Roger

How long was the rank? Obviously should not have happened but I can see why it happened ...

My Mum's wake was held at the Britannia ... 2005 ... Only appropriate place I thought ... Great establishment ... Loved going to the jugg and bottle out the back to get some beef and onion crisps when I was a kid! Welcome Jason ... Sorry about yer Mum ...

My bin lorry (without fail) is one that has a lift on the back that seems to shake the bin twice to get the stuff out.

I didn't know the cost of a TEN but apparently it's £21 ... Council Website Sounds like progress ... Step in the right direction I think ...

I only anticipate putting one bag (at a stretch 2) in before the next collection so it's not ruining my life at the moment thankfully. The 'forgotten' bag has got dry type stuff in it (as opposed to stinking nappies or something) but if it was nappies or similar I'd be unhappy ...

Put our black bin out today with 3 bags inside. Lid fully closed. Bin wagon came and emptied it. Dragged the bin back in and one bag still left inside. Not even wedged inside. Just an apparent incompetent collection.

Have you got a link to that decision? That seems strange. Obviously the building is not the problem. It's just bricks. It's the people who run it. Why grant the application at all until sufficient distance is shown by the applicant from the previous regime? Who owns the building and who has the lease are obvious questions.

Thanks for the update ... Very little detail in the mainstream stuff ... Watch this space I suppose!

The Hereford Times article (authored by Bill Tanner) leads me to think that all the people were in the same boat. At some crazy party. So the victim never noticed the burned off pubic hair and arse burns from the flame-thrower ?

Another question I just thought of ... Is this drying out centre linked to the 'HAND' scheme ?

A drunk/binge drinker has got served by the premises ... Who are apparently complying with the Licensing Objectives that everyone trots out ... This is all a big con in my view ...

I'm glad this has opened ... You can't have that sort of building at that location redundant! :-)

You only need one tenant with 'no pride' to fail to collect their excess bin bag and the moans from the other people will eventually lead to a collection ... Just ridiculous situation really ...

If you get swept up by the cops for stuff there is the 50 foot long list of questions before they accept you into the block... usual drugs/suicide risk questions ... a whole list ... What is the regime for this makeshift Pastor Centre ? Have they got computer records? Very little info on this in the Media ... The cops are backing it tho as a local cop was in the paper enthusing over it ... In a pic ...

That is rubbish ... The existing night time spots serve people who get insanely drunk all the time ... They got very late licences, get loads of people that exit and cause trouble and are therefore consistently breaching one of the licensing objectives which is to prevent crime and disorder ... 'There is a skill in delivering this' ... ~ make your own mind up on that one ... ;-)

Quote from a letter on the HT website ... Hereford Times

That was Ross Road today after the bin lorry had been ... Picture taken from Problems With Hereford Council Facebook Group ... Plenty of other eye watering pics on the Hereford Chat Room Facebook Group which is a closed group ... Looks like a potential rat problem ... Shared bin area so it's not like excess bags outside an individual house ...

Just seems to rumble on ... All put to bed till next year ,,,

I did read either the Worcester News or Hereford times website article (can't remember where) and it was a cut and paste from the link I shared. Obviously over here for a reason ... Not mentioned in the papers ...

The Police Press Release gives their addresses as Wolverhampton. So hopefully they won't come back ...

So what are they capturing with this proposed enlarged zone? Imperial/Saxty's/Exchange are on there ... But Litch/Grapes escaped? Obviously got Maccies ... Must have been forgotten first time ...

Sounds very similar to the Zabka dodgy shop in Eign Gate ... Names changing on the documents to get round rules' ...

