I was out walking the other day and could not help but notice how many people do not wash the items that they put into their recycle bins. I thought that this was required, also how many people put the wrong items in their bins, such as polythene and tin foil which they do not want. So I have created this poll and thread for discussion

I always clean bottles cartons etc before I place them in the recycle bin.

No Polythene!

No Bottle Tops!

No Silver Foil!

No Black Plastic!

Herefordshire History Website

We have new Twitter followers most days but this person stood out this morning..

Welcome Andy McNab 

I went to the Old Market Hereford last evening around 6.20pm to find half the shops closed? Joules, Vodafone, Fat Face and Pandora all closed, I thought this centre was supposed to be open until 8pm every week night?

No words required..

I received this today from Herefordshire Council Newsdesk.

Quote:

19th Aug 2014

Public Exhibition for South Wye Transport Package

Herefordshire residents will have an opportunity to view plans and give feedback about traffic and transportation issues affecting the South Wye area of Hereford.

The council will hold a public exhibition from Tuesday 1st to Thursday 3rd July (from 12 noon to 8pm each day) at the Three Counties Hotel, Hereford. The exhibition will display a number of options that have been considered for addressing problems in the area.

Residents are encouraged to come along and give their views and opinions on the transportation problems and the options that have been identified to deal with these. Following the exhibition people will be able to feedback their comments until 8th August 2014.

Cllr Price, cabinet member for infrastructure said: " traffic flows on the A465 are forecast to increase over time as a result of economic growth. The aims of this study are to look at ways to reduce congestion, pollution and social deprivation in the South Wye area. In order to do this, it is important that we consult widely with local residents and stakeholders. I would urge anyone with any interest in this project to come along to the public exhibition and see the options that have been identified to deal with the continually growing transport problems in the South of the city. everyone will be given the opportunity to voice their opinions on the outcomes of the initial stages of the project and we welcome them to do so".

More information about the South Wye transport Package and a link to the online consultation can be found from the 1st July on line HERE.

For a hard copy of the consultation brochure and consultation questionnaire please contact 01432 349505 or email Hereford@pbworld.com

End.

Central Park is off Central Avenue, behind the Fire Station (or via Daws Road).

In this age of poverty that sees good people reliant upon food banks, hand me downs and any help they can get from friends and relatives, isn't it crazy that the State demands that we all waste.

It's true. It's madness but it's all entirely true. Nowadays if you live in Social Housing and you die and you've no surviving spouse or partner, you've no relatives and you do not leave a sworn will, every single piece of furniture, fixtures, fittings and household equipment gets removed from that home and it's thrown on the tip.

No matter how good the carpets are, no matter how recently they were laid they go straight to the tip. It's the same with a lovely new three piece suite, a television or any other piece of household property that you can think of, no matter if it's only a few days old, it all goes into the Council refuse tip.

And this ain't the fault of the Council. Im given to understand that because of agreed protocols at national level, every single local authority up and down the Country does exactly the same. It seems to me to be a madness that we can't allow our local authorities to judge the condition of a now empty Council house and make use of something that another family would love and appreciate. It makes no bloody sense.

They tick boxes for this, that and the other to satisfy the EU that they are recycling yet they are compelled to throw away perfectly good stuff because of some silly and outdated rule, law or protocol that demands we throw away perfectly good property so that we can say, 'nobody has appropriated an advantage following the death of this poor soul. And that's all it is! Nothing else. We are throwing away vast quantities of household stuff just so that nobody can be critical at some later date.

This is what I'd like you to do and by doing it you'll help the weak, the poor and the vulnerable within our society. Please contact your MP, either Mr Norman or Mr Wiggin and ask them to represent your view that this is waste on a grand scale and consideratiin should be given to amend this national agreed protocol and give our Councils some freedom to dispose of property in a more sensible way and allow commonsense to replace the madness that sees this activity going on every single day of the year

My very warmest regards. Please help.

I'D BEEN down to the Lugg Meadows car boot. There weren't a lot of bargains to be had as half the site was under water, but I managed to pick up a near-new copy of 'Call Of Duty 27'. If you're not familiar with it, that's the one where you join an elite squad of killers, which includes Barack Obama and George Osborne. Your mission is to assassinate Angela Merkyl, who's spending the weekend in her schloss, locked in a lesbian triste with Paris Hilton. After despatching Frau Merkyl, you elope to the Cayman Islands with the delightful Paris (and her equally delightful bank balance) to spend the rest of your days consuming Class A substances, swilled down with Bollinger Grande Crux.

