howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Don't know.
Reginald Barrington
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I believe I saw a sign in town that it was going to be Xmas craft workshop for the wee'ens
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Keith Sansum1
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nice
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
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Dover Big Local have been running craft workshops in the shop - card and christmas decoration making and there has been a face painter there too.
Love Dover put an offer on the old Vodafone & Claire's Accessories shops but did not enter into the bidding war at the auction. They continue to look at empty properties in the main shopping area of the town and are talking to landlords and estate agents etc to explore possibilities, whilst they have the £350,000 legacy from the DTC, they will need to secure match funding from other grant funders to make both acquisitions and subsequent renovations. This means they cannot purchase at auction as they would be highly unlikely to get a grant approved and funding transferred in the timescales required to settle auction transactions.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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hope it all pays off Ross
saw you outside the louis the other night there was a big police presence
(not for you might add lol)
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Just a reminder that there will be free parking at all DDC car parks in the district from tomorrow until January the 2nd inclusive.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Hopefully that will help
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Certainly seems to have done the trick, Stembrook car park was full at 10 am.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Traffic was grinding to a halt around the town centre just after midday I suspect the free parking was the attraction as other local councils only gave either the last 2 Saturdays or Sundays as free parking days.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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nice to hear I thought it was a lot quieter than I expected today in morrisons
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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A new shop has opened along by Pet's Arcadia in the High Street that buys clothes, shoes, toys and bric-a-brac and pays so much a kilo similar to the shop in Market Square.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Certainly seems to have done the trick, Stembrook car park was full at 10 am.
It's working well in Deal today!
Car-parks and paid parking spaces full by 09.00 with cars of shopworkers who normally walk in or take public transport.
Would be shoppers driving round and round looking for a parking space before giving up and buggering off to Westwood Cross or Ashford Factory Shopping.
Brilliant. Is there anyone out there who actually understands parking strategy and why we have paid parking? Doh!
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Captain Haddock wrote:It's working well in Deal today!
Car-parks and paid parking spaces full by 09.00 with cars of shopworkers who normally walk in or take public transport.
Would be shoppers driving round and round looking for a parking space before giving up and buggering off to Westwood Cross or Ashford Factory Shopping.
Brilliant. Is there anyone out there who actually understands parking strategy and why we have paid parking? Doh!
Clearly not
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Would be interesting to know how the shops fared overall with the free parking, the shops were still busy post Christmas and there were even a couple of market traders out yesterday despite the market itself not restarting until next week.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Excellent news. So much for 'austerity'! Can't see how this can possibly go wrong? Loadsa people buying stuff they don't need with money they don't have!
'The growth of consumer debt has doubled over the last three years, with the rate of expansion accelerating after the referendum. The household savings ratio is falling again: another sign that the public is not expecting calamity. The trade deficit has widened to an alarming 6 per cent of GDP, not because exports are not growing, but because we keep importing more and more stuff (most of those ‘80 per cent off’ bargains in the sales have ‘Made in China’ labels). The British consumer isn’t worried about their employer relocating to Lyon or Munich after we leave the EU. Instead, they are doing what they usually do when they feel good about their future — heading down to the mall, emptying their bank accounts and maxing out the credit card to enjoy themselves.
We have seen this movie twice before under Tory governments: the Barber boom of the early 1970s and the Lawson boom of the late 1980s. In both, the economy was overstimulated, creating a bubble which then collapsed in on itself. Now, the same thing appears to be happening all over again. We can’t see it, because virtually the entire economics profession is trapped in the Remain bubble. Economists are guilty of the worst kind of confirmation bias. They are so determined to believe that leaving the EU will be bad that they spend all their time looking for signs of a slowdown, airily dismissing any evidence of a boom as an outlier, or a rogue set of statistics. Indeed, most mainstream forecasts still expect a downturn once we trigger Article 50 next year.
Instead, we are far more likely to see rising consumer spending, rising debt levels, a flood of imports, a gradual build-up of inflation, and, in time, lots more wild lending from the banks as they grow more confident in rising prosperity. This boom may well end up with a crash in 2018 or 2019. If so, it will be one that mainstream economists and the Bank of England will have created themselves, by overestimating the impact of Brexit — although, predictably enough, they won’t see it coming.'
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Back to more mundane issues - the shop in Worthington Street opposite the Lanes Micropub has now closed and all stock removed. military memorabilia and coins appeared to be their main things.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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I am surprised Howard has not posted a picture of the supposed art work beside Morrisons.
I think it will be a lovely plaything for the vandals. BTW it used to be in Market Square a few years ago so I have been informed.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Not been down that way in many weeks Jan, given up on supermarkets. Nothing on the Town Council website about this iconic art work.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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looking better for s kitchen
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