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Jayjay
Posted on: Sep 30 2013, 08:29 PM


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I live in the Shaw Road area. Vodafone staff, wearing red lanyards, Vodafone badges with their pic on, never seen one in a suit or a briefcase, more jeans and rucksack. They park on the cycle lane at the side of the playing fields. This prevents the kids going to school from having a safe route and holds the traffic up as it has to reduce to one lane.
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Jayjay
Posted on: Apr 8 2013, 09:10 PM


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John Smith, the Labour party leader who died in office, had a private funeral and a memorial at Westminster Abbey. Why is Margaret Thatcher getting a ceromonial funeral like Princess Diana and the Queen Mother?
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Posted on: Apr 8 2013, 09:49 AM


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QUOTE (On the edge @ Apr 7 2013, 10:36 PM) *
Can you define 'tax avoidance'? Most people will agree that paying taxes is a reasonable thing to do, which is why tax evasion in the country is a criminal offence. Reasonable means that the tax should be fair, easy to understand and collect.

Keeping things very simple and straightforward would avoid huge costs in revenue staffs and specialist accountants, it would also avoid much political gaming. Little wonder there is tax evasion, too many vested interests in maintaining the existing complex status quo.

There was very little point in hauling Starbucks and their peers in front of a parliamentary select committee simply to give them a sanctimonious lecture on financial probity (from MPs of all people!!!). If they have acted unlawfully, get them in Court. If they haven't, then by your own account you MPs have not made the right tax regulations.

Again, we need to sort both - spending and collecting.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/20...avoidance-dodge
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Posted on: Apr 7 2013, 10:14 PM


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Jayjay
Posted on: Mar 12 2013, 08:23 AM


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I will be voting independant. But this is Newbury with its lemming mentality so I will be, as usual, in the minority. Speak to the people who live here and ask what the Lib/Con policies are. They do not know. They will vote the way they always have, because that is what they have always done. If it didnt affect me, it would be a case of Newbury gets what it deserves.
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Posted on: Mar 11 2013, 03:18 PM


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Received my first flyer for town council elections through the door today. How depressing. This is Newbury, same old parties promising the same old things, will be voted in by the same people as they as so afraid of change and then the same people will complain on this site about the party they have voted in yet again.
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Posted on: Jan 30 2013, 03:32 PM


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All of my collections have been done and on the correct day. Black bin was collected Friday lunch time even though it was snowing.
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Posted on: Jan 28 2013, 09:48 PM


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Expert buyers would be cost effective. It was recently reported that a hospital was paying 10 times the supermarket price for cornflakes.
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Posted on: Jan 24 2013, 04:04 PM


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Was thinking about the members who attended the last meeting and realised Nothing Much has not been posting recently. If you are out there NM, let us know you are ok.
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Posted on: Jan 22 2013, 12:10 PM


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QUOTE (Dodgys smarter brother. @ Jan 22 2013, 11:32 AM) *
You've not heard of Jimmy Savile then?


If the 450 had come forward when he was alive and could account for his actions, it would have been better than speaking up after his death.
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Posted on: Jan 21 2013, 06:51 PM


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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Jan 21 2013, 06:45 PM) *
Driving around the North Hampshire area, I noticed that there are salt/grit bins placed in strategic areas so that the public can throw de-icer, compliments of the council, on the areas where the road or the path most need it. This seems to be mainly where there are slopes or hilly areas. I haven't noticed any in West Berkshire is there a bin near you?.


No salt or grit for Shaw Hill.
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Posted on: Jan 21 2013, 11:12 AM


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QUOTE (x2lls @ Jan 20 2013, 09:54 PM) *
Oh dear me!

You have so much to learn.


Do not be to hard on him. I can remember saying a very similar thing when I was young, thinking all older people were out of touch, now I am there it is a different story.
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Posted on: Jan 21 2013, 10:56 AM


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Pavements round here are like ice rinks but the roads are fine. An elderly man possibly going to get food keeping safe by walking on the road? Fine by me. I object more that the selfish drivers queing behind him did not think to offer him a lift.
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Posted on: Jan 20 2013, 11:12 AM


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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Jan 19 2013, 12:54 PM) *
It seems that the hills around the area which are the most difficult to get up and down in the snow/ice are the last to be salted. The Greenham Hill was almost impossible to get past the speed camera yesterday morning. It is shown as a priority strech on the WBC map but that depends on the interpretation of the word priority.