So the opening has been delayed, I hear as they are not ready. Shame!

It appears the Council appear unhappy that the local media isn't putting the right spin on their activities. Well done the Times and Bill Tanner. Lets hope there is more serious delving into the way this Cabinet system works and arrives at its decisions. Long live the free press!

St Paul's Primary School Christmas Faye 

She said, 'Oh lets have that one. The little one. We'll call it Daisy Belle. It'll be something I can love instead of having to look at your fat face'. I said, 'I ain't so sure. It's got a mean menacing look about it. I mean look at its claws and its teeth. We could be picking a killing machine here'.

'No', she said, ' I want Daisy bloody Belle.'

And we did. Of the litter of nine, we picked Daisy bloody Belle who, in the fullness of time turned out to be the most spiteful and mean spirited cat I could have ever encountered.

To the wife and every single person that crosses our bloody threshold, its, 'ain't she sweet' and 'oh she's so beautiful and gentle'. To me however, I've other conclusions about this beast from hell that's now camped up in my humble dwelling.

The bloody cat, who I refuse to call Daisy bloody Belle, hates me. She, you see, sees me as her prey. She's entirely instinctive and when she decides to hunt and she hunts moreoften than I'd like her to hunt, its bloody me that gets it.

And when this horror of a feline menace pounces, drags her claws down my fat legs and I howl, 'bloody hell!', she the wife says, 'don't scream in pain. You'll scare Daisy Belle'. And this is now the way of things in this once peaceful home. Im sat there minding me own bloody business whilst the cat decides on how to attack me, what weapons to use from her considerable armery and from which position she'll pounce and inflict her wounds.

And when, as I often do, I stagger home, pop the bloody key in the door, the game begins for this cat that now has become the centre of my wife's world. No matter that when I get in through the door and I've got a scratching, clawing and biting member of the animal kingdom dug into my neck, its always the same, 'Dont you scare Daisy Belle'.

Well I'll tell you now, not that anyone has asked, the clock is ticking on little Daisy Belle and I'll be damned if I sit back and put up with this unprovoked onslaught any longer. Course, its how to do the job isn't it. How to commit the crime and escape any blame.

I've thought about staging a Road Traffic Accident. I get into the car, Daisy Belle is nibbling on some salmon that I've covertly placed at the back of the car, I then reverse over her and rush in shouting, 'Honey. It's a tragedy, I've flattened Daisy Belle. Our lives will never be complete again'. Course, me problem is I've got the Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator living opposite and she's a curtain twitcher. Nosey bloody woman! And worse, she's got her own Camera Security system which makes the whole accident scenario near on impossible to carry out.

Mind, I could creep out late at night and smash the lens of the camera. That'd sort it. But, what of the film footage that's captured of me creeping across the road carrying a hammer to do the smashing. That'd have to be destroyed, which means, if I want to get away with the crime Im going to have to break in to the Cordinators house and steal the film footage.

Mind, then its, what happens if the Cordinator wakes up and challenges me as Im about to make off with the stolen property. I'd have no choice would I. I'd have to strangle her and then dispose of the body. But where to get rid of the evidence. Say someone sees me racing across the Lugg flats carrying the body of the local Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator.

There's no end to is there! In the space of just a few minutes, I've flattened the cat, burgled a house, murdered a woman and been caught dumping a body on the Lugg flats. And for what? A bloody cat!

Did we not meet this lady at one of our Voice gatherings at The Victory? Yet again we see the full force of the state come down on an individual trying to do her best for her daughter when everything else was failing. This on a day when a child in the north of England went blind through neglect and the squalor the child was living in went unnoticed by social services for years. It said social workers had several chances to intervene after concerns raised by doctors and a school nurse, but that the boy’s case was closed twice.

A vacancy is soon to arise at Wirral Council:

http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/11526799.Wirral_Council_chief_executive_announces_retirement/

I took this photograph of the Left Bank tonight, a day after the alcohol license was granted. There is an event tonight, its great to see the Left Bank back open and all lit up after several years being closed.

'Lively' by name and tonight it certainly is living up to it's new owners name already.