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ZIGGY

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General Discussion
General Discussion
BT
8 Sep 2009

We had a bad experience with BT. We had a problem with our phone line and BT insisted it was inside and offered an engineer to call at the cost of a call out charge of £145 and £45 for any work involved. We got someone independent to come and check, he checked our inside line and said there was no problem,he then phoned BT and told them the problem was the outside line. They then sent one of their ...

A True Story
29 Aug 2009

An elderly man from Meridian, Mississippi could see people in his shed stealing things. He phoned the police, who asked " is someone in your house" He said no but people are stealing from my garden shed. The police dispatcher said " All patrols are busy, you should lock your doors and an officer will be along when one is available " Okay" said the man and hung up, counted to 30 and phoned again. " ...

I know there was trouble around that area on carnival night as we were standing further down and one of the Marshall's was relaying information to us, mainly why the carnival was so late. He then said the police had to deal with a group of under aged drinkers around that area, then a first aider was required to treat someone who had been injured. There were so many youngsters carrying alcohol ...

A £55,000 traffic calming scheme has been scraped because it was too confusing. The scheme was introduced in March 2007 on a road at Powderham, Near Kenton, part of the major estuary cycle route and has been branded a complete waste of money. The calming scheme involved installing bollards, traffic islands and white lines aimed at discouraging drivers by restricting the width of the road. It has ...

I didn't know anything about two people walking out, I was referring to the sad deaths of Brian Heath and John Hayday. It must have made things very difficult for the rest of the committee and dedicated helpers who do a marvelous job.

23 Aug 2009

What ever happened! There were some really good entries spoilt by the order they were placed in. 20 mins late starting, so many long gaps people started to leave thinking it had finished. I heard a shop keeper today telling someone people had been saying the carnival was rubbish. It's a shame it could have been a really good carnival if it had been organised better. Having it on a different day to ...

Time will tell!!!

18 Aug 2009

People just don't like change! What's that saying, you can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all of the people all of the time!!!

16 Aug 2009

Jacky, there are a lot of family's in your position as i have grandchildren myself and they have to learn the word NO!!. You allow them ex amount to spend and when they have spent it that's it!!!!

Haven't we been here before? If I remember rightly Tesco wanted to build a store on the football pitch and have a stadium etc built somewhere at the back of the town. At their expense.