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    BALFOUR BEATTY TO CLOSE ROSS DEPOT & REDUNDANCIES

    lpusseycat
    By lpusseycat,

    The depot in Ross is to close and voluntary redundancies have been asked for, we are not going to get what we have paid for . They cannot cope with what they have got so Herefordshire could be in for a rough ride when this goes ahead.which will be within the next 6 months.


    Transport Consultation Herefordshire Council

    Denise Lloyd
    By Denise Lloyd,

    https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LTP-Consultation

     

    People you have until 31st December 2015 to complete this

     

     


    Bill Tanner

    Roger
    By Roger,

    Bill Tanner has left the building. I wish him good luck with his new path ...

     

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    It's a crazy world reading these headlines

    megilleland
    By megilleland,
    Having got turned off by the main news as told by the BBC and the corporate media, nothing but wars/terrorism, running down the nation, austerity, spouting EU propaganda I am increasingly reading hard to believe side lined news stories. These raise my hackles and show the UK and world in a new light which is not very pleasant, but supported by governments local and national.

     

    Here are some today:

    19th December 2015

     


     


     


     


     


     

    It would be interesting to see other peoples choice news items. Add them below


    Offending statues covered up!

    Paul Jones
    By Paul Jones,

    During the president of Iran state visit to Italy recently famous nude statues were covered up! What gives? He is visiting Italy, well I am sorry Mr Rouhani, covering women in black head to toe, public executions and stoning I find offensive! 

     

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/28/no-nudes-is-bad-news-for-italian-official-ridiculed-in-rouhani-statue-row

     

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    EU has gone PC mad!

     

    WHY would Italy want to even consider hiding her heritage? 

     

     


    SERVICE TO CIVVY STREET BOOKLET

    Ubique
    By Ubique,

    Service to Civvy Street' booklet to help ex-Service personnel

    Herefordshire Civilian Military Task Group is encouraging ex-Service personnel and their families to benefit from a new information booklet available throughout the county

     

    ‘Service to Civvy Street' is a booklet to help veterans of all ages and their families navigate healthcare, employment, housing, education and other support available in Herefordshire and was launched this week by Lady Darnley, the Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire, at the Military Charities Helpdesk at Franklin House in Hereford.

     

    If you have served in the Armed Forces or are the partner, spouse or family member of someone who has served in the Armed Forces then this booklet is for you.

     

    Councillor Peter McCaull, the vice chairman of Herefordshire Council said ‘we hope this booklet will make it easier for ex-service personnel and their families to find the services and support they need in order to help them settle into civilian life in the county’

     

    The booklet was funded by the Ministry of Defence’s Community Covenant Grant Scheme and developed by Herefordshire Civilian Military Task Group in partnership with Worcestershire Council

    Copies are available at various venues across the County but regular supplies will be held at the Military Charities Helpdesk. The helpdesk is open Tuesdays and Thursdays 10am to 2pm at the Franklin House Customer Service Centre on Blue School Street, Hereford.

     

    The booklet is also available online at www.herefordshire.gov.uk/civvystreet


    No More 24 Hour At Tesco Belmont

    Colin James
    By Colin James,

    Tesco Belmont Hereford is to cease opening 24 hours, instead they will open 6am-midnight. 

     

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    Tesco is ending 24-hour shopping at 76 of its stores - around one in five of those currently open around the clock.

    The company says the growth of online shopping means that certain shops had few customers during the night.
    Normal night time activities - such as refilling shelves - will continue in the supermarkets so Tesco says the impact on employees will be "minimal".
    The move is Tesco's latest effort to turn around its business which has been hit by challenges on several fronts.
    The outlets affected will close between midnight and 6am and four hundred staff will be "affected".
    Tesco says it will do its best to make sure all staff affected are "found a new position either in their existing store or stores local to them".
    The outlets include those in Mickleover Superstore, Derbyshire, Flitwick Superstore in Bedfordshire and Dereham Extra in Norfolk.
    There are currently about 400 Tesco stores open 24 hours a day.
    "It makes much more sense for colleagues at those stores to focus on replenishing the shelves instead and making sure they're fully stocked when they open their doors at 6am," said Tesco retail director Tony Hoggett.
    This is the latest step in chief executive Dave Lewis' shake-up of the supermarket's business. Since he joined the company in September 2014 he has put Tesco's focus on price cuts and putting more staff in stores in an attempt to revive the company's fortunes

