Surely there should be no debate.
If you (Watkin Jones) want to erect this building then you must include a sprinkler system. Otherwise you will not receive permission to build.
No multi-story building should be constructed without adequate safety provisions.
Fire group backs Blade sprinkler campaign – East Hampshire – The News.
You’ve got to hand it to the residents of Waterlooville, such a sleepy little town so we have to make our own entertainment. Leastways that seems to be the case with ex fire fighter and voyeur Andrew Dowden-Smith who had installed a spy camera in the toilets of our local Costa coffee shop.
Actually you have to give credit to Tricia Pearce who manages our local shop. For she it was that spotted the odd comings and goings of Dowden-Smith. On investigation she found that he had interfered with one of the power sockets in the shops toilets. She then discovered that he had installed the spy camera.
Presumably there isn’t enough excitement in fire fighting. He, Dowden-Smith apparently told police he bought the camera to take snaps of his family on holiday. One has to wonder what sort of snaps he was intending to take since this camera was small enough to hide in a power socket. He had also previously installed this camera in another Costa coffee shop in Cosham.
Dowden-Smith was sentenced to a three-year community order under supervision at Portsmouth Crown Court. He must take part in a sex offenders group work programme, do 200 hours of unpaid work and pay £650 costs. He has also had to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register.
Should have stuck to fire fighting.
Woman tells of shock at finding camera in toilet – East Hampshire – The News.
Closing a road just because the folks speed downhill seems a bit extreme especially for the folks who live on this road. Will they be getting a reduction in their council tax to compensate for the additional mileage they will incur.
And then consider that blocking a road just forces the traffic onto other roads, creating rat runs.
The sensible thing is to create traffic calming and force drivers to use their brakes and gears.
People pressure forces U-turn on planned closure of Portsmouth road – Politics – The News.
Don is my friends Dad who sadly passed away on the morning of Monday, 1st August.
My thoughts are with his family, his wife Babs and his sons John and Steve, during this difficult time.
” ……
But there’s nothin’ so lonesome, so dull or so drear
Than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer”
We’ve all heard the song about the pub with no beer. Well let me introduce you to the pub with no staff….!!!
Apparently the much troubled Perseverance has managed to get itself into the press, yet again. This time it’s because the landlord and staff abandoned the establishment last Friday night at about 20:30. Left it in the more than capable hands of its customers who set about maintaining the flow of beer. And of course, in this modern era, word spread like wildfire and the Percy soon had more customers than normal for a Friday evening.
To be fair the landlord thought he had left the pub in the hands of the barmaid while he toured the establishments of the towns competition. She obviously thought different and left with the takings from the till. The thirsty customers then took control with up to six of them serving behind the bar at one time.
Only in England !!!
Customers helped themselves to booze in Havant pub with no staff – East Hampshire – The News.
Actually its more like Sounds From The Conservatory.
I don’t know what they are doing over there on the roundabout beyond the trees. What it sounds like is a bike meet where the max engine size is 50cc. If you could imagine Spinal Tap doing an impression of 1000 hornets turned up to 11 then you have some idea of the noise that has been permeating the airwaves for the last hour or so.
Hopefully they will get it out of their system soon.
Sorry folks, it’s all gone. I am so stuffed.
One of the most flavour full dishes and way up their in my food hit parade is Kedgeree
And I am preparing it right now for serving in about 20 mins.
If you can get to my kitchen in the next 20 mins I’ll share it with you.
C-Ya
Does anyone want to start a campaign for the return of “Old English” Spangles ?
They were available from the 50’s when I was a kid up, right up to the 80’s
Apparently the new store will bring in up to 350 new jobs. That’s the good news.
The not so good news is that the site, the former Salvador Cetano site, off Hambledon Road is already a bit of a log jam for traffic.
With the plans that have been submitted they claim to have resolved the road access but I can’t see it. Access to the existing shops is already constrained. Add into the mix the folks doing their weekly shop and you will just gridlock the area. Especially with a fair percentage of the residents of the new houses adding to the chaos.
How much additional parking is going to be available ?
Another titbit of good news is that the “recycling centre” is being moved. The chaos that waiting traffic cause today will not be missed. It’s not their fault. They were there first but then the planners saw fit to allow the building of all the new shops.
The new plans include the replacement of the recycling centre with a petrol station. This could just duplicate the misery unless the road access is dramatically improved. At the end of the day this shopping area is a dead-end with two entrances and only one exit.
Please make sure you really fix the road access before you allow this new store to be built.
WrAnTz 