Colin James

I cannot believe what I have seen this morning. Photograph courtesy of Scott-Hayley Alderson, who left his house in Clehonger at 0720 and is now sat in traffic coming into the city on the A49 Ross Road. Traffic gridlock, traffic coming into Hereford is queuing out past the Clehonger turning yet again and why? They are digging a hole near to the Debenhams roundabout in the left hand lane more or less in front of Steels by the doctors surgery, so why the hell have the reduced the traffic to 1 lane at the end of Victoria street and put about 100 traffic cones in every possible location leading up to this whole? I am sure it is essential work that needs to be carried out but why so many cones? Why didn't they start a few cones AFTER the Whitecross Road turning? This stupidity and lack of common sense has caused gridlock for ALL THE TRAFFIC coming into Hereford from the south, A49/A465 and ALL OF THE TRAFFIC coming onto town from Whitecross Road along the A438.

This taxi driver was also stung by the courts, priorities all all wrong.

Hereford Football Club are off to Wembley in the FA Vase Final! Well done lads down to 10 men in the end. Well deserved and a great boost for the club. Good luck in the Final on Sunday 22nd May

Well done Hereford FC Wembley here we come!

I had only just read this article, so you beat me to it. You could not make it up, the system is not consistent at all and needs a complete review in my opinion. This man who was ALREADY on a conditional discharge from last year gets fined £30 for stealing meat and £30 for breach of is CD, how is this consistent?

Good luck lads!

Cellar Door Restaurant OPENING NIGHT Saturday 23rd April!

Is it me or have they got nothing better to do? I have heard of lessor sentences handed out for much more serious crimes and I am not a smoker. Seems a little harsh to me.

There was a crash between the Land Rover with a trailer full of sheep, a BMW and a Honda Civic just past the Grafton Inn heading towards Ross earlier today. The A49 has now been reopened. Ambulance crews are reported to have said they were surprised that nobody was killed. photographs courtesy of HT Hereford Times Article

So Redrow have submitted plans for new houses, this will be interesting.

Fair play to Tesco and what a great idea! Tesco has finalised a deal to give all surplus food from its stores to charity. The UK’s biggest grocery chain hopes to involve 5,000 local charities and groups in an initiative that aims to eradicate food waste and help vulnerable people. The retailer’s latest figures show 55,400 tonnes of food were thrown away at its stores and distribution centres in the UK last year, of which around 30,000 tonnes could otherwise have been eaten – equivalent to around 70 million meals. The plan is a nationwide roll-out of a 14-store pilot called the Community Food Connection, which over the last six months has generated more than 22 tonnes of food, the equivalent of 50,000 meals. It operates by using a digital open platform called FareShare FoodCloud that allows store staff and charities to liaise to distribute surplus food. It launches in 15 cities and regions this week, including Manchester, Birmingham, Southampton and Portsmouth, and will cover all stores by the end of 2017. Tesco and FareShare are appealing for 5,000 charities and community groups to join up and receive the food. Tesco is also calling on other retailers to adopt FareShare FoodCloud to create an industry-wide platform. The initiative also includes the launch of a new ‘Perfectly Imperfect’ range of so-called wonky vegetables that previously may have been thrown away and will be on sale at low prices, in line with several other grocers. Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis said: ‘We believe no food that could be eaten should be wasted. That’s why we have committed that no surplus food should go to waste from our stores. ‘We know it’s an issue our customers really care about, and wherever there’s surplus food at Tesco stores, we’re committed to donating it to local charities so we can help feed people in need. ‘But we know the challenge is bigger than this and that’s why we’ve made a farm to fork commitment to reduce food waste upstream with our suppliers and in our own operations and downstream in our customers’ own homes.’ FareShare chief executive Lindsay Boswell said: ‘We are delighted to be offering our store level solution in partnership with Tesco who are demonstrating real leadership in tackling food surplus. ‘FareShare FoodCloud is a natural extension of our work together which has already provided nine million meals to help feed vulnerable people.’ Read more here:

Minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 11th February 2016 at Belmont Community Centre, Eastholme Avenue, Belmont Hereford. (Please note: Belmont Community Centre is located in Eastholme Avenue and not Northolme Road as it says in these minutes) Minutes - 11.2.2016.pdf

I will Denise as long as I am not away on business but I will do my utmost to attend and ask, be good to have you there be a good opportunity to meet up. The next full meeting of Belmont Rural Parish Council will take place on Thursday 14th April 2016 at Belmont Community Centre, Eastholme Avenue, Belmont, commencing at 7pm.

