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Anonymous said...

ARE YOU EXPERIENCING BROADBAND/TELEPHONE LINE PROBLEMS?
I wonder how many other people have been experiencing broadband and telephone problems in this area. A number of people I know have, so now I am very suspicious that there is a really big BT line problem in the area that we have not been informed about. After a totally trouble free period for many years about January 3rd my broadband started to drop out intermittently and inconsistently- many times it was when I had an incoming or outgoing phone call- but not always. I have now spent HOURS with computer experts and my Broadband supplier, had my internal telephone wiring and filters checked out and the main socket moved and the wireless box hardwired etc.etc. and STILL there is a problem.
If we do find out that a large number of us are being affected in the same way then we can at least make case to BT. Many of us have spent a lot of money trying to solve the problems with computer and telpephone engineers. If it turns out that a lot of us have been affected by unnannounced work I will certainly want to take this up with BT. So please let me know if you are affected.

10/3/10 4:25 pm
Anonymous said...

Consultation School Review March 2010

Just out of interest how did the Swanage First School drop in go ? Was Rick Perry able to answer the questions, positively, re funding for the 2 tier.

11/3/10 2:02 pm
Anonymous said...

Hi Mike I see the new Libdem PPC for Gravesham is a Porn Queen.

Dont know what to say really. How does the selection process work?

have you any views?

Anna Arrowsmith AKA Anna Span!

13/3/10 9:47 am
Anonymous said...

As loads of our current MP's and Lords are thieves and liars, does it really matter?

13/3/10 6:20 pm
Anonymous said...

As loads of our current MP's and Lords are thieves and liars, does it really matter?

But surely if this is the case - which it is- newly appointed MP's -or PPC- should be whiter than white?
Its no use complaining about whats gone on before than do nothing about it.

13/3/10 8:56 pm
Anonymous said...

We have always appreciated how pleasant Swanage is for visitors and residents alike. Lately we have observed a growing number of people congregating on the bench by the taxi office at the rail station. It appears alcohol is consumed at all hours of the day. Language is loud and profane. This is an area with a lot of foot traffic of all ages. Police drive by and community support officers do nothing, so I assume no laws are broken, but is this something we want to see on the increase in Swanage?

13/3/10 9:48 pm
Anonymous said...

Has the deal the Town struck to dispose of Bay View Holiday Park got a nasty sting in the tail?

I have learned that there are several conditions in the contract that might severely reduce the amount the council eventually receives. One condition is that up to 600,000 pounds each year will have to be returned to Darwin if it is prevented from raising the site fees by the Owners' powerful Association. That condition is for three years, so in theory as much as 1,800,000 pounds could be reclaimed by Darwin. And up to 50,000 pounds can be recovered by Darwin for legal costs it incurs in pursuing this.

Swanage's 7,250,000 sale price could be less if these rebates occur, as low as 5,400,000. And we don't know the sums that Swanage incurred in disposing the site, including legal and survey fees.

Questions should be asked.

15/3/10 6:42 pm
Anonymous said...

A blow for tourism?

BBC reports: MP calls for Dorset mine sweep after 50s blast deaths

An MP who narrowly escaped death in an explosion that killed five friends has called for parts of Dorset's coast to be swept for mines.
Robert Key told the Commons how he had a lucky escape in 1955 as a 10-year-old when he and some friends discovered an unexploded mine on a beach at Swanage.
It blew up killing his friends who were trying to open what they thought was a tin of Spam, the MP for Salisbury said.
Mr Keys told the story during a debate on a Bill to ban cluster bombs.
The Conservative MP, who served as a minister under John Major and is standing down at the election, said that at the time he and another friend were just metres away from the bomb when it exploded.
'Really exotic'
He told the Commons on Wednesday that the sea around Swanage beach could be used as a training ground for Royal Navy minehunters to detect 58 mines left unaccounted for following a clearance operation after World War II.
"The issue of mine clearance, whether it is cluster bombs or cluster munitions, whether it is mines of any kind, the impact is the same on a child of 10 playing whether it is in Beirut or Swanage," he said.
"Now we have the technology, I would like to see minehunters - the Sandown class or equivalent - brought in, because now we can detect these things.

Five British children, blown up by a British mine, on a British beach, within living memory - it was an extraordinary thing
Robert Key
"Perhaps in training, to sweep Swanage beach and the coast right around Bournemouth."
Mr Key, 64, told MPs that about 20 children were playing on Swanage beach on Friday May 13, 1955, when one found a tin between some rocks.
Thinking it was a can of Spam or "something really exotic", the boys began trying to open it.
Mr Key said he and a friend "got bored", turned round and walked about 10 metres away.
"We were blown into the sea and lived, five of my friends died," he added.
"Five British children, blown up by a British mine, on a British beach, within living memory - it was an extraordinary thing."
'Washed ashore'
When he later became a minister at the now-defunct Department of National Heritage, Mr Key asked the Imperial War Museum if they had any information about what had happened.

Mr Key received a box of official papers about the tragedy
They sent him a box of papers, which included the coroner's report from an inquest into the deaths.
According to the documents, the beach had been cleared three times before being granted a clearance certificate in 1950, and the de-mining officer told the inquest he thought the mine had probably been washed ashore in a gale.
Insisting nobody was to blame, the officer had said: "As an expert I would have allowed boys to walk across the beach."
But Mr Key said he had been "horrified" to discover that while 117 mines had originally been laid, just five were lifted in clearance.
There was evidence that a further 54 had existed, but the remaining 58 were still unaccounted for.
Describing himself and the other friend who escaped death as the "luckiest people alive", he called for the area off the coast to be searched again.

