howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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20 February 2009
18:4915772brian
surely you are forgetting that our honourable member is based there.
Cue barry!!!
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
20 February 2009
18:5615774who might that be howard.
Guest 682- Registered: 19 Jan 2009
- Posts: 146
20 February 2009
19:2815780I drove past at lunchtime today and there was an army of police raking through the grass round the small car park opposite Gwyn's office - police cars everywhere.
Just coming through on Radio Kent - someone has been arrested
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
21 February 2009
08:1415807Thanks Nigel - good to know the offender was caught.
Roger
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,018
21 February 2009
10:2315814Brian I was a govenor of St Radigunds School for Ten Years now Im part of the Federation .There were children there called Dixon.Part of your family ??In fact shall not mention name I well remember a child who I looked after on a school trip .
Some lovely children there
21 February 2009
10:4915816???????????????????
I may well consider compiling a book of postings with surreal subtexts. There are times when simply reading some of them through I can feel reality ebbing away.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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21 February 2009
11:2615819sue,all my kids have grown up and working,so i have no kids at st.rads thankfully.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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21 February 2009
21:1615840the chap that was stabbed had allegedly been dealing drugs to young kids.he had been given a warning by means of a good hiding but had decided to ignore that advice and continue plying his trade.hence the follow up action.this is all heresay and in no way should be taken as the truth or accurate.It makes one wonder though!!
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
- Posts: 3,391
25 February 2009
09:261607412 years is a long time Brian, And like Town and Pier ward St Rads has good and bad people.
Sadly St Rads got aad name, but it will take a lot to change this, not realy helped by Brian based on as he says 12 years ago thats a long time ago.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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25 February 2009
09:4816076keef,once a bad area allways a bad area.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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25 February 2009
10:0516079Brian
Not willing to accept that, every ward has bad apples including town and pier ward.
We do need to talk up the ward wherever possible and hound out those that dont want to part of and be a pain to the commuitioes they live in.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,018
25 February 2009
10:0616080No NO Brian its people like you who keep running it down .By the way have you been to the school recently .You will be amazed .Remarks of this kind make my blood boil.When so many people are working hard to lift certain areas of Dover .I know a family in that area where six hildren were raised and all have become directors of firms and well paid jobs .Several of the pupils have gone to the Grammar schools.
If you cant say something good just keep quiet .Keith and many others like me fought to keep that school in the heart of the community a community centre has also been built .
Im hoping for some grant funding to invest in the area .
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
25 February 2009
10:2216083sue,kieth i am just expressing what it was like when i lived up there.i have relations living up there.can you answer some simple questions about the area,why do the police patroll in 3s,why is there more asbos per sqaure meter any than any other estate apart from melbourne area.town and pier ward a lot quiter than those areas.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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25 February 2009
11:1516090sue/kieth,just a ps to my last post.can i suggest 3 things that you might consider,1,try living up there for about 3 years,2,talk to viv revalle who lives on the estate just ask her about the problems she has,3,cheak the police reports for that area for the last 12 years.then come back and tell me if its a nice area or not.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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25 February 2009
15:2116116Brian
It would have been nice to have seen you when the school was under threat of closure, instead of harping on about all the supposed bad things.
I cannot speak on behalf of the Revell;s they have there own opinions but there has beenb many differing projects that have taken place in the area.
Im one that if i see summat wrong (like proposed closure of school at the time) i got off my bum and was in the front line campaigning against it, and thankfully working together the closure was halted.
Its all to easy to put areas down, its harder to stand up and be counted.
go out on a limb but some of us do it
25 February 2009
15:3616117Have to agree with Sue and Keith on this. The phrase"once a bad area, always a bad area" does nothing to give incentive to those working hard to improve the area.
I worked in an area in the Midlands FAR worse than St Rads. Drug dealers and money lenders on every street corner, high crime, high unemployment, high truancy, vandalism, you name it. There were even riots there.
Thanks to SRB funding, council housing stock being sold off to tenant groups which were then brought up to good standard, the scum bags kicked out, and by the residents seeing the improvements,being more inclined to work together to make their area better. The whole area has completley changed beyond all recognition. People NEVER wanted to live there, now they have a huge waiting list of people wanting to move in.
None of it happened over night, it took many years to get to where they are now, but my god to go back and see how far this area has come astounds me, so I don't think we can ever say it will never improve in St Rads. You might just end up eating those words
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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25 February 2009
15:4116119Thanks for that mandie .My daughter works in Birmingham so I understand what you are saying .
Guest 670- Registered: 23 Apr 2008
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25 February 2009
16:1416123I have found the people of St. Rads to be friendly and call a spade a spade, which is quite refreshing. I certainly wouldn't have any problems about living there.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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25 February 2009
16:1516124sue im not running it down just saying i was glad to get out of the area,as for the school it was fine when my youngest left he is now 24.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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25 February 2009
18:5116141All areas can change. As a youngster I can remember when Primrose Hill in North London was a run-down area with loads of problems, now you have to be a media celebrity to live there. I too lived in St. Rad's once and there were a lot of good people in the area who always deserved the support they now appear to be getting.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
