Kingsway Villagers

Garden Thefts On Thatcham Avenue

TonyG — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:33:10 +0000

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to make people aware that there are some people who are so low and downright cheap that they’ve taken to stealing ornamental rocks from people’s front gardens. I returned home from a business trip to find my front garden devoid of all bar one of the rocks that had previously adorned it. Now [...]

Kingsway Representation on Gloucester City Council

Baz_k — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:10:34 +0000

Currently, Kingsway has little representation within the local government and therefore we are largely dependent on City and County Councillors who, while having the best of intentions, cannot fully appreciate what it is like living in Kingsway, both how good a place it is, as well as a realisation just how far it has got [...]

Meeting with QUVL

Baz_k — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:17:34 +0000

Yesterday I had a meeting with QUVL to have a discussion over communications and progress. QUVL has a new Project Manager, Andy Smith, who is actually a local and lives in Quedgeley. We spent a fair bit of time discussing the most beneficial way of working and have come to an agreement about how we will [...]

Abandoned Shopping Trolleys

VGresident — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:53:51 +0000

This week has seen at least 3 shopping trolleys abandoned in the road in Valley Gardens – either by kids or socially irresponsible adults (does nobody care enough these days to challenge people taking trolleys away from stores)? I’ve seen 2 from Matalan and one from Tesco. Why Tesco and Matalan haven’t adopted Aldi’s policy of using [...]

Meeting with Richard Graham and Fred Wood

Baz_k — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:46:31 +0000

This is a summary of my notes taken from a meeting on the 4th Feb which people may find interesting. I will be able to answer any questions arising from this at the next residents meeting on the last Friday of this month. Background Fred Wood and Richard Graham proposed a meeting with me as Chair [...]

Article Submissions

Clive — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:17:03 +0000

On December 18th (in this post), I mentioned that my "Article Submission" facility was playing up… again! After wasting lots of time trying various solutions and workarounds suggested by the software creator, I finally got fed up and made one of my own The new method may seem more complicated at first but is [...]