Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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19 February 2009
18:3115691Does anyone know why the bottom of Coombe Valley Rd is sealed off, by the police
Sheila
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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19 February 2009
18:4215693had a phone call from my daughter and she said Buckland Ave was sealed off.But it isn't heard 2 police cars about 40 mins a go,shot past us here at Goodwin Towers at a fair rate.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 595
19 February 2009
18:5515695JHG
When my son went past Coombe Valley, it was sealed between the bottom and the bridge, traffic was being diverted up St Rads Rd
Sheila
Guest 661- Registered: 16 Mar 2008
- Posts: 241
19 February 2009
19:4515702just got home from work Combe Valley road is now open 4 police cars in the car park opposite Gwynfors office and 3 parked on the pavement just down from his office police walking about everywhere but still no idea what has happened. Someone I spoke to said a body had been found but that is only speculation at the moment, so do not quote me on that.
A dog is just not for christmas save some for boxing day
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
- Posts: 1,388
19 February 2009
23:3515715We think it was a stabbing. Chris was driving along London Road with her daughter and granddaughters at about 1620. They wanted to turn left into Coombe Valley Road but there was a police car on the corner with passengers getting out and saying their cheerios. It was blocking the turning and Chris was tempted to give it a bib. When it moved off, it turned up Coombe Valley Road with Chris following.
As Chris turned left into Victoria Street, she and her progeny saw the police car being flagged down by a girl around twenty standing a few yards further up Coombe Valley towards the traffic lights, on the edge of the car park. She was supporting a man in his twenties or thirties who was hunched over holding a jumper to his stomach, with a lot of blood on the jumper and on his hands.
When Chris left the house which she was visiting in Victoria Street about twenty minutes later, there were a couple of ambulances and several police cars at the scene and the road was blocked off.
Chris's daughter and granddaughters are visiting from Blackpool. They arrived on tuesday and this is the second time that they have been down into the town. Yesterday they parked in Somerfield's carpark and witnessed several policemen very forcefully restraining a youth on the ground in Pencester Park, surrounded by other youths shouting and gesticulating. Simultaneously, two security guards were restraining a teenage youth in the entrance to Somerfields, presumably caught shoplifting.
After that, they went to McDonalds and ordered meals. As Chris was carrying the heaped tray back an uncontrollable youngster barged into her scattering her food all over the floor, with no acknowledgement or apology from her parents. They went to sit upstairs. A middle-aged man with a small boy in tow was up there going through the gash bins. The man then went into the gents toilet with the refuse from the bins, leaving the boy sitting at a table. After a few minutes he came out, sat down for a bit, and then disappeared into the Ladies for several minutes. Chris and the family finished their meal and descended the stairs to leave, stepping over a number of teenage boys rolling about fighting on the floor as they made their way to the exit.
They then drove home, pausing only for three very drunk men and a woman staggering down the middle of the road clutching beer glasses. One of the men reeled up to Chris's window and slurred "Sorry about this, its my birthday!"
All sounds like a scene from Hogarth and they are waiting to see what tomorrow will bring!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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19 February 2009
23:4215716that is the worst travel brochure for our town that i have seen.
sadly it could be anywhere, but if people are visiting from outside, they assume that it is a normal dover weekend.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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19 February 2009
23:4215717that is the worst travel brochure for our town that i have seen.
sadly it could be anywhere, but if people are visiting from outside, they assume that it is a normal dover weekend.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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19 February 2009
23:5815718Yes, I have heard on the grapevine that it was (at time of writing) a non-lethal stabbing following a street argument. The perpetrator, has been arrested and his house searched in Coombe Valley. Given the alleged 'dealings' of the person who committed the crime, one would expect the police (and Customs?) to find many items of interest in his house.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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20 February 2009
00:0615719i take it that you mean a wedgewood cruet set or similar?
perhaps a poster from a holiday on the costa brava in the seventies, depicting the alleged felon dressed as a bullfighter?
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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20 February 2009
00:1415720That's the one Howard - monogrammed with 'Rothmans' in faded imitation gold leaf at the bottom.
Alternatively we could be looking at Shergar's head, a hitherto unknown Dead Sea Scroll, or the fabled DTC attendance register that Indiana McSweeney has been hunting for years.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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20 February 2009
00:2115721that cut me to the quick phil!!
town council attendance register or shergars head???
i will have an each way bet on the race horse.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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20 February 2009
12:2515733Reading Ed's posting is shocking to the extreme, all you need next is someone stealing a pensioner's weekly shop whilst they are taking some change out of their purse to give to the beggar outside St Mary's Church Hall.
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 542
20 February 2009
12:4015734Hah! Well, I nearly saw that ....
What happened was someone racing past and stealing a pensioner's bag as he did so. However, a couple of people hammered after him and got him (not the pensioner, the thief), and the police then turned up to have a word or six with him. Very nice and courteous they were too, as they then offered him a lift in their car, which, despite his protestations that he didn't wish to inconvenience them, they most kindly insisted he accept.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
20 February 2009
15:2315744coombe vally has allways been a mealting pot for trouble,its where the council put all the bad hats.
20 February 2009
15:4815746Bad hats? That's sooo hat-ist. Hats get undeservingly vilified - again. Hats have yuman rites too, you know.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
20 February 2009
15:5015747this yuman is not botherd dont wear hats all hats are bad.
20 February 2009
16:2315751What about the bad press for eggs.......not all eggs are bad...........egg-ist yumans.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,018
20 February 2009
16:5415753Brian your comments are unfounded .First of all we donot put all the bad eggs or whatever you call them in St Radigunds .That policy was changed years ago .Tenants now have choiced based lettings and they can bid for what ever house /flat comes empty .Please donot class everyone who lives in that area as bad .Its comments like yours which makes my job difficult .Every time comments like these are made makes it more difficult to builsd up Dovers reputation .
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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20 February 2009
17:0215756Thanks Sue,as a St Rads resident it is unfair to blame a area,it is the people that make up an area,and there are some brilliant people here in the Ward,as in my ward of Tower Hamlets,I choose to stand in T.H. as I lived there for 20 years and I am always there,but there is nothing wrong with St Rads or Coombe Valley just a few who are a pain in the well you know,and these people can be in any road or area.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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20 February 2009
17:2215759sue i lived up there for 20 years so i should know,may be its changed now i moved out of there 12 years ago.best move i have ever made.