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  1. HopesDad

    Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

    It just goes to show how little credibility Stafford’s shopping area has in the eyes of external investors, when a major building like that, probably the second largest shop floor space in the town after the old Co-Op, situated on the main shopping street, fails to even reach its guide price...
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    Group want to make Shirehall into arts and museum hub

    So after months of deliberations and delay, the Prince’s Regeneration Trust, the independent experts paid by the Council to advise on the future of the Shire Hall, say that any of the proposals would be fine, and are advising the Council to appoint independent experts to decide. So the Council...
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    Car Parking at Riverway.

    Why all the animosity? The Cricket and Hockey club are looking to provide a very much needed service to regular parkers using their own land which is under-used for much of the week. At the same time they are making a few quid for the club. Win-win as far as I can see. Does it matter if they...
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    The Sheridan Centre - Why was it demolished?

    The former Sheridan Centre was indeed built as an enclosed ‘indoor’ shopping centre when Mount Street and some other small streets were demolished, along with the Borough Council officers, which were located there. When it was opened in the seventies it was all shiny and new and all the units...
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    Stafford Cinema - ups & downs.

    It is a room above a pub in a country village. It is not claiming to be the Odeon Leicester Square.
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    Contact me if you want your username/anything changing!

    You have added an inappropriate footer to my posts without my authority. Please remove this forthwith, and the reference to troll that you have added to my posts, again without my authority.
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    New stores in the guildhall

    Offensive and inappropriate post. Reported
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    New stores in the guildhall

    if they go into administration it will be before Christmas. If they do not lose their job before Christmas they will have impending unemployment hanging over them over the holiday period.
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    New stores in the guildhall

    The Pensions Protection fund is a government organisation. If it was properly funded by the Tory government they would have enough money to bail out the pensions. It is only them that are forcing the administration, other creditors are supporting it. 3000 is, exactly as I said, ‘thousands’...
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    New stores in the guildhall

    So our fascist dictatorship, sorry, government, forces the demise of a major company it had the power to save and throws thousands of people on the dole just before Christmas.
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    Snow.

    You clearly have far more interest in cars than I do. Either that or too much time on your hands if you can be bothered to research it.
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    Snow.

    I am at a loss to understand why anybody would ever buy a smart car. They are certainly not ‘smart’, and barely warrant the description ‘car’. They are essentially sit on lawn mowers with the blades removed.
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    Snow.

    It was not my first choice, but options are limited as I have to have mine adapted for my disability. I have an X7M on order which will arrive in the new year, which is a better car altogether.
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    Snow.

    You are wrong. BMW drivers tend to be older, more experienced and more confident drivers. They are more affluent high quality people so set and meet very high standards. They are not prepared to accept the incompetence of other drivers who do not meet their own high standards. I am an adviser to...
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    Snow.

    The letter M is a suffix used by BMW to designate its sports models. It does not, as far as I am aware, stand for anything.
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    Snow.

    Any rear wheel drive car will struggle in icy conditions if the driver does not have the skills to control the car. My X6M is 4 wheel drive so has no problem whatsoever.
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    Snow.

    Haha as always the totally predictable Mr Reactive is unable to defend his position, has nothing to contribute to the discussion and can only resort to abuse, his default reaction.
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    Snow.

    Why do you feel the need to point out that it was a BMW driver? Your jealousy is showing through. He was presumably flashing his lights to point out to you how stupid you were, overtaking in poor conditions and causing a danger to him, to other more sensible road users, and to yourself.
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    Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

    No suggestion that Poundstretcher is leaving, just having a new front an upstairs. Twice as much tat in the same amount of space.
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    Nursery Lane.

    The building has charm, is part of local heritage and could easily be renovated and brought back into use. But this is Stafford, so it has to be demolished. And all the trees around it cut down. And the road will have to be closed while they do it, in case the demolition itself does not cause...
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