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    FDR - Signing off

    Hi all, just popped on to say I don't intend to post on the forum anymore. My reasons are varied but have nothing to do with the Forum itself or any other members. Best wishes to you all and happy posting! Cheers - FDR
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    Purple ribbon around the town

    We've all seen it, tied pretty much around every lamp post, bus stop and road sign around the main town routes (especially the Weston Rd and near the hospital) - does anyone know if those who did the tying plan at any point to remove the ribbon and dispose of it properly and safely? I ask this...
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    The Royal Baby

    I wonder if this one will also look like James Hewitt?.....
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    Rowley Park - Whats it like?

    A friend from out of town is looking at moving to the area and asked me what I reckoned to Rowley Park but I had to be honest and say that I haven't a clue. Anyone got any opinions of the place so that I can pass on?
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    Sir Alex Ferguson retires

    First Thatcher dies then Ferguson retires – somewhere out there is a Scouser with a lamp and one wish left…..
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    The EU & Cypriot Bank Theft

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21820237 So, if I am an ordinary Cypriot and I have less than 100,000 Eur in my bank I wake up on Tuesday morning to find that 6.75% of it has been taken away to pay for the EU bail out. If I have more than 100,000 Eur I find 9.9% of it has been stolen How is...
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    Stafford Hospital Inquiry - Where is BBC Question time?

    Given the release of the Public Inquiry and given the Prime Minister sees it as such an important issue as to make a statement on it (usually any statement would be made by the Secretary of State for Health), where is BBC1 Questiontime this week? Why is it in Sterling and not in Stafford? I...
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    The Guildhall Shopping Centre - What Next?

    I thought it perhaps worth starting a thread on this. It seems that with the recent spate of High St closures or potential closures like JJB and HMV, Waterstones, the continued demise of the market etc the Guildhall is going through a slow death process that appears to be gathering pace. It will...
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    Stafford - Mix of independent shops & big chains in town?

    Stafford - Starting to becoming more like Totnes? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20947162 The attached article was on the news today, it does seem that those High Streets that thrive are those that offer independent choice with a few chains mixed in. In Stafford we have had a number of...
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    Staffordshire CC – Faulty Towers is now sinking?

    http://www.staffordshirenewsletter.co.uk/News/Safety-concerns-over-Staffordshire-county-council-HQ-dismissed-as-nonsense-16082012.htm Whether it is or it isn’t this whole sorry development has and continues to be a catastrophic disaster. Perhaps this will have taught the County Council a...
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    Fantastic things about the London Olympics 2012!

    Spurred on by the other, less joyous Olympics thread I thought I would start this one! I'll kick off with a few: 1 - The way in which the miserable, right-wing British media has been made to eat its words over scare mongering that the games would be an organisational disaster, there would be...
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    Youths on Dirt Bikes, recent problem around Littleworth

    Anyone else heard them / seen them? I noticed an article on complains made about it reported in the Express & Star. I was out walking the other evening with the little one in the push chair near to the hospital. Someone came roaring around the corner on the footpath/track I was walking along &...
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    Vacant Shop being refitted on the Weston Road

    Noticed this morning that there seems to be activity and re fitting going on at the old "Paws for Thought" pet grooming place on the Weston Road. It has been empty for sometime so this looks like good news. Anyone know anymore?
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    Stoke paranoid about the rise of Stafford

    It would appear so from this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-18672759 Surely it works both ways though. If Stoke are afraid that this development could deter businesses from locating in their new City Sentral (honestly, what hope do they have when they can't even...
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    M&S Development at Riverside now under review & in doubt

    At least that is what I have heard. It maybe total clap trap but the reasoning does sound as though it could be plausable. I have heard that is is due to fears that M&S have over transportation access & the road system around the town more generally. The fear is that they spend millions building...
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    The Vine Hotel

    Having lived in Stafford for a number of years until today I had never been in the place, not through any act of purpose - just because it has never really crossed my mind. Today me and Mrs FDR were out in town and met up with some friends from out of town - as they were from out of town they...
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    Staffordshire County Council Office buildings - Wrong choices?

    I was walking through town the other day walking past the now frankly embarrassing Staffordshire Place buildings that still seem endlessly beset by snags and problems and then I walked through towards the historic County Buildings and found myself studying them a bit more closely. The County...
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    Poundworld Stafford on Queens Retail Park

    Now don't get me wrong, in the current climate I'm happy that a store is opening rather than closing and happy for those people it employs - but... I couldn't help that sinking feeling when I read about this that it was yet another discount, stack 'em high sell 'em cheap market shed. Surely we...
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    Have we lost control of our nation by entering the European Union?

    "Anyways the Police seem to think there is an Eastern European gang going around as 7 properties a day are getting done in Stafford" I think this gets to the heart of the issue. I'm probably going to come across all Daily Mail / UKIP but I do believe that by being in the European Union we have...
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    Motorists in Stafford are panic buying fuel - stop it!!

    Sad but true. I went to buy some fuel yesterday (because I actually needed some) and ASDA was empty, there was a queue going up the Weston Road from Lammascote filling station - it is ridiculous. Had a walk out today and there is once again quite a lot of queuing going on. I blame the...
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