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UK Column back live at 1pm daily. Listen to the real issues behind the news which the BBC and other mainstream media don't expose. Child abuse and an attempt to set up a new tax seizure of your bank account. Also EU regionlism on the agenda through the back door. The daily video can be viewed anytime, on the day, after Ipm.

List of planning public notices affecting the city It is a legal requirement for the council to give public notice of certain types of planning application and other planning matters by the display of an advert in a local newspaper. If you wish to comment, please follow the advice contained in the notice. The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2010 Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, Sections 67 & 73 Application Types: P - Planning permission L - Listed Building Consent AC - Conservation Area Consent SL - Affecting the setting of a Listed Building AC - Affecting a Conservation Area D - Not in accordance with the provisions of the Development Plan RW - Affecting a public right of way T - For a telecommunications mast 3rd July 2014 P141794/F - P Variation of all Conditions on Planning Permission 130426/F. Former Pomona Works, Attwood Lane, Holmer P141597/F- AC Alterations and extensions. Bowling Club, Belmont Road, Hereford If you wish to make representations or comments you can during the period of 21 days beginning with the date of the publication of this notice quoting the relevant number: By the Website: Using the online comment form By e-mail to: planning_enquiries@herefordshire.gov.uk By post to: - Planning Services, PO Box 230, Hereford, HR1 2ZB ANDREW ASHCROFT (Assistant Director)

Reading this article about a Spanish political party that has won 6 seats in the EU election last May. They have come about as a result of a protest vote, similar to the UKIP effect in the UK. Polls suggest the party is gaining ground, showing that it could win between 30 and 58 seats in the Spanish parliament and capture as much as 15% of the vote, almost double the percentage it received in the European elections. Their leader, Pablo Iglesias, made this quote which appears to fit well with the situation in this country: "If people don't do politics, others will do it for you. And when others do it for you, they can steal your rights, your democracy and your wallet." It's ironic that the Spanish party have taken the slogan "Podemos" meaning "We can". Have Herefordshire Council sold the slogan to the party, as here the council obviously can't. So remember your vote counts when elections turn up.

4 July 2014 BBC H&W Radio Goes from worse to worse!

4 July 2014 BBC H&W Radio Goes from worse to worse!

By Ian Parker, BBC News, Bristol today: No figures for Herefordshire Council.

Received this by email this morning. Eviction, The Fraud of the Bank. A personal tale and call for help. It's going on everywhere and will get worse as the banks cash in their assets to top up their reserves. The banks have got no cash we are bankrupt.

List of planning public notices affecting the city It is a legal requirement for the council to give public notice of certain types of planning application and other planning matters by the display of an advert in a local newspaper. If you wish to comment, please follow the advice contained in the notice. The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2010 Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, Sections 67 & 73 Application Types: P - Planning permission L - Listed Building Consent AC - Conservation Area Consent SL - Affecting the setting of a Listed Building AC - Affecting a Conservation Area D - Not in accordance with the provisions of the Development Plan RW - Affecting a public right of way T - For a telecommunications mast 26th June 2014 P141697/F, P141693/F, P141694/A, P141695/A P141696/F - SL Installation of ATM, condenser and three air conditioning units. Externally illuminated totem sign and non-illuminated promotional banner. Various signage including 2 no. externally illuminated fascia signs, hanging sign, window vinyls and wall mounted Welcome tablet. Demolition of porch and installation of replacement shop front on eastern elevation. Repairs to rear extension including replacement monopitch roof. The Buckingham of Hereford, 141 Whitecross Road, Hereford, Herefordshire If you wish to make representations or comments you can during the period of 21 days beginning with the date of the publication of this notice quoting the relevant number: By the Website: Using the online comment form By e-mail to: planning_enquiries@herefordshire.gov.uk By post to: - Planning Services, PO Box 230, Hereford, HR1 2ZB ANDREW ASHCROFT (Assistant Director)

Hello Pete.g welcome to the Voice. Have you got your east and west mixed up. JN supports an eastern route being shorter and cheaper and linking into the Enterprise Zone. The Council want the bypass/relief road to go around the west of the city where they want to build thousands of more houses. They can't do that if it goes east as it crosses the wet grasslands of Lugg Meadows which flood every year. The council is desperate for more council tax they just can't wait to waste more of our hard earned money. Have a look at post 15 where JN has written a response concerning a relief road.

UK Column at the seaside.

How about this FOI highighting further extravagance: Its's going on everywhere!

Hang on. Isn't this the same people who created the black bin problem, now offering a solution, if we vote for them at the forthcoming general election. How many of Pickles cut costing exercises will be reversed now - 201? They think were daft.

Their Managing Director: Adam Jacobs Adam is a leading procurement and change management professional who has worked extensively on leading edge, transformational programmes across the public and private sectors. For the last 12 years, he has been at the cutting edge, designing and delivering transformational change within the public sector, with a particular emphasis on procurement (processes, systems, organisation, category management, savings delivery, service redesign) across central civil government, local government and the wider public sector. He has architected commercial procurement delivery models, procedures and processes, governance and compliance resulting in the delivery of substantial savings for NHS Trusts, local authorities and central government departments. Don't they just love these terms, sounds as if they have a Common Purpose.

Oh dear. UK Column had drawn attention to Neath Port Council in the past. A local website has a large amount of information about their social services.

I wonder if this is why UK Column got taken off. It wouldn't do to draw too much attention to illegal goings on in other parts of the establishment ie banks, county courts, church and government. You & Yours Radio 4 Consumer Programme highlighting Barclays opening false account with minimum checks and the Wonka fiasco.