I took a few photographs this afternoon to show how bad the incline is with several bends and a nasty sharp bend on an adverse camber at the bottom of the close. Walking up the close, this is the sharp bend on the adverse camber Walking further around Another good angle looking up hill on a bend Your can clearly see it is quite a steep incline this is where the bin lorry was slipping backwards last winter on the ice. You can see the top of Glastonbury Close here where it joins Sydwall Road. View from Sydwall Road into Glastonbury Close This photo was taken in Sydwall Road looking down into Glastonbury Close A little further, you can imagine how dangerous it is when it is icy, it is like an ice rink! Another view looking back down the close a little further along A little further towards the bend You can see the adverse camber coming up Adverse camber is pretty obvious from this angle.

Can you imagine the carnage as the tram crosses the two bridges and collides with cyclists, dogs, oh and humans ​Trams works in cities and locations alongside cyclists and pedestrians and much busier locations than the GWW without any problems, so I do not foresee any here either. Please take a moment to read through all of the pages on this topic. This is not all about making money (which is all local councils appear to want to do) it is about providing a service to local people while reducing the massive congestion problem that exists in Hereford. This service would service Redhill - Newton Farm - Hunderton - Greyfriars -Broomy Hill - Barton - Whitecross - Edgar Street as it would pass through all of these locations and end at the railway station, if extended it could re-open the original service which used to run along the back of Holmer Rd to the top of Roman Road and coming the other way it could link up with Rotherwas at the Enterprise Zone, you are being quite blinkered reading your your response. I have a much bigger vision perhaps? This is not a train! It would be a simple eco friendly light weight tram system, which could possibly be privately funded or sponsored by local business's with advertising warps on the carriages. You are either behind the idea or your not and if you are behind it, maybe it would help if you looked at the positives of a tram system rather than the all too easy negatives.

SNT March 2016 Newsletter BELMONT SNT NEWS LETTER March 2016.pdf

ha ha Des Parish is a woman and no she does not live in Glastonbury Close. I have no idea when or if she did a site visit I can only go off what I was told and what it says in the minutes. Even though I was the resident who requested the bin, you would of thought that maybe they could of called me prior to their apparent visit or even knocked on my door while they were on site to give me the opportunity to explain and point out the dangerous locations and to qualify my request. Do we really have to start writing letters and having petitions in order to have a couple of bins placed in the close?

So apparently Councillor Des Parish has done a site visit to Glastonbury Close and between her and another councillor have decided that Glastonbury Close does not need a salt bin and it would not be warranted, I would love to know how they came to that conclusion? So my request has been completely dismissed then? I think as the longest resident in the close for over 25 years it qualifies me to judge whether a salt/grit bin is required or not and from my experience over many winters (excluding this year which has been very mild) it is like an ice skating rink coming down the hill and around the sharp bend at the bottom of the close. Last year we witnessed a bin lorry just sliding, it missed two cars by just a few cm. They do not grit the road and for the past 4-5 years I have driven to Tesco and Haywood lane to obtain a few buckets of grit and spread it down the whole street myself, hence why I requested a couple of bins. I see from the minutes of the meeting that it has been deferred now until Autumn, so what was the point of that? I asked for these back last November! What an utter joke! What is the precept money for? They are happy to spend thousands of pounds of CCTV camera for their little community centres but we can't have 2 salt bins at a cost of less than £90 each! Quite happy to pay a Councillor's family member £120 though to deliver their leaflets... Grit/salt bins website I will write to the HT and highlight this and maybe I will bring up past financial questions while I am at it.

ha ha looks pretty sad eh

We have the petition and also the other requesting part time lights so those are the two we should be promoting as much as we can. Please all share and lets see what we can achieve.

A MAN in his 20s has been arrested as part of a police investigation into the rape of two teenage girls in Hereford. Officers released an appeal last Friday to try and identify a man they wanted to speak to in connection with two reported rapes at a property in Whitecross Road on February 9 at around 12.40am. Enquiries are still on-going and anyone with any information is urged to call police on 101. He currently remains in police custody.

No surprises there then...

Nothing being reported on the radio at the moment. Any updates?

I hope that it does not stay closed for a long time with this vile paint job on constant display.