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    The 'something' that he struck was the collapsed flood wall which was visible as the waters subsided. The driver is a total idiot. I hope the poor shopkeepers bring a joint civil action against him - the evidence is incontrovertible.
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    I think it's a bit of a lottery as to who handles the initial enquiry and whether they send it in the right direction. I had a fault on my phone line a few months ago and used BT's online fault test and report - worked well and I was told it would be fixed within 5 days. In fact they did it in 2. I didn't speak to a human through the whole process, which may be why it went well. I had to contact BT yesterday about a mistake on my bill - I used the chat facility, got through within a few minutes and we worked through and resolved the issue quite quickly. They even offered to record it as a formal complaint when we were done, which I did and it's in the system at the moment.
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    I find emails are ignored, phone calls are generally either in a huge queue or never answered. That said, Direct Line are good at telephone calls - you can ask them to call you back, rather than wait in a queue, and they do. My general preferred route is 'live chat' - I have had success every time with this. Write your question beforehand to ensure you have the facts, and copy and paste it. You increasingly have to get past the bot questions first, but there is a route to a human. You can also get a transcript of the conversation when it finishes, which is a useful record.
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    Really? Terrible acoustics.
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    'Early Summer 2025' it would now seem, according to the recent press release from Friends of Castle Green, under new contractors Aspire Building Contractors. Always very difficult and costly for a contractor to pick up a half built scheme. Let's hope things run smoothly from now on.
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    Work appears to have ground to a halt, nothing has happened for quite a few weeks. It was supposed to be open by now, but it's only at first fix stage. As a member of Friends of Castle Green, and given the large amount of public funding involved, I would have expected an update from them, but the silence is telling.
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    Active Travel & Transport proposals for Aylestone Hill will see FOUR more sets of traffic lights added to the madness - these will be Toucan crossings (removing one zebra crossing), inevitably creating even more issues on one of the most congested roads in the City. https://uk.planengage.com/herefordshireatt/page/Aylestone_Hill-Plans
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    Over 10 years since this petition was launched - not a single light turned off despite so many promises by parties of all colours, worst of all being the last administration who actually had it as part of their campaign that they would run trials etc - nothing done. In fact, many more lights have been added in the last 10 years, not the least the horrible ones on the A49 approaching from the north - as you crest the hill as Lyde, the historic view of the spired City is now marred by a bank of the damned things, when a roundabout here would have been much better - there was plenty of space for one. At a laughable/completley useless level are the cycle traffic lights in the Β£1.3m St Owens St scheme which are very confusing for motorists approaching from the south - they see red and green. I've long thought that there must be a financial incentive somewhere along the line - the everlasting maintenance contract must be a very nice earner.
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    Ask the Council and let us know the answer? 40 tonnes doesn't seem right.
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    We certainly need a change to the status quo, but the options on offer hold out little hope of better times.
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    All public transport is subsidised - trains for instance by many Β£billions - as such Β£50k is an absolute bargain for that many journeys. The wider picture for Beryl is the contribution to health, traffic reduction and so on.
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    Eight year term? Have the Council learnt nothing form being locked into these long term contracts (BBLP for instance)? It would seem not. Let's hope there's some sort of performance review after a year and penalty clauses for failure to deliver (or, rather, take away).
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    Any property asset transferred away from this Council for community use is a very good thing. Friends of Castle Green have a fantastic track record.
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    I understand that β€œThe council awards a contract to S C Joseph Ltd for the Fire Precaution & Risk Assessment works at various Car Parks in Herefordshire following a successful tender. The council approve the expenditure of up to Β£526,113.50 on the works, which includes a 5% contingency of Β£23,914.25, and 5% internal and external professional fees of Β£23,914.25." β€œThe approved funding to undertake this work, is not sufficient. Therefore, we are requesting a further Β£186,113.50, which will be taken out of the Fire Precaution & Improvement Works within the 23/25 programme.” Increase in cost of 35% to Β£712,227 before it evens starts ... what on earth?
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    Possibly in the light of the recent fire at Luton Airport car park (and another a few days ago at Bristol Airport, too late for this inaccessible report). Electric vehicles and oversize/weight SUV's are certainly heightening the risk in concentrated spaces for fire or collapse in historic multi-storeys. That said Herefordshire Council only has Garrick House (I think). Β£0.5m seems typically over the top for this Council, but I'm sure consultants won't be saying we can do it for less (and Plough Lane seems only to act as a clearing house for jobs to consultants these days). Contrast this amount with the paltry sum they are spending on the homeless (ironically sited in a car park).
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    'Living'? No window, no water, no heating, chemical toilet - have we really sunk this low? Is this all we can offer fellow human beings? The most heinous of prisoners do a lot better than this. Shame on Herefordshire Council.
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    Mmm, agreed, bigger is rarely better. Lots of meetings, little achieved. That said, if Powys could pop over the border and take over repairing what's left of our Highways, that really would be a win!
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    Yes, it's a bit of mish mash at the moment, this certainly updates and smartens it.
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    The speech is there on youtube. Ironic that Bridgen should be complaining on the platform formerly known as twitter, an autocratically censored site, where everyone is answerable to the owner.
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    Part 3 of the ongoing 'you REALLY just can't make it up' saga of this debacle. The 9 week remedial works outlined above have now been going on for 28 weeks and appear to have been abandoned, with areas fenced off and left unfinished. Enquiries to both the ward councillor and the cabinet member have not been answered. Local residents have today received yet another letter from BBLP advising the whole length of the road will now be CLOSED for YET MORE overnight working from Monday 9th October for 5 nights. They appreciate our patience! Who knows, the works may even be completed before Christmas at this pace. I repeat, the original works were programmed at 16 weeks and it's now been over a year since they were started and still no end in sight. It's not even as though it's a good (or even safe) scheme! Why does no one in authority give a monkeys?
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    We're seeing the consequences of a lack of investment in schools (and other public buildings) in the news at the moment. Pulling money away from them for questionable update of facilities which saw Β£1.92m spent on the building just 6 years ago seems, at best, foolish. It also warrants close questioning of those in Plough Lane commissioning such works (and indeed how they awarded the contracts).
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    Really sorry and shocked to read about and see the extent of your injuries, purely as a result of being a good citizen and trying to do the right thing. That the police weren't interested is shocking, especially with all the recent publicity about the knife sculpture. Sadly, the country continues its seemingly unstoppable slow decline, with lawlessness at every level left unchecked. The tories are too busy filling the pockets of their mates to care, or even pretend to care, and labour, well, who knows. They can't be any worse, can they? The trouble is, with so much damage done over the last decade, it's going to take more than four years to start to turn things round.
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    AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for generations to come. AECOM is an American multinational infrastructure consulting firm. Should be good for lil' old Hereford then. It does beg the question as to what so many in Plough Lane actually do, when so much is passed to expensive outside facilitators. It should be one or the other surely? Does anyone have a grip on costs in Plough Lane? I suspect no one wants to rock the boat, it's all too cosy, and the 'interim' directors come and go so fast that they can never see anything through.
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    Dear, oh dear. No surprise at the contractor either. It appears that Β£303k is being pulled from capital investments in schools to 'corporate asset review projects' These are; a) Blueschool House Proposal to reconfigure internal layout and update facilities b) Three Elms Proposal to reconfigure two units at Three Elms with regards to internal layout c) No 8 and Town Hall Proposal to reconfigure internal layout and update facilities Will councillors be asking where the Β£1m overspend disappeared to before voting on this?
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