Guest 1266- Registered: 8 May 2014
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Folkestone harbour redevelopment is a great example of how Dover could have been if it wasn't shackled by DHB.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Wait till the work is done,and you will not be saying that.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Jack Heart wrote:Folkestone harbour redevelopment is a great example of how Dover could have been if it wasn't shackled by DHB.
Folkestone (including the harbour) redevelopment are a great example of a town making itself a 'must visit' destination by concentrating on and even developing things that make Folkestone [U]different[/U] to other places.
Not for them a new cinema, M&S and a bloody great car park in the middle of town!
If this was happening in Dover there would be lunatic rantings from the usual suspects about ruining a historic viaduct plus some mad bugger claiming the new walkway would be an ideal route for a cable-car.
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Not all good in Folkestone as anyone who has walked along Tontine Street or Guildhall Street recently will testify.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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having a person with over 2billion pounds help,s in Folkestone and he is the owner of the port.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Work will now start on Monday.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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So while most Dovorians pile on the pounds DHB pounds on the piles?
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"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I says there are no restrictions on leisure activities outside of working hours but I wouldn't fancy a swim in all that muck kicked up over the previous ten hours.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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A well placed source at a recent Board meeting at Harbour House tells me that when the subject of getting the port 'Brexit ready' came up, one member said 'Since the stupid people of Dover voted for Brexit they deserve everything that they f***ing well get'!
Whilst I'm not normally in favour of women in business, perhaps a token female might make this tribe of alpha-males at least moderate their language at meetings?
Glad to hear the Evil Empire is as forward looking as ever.
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:A well placed source at a recent Board meeting at Harbour House tells me that when the subject of getting the port 'Brexit ready' came up, one member said 'Since the stupid people of Dover voted for Brexit they deserve everything that they f***ing well get'!
Surely that was not our Community Director? I had such high hopes for him.
Guest 712- Registered: 5 Mar 2011
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I don't recall anything like that being said Captain and I have been really diligent in my attendance at such meetings. Also we do have several ladies present at all of our meetings, one of whom is my fellow director from the community, Samantha.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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That proves what the DHB ignorant bigheads really think of Dover and its inhabitants, no wonder they do not give a toss how their insular exploits affect everyone of us in some way.
Edit. Neil it might have been said privately rather than as part of the official meeting.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Neil, one of the most worrying aspects is the replacement of CHIEF by CDS which Andrew Tyrie has already flagged up.
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/treasury/Correspondence/Tyrie-to-Nick-Lodge-relating-to-CDS-30-03-17.pdf
The original design specifications were for 60 million declarations a year and it will now have to cope with 300 million.
HMG has a 'history' of crap computer 'implementation' i.e. cancellations.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/nhs-pulls-the-plug-on-its-11bn-it-system-2330906.html
Why the Hell they don't give these projects to Google/Amazon or even Deep Mind (though the latter would laugh at the project since it's simple data processing rather than AI) I just don't know.
We seem to be able to do difficult stuff like Tempora but are unable for example to pay my pension monthly (rather than four weekly) as it would take 'significant changes to the main State Pension computer' to quote from the Minister this week.
I despair. At least the e-passport system at Stansted allowed me to enter the country without fat Sandra from Border Force asking me stupid questions (though she was watching over the gates to make sure no-one held up a photo of someone else in front of their face which still fools it!)
The main Border Force computerisation was scrapped a couple of years ago at a cost of almost half a billion pounds. Good old Raytheon again.
http://www.newsweek.com/half-billion-pound-it-failure-has-left-britains-borders-vulnerable-268147"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Captain, your worry assumes that when HMG was in lock-down before the referendum, so was HMRC. Besides, CFSP is a scheme whereby transaction-based border declarations in real time are replaced by periodic ones, after the event and at premises. The real worries are getting trucks across borders without checks by the likes of DDC, Defra etc etc.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Dover is a major working port unlike Folkestone .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Despite what Jack says Folkestone is not perfect.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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oh dear although in Folkestone the seafront does get packed in warmer weather
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PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
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Preparatory excavation work alongside the 'Prince of Wales' pier where a the beach is being dug out in order to facilitate the building of a new Lock into Wellington Dock. Piling has already commenced in the former Marine Engineering yard alongside the historic 'Fairbairn Hand Cranked Crane' that has been secured and supported whilst the work is undertaken.
28 April 2017
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Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
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Just so the public are kept in the frame. Because, we have no sense
Poles and billboards have been erected all along the Promanade. Showing repeat picture
instructions as to what is going or might be going on. Also, what you can and cannot do.
£80 - £100. fine now, to fish anywhere off the beach.
One day music festival now, on a Saturday. Followed by a One Day Regatta on the Sunday.
Courtesy, ofcourse, by the Dover Harbour Board.
Comedy of errors.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The one about fishing is hard to take in I think it would be OK at night and the winter weeks but I can see what the D,H,B, are thinking ,at some members of the public when fishing make a lot of mess and do not take it away with them as we see on the pier. Also hooks etc left on a beach with the public and their family not nice when having a day on the beach .I think the photos are good to, a long the foot path it shows what is happing not all live in Dover and more coming off cruise ships.
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