Happy New Year From Him!

Imagine the scene, you have spent a few Thousand pounds on a dream holiday to Mustique, your walking along the beach to Basil's bar for an early evening aperitif, and who is sitting there but Ex Chief Brunstrom!
That was where he spent his New Year's day!
Good on him!

Kind People.

No a great customer of Jasmine House yet they gave us a calender again this year.
What kind people they are.
How many of us get a gift such as this anymore off people we spend with over the year?
The Chinese are kind people and we appreciate the gift.

Tonight Janet I'm Going To Be,,

I ask a very simple question,
has the Conservative candidate for Marl ward used her legal name for her nomination?
Is she Julie Fallon, or Julie Fallon -Smith?
I ask this because she uses the latter name in other aspects of her life, the good people of Marl Ward deserve to know what her "real" name is.

http://www.conwy.gov.uk/upload/public/attachments/439/Statement_of_Persons_Nominated_MARL_20_01_11.pdf

True.

Guto Breaks Cover!

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2011/01/01/being-mp-is-steep-learning-curve-says-guto-bebb-55578-27916285/

Clean Pavements.

Is it me, or have we not had such clean pavements for a long time, poor photo really, but on the whole since the snow and grit have gone the pavements look clean and lighter than they have for a long time, every cloud I suppose.

Fair Play

In fairness to Conwy environmental department they seemed to have worked very hard to clear the backlog up.
Some councils in North Wales and many more in the rest of the country have lost the plot.
Well done to Mike Priesltley, the head of department and all the workers on the ground who caught up with the refuse collecting.

RIP Gerry

Another alcoholic dies in misery and more than likely alone beside the few close loved ones left around him.
Many of us have so much yet so little in life.
Great piece if you follow the link below on Gerry and addiction.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewmcfbrown/100070519/gerry-raffertys-struggle-with-demons-and-the-willie-whitelaw-connection/

Steve Hunt and Colwyn Bay Pier.

New Year Greetings!

Town Council Plot to Buy Pier

With Conwy County Council still under investigation by KPMG over massive financial irregularities in the 2009/10 accounts, (the auditors refuse to sign-off the accounts) and a watchful eye being kept on their plans to buy the pier (despite their continual denials in the press), the corrupt County Council plot has now switched to diverting money via Colwyn Town Council to 'do the dirty deed'.
This is being led by the Cllr Brian Cossey (who is on record as wanting the pier demolished and stating "we will make sure Steve Hunt never regains ownership of the pier, whatever it takes") and Cllr Chris Hughes (yes, him again!) - who have infiltrated the "Pier Pressure" group and are now using them as puppets in order to try and get Conwy County Council out of some very deep shit.
It is very sad indeed that a group of local people with such good intentions (the "Pier Pressure" group) have been totally duped, and are being used and abused like this solely to try and save the bacon of corrupt Council officers/councillors. Will it save the pier - NO it won't - read on for proof in their own words!


Why do the Council want to buy the pier anyway?

Simply so they can demolish it... due to the way the bankruptcy laws work, if the Insolvency people do not sell it before July, it reverts back to me - and the Council want to avoid that at ANY cost - they are on record with witnesses as saying so - and remember it is YOUR money they are spending, not their own!!...
Why don't they want me to have it? - well, it is partially anti-English racism right from the start (as suffered also by the previous pier owner Mike Paxman, a Londoner), partly personal vendetta against me for standing up to them and exposing them for the Liars, Cheats and Fraudsters that they truly are (which they refuse to deny now I have published evidence written in their own hand on the pier website www.victoriapier.com ), and partly due to the massive damages claim that will be brought against the Council for their ongoing illegal actions - again it is not that they are worried about the money - it will come out of YOUR pockets after all, rather that it will kill them to see me walk out of the High Court with a big compensation cheque!
So, their plan is to buy the pier, then after a bit of paper shuffling for the benefit of the press, they will announce "oh, its uneconomical to restore", and then knock it down... The problem is the Council itself can't really buy it directly for a number of complex legal reasons I won't bore you with - so they have infiltrated the "Pier Pressure" group, are trying to get them set up as a proper charity - not so they can apply for funding as they are being led to believe, but so the Council can 'legitimately' lend/grant/give them the money to buy the pier... "Pier Pressure" will be nothing more than puppets controlled by the Council at arms length - by putting Cllr Cossey and Cllr Hughes on the committee most likely, and they will fail to get any significant funding (it simply does not exist, and even if it did there are Grade 1 listed piers that are first in the queue) - and so after a few months "Pier Pressure" will inevitably fail and then demolition can be ordered. That is the real plan. The Charity thing is purely a charade, a smokescreen, a means to an end. Mark my words!


Proof of demolition plan - Pier completely wiped out in regeneration scheme

Did you see the article on BBC News recently? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12114561 - the lovely regeneration plans for Colwyn Bay... but wait? - where is the pier? ... you guessed it, it is NOT on the plans, artists impressions, videos, funding applications or anything else. The Council is so utterly determined to see it gone - and there is the proof for you all to see. These are the COUNCIL'S plans for the future of Colwyn Bay, as already approved and submitted for funding, and they DO NOT include the pier in any way, shape or form - despite the spiel they put in the papers to try and keep the locals from asking awkward questions - now you can see undeniably that all the "we want to save the pier" spiel in the local papers is a complete lie!
So, next time you hear Cllr Cossey giving out the carefully scripted spiel about how much they want to "save the pier" - question as to why on the approved plans and funding application they have submitted they intend to demolish it and replace it with a patch of concrete... that is really going to attract tourists isn't it? ... still I suppose it will be somewhere for the ever increasing influx of drunks, druggies and ex-cons to hang out, which is the REAL plan for the future of Colwyn Bay.