     

     

    Taurus Healthcare Ltd

    Glenda Powell
    By Glenda Powell,

    Taken from Hereford Times today (29.1.16)

     

    TAURUS EXTENDS IT STAY IN HEREFORDSHIRE.

     

    A SERVICE providing urgent care services has extended its stay in Herefordshire.

    Taurus healthcare Ltd, part of the Prime ministers Access Fund Pilot, has been based in Hereford, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye. It was set up as part of an national pilot to extend GP services into weekends and evenings. Bosses have told the Hereford Times this afternoon that it has secured funding from NHS England to "remain operational" for a short period past March 31. When the Prime Minister Access Fund pilot is due to come to an end.

    "Taurus Healthcare Ltd, the GP federation and the CCG are working actively with colleagues in NHS England, to secure ongoing funding for this very popular and successful service", said Taurus in a statement. To continue to deliver services whilst these discussions continue,additional funding has been secured for a further period which will enable the service to remain operational whilst these discussions are completed.

    "the CCG has an ongoing programme of patient and public engagement on the urgent Care Pathway . The continuation of this process will seek further the view of local people and the wider community".

    As reported by the hereford Times yesterday, CCG bosses say they are considering closing the GP walk-in centre in Hereford and minor injury units in Leominster, Ross-on-Wye, Ledbury and Kington. In their place the CCG bosses says this current working with GPs and NHS England to take forward the "development and implementation of seven-day GP services".

     

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    New Tesco Cafe Opening Feb 3rd

    Colin James
    By Colin James,

    Tesco Cafe opening February 3rd at Tesco Belmont. Cafe was in desperate need of an upgrade. Managed to grab these couple of photo's while the window was uncovered today.

     

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    Placing the wording on the windows.


    Holme Lacy Rd Roadworks Start February

    Colin James
    By Colin James,

    Holme Lacy Road is to undergo extensive improvement works from mid-February 2016. The improvements, which are designed to make pedestrian and cyclist access easier will take around fourteen weeks to complete.

     
    The work includes: 
     
    Narrowing the existing carriageway to provide a measure of traffic calming
    The installation of three toucan crossings located outside the Co-Operative stores, the Post Office and near Oak Crescent  
    Widening of the existing footways to provide off-road cycling facilities
     

    Yates (Commercial Road)

    Roger
    By Roger,

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    Their application for a 2 AM Licence was kicked into the 'long grass' on 02 December 2015 by The Council ...

     

    It had already been adjourned once ....

     

    The application is now going to be heard on 22 January .... Which, by my maths, means they miss the extra Christmas/New Year trade ... 

     

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    New Chippy Opening In Hereford

    H.Wilson
    By H.Wilson,

    A new fish and chip shop is opening next week in Grandstand Rd Hereford. Edwards Plaice will open on Monday and the Mayor of Hereford, Charles Nicholls, will be cutting the ribbon. It is a restaurant so you will be able to eat in or takeaway.

          
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    LED STREET LIGHTS

    Adrian symonds
    By Adrian symonds,

    Had a letter shove through my door from Eon, syaing they are going to replace our lamposts. so that means we will have those awful waste of space LED rubbish things.

     

    i thought our council had no money and yet can afford toi do things like this.