18/3/10 10:44 am
Anonymous said...

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

http://mountscar.blogspot.com/

The 'official' day to day history of Mount Scar - fascinating.

Sadly there doesn't seem to be a 'post' function.

For me it'll get really interesting around 1965.

23/3/10 10:52 am
Anonymous said...

http://www.purbeck.gov.uk/land__premises/local_development_framework/core_strategy.aspx

JIC

http://tinyurl.com/yc7a7vl

Latest update to where houses could be built.

Loads at Coombe, Herston, Cauldron barn, Grammar School .....

Good news tho', the ones proposed by a certain Mr Drax at the back of my parents house seem to have dissappeared.

27/3/10 7:31 am
Anonymous said...

An urgent request

What would be the quickest and most reliable way to get an urgent message out to the community of Purbeck?

In there a formal procedure ?

1/4/10 1:14 am
Anonymous said...

the last sentence should read
'Is there a formal procedure' ?

not in !!

1/4/10 1:16 am
Nico Johnson said...

The Purbeck Gazette under new ownership

Local business man, Colin Baines of Wondernet and Nico Johnson, Editor of The Gazette, have combined forces and have launched a new company, Purbeck Media Ltd.
As of April 1st 2010, Purbeck Media Ltd took over ownership of well-established local paper, The Purbeck Gazette.

This change in ownership will see The Gazette come back under local control after several years under the wing of national Newspaper company, Tindle Newspapers Ltd.

Both Colin and Nico intend to continue expanding The Gazette as the main local paper for our area, ensuring you have somewhere to advertise your businesses, events and festivals, as well as continuing to offer you somewhere to have local editorial printed.

With the widest distribution in the area and the highest number of readers, Colin and Nico see the future of The Gazette as being very bright indeed, so please do continue to support us with advertising and we will ensure that we continue to offer you real value for money, an excellent distribution and a wide readership.

You can contact us with enquiries at our office, 17b Commercial Road, Swanage, Dorset. BH19 1DF, by calling 01929 424239 or by emailing ed@purbeck-gazette.co.uk

Here’s to the future!

The Purbeck Gazette
Editor - Nico Johnson
ed@purbeck-gazette.co.uk
Main office - 01929 424239
www.purbeck-gazette.co.uk

2/4/10 11:31 am
Nico Johnson said...

Firstly, thanks to all of you who have emailed us with messages of support and congratulations! What an exciting (and slightly frightening) time!

For our first edition (May 2010), we want to print an additional 8 pages of local news, views and events. In order to do this, we need to raise the required revenue.

So, our May 2010 edition will be a commemorative edition where our supporters and those who wish to make The Gazette bigger and better will be paying £5 each to have their name printed (each name within a small plaque) on a special wrap-round cover.

If you'd like to have your name printed to show support for the new 'local' Gazette, please pop into the office with £5 and give us your name - alternatively, look for collectors out and about and forms in shops and pubs from next week.

Help us make The Gazette a true community paper - use us or loose us!

2/4/10 11:32 am
Anonymous said...

WHAT CHOICE ?

The NHS ‘CHOOSE and BOOK’ is working seriously against Swanage residents.

Those of us who live in Swanage, take great pride in the Swanage Cottage Hospital as a valuable LOCAL facility, donating time, money and effort in supporting it, but this is brought into jeopardy by the NHS ‘Choose & Book’.

I live two minutes from the Hospital but the choice given to me was; Bournemouth, Poole, Dorchester, but against Swanage was “Not available”.

Therefore Swanage Residents are expected to travel a round trip of circa 50 miles, pay through the nose for parking and have to walk along endless corridors.

The reason Swanage appointments are full is because people who live close to the other hospitals prefer a day out in Swanage where they do not have to pay parking etc.

RobO

2/4/10 3:42 pm
Anonymous said...

Town Hall Roofing Costs

I have heard it rumoured that the roof of the Town Hall is going to cost something in the region of £400,000 to repair. It is a listed building and obviously you cannot just do something on the cheap, but I was surprised at the cost. Does anybody have an idea of what work is involved so we can check we are getting good value for money here.

Thank you

3/4/10 11:59 am
Anonymous said...

EMPLOYMENT IN SWANAGE

I was wondering how jobs were advertised in Swanage.

I know there are a number on businesses in Swanage including shops etc but my daughter and I have searched on various employment sites trying to find her a job before going to college in October and it appears that the only jons there are is as a carer,nurse or at Purbeck School. Nothing wrong with those, if thats what you want to do but can any body point us in the right direction to find her work in the field of child care as that is the course she will be doing at Uni or even seasonal work at one of the sites or shop etc.
Any help realy would be appreciated

6/4/10 10:33 pm
Anonymous said...

Hi Mike the New Subject bit has disappeared!

Got here thru' the 'labels'.

A man in the pub ....

said that STC are thinking about moving the allotments and Swanage Footie Club up onto the Grammar School site.

I said, oh, that's interesting, I wonder if it has anything to do with PDC's plans to build houses up there.

Rubbishey old pub rumour, or not?

16/5/10 8:56 am
Anonymous said...

New Subject:

JAMES DAY HOME

Would someone like to enlighten us please.

http://www1.dorsetforyou.com/council/commis2009.nsf/5EFCC9CBCD1F5A20802577F30033B501/$file/15Dec10%207%20Rec's%20from%20COC%20-%2023Nov10.pdf

21/12/10 11:36 am

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