One way or another, something will happen in 2011... but you are now armed with the evidence to see for yourself the true intent of the Council.

Regards

Steve Hunt
http://www.victoriapier.com/

Perverting The Course Of Justice.

"Driver, 64, who flashed headlights to warn fellow motorists of speed trap hauled to court and fined for 'obstructing "




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343959/Driver-flashed-headlights-warn-motorists-speed-trap-fined.html

Blow Me!

Car tax over £400 on one car over £200 on the other, petrol £1.249, diesel £1.299 per litre,where is it all going to end?

Random.

Getting caught up in a school run this morning and seeing these poor kids on the way to school in the rain, many with parents, I could not help but think that I would hate to be a teacher in this day and age.
I am sure they are the minority but looking at some of these parents I could not help but think that the teachers would have little support of them when it came to disciplining their children.
I could just imagine the parents believing their little ones could do no wrong in their eyes.
However good the teacher is they only have the child for so many hours in the week, the rest of the time is up to us parents to help support and mould our own children.

Home Comforts.

Good Ol fashioned Fish Chips and mushy peas.
Bloody lovely!

Reminds me of Saturday supper when I were a kid!

Yes times were simpler then and in many cases more fun, bottle of corona cherry flavour if I had been good, can of vimto otherwise.

Sometimes I would have a meat and potato pie, even a portion of scampi, sit down for the only meal that would ever be eaten by the TV, Tales of the Unexpected later, Starsky and Hutch, Thriller, Dick Emery,Mike Yarwood or some other prorgamne of a bygone age.

Happy days.

From The Horses Mouth.

"Daily Post North Wales - News - North Wales News - Less Police means more temptation for criminals s http://www.dailypost.co.uk/
AS North Wales Police face losing up to 700 officers and support staff, First Minister Carwyn Jones warned fewer cops will mean more temptation "


A copper recently retired after 30 years service leaves the following comment about police cuts, makes you wonder doesn't it?


"Chris Perkins How true this report is, as things become more expensive the temptation to steal will increase for the dishonest and hard done by.

There will not be enough Police to maintain law and order, as it stands there is not enough at the moment, the courts will become even more lenient as over crowding of the prisons becomes an even greater issue, make sure you look after your belongings cos no one else will. "

Downtime.

I have no problem where an MP spends his holidays, his or her's wages to spend how they like.
What I do find amazing that with so many important issues facing this coalition Government is that according to one MP they don't go back to Westminster until the 10th of this month.
What is more important in the constituency than at Westminster over the New Year?

http://glyn-davies.blogspot.com/2011/01/to-westminster-with-positive-outlook.html

Fire Service Llandudno.

I sincerely hope that the family from Penrhyn Bay make a full recovery, although 3 are described as being in a critical condition.
I do wonder what the response time from the call being made to the fire service to them arriving on the scene was.
Does Llandudno fire station have fire fighters at the station overnight or do they have to be called out after hours?
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2011/01/03/three-seriously-hurt-in-north-wales-fire-55578-27925173/

New hopes for Colwyn Bay Pier

Where is Steve Hunt these days?

"THE regeneration of Colwyn Bay’s Victoria Pier could be kick-started by town council funding.

At a finance meeting in the new year councillors will vote whether to allocate part of the annual budget to repairing the structure.

The proposal was put forward by Cllr Brian Cossey who wants to use Colwyn Town Council funding to kick-start the pier’s regeneration, if ownership can be attained by a charitable trust or a not for profit company. "

http://www.northwalesweeklynews.co.uk/conwy-county-news/local-conwy-news/2010/12/30/new-hopes-for-colwyn-bay-pier-55243-27904187/

Free speech.

"Dear Oscar,
I am an avid reader of your blog and occasional contributor. I have
to say of late that the number of detractors seems to be on the
increase, this saddens me as freedom of speech and expression are of
utmost importance to us all. We will not realize how important it is
until it has gone.

I can only conclude that your blog is doing some good and that the
people who threaten and insult you are getting scared, (scared of the
truth)Oscar.

I just wish to send to you, Mrs Oscar and the rest of your family best
wishes for a good Christmas and a very happy and fulfilling new year.
Long may you carry on allowing us the freedom to express our thoughts.

To the Bigots on the left, the Bigots on the right, the bigots in the
center and not forgetting the people who are only bigoted against the
bigots I also wish a merry bigoted Christmas.

Tony. "

Weekley No News.

44 pages of nothing and adverts, what a complete waste of 77 pence, and the perennial moaners of the Oasis Hotel on the front page moaning about the price of a hire car from London to Manchester.
Trinity Mirror has some cheek publishing this no news newspaper.
Take a tip, don't bother buying it.

And The ARSEmbly Want Even More Powers??

If the ARSEmbly can not sort the health funding crisis out for North Wales people why should we even be thinking of handing them more powers in a few months time?



"THE lives of hundreds of people suffering acute heart and chest complaints could be put at risk after a Merseyside hospital said it will no longer admit patients from North Wales.
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital (LHCH) took the extraordinary move to ban patients from the region, unless their condition is urgent, because of a funding shortfall.
The ban will affect people waiting for heart bypass and cardiac valve surgery and letters have already been sent to GPs across the region telling them their patients have been bumped off the waiting lists.
The LHCH say the number of Welsh patients needing surgery has exceeded a financial contract agreed with the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board – just seven months into the year-long agreement."

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2011/01/01/north-wales-heart-patients-banned-from-liverpool-hospital-55578-27916283/