to Jesse Norman who holds Herefordshire for the Conservatives in the General Election. 

Results for Hereford. 

Con: 24844

UKIP: 7954
Lib: 5002
Lab: 6042
Grn: 3415

When, in the early nineteen sixties he vetoed Britains application to join the Common Market he said, 'No! The British are far too insular and much to maritime to join our Union', he was right.

We are an Island Nation and we are far to proud and patriotic to be a part of this massive surge to create another Neo Communist expansionistic Empire that's intent on creating yet another perfect political atmosphere to cause war between them in the East and us in the West.

And at the very heart of De Gaulle's objection to us then and is still today very much alive and well is their envy toward us and our heritage and history. You see it's an historical accepted truth. It's much much easier to forgive and befriend the aggressor and your conqueror than it is to forgive your liberator.

And that's Great Britains problem! The French and many other European mainland nations can sooner forgive and forget the sins of Germany than ever they can in forgiving both Great Britain, The Yanks and the Russians from liberating them from their capture and servitude to the Germans following the end of hostilities of World War Two.

It's true. Every single European nation that was liberated from the German aggressors by the British and the Russians are never forgiven. Charles bloody De Gaulle hid in London for most of World War Two and despite Churchill allowing bloody De Gaulle the honour of leading the liberation march through Paris after their liberation by us and the Americans, still, even then, the barstard couldn't bring himself to be grateful for the British blood that was spilled in freeing them from their captivity.

And why are we in Britan so accepting of their angst, envy and dislike of us? Because we've become a nation of apologists. That's right! We are sorry for just about everything that's wrong with the modern world. GIve Great Britain a scenario that suggests that our foreign policy of decades gone by was wrong and we'll crawl on our knees begging for forgiveness and bloody apologise for it. It's become something of a national pastime of ours. Whether it's the carving up of Western Europe and Eastern Europe after World War Two or our colonial historical activities in the Middle East or some other conflict in the World, it's we the bloody liberators that are the ones who get the blame and are required to say,'we are bloody sorry'.

I mean, your bloody Russians! Over twenty two bloody million of them lost their lives fighting to liberate themselves and East Europe and what thanks do they get for their labours and their sacrifice? Bloody none! They're in the same rotten boat as us. They are the liberators and because they are the liberators rather than the conquerors, the rest of Europe that gave in, surrendered and helped build the Death Camps to exterminate six million Jewish people, they hold them Russia and us Britain in the same contempt for fighting and not giving up.

And finally, if only President Reagan had not said, 'Tear down that wall Mr Gorbachev', this world would be a much safer and stable place. If that monstrous partition of a wall was still in place then my Country would not be having its Referendum because of the bludgeoning impact of millions of migrants. We would have our missiles aimed at them and theirs at us and every four bloody years we'd all get together at the Olympics and try to compete against one another in Track and Field events whilst one or the bloody other was doped up out of their minds on anabolic steroid drugs that'll eventually see a man or a bloody woman being able to jump over the roof of my house or run the hundred rotten yards in eight seconds.

They were happy times. Yes indeed'y! We all knew where we were and where we stood back in those good old happy days when that bloody Berlin wall was there stopping us and them ever meeting in some apocalyptic confrontation that's fast developing now as the mandarins of Brussels begin their dreams to have the Ukraine and Russia's newest enemy Turkey belonging to our happy gathering of member states who see the Slovakian nations as the new battleground to deploy the European Army troops for the next fifty years of our second Cold War.

And it's coming. Pretty soon, if we don't vote to Leave the EU our British boys and girls will be deployed in some Godforsaken cold and dreadful Eastern European place ready to deal with the threat of Russia who'll want exactly what the EU wants. More land and access to more natural mineral resources as both continue their expansionistic policies!

It makes you wonder why we ever bothered fighting the Hun in the first bloody place!

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Original discussion can be found here.

For those of you who did not see this interview this morning on BBC Breakfast - it certainly did not pull any punches

 Dam I have missed a word out on the heading again duh!!

There is a thriving Polish community now in Hereford, so it is good to see that a new Polish restaurant has opened. 

PRL Restaurant

48 St Owen Street

Hereford

HR1 2PU

They offer only 3 or 4 dishes on the menu each day because everything is purchased on the day and cooked from fresh. I had the pleasure of trying the restaurant out today with my good lady and we had two really nice meals and it was very reasonably priced.

Regardless of whether you are Polish or not give them a try, I am sure you will enjoy some good home cooked traditional Polish cuisine. 

Here are my bets for the Grand National:

Gallant Oscar - Win

On His Own - Win

Many Clouds - Win

Shut The Front Door - Each Way

Who do you fancy to win?