    Debt problems? Stop the Knock

    megilleland
    By megilleland,
    From Money Advice Trust - 28th January 2016
     
     
    Local authorities refer 2.1 million debts to bailiffs in 12 months
     
    • Debt charity’s research shows councils’ use of bailiffs up 16% in two years
    • Rise comes despite repeated calls for debt collection practices to improve
    • Added concern over postcode lottery in treatment of residents in arrears
     
    Local authorities in England and Wales instructed bailiffs to collect debts on 2.1 million occasions last year, according to new research by the Money Advice Trust, the charity that runsNational Debtline.  The figure shows overall bailiff use by local authorities has risen by 16 percent in the last two years, despite calls for debt collection practices to improve and wide variations across the country.
     
    The charity’s Stop The Knock research, based on Freedom of Information requests to local authorities, shows the readiness with which councils are instructing private bailiffs, despite the serious negative impact this can have on residents and businesses in financial difficulty. Councils that use bailiffs the most were also found to have had less success, on average, in collecting council tax arrears.
     
    Bailiff use UP by 16 percent
    Council tax debts were passed to bailiffs, now legally known as ‘enforcement agents’, on 1.27 million occasions during 2014/15. Parking-related debts were passed to bailiffs 715,000 times and Housing Benefit overpayments on 40,000 occasions.  In addition, private bailiffs were instructed to collect unpaid business rates 85,000 times and commercial rents on 2,700 occasions – as well as 32,000 sundry/other debts owed by individuals and businesses.
     
    The total of 2.14 million bailiff referrals for 2014/15 is 16 percent higher than the 1.84 million figure revealed by the Money Advice Trust in 2013, despite repeated calls for councils to improve their debt collection practices since.
     
    Council Tax arrears, which account for the majority of bailiff use by local authorities, is one of the fastest growing debt types that National Debtline helps people to resolve – with 24 percent of callers in arrears in 2014, up from just 14 percent in 2007.  The Money Advice Trust has this week written to all council leaders and local government minister Marcus Jones MP to highlight this growing problem, together with the need for a better approach to preventing and dealing with arrears.
     
    Wide variations across the country
    The research found a persistent postcode lottery in the treatment of residents and businesses who fall behind, with bailiff use varying from the equivalent of more than a third of properties in some areas to less than one in 100 in others. 
     
    The London Borough of Barking & Dagenham was the heaviest user of bailiffs relative to its size, instructing them on 34,041 occasions during 2014/15 – equivalent to 43 percent of properties in the area.  Other London boroughs feature strongly in the top 10, with Hart District Council and Hyndburn Borough Council the highest ranked non-London councils in second and fourth place at 39 percent and 30 percent of properties respectively.
     
    At the other end of the scale, 19 ‘lower-tier’ local authorities (which are responsible for collecting council tax) reported bailiff use equivalent to fewer than one percent of properties in their areas. Only three – Charnwood, Wyre and the Isles of Scilly – were found to have used no bailiffs at all during 2014/15.
     
    Debt collection practices diverging
    The research also reveals wide variations in the way that councils have responded to calls to improve their debt collection practices, made by the Money Advice Trust and other charities, in recent years.  Of the 292 authorities where direct comparisons can be made, more than half (54 percent) increased their use of bailiffs in the last two years, while 45 percent used bailiffs on fewer occasions.
     
    Across the 159 councils that increased their reliance on bailiffs, the overall number of referrals rose by 52 percent – with the largest increase a 69-fold rise reported by Mid Devon District Council.  Conversely, bailiffs were instructed on 29 percent fewer overall occasions by the 132 authorities who reduced their use in the last two years – and Wyre Borough Council and Chanwood Borough Council ceased to use bailiffs completely.
     
    Joanna Elson OBE, chief executive of the Money Advice Trust, the charity that runs National Debtline, said:
     
    “Two years ago our original research on local authority bailiff use led to widespread calls for councils to improve their debt collection practices.  We had hoped the situation would have improved since then.  Instead, more than half of councils are using bailiffs even more than before to collect unpaid debts.
     
    “Something is seriously wrong here.  On the front line of debt advice we know that sending the bailiffs in can deepen debt problems, rather than solve them – and it can also have a severe impact on the wellbeing of people who are often already in a vulnerable situation.
     
