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Just like the town.
ITS BLOODY QUIET IN HERE.
i think everyones bedding down for the winter months.
please dont shout
Sorry, thoughtless of me.
Night zzzzzzzzz
The Rumour Mill - don' ya just luv it?
Dorset County Council are considering dredging our boundary rivers - and if necessary importing water - to make us a real island.
Then they're going to rename us The Isle of White.
Alledegly.
The Rumour Mill - don' ya just luv it?
Swanage is to have a Creative Witing Class.
Many Right Wing Journalists will vist the burgh to give expert advice on this obscure topic.
Alledegly.
Sorry.
Creative Writing Class.
Kathakali
This is something really special. REGHU NADHAN will be giving a Kathakali dance demonstration.
The session will he held at the Catholic Church Hall, Rempston Road, Swanage Saturday 18th Nov, starting at 7.30pm. there will be a charge of £3.50 for this event but will be a complimentary glass of wine.
See:
http://www.cultureswanage.blogspot.com/
or:
http://www.reghunadhan.com/
For those of you who are not members of the
SWANAGE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION
who, as a result do not receive a copy of,
“THE SWANAGE INDEPENTANT Newsletter”
be advised that there is an OPEN meeting on MONDAY 20th at 7-30 pm at the MOWLEM Committee Room.
RobO
Mike has kindly included a link to the Arts in Swanage (and Purbeck)website at www.cultureswanage.blogspot.com
If you've got any snippets of information or news about the Arts in Swanage and Purbeck, please feel free to post a comment there. We'd also like to see reviews of shows and events and notices of anything interesting coming up.
Does anyone have any idea what percentage of our Council Tax goes towards Purbeck D.C. employees pension funds.
A lot, hopefully.
I heard that another ASBO has been issued this week any details ?
I've heard the same rumour, but I also heard it 6-8 months ago, about the same 'supposed' person.
Google didn't return any hits.
So praps, we'd best stay quiet.
nahh its a done deal last tuesday apparently good job aswell
We only see traffic wardens in Swanage on dry days. The phenomena of sunshine and parking wardens are clearly related. Its inconceivable that they only enforce the parking regulations when the sun shines so their mere presence must be the cause of good weather. This is brilliant. We should ask for a bus load to be rushed here whenever it looks wet at breakfast time in the sure and certain hope that the sun will be shining by mid morning.
Do other branches of the law and order game also influence the weather? Would a decent turnout of barristers be enough to end a drought? Would a van load of prison officers give us a white xmas? (What is the collective term for prison warders? A nickfull perhaps?) Thunderstorm on its way? Send for some magistrates.
Does seniority matter? Is a chief inspector worth a dozen humble plods? How many junior counsel equal a lord justice of appeal? Do visits by Baron Philips of Worth Matravers the lord chief justice to that place have a meteorological impact?
This Tuesday 21st Nov and ASBO was issued to Scott Green aged 24 of Holmes Rd following 9 years of crime and anti-social behaviour committed by him in Swanage. The ASBO lasts for 5 years and his prohibitions include an exclusion zone in part of the town centre and his neighbourhood. He is allowed to transit the exclusion zone in his neighbourhood to get home. He cannot enter any premises from which he has been barred which now includes most pubs in the town. He cannot consume alcohol in any public place in Dorset except licensed premises. He also cannot inflict harassment alarm or distress on any person in Dorset.
That is briefly it and a leaflet drop will be made within the next couple of weeks. A press release is also planned by PDC. I disagree that ASBO's do not work. PDC with the police have been involved in this process for almost 5 years now and have experienced total success with all our ASBO's. Unfortunately, much of what is written in the press is by people with axes to grind about ASBO's or those where politics plays a role. That is not to say that all ASBO's nationally are successful but invariably those that fail are due to poor enforcement or simply poor ASBO's.
In this area ASBO's are enforced rigorously as will Scott Green's. He has had ample opportunity to address is disgraceful behaviour over the years but chose not to do so. He now faces the consequences. The numerous victims he has left in his wake are pleased that this is now the case.
Courtesy of Sgt Bleasdale
Here's one for George Willey.
Helen Muspratt (Dunman)
Born in India of an army family, she was sent to school in Britain. On her father’s retirement in 1922, the family lived in Swanage in Dorset. Having got to know a group of artists who had settled nearby, the career of photographer was suggested to her. She took a photography course in Regent’s Street Polytechnic in London.
She married Jack Dunman, a fellow Communist.
Whilst photography and politics only rarely meshed, she continued to be active in the Communist Party and in CND and Medical Aid for Vietnam.
Here's another.
Douglas Garman.
Garman was Education Organiser of the Communist Party from 1934-47, some sources say 1940 to 1950. He ran summer schools at Swanage and was involved in the South Wales Hunger March of 1936, which he reported on behalf of the Daily Worker.
Streuth, were we a Communist hotbed?
Still more.
Donald Hume: Chequebook journalism that would be worth millions today saw Hume, a black marketeer and dodgy car dealer, admitting to a gruesome murder after twice being acquitted.
He spent 17 years in Broadmoor?
And was born in Swanage.
Did anyone notice a street market this weekend?
Has anyone noticed a trend here?
No matter what the post is, those that get a lively response eventually are, um, hijacked by, um, a poster who from comparing the language and spelling (mistakes) is almost certainly the same person?
Is that not the purpose of this forum lively open debate, the other side of the coin is if this did not happen the forum would be stale, as commented on a few times when there are not a lot of posts, or perhaps you dont like a bit of fire in your belly ?
its taken you long enough!
dear 9:43 I agree.
lively open debate
but this doesn't happen when one person spouts their opinions to the exclusion of people who have something better to do.
I personally like a bit of lively debate. But I think its split into two camps those who feel they are slightly superior to others and those who get indignant when treated like that, thus this opens it up a bit to much, I'm going to take a back seat and chill a bit.
But then again!
Lively debate is good.
Lively, informed, debate is better.
It seems to be informed vs lively.
To me, informed means that people check on a few things before spouting, and lively means just spouting.
debate should also be about opinions and personal experiences, as I have said sometimes, the more informed (they think) people say well it says this on this news item but very often the poster has experienced the topic first hand,therefore has a personal view.
In one "debate" on renting out property I was flamed for offering a view but I have property and have rented it out on the open market so I knew the pitfalls but because others did not and their political views clouded the actual facts, but still because I held the opposing view gained from personal experience I was wrong, hardly fair is it?
Are you talking about the renting out property thread that's still here?
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