howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Interesting to read about those who initially were going to come here but pulled out for various reasons. I was most sorry about Ben and Jerry's as I always enjoyed watching the antics where that nice little mouse got one over that awful cat.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Just been In the queue in Tesco at Whitfield with this HUGE woman in front of me, when all of a sudden her phone started to ring with that Beep Beep........Beep Beep........Beep beep, sound..
The young lad stood behind me said...."F**k me, It's reversing"
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Hammerson, the blue-chip shopping mall specialist, reported a £267 million loss and a plan to sell off a half-billion worth of assets, while declaring ‘we do not expect to commit to any major projects until markets stabilise’; its competitor Intu, owner of Lakeside and the Trafford Centre, lost £1.2 billion last year after a huge write-down of its portfolio.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,884
Hi Bob
Does this affect DDC putting dosh into housing or development?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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I will be looking around there today
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
happiness is a big bowl of treacle tart and custard.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Cheer up. It's marginally worse in Ashford!
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/75m-leisure-complex-a-ghost-town-201287/
Can DDC cock things up further wasting public money?
YES WE CAN!
Coming soon the £15.8 MILLION Dover Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System ...............................
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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At least DDC's investment (sic) in commercial property (land agents Citycourt again!) seems secure!
https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2019/03/kingfisher-plans-15-store-closures-profits-slide/
I was in the Whitfield B&Q site last Thursday (For those who haven't been it's just down the road from the empty Home Base store. The one with the anti-pikey blocks around the car park) . Huge reductions on tumble-weed .............
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,023
They just don’t know what to spend their money onOn another Facebook site Morrisons have donated sandwiches for the soup Kitchen.lets have a better bus service.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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There will still be talk of a rapid transit bus system in another 11 years, I will now mull over the connection between Morrison's sandwiches and a better bus service.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Nice to know Morrisons are helping keep the Dover Tramp Magnet going.
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/60-days-on-the-streets"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Howard you have to be quick.Money spent on way out schemes.Money should be invested in a better bus service.Whilst we have the need for food banks and soup kitchens Money should be used to solve the problems.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Yup. Soup kitchens are excellent. Not only do their clients flock to any town with them driving down footfall but the clients also provide a ready market to encourage drug dealers.
Sue. Labour are offering a 'not for profit' bus service in their election material locally. Unfortunately what 'not for profit' means is 'run at an enormous loss' until Labour inevitably loses power and the Conservatives are left with a huge hole in the finances and in trying to put finances back in order are accused of 'wicked Tory cuts'.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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61 bus service is rumored to be no more than a loop service if plans go ahead,so residents can not get to Tesco's, icelands or any where north of the town hall.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Sue Nicholas wrote:Howard you have to be quick.Money spent on way out schemes.Money should be invested in a better bus service.Whilst we have the need for food banks and soup kitchens Money should be used to solve the problems.
Still lost me.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Take that on board Bob.Brian that is awfull.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
sue, a good excuse to get a direct bus to and from river, with a little help from the right people.