In some areas the gritters were told not do hills as if was unsafe, maybe this applied to Newbury. Am I right in assuming that grit only works when it is not snowing? If we have a few inches of snow on top of a gritted surface (it looks as if we could have that today) it is pointless?
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Posted on: Jan 19 2013, 12:25 PM


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QUOTE (motormad @ Jan 18 2013, 07:58 PM) *
No, just to my Mums house which all the surrounding roads are not salted, let alone cleared. I managed fine in my car.



I managed to walk 20 minutes to and from the town centre from my house and it was ****ing icey, and I'm fat and was eating ice cream, so I think most people can manage.

People's expectation on the council to be there for them is unreal.
Disabled and the elderly may suffer but in these cases then you'd hope they have a friend or relative they can call on for help in emergencys, eg needed more Werther's Originals.

Ideally yes there should be more help to manage but at the end of the day I feel this country, the people are just not accustomed to it. In Canada they have worse than this every day and they manage.


But the OP was not asking for the council to do the clearing, it was volunteers, on estates, who were doing it. The council supplied materials such as grit.
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Posted on: Jan 18 2013, 07:32 PM


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QUOTE (motormad @ Jan 18 2013, 07:09 PM) *
Not necessary.

Besides there were trucks out with snow plows.


The snow ploughs did not come near us. What pavements did they do in the region?
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Posted on: Jan 18 2013, 06:59 PM


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Just seen the news where the West Midlands have given shovels and equipment to volunteers to clear their own roads and pavements. Is something WBC should be considering?
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Posted on: Jan 16 2013, 09:15 PM


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QUOTE (motormad @ Jan 16 2013, 07:25 PM) *
Well you can't be that well off otherwise you'd drive to work or ride a Bendy Bicycle.


Lot of assumptions there. I could be retired. I could be very well off and have a chauffuer or be a politician and have a driver. In fact I work from home, have a bus stop next door but one, and live less than 10 minutes walk from town. On the occassions I need a car, I hire one £20 for half a day. This keeps me quite well off as I dont pay road tax and rarely pay parking or petrol. I dont get stuck in traffic, my transport uses the parkway bridge. I can have an alcoholic beaverage if I fancy it and not bother about drinking and driving.
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Posted on: Jan 16 2013, 03:24 PM


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Well I am not poor, feckless, stupid or been banned but as I take a bus or walk I am insulted by these comments.
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Posted on: Jan 14 2013, 10:11 AM


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QUOTE (x2lls @ Jan 12 2013, 08:56 PM) *
Is your keyboard playing up?


No. That is what they call it 'shutl'.
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Posted on: Jan 12 2013, 09:03 PM


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Five came up for my postcode (central Newbury). Four out of the five (Shell, Tesco, Chievley and Falkland) are all charging £133.9
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Posted on: Jan 12 2013, 07:24 PM


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Just had a browse through the web site. Very impressed with the shutl service, from store to in 90 minutes.
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Posted on: Jan 11 2013, 11:09 PM


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Wonder if the driver who drove on the wrong side of the road to avoid the bollards and then proceeded up Northbrook Street on Saturday was on auto pilot or learned behaviour.
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Posted on: Jan 10 2013, 09:43 PM


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QUOTE (GMR @ Jan 10 2013, 08:24 PM) *
With Jessops closing there won't be any specialist camera shops around (at least in Newbury).

Granted you can go and google a hundred different camera's but a specialist can make it easier for you.


There is a camera shop on Cheap Street, left hand side as you approach the station from town. It also sells specialist whisky!
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Posted on: Jan 9 2013, 04:38 PM


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QUOTE (Dodgys smarter brother. @ Jan 8 2013, 09:53 PM) *
2.27% is what percentage has been built on. If you remove roads, industrial estates, etc etc, the percentage given over to actual housing is nearer 0.9%. Yet how many times are we told (by some newspapers at least) "the U.K. is full" ..."we can't take anymore"..."our island is overcrowded" etc etc... Those claims all look a bit scaremonger-y when compared to the actual figures.


Can Newbury take any more cars on its roads, can the schools take any more pupils or the doctors surgery and hospital more patients?
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