    “Bailiff action is not only harmful to those in arrears – it is also a poor deal for the council taxpayer.  Our research shows that those local authorities that use bailiffs the most are actually less successful, on average, at collecting council tax arrears.  This is a lose-lose situation.
     
    “Local authorities are facing significant funding pressures – and they of course have a duty to collect what they are owed.  In the case of council tax, this is particularly crucial in ensuring proper funding for the local services we all rely on.  Too many councils, however, are far too quick to escalate to bailiff action when better preventive work, earlier detection and support for people who fall behind are far better options for all concerned. 
     
    “Our message is clear – bailiffs should only be used as an absolute last resort, and the earlier residents and business owners who are struggling can be signposted to free sources of advice such as National Debtline and Business Debtline, the better.â€
     
    On those local authorities using bailiffs less than two years ago, Joanna added:
     
    “I would like to congratulate the 132 councils we found to be leading the way by reducing their reliance on bailiffs in the last two years.  While there is much more work to do, their efforts to collect outstanding council tax and other debts without resorting to bailiffs shows that this can be done.â€

     

    In 2014/15, Herefordshire Council instructed bailiffs to collect debts from individuals and businesses on 3404 occasions - up 10% in two years.
     
    The number of debts passed to bailiffs was equivalent to 3.73% of properties in the area, ranking the council at 203 out of 326 for local authority bailiff use in England and Wales. 
     
    I suppose this doesn't sound too bad comparing other parts of the country, but for those affected
    each case can turn into a nightmare. Is the Citizens Advice still being funded by Herefordshire Council?

    The BBC

    DILLIGAF
    By DILLIGAF,

    We all pay our licences right? For what, the 100s of channels we have; the five or 6 BBC channels? No just two. That's right I did say 2. BBC1 & BBC2, that's it. The others content are available on the Internet, which does not require a licence. Agreed that some content from 1 or 2 is available but after the programme has aired the show. Some are not available at all.

    Now the Beeb want to cut the service without listening to Joe Public who pay for it and a few heavyweight MPs are wading in too. Please have a read and sign. Can you also share this petition with your friends. Thankyou.

     

    Have a look at this:

    https://speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/bbc-people-power?utm_medium=email&utm_source=member&utm_campaign=thankyou_email_campaign_link

     

    The BBC might not be perfect - but it belongs to the British people, not the government. So it should be up to us to decide on its future.

     

    The government asked the public for their views on the BBC - but now it’s trying to ignore them. It looks like the government doesn’t like what it heard from the public.

     

    Can you call on your MP to make sure our views on the BBC are heard? If every MP feels the pressure of hundreds of their local constituents, it’ll be impossible for them to stay silent. Check out the petition here:

    https://speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/bbc-people-power?utm_medium=email&utm_source=member&utm_campaign=thankyou_email_campaign_link

     

    Thanks,

     

    Dilligaf


    Alistair Neal ITV Slot

    Denise Lloyd
    By Denise Lloyd,

    Our chief executive will feature in an ITV1 documentary called ‘Saved’, about a major incident five years ago...http://bit.ly/1PxAhFk .


     


    I wonder if he is getting paid for this appearance. We'll get a chance to see what he looks like


     


    Apologies I have mispelt his surname



    Allensmore and Clehonger Action Group

    Denise Lloyd
    By Denise Lloyd,

    These were dropped through Kingstone letterboxes last night.  Sorry the 2nd one is on it's side have not quite mastered that art!!

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    Oak furnitureland Opening In Hereford.

    Colin James
    By Colin James,

    Oak furnitureland are opening a new store in Hereford. 

     

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    ​The new branch will be located at Holmer Road in the unit previously occupied by Next.

     

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    Oak Furniture Land head office is in Wiltshire and they currently have 67 branches nationwide, assuming the the new Hereford store will be branch number 68.

     

    There are several vacancies available throughout the store, details of job opportunities can be found HERE

     

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    Remember where you heard it first. 


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