Hereford Police were loading bags of cigarettes seized tonight from the 'Kurdish Owned' European shop in Eign Gate.

Police are trying to talk someone down.

Traffic chaos.

Avoid.

It's looking like Esso have lost thousands of pounds due to faulty pay at the pump issue.
My son twice bought petrol using his card at the pump and both times his bank statement showed only £1 when he bought £10's worth.
Now I have heard of two other people who have said the same.
The pay at pump service has now been stopped until the problem is resolved.
My lad will be going into Tesco to pay what he owes.

And I believe we will, the Government will have to address the entire process of extricating ourselves from the EU and once more being able to manage our own affairs.

Most pressing will be what to do with the millions of migrants who are here in the United Kingdom and are now tied and bound to our society and our way of life. Expecting millions of people to simply leave or being repatriated to their home country is simply fanciful and unrealistic and so our politicians have to decide on who stays, who goes and who will be able to remain and, more importantly, how it's done and how to do it without causing to much angst and hurt to those who are not British citizens.

That said, when it's all done and dusted and we are no longer required to host these many millions of people, we are going to be required to make some straightforward and even harsh decisions that'll decide who can stay and who must go.

Given that once the money tap is turned off, our public services will no longer be available free of charge and our economy becomes adjusted to British jobs for British workers, I'm sure that many many thousands of migrants will want to leave and go elsewhere where the benefits are more easily available. They'll excercise their right to settle elsewhere within the EU and adjust to a new way of life that's still welcoming to the idea of Free Movement of People.

As for those who've found love, who have children, perhaps with a mortgaged property or even a Council House, then this group must be allowed to remain in the UK. No matter what their employment status is or what type of job they do, this group of citizens should be offered the chance of British citizenship. To act otherwise would be an opposite to the British way of life and the British way of getting things done.

For those who've become economically bound to the United Kingdom who perhaps have created their own business and even employ others then they too should be given the chance to remain and win British citizenship.

Of course, there will be huge numbers who want to remain in the UK who do not want British citizenship. For this group they'll simply have to understand that a Visa to remain will be required and if they do not meet the threshold of what Britain wants and what Britain doesn't want, then they'll have to either stay or go depending on the outcome of their personal Visa application.

And this measure of who stays and who goes isn't just a British problem. The countries of these millions of people must involve themselves and do everything they can to help or even welcome home their people. It is not for us the United Kngdom to be the only ones to help unravel this complicated social conundrum. All the EU member states should be required to help receive their citizens that we are no longer required to host, house, treat, employ and educate. It's as much their problem as it's ours.

Finally, with the introduction of the new living wage and the predictable surge of migrants who'll travel here to the UK to take advantage of this wealth or to get into the UK before we vote to get out then Britain must produce statutory legislation in parliament that's retrospective and allows us to require this particular group to leave without the opportunity of a Visa right to remain.

I know much of what I'm advocating may sound harsh but for us to regain some sort of control and save the NHS, ourselves, our heritage and our right to govern ourselves, clear lines have to be drawn and we must act selfishly and protect our way of life.

Then, once it's done, and it may take years to complete, once again our great nation can look forward and prosper without being dependant upon a fast developing social, economic and political cross between Communistic ideology and Global Capitalism that the European Union is fast evolving into.

After the disappointment last year the giant water slide will be coming to Herefords board & bike park at Court farm Tillington
on 21st May

Tickets are £10 for half hr and can be bought here

https://www.fatsoma.com/giantwaterslide/ei9f6vpn/hereford-giant-water-slide-slip-n-slide-21st-may

Diligaf!

This one's for you! I know that you have searched high and low. You've made phone calls, sent emails, knocked on doors. All to no avail.

Your quest to find Cllr Edwards has proved fruitless.

I understand your frustration. I feel your pain.

But Diligaf....you need worry no more!

He's Alive!

Check out HT.....!

It's not Herefordshire, but a very close neighbour.

The subject matter of compromise agreements and gagging clauses has been covered in depth lately on Hereford Voice.

This is an article from today's Worcester News:

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/11580086.Nearly_100_council_staff_sign__gagging__orders_to_keep_quiet/

The council’s new approach to quality assurance for adult care and support services across the county has been launched.

The key principles of the new quality assurance framework maintain an approach which is person-centred, intelligent, supportive and proportionate. This moves away from planned monitoring visits to informed monitoring activities undertaken in partnership with service providers, residents and their carers.

As part of the framework, new quality standards will also be introduced in conjunction with Herefordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). These will reflect what good practise looks like and all service providers and partner organisations will be required to work towards these standards to ensure high quality care and support is delivered.

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