Day: July 25, 2011

Victory at last in long-running fight over A3 car noise


“Campaigners have finally scored a victory in a long-running battle over nuisance noise generated by traffic driving along the A3 and A3M.

After years of campaigning the Highways Agency has admitted it was wrong to ignore the problem, which has plagued people living in Havant and Waterlooville.

And the agency has pledged to investigate measures such as low-noise road surfacing to tackle the din.”

Great !!!

Now all that has to be sorted out is the increasing occurrence of emergency vehicle sirens around the A3M / B2150 junction.

Like all things processed by officialdom we will have to wait and see. Just hope I will live long enough to see some action.

Victory at last in long-running fight over A3 car noise – Transport – The News.

Heartless Bean-Counters


Hospital hoping to save cash tells families to stop visiting sick relatives and instead call them on SKYPE

How unfeeling can you get ?

If you have ever spent any time in a hospital, either as a patient or as a visitor you will know that hospitals can be soul destroying places at the best of times.

From the patients perspective a visit from friends or relatives can be a morale boosting experience. It also can help to pass the time as news of the outside world is introduced. From the outsider’s perspective it can be a reassuring time. To confirm that your friend or relative is OK and on the mend.

Hospitals are supposed to provide “HealthCare“. Care being the operative word. Unfortunately, bean-counters don’t care about the patients.  The only thing that motivates them is the bottom line.

To suggest that a phone call could ever replace a visit shows the most heartless minds at work.

Hospital hoping to save cash tells families to stop visiting sick relatives and instead call them on SKYPE | Mail Online.

RIP Amy Winehouse


Controversial person that she was, I liked her voice and some of her songs. As an artist she was superb but as a person it appears that she had death wish and, sadly, no amount of offered help was going to divert her from that goal.

Her fans have a couple of CDs as a legacy of her talent and her family are left with a huge void.

Such a waste.

Lets Outlaw The Addition Of Water To All Meat Products


Bacon bust-up: EU wants to re-label breakfast favourite as ‘bacon with added water’

For once I agree with the EU bureaucrats, the producers of bacon “with added water” should fess up. Is there anything more annoying that cooking bacon or chicken and finding it has shrunk to half its original size as the water is cooked out of it. The addition of water to our food products is one of the biggest cons being perpetrated on the British public.

However, I personally would have more respect for the EU and their interfering rule making if they had mandated that all meat products with added water were to be banned.

Bacon bust-up: EU wants to re-label breakfast favourite as ‘bacon with added water’ | Mail Online.