Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

I am starting to doubt what we were told about bins at the Broadfield Forum the other day.
One piece of evidence for bins causing rubbish seemed quite compelling: bins were removed from half the memorial gardens and the half without bins has less litter than the half with bins. This was in addition to […]

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Good to see the police hanging around the Broadfield Barton this evening. One complaint we hear a lot is that you do not see the police around enough, which contributes to the fear of crime.
Not so good that they were just sitting in their car, letching at a passing girl, and they were parked […]

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During the last week the nasty steel canopies at our shopping parade have been getting a bit of a facelift. Workmen have been rubbing down all the patches where the old paint had flaked off and the metal was rusty, and applying new paint to the whole lot.
I know that the parade, unlike the others […]

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A new planning application in the High Street, has some implications for Broadfield’s shops. The owners of the building Iceland is in want to turn it into a bar or club. This means that anyone who wants to go there for bulk buying of frozen food will be coming down to Broadfield.
The thing […]

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On Saturday we were trying to get people to sign a petition which Jayne has started to get the Post Office in Broadfield re-opened. “Trying” is not the right word there, because it did not take a lot of persuasion.
What amazed me was how many of the people we stopped in the Broadfield […]

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I am returning to the theory of broken windows, which I have mentioned a few times before.
The idea is that low-level crime and antisocial behaviour thrives in an environment which shows signs of neglect, and serious crime thrives in an environment where low-level crime is rife and tolerated.
The theory supposes that if a broken window […]

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This supposed legal notice in the window of a local video and computer games shop has confused me since the first time I spotted it. (You will need to view the full-sized photo to be able to read it)

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There are all sorts of criticisms you could make about this blog, but nobody could say that there are not enough photos of shopping trolleys!
Anyone from outside Broadfield might see this and wonder why this one has a metal rod sticking into the air as if it has aspirations to be a dogem car. The […]

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I was at the Broadfield shops this morning, picking up a few emergency groceries, and while I was there I was told that the Post Office is going to close soon. The reasons are not clear, although someone did say it was because the PO could not guarantee the security of the […]

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