17. The council does not make use of performance related pay for any of its employees.

Can't find anything on Council website. Does this help?

I did view that Guy Taylor video before it was taken down and the TV studio segment was constructed to resemble a tv newsroom. The TV style 'news' host was possibly the most biased I have ever seen and his female co-presenter merely seemed to nod in agreement with him. Is it an offence to present information in a format deemed by the authorities to resemble mainstream television? Brian Gerrish researches his information and always invites doubters to do the same. It seems to me that an alternative view could be correct, so why are the authorities frightened of what he has to say. You say he is biased. Don't you like what he is telling you or can't you believe these things actually go on in the UK. ATVOD has been delegated powers by OFCOM to regulate certain on demand video for anyone who doesn't know. It was arranged under a Labour regime. Correct Roger. Tony Blair brought this in. He wouldn't have an interest in controlling media output - would he?. All the mainstream parties have an interest in controlling the media. Its been in the news lately hasn't it. It was the UK Column that highlighted the attempt by the government to try to gag future journalistic freedom through the setting up of the Levenson Inquiry. If you look at the internet coverage of this UK Column video removal episode then the people moaning are people like David Icke who is that well known fruit loop Roger, we are not all fruit loops. Isn't that what Kenneth Clark said about UKIP. In undemocratic countries they just take you outside and shoot you. Here they are a bit more sophisticated - they just laugh at you. ... Nothing has really hit the radar of the mainstream press. As I said a few days ago, Wonga have been correctly picked up for using fraudalent documents against vunerable people. This is the tip of an iceberg and the corruption rampant in this country goes right to the top. The BBC and mainstream media pump out what the government and establishment think we need to know. What exactly has caused these videos to be removed? You tell me. It can't be because it resembles pornography, which this body appears to be rightly concerned about and watch every year judging by their determinations list. Is it that they are imitating tv? Is this an offence in this country? How can they be imitating TV when the message is so different to what the mainstream channels are telling us. They are plenty of alternative programmes on the internet. Have they not paid a required fee? No they haven't as it is not clear where they fit into the regulatory scale. But do they need to pay? Maybe it's a plan to get everyone placing information on the internet to pay a registration fee and control content. Anyone got a link to any ATVOD contact where they outline the alleged infringements? If you can make sense of what they do here is the link to their website. For an organisation that wants to communicate with the public here's how they start explaining themselves: I like the last sentence - classic Orwell. The term "doublespeak" probably has its roots in George Orwell's book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Although the term is not used in the book, it is a close relative of one of the book's central concepts, "doublethink". Another variant, "doubletalk," also referring to deliberately ambiguous speech, did exist at the time Orwell wrote his book, but the usage of "doublespeak" as well as of "doubletalk" in the sense emphasizing ambiguity clearly postdates the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four. (source Wikipedia)

HEREFORDSHIRE COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE LOCAL AUTHORITIES (MEMBERS’ ALLOWANCES) (ENGLAND) REGULATIONS 2003 The table shows the total sum paid by Herefordshire Council to each Member of the Council for the period 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 in respect of Basic Allowance, Special Responsibility Allowance, Travel and Subsistence Expenses and ICT and Consumables Allowance. Cllr A W Johnson Basic Allowance £7,244.04 Special Responsibility Allowance £30,315.71 Travelling & Subsistence £3,895.20 ICT & Consumables £0.00 Total £41,454.95 By the way: Committee meetings are usually held in the council chamber at Brockington, 35 Hafod Road, Hereford HR1 1SH. Brockington has a pay and display car park. The car park charges are: Up to 1 hour 20p Up to 3 hours 40p Up to 5 hours 60p Over 5 hours £1 Do they give change here?

It was a pity this act was not in force when they signed the contract with Balfour Beatty. Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 became law on the 8th March 2012. From 31st January 2013 the Act is 'live' and commissioners and procurers must adhere to it. The Act was initiated by Chris White MP as a Private Members Bill, the progress of the Bill becoming law is documented here. What is the Act? The Act, for the first time, places a duty on public bodies to consider social value ahead of a procurement. The Act applies to the provision of services, or the provision of services together with the purchase or hire of goods or the carrying out of works. The wording of the Act states that... The authority must consider— (a) how what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the relevant area, and (b) how, in conducting the process of procurement, it might act with a view to securing that improvement. It also opens the door for consultation with stakeholders to better understand social value and improve service specifications, the Act states... The authority must consider whether to undertake any consultation What does social value mean under the Act? The wording of the act states.. the authority must consider.. only matters that are relevant to what is proposed to be procured and, in doing so, must consider the extent to which it is proportionate in all the circumstances to take those matters into account. Here is a presentation that may make it clear.

BBC H&W Radio today: That will pay the leader of the council his allowances for the year.

So if the council don't know how to go about running themselves - who are the people who think they can do a better job and what is their agenda? Who are they contacting within the council.

Hereford Times News: Friday 27th June 2014 by Bill Tanner So that's where the grass cutting savings went. Amazing that when the staff at the lower levels are "transformed" they get to lose their jobs and forgo pay rises, whereas those bringers of change at the top shovel more of our money into their pockets and put PFI payments into their friends companies offshore. No wonder they want UK Column off the air.

I think that crocodile sighting on the Avon at Bristol has unnerved him, although I can imagine him wrestling with the beast on the banks of the Wye if it dares swim up here.

AV totally agree.