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Great to see we are finally getting the kind of buses that they have been using on the continent for the last decade or so!! The real test will be: do they offer enough leg room. far too many arriva buses are designed for people less than 6ft tall.
I don’t want to throw a match into a room full of dynamite, but if the Groves were on the other side of the border, it would have re-opened last September as a ‘free school’ and ‘Ysgol’ Clywedog and Rhosnesni ‘High School’ would have to raise their game if they wanted to keep their pupils. Both schools look like complete dumps, despite the tens of millions spent on them a few years ago. I would be surprised if any teacher or child could be anything but demotivated by their surroundings. Bigger is not always better.
Being a chief exective means you should lead by example. The current CEO is much better than the previous incumbent, but she has missed a trick here to win over public opinion and to gain the respect of her staff. Across the public sector, people have accepted the pay freeze because of the state of central and local government finances. Here in Wrexham most council employees have been asked to take on extra responsibilities and to take up the slack left when people have retired or been made redundant and not replaced. They haven’t been paid anything extra for this additional work and neither should the CEO. When we have got out of the hole we are in and the economy is growing, then people in the public sector should get a pay rise that reflects the service they give to society.
The toilets may have been grim, but at least they existed!!
As for the Vegetable Market, the developer pulled out and left the facade behind. Obviously it was going to become dangerous sooner or later and would be pulled down. It will have to join the long list of casualties from Wrexham’s past: a)Most of Chester Street b) Stevens’ Cafe c) the Town Hall d) Cambrian Brewery e) Brynyffynnon Methodist church and surrounding closes f) the Priory g) Seion Chapel h) the Old Hand Inn on Town Hill i) the Imperial Hotel j) Church House etc etc the list is endless.
It would be interesting to know which are the second, third and fourth most spoken languages in Wrexham. I hear more polish on the streets than welsh, but is that just because the polish accent stands out more? It would also be interesting to compare the economically active and inactive percentages of different groups because people think immigrants are all spongers, when it is obviously to anybody with a brain that the opposite is more likely to be the case.
The Wrexhamian was the name of the old Grove Park Grammar school magazine, and logic says they would have chosen a name that described them ie pupils/students/people of Wrexham. I may be wrong here, but people often call members of a local community by its name+ites when they aren’t actually a member of that community.
another way is this: if you are a local or if you are describing the good people of wrexham say ‘wrexhamians’ and when you are describing an un-named bunch of local idiots or the particular locals concerned are behaving stupidly then call them ‘wrexhamites’.Business rates are much cheaper to collect than ‘profits’ as the latter can suddenly miraculously move to Luxembourg or the Isle of Man. Good comments from the wayneinspain – when was the last time the VAT threshold was raised? Corporation tax at 21% and people on £42,000 paying tax at 40% is odd and can’t last in the long term as must be encouraging people to declare income as dividends etc. Good news that at last everyone has to pay some council tax. it’s not fair on people who pay (and you don’t have to be earning much) that some get off paying nothing in at all. otherwise those people will just look on the council as a milch cow. now we just need to add some extra bands at the top for people living in houses worth over £750,000;£1million, £2 million etc.
If you want to know what a decent local newspaper is, go into the archives at the museum in the town centre and ask to see one of the old Wrexham Advertisers or a Wrexham Leader from as late as the 1980s. The local press then actually wrote their content, now they just copy and paste press releases. I am not even sure the word ‘scoop’ is in their dictionary any more. Perhaps the Welsh Government could spend a similar amount that it spends on papur bro on encouraging new forms of proactive english language local media across wales, though hopefully the results won’t be as boring as the papur bro. zzzzzz… chapel….zzzz prize giving…. zzzz…amateur sports comps….memories of how sh8tty life was when my family of 15 lived in a ty bach with no roof or door….
What we need is ‘affordable housing’ that young people and first time buyers can afford to buy, not subsidised and private rented housing that allows other councils to dump their problem residents/tenants on communities who don’t deserve them and allows buy to let landlords to make a quick buck.
Who’s going to really benefit from fast tracking? Students getting a ‘fast forward’ education or the university which will gain additional income by speeding up the assembly line? If a university education was merely about absorbing facts then may be the speedy degree would be worthwhile, but it’s not. If you think three years is too long to be a student, you are probably wasting your own and your academics’ time in going at all. Most students abroad spend far more time studying than we do here.