Hereford United’s tale of new owners and mistrusting supporters Ronnie Radford’s goal always provokes smiles but there is a winding up petition to be heard and it’s been a long time since Edgar Street was a place for enjoyment and happiness David Conn The Observer, Saturday 29 November 2014 21.59 GMT Hereford United, the bullish football club forever loved for their gleeful 1972 FA Cup giant-killing of Newcastle United, face a winding up petition on Monday that could bring 90 years of longevity to a sad collapse. In financial difficulties for two years before relegation from the Conference to the Southern League this summer for a refusal to pay a £350,000 bond, it will the latest hearing for a petition first issued in April for money owed to the former manager Martin Foyle. Under new owners, from east London, with patchy records who are bitterly opposed and boycotted by much of the fanbase, the club has been told that creditors’ patience is paper thin, and Her Majesty’s Revenue is pushing for a winding up. Foyle, with whom a settlement was previously reached, has joined this petition again after the club defaulted on his payments. He told the Observer that he does not blame the owners, who have put money in to pay some of the bills and pull together a team, but reserves his ire for the previous regime led by the locally-born chairman David Keyte, under whom the club failed to pay the manager, players and many others, amassing debts of £1.2m. “Whatever the fans’ views,†Foyle said, “my issues aren’t with the new people.†That is not a perspective shared by many around Edgar Street, the club’s home since it was founded by a merger in 1924, where matches are now being shunned by many fans and the mood is disconsolate, rancorous and, increasingly, toxic. At the end of May, Keyte ceded ownership of the club for £2 to Tommy Agombar, described as an entrepreneur and developer, from east London. Supporters, who have forensically researched their new owners in ways that were beyond fans’ groups in the pre-internet age, swiftly discovered Agombar had a past conviction for lorry theft and had served time in prison. That made him not “fit and proper†to own or be a director of a football club under the Football Association rules, and according to a speech in parliament by the local Conservative MP, Jesse Norman, Agombar’s son, Tommy jr, who was banned by the Essex FA, and Philip Gambrill, who had been subject to personal insolvency proceedings, were similarly prohibited from being directors. Ownership passed to Alpha Finance, described as dealers in “distressed debtâ€. Stepping in as a director, and currently the most public face of the club, came Andrew Lonsdale, a friend and advisor of Agombar’s. In a long interview with the Observer, Lonsdale acknowledged that the information the fans found out about him is also correct. Although he insists he and his partners have taken over Hereford because of the club’s heritage and potential and that they believe they can revive it, his record has only fed fans’ bleakest nightmares. The 50-year-old has worked in the haulage and construction industry and, for 17 years, ran his local non-league club, Feltham FC. Many of his companies have been dissolved over time; he went bankrupt in 2007 and was disqualified from being a company director from October 2006 for six years. The grim fate of the Feltham Arena, the former home of Feltham FC, is the one that most chills fans of Hereford because there is a property development opportunity at each end of Edgar Street. Feltham moved out, with the intention to build a new stadium on the site, and Lonsdale, whose company was to carry out works, was given permission to import 15,692m³ of soil on to the ground. After years in which a procession of lorries dumped rubble to the bitter complaints of neighbours, the London borough of Hounslow mounted an investigation. Its task force found that 73,485m³ of soil and rubble had been dumped, five times more than permitted. The council report said Lonsdale had “a clear conflict of interest†between his position at the club and his involvement in the company paid to do the work. They did not rule out that Lonsdale had made significant money from his company being paid by other construction firms to dump their excavated waste, although Lonsdale maintains that the delays and other costs meant he lost money on the saga. No new stadium was built, and the site stood as a derelict dumping ground for years, with the club merged with Bedfont. In the course of its investigations, Hounslow found that Lonsdale had, in 2008, been convicted of illegally dumping 600 lorry loads of waste on green belt land within South Bucks district council. Lonsdale says the FA were made aware of that conviction but has cleared him to be a director of Hereford under its owners and directors test, something the FA confirmed, indicating the conviction is considered spent under its rules. For the campaigning Save Edgar Street website, and the Hereford United Supporters Trust, this record does not inspire confidence in Lonsdale, Agombar and their associates from whom Lonsdale said they are seeking to raise the necessary investment in time for Monday and continue in charge of the club. The volume of rancour increased this week with the public airing of threatening and abusive voicemails left on the telephone of a supporter who had texted a rude message. Lonsdale accepted the voicemails were from an associate of theirs who, he said, is no longer involved, but emphatically insisted it was not Agombar. The messages were “disgraceful,†Lonsdale accepted, saying he did not condone them, but argued that he, Agombar and their partners are being subjected to an excessive level of abuse and suspicion on some messageboards. Lonsdale says they have invested a significant sum and are seeking to raise more to fend off the petition because they believe they can restore Hereford to the Football League, partly by identifying promising players who can be sold on. “We are being painted as the bad guys,†he said, “but we took the club over for £2, immediately faced a winding up petition, and have put a small fortune into the club to keep it going. “If we had raped and pillaged the club, sold the assets, I would hold my hands up, but we have done the opposite; we’ve put money in, borrowed money, and taken on a huge task.†Martin Watson, the vice-chair of HUST and a lifelong fan who has put money into the club in the past, said there is too little trust in the owners and if the club goes bust, the trust hopes to be involved in resurrecting it, still playing at Edgar Street. “Many supporters believe the club died at the end of last season. They don’t recognise this season’s Hereford United as the one they followed,†he said. All of which is a world of heartbreak from Ronnie Radford’s 35-yard screamer against Newcastle in 1972, and the pitch invasion by hordes of ecstatic boys in parkas that, for 42 years, has always brought a smile to the faces of football lovers. Observer

Maccies in Commercial Street got a 4AM application thrown out in 2012. They trade outside the Cumulative Impact Zone ... Link I'm not sure who drew the boundaries of that zone but the rules seem to be massaged to fit the objection ...

Trading Standards and the Police, although not going into detail, suggest that this most recent applicant for the alcohol permit is too close to what has previously been going on at the shop. No way that this will be granted.