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  1. We are having an issue with Japanese Knotweed on Sheffield City Council owned land next to ours. We only found out a week before our house sale was suppose to complete when the valuation came back to say it is unmortgagable as the mortgage lender views any property with knotweed within 30 metres of any boundry as having £0 value. For anyone affected by knotweed the best report Ive found is this one from Cornwall who have major problems with the plant; Knotweed Control: Implications for Biodiversity and Economic Regeneration in Cornwall, Lisa Rennocks, Duchy College, Rosewarne Check it out here The most important point in there that I hadn't found anywhere else is; 3.1.5.1 Case Study- Devaluation of Property Where a private property was devalued by the plant being on adjacent council land and the council had to pay the valuation difference along with removal costs and both legal bills. Thus far the council have admitted the land next to ours is theirs and that they will take steps to remove the problem and offer a guarantee of service so we can sell our home. For location its just round the corner from where sheffieldknotweedcontrol are based
  2. We are having an issue with Japanese Knotweed on Sheffield City Council owned land next to ours. We only found out a week before our house sale was suppose to complete when the valuation came back to say it is unmortgagable as the mortgage lender views any property with knotweed within 30 metres of any boundry as having £0 value. For anyone affected by knotweed the best report Ive found is this one from Cornwall who have major problems with the plant; Knotweed Control: Implications for Biodiversity and Economic Regeneration in Cornwall, Lisa Rennocks, Duchy College, Rosewarne Check it out here The most important point in there that I hadn't found anywhere else is; 3.1.5.1 Case Study- Devaluation of Property Where a private property was devalued by the plant being on adjacent council land and the council had to pay the valuation difference along with removal costs and both legal bills. Thus far the council have admitted the land next to ours is theirs and that they will take steps to remove the problem and offer a guarantee of service so we can sell our home. Hopefully the council wont do as they did last year which was just to cut down all the plant life including the plants and trees which had been preventing the knotweed covering the entire area, it is also believed they just dumped the knotweed in a tip (£5,000 fine and upto 6 months in jail).
  3. Hi Bebe My partner started off with truffles at prices that undercut everyone else but found that she needed to charge more (with product qualitiy increases too) to sell more. Just think about your customer base, if theyre the sort that think 'I can get 50 cupcakes from costco for £2.29' then youre looking at the wrong market. Fancies sell at the prices they do, but have reduced the quality of their products in order to expand, by trading off their past quality and slowly people are learning theyre being cheated. Personally I cant wait for the 'overpriced bun with too much icing on' fad to fade. Ben
  4. You should try the 52, Im used to waiting more than 30 minutes for a bus thats run by both companies and suppose to be every 7 minutes but today was awful, I needed to get from the wicker to the op of west street quickly, it took 10 minutes to get to where the First drivers change and after another 25 minutes with no driver, no heating and the doors open I was the 20th (ish) person to abandon it and decide walking is more effcient. I arrived late incidentally.
  5. Have you never had a small minded manager who hated you because you didnt think the sun shone out of their bottom or because you could simply get on with the job without asking them how to do everything? From my experince in medium to large, public and private sector, there is a real shortage of leadership. That leadership, not just people in charge.
  6. New to Law, of course, but then again Im not refering to my own research but that of Lawyers with 30+ years experience who have done case studies on the Kodak incident. Thats why I said you should look into it for yourselves. Dont take my word for it, take the partner at a successful solictors firm and lecturer in Law at Sheffield uni's word for it.
  7. Sounds like there was no actual contract of employment. Do you have anything to lose by quietly confronting her and pressing until you can get an honest answer? I agree with some of the other posts here, she a bad employer, Id suggest - applying for jobs you dont want - using her as a reference - making sure you get a copy of the reference from the place you've applied for (they have to if you ask for it) - hoping she says something bad about you - taking her to employment tribunal for 3 months of the salary you could have gotten if it werent for her illegal bad reference I used to work at the employment tribunals office and was really shooked by how many bad business (small and large) with no knowledge of how to treat staff there are out there. Theres lots of good ones and am happy in the NHS PCT (until they fire us all in 2012 of course).
  8. My girlfriends mum walked up the isle to:- "There may be trouble ahead..." Frank Sinartra - Lets face the Music and Dance and a friend a couple of days ago:- "No where to run to baby, No where to hide..." Martha and the Vandellas - Nowhere To Run
  9. The person giving you away is suppose to be your protector in life, traditionally your father (less said about modern life the better, on this thread at least), but it is whomever you see as the person most fit to give you away to your next protecter. I even went to a wedding where the ex-husband gave the bride away.
  10. Hi there My partner makes all sorts of cakes, many not cheap but her ethos is 'you get what you pay for' and she wont allow anything substandard out. Please contact us if you would like further details. elegant.icing@googlemail.com
  11. Hi there The cost of a wedding cake isn’t the actual cake, its the time and skill that has to go into the decorating, my partner has a small business making bespoke and sculpted cakes. She make a 46 inch (nearly 4 foot) across cake for a friends wedding which had a castle (about 2 ½ - 3 ft) on a mound with a moat, tree, figures scattered about and which also lit up with flickering lights. The actual cake part was the cheap bit but over 100 hours went into making it in it’s the entirety. When I think of weddings theres always three things people check up on, the dress, the rings and the cake. My best recommendation is to not ask for a wedding cake (which cost more because they have to have a perfect finish) but to have a novelty cake that represents something important to your lives. I saw an article a while ago about a couple who cut a giant tub of marmite. Where ever you got for your cake remember that lots of places charge a higher cost for a wedding cake because they can get away with it, not because they make the extra effort to make it perfect. Im happy to pass on my partners details but dont want this to become a free for all advert thread.
  12. Im really annoyed how Fancies are passing the blame onto groupon when then got the contract with the customers wrong. Groupon have done nothing wrong but have still offered great customer services by giving people their money back. Fancies on the other hand have terrible customer service, have started using cheap ingredients and acted dishonourably throughout this debacle. I recently started a Law course as part of my learning with Lifelong learning at Sheffield Uni, we covered (briefly) the case against kodak in 2002 who refused to honour their online sales, I would say they lost but they settled out of court which is as good as saying they would have lost in court and set a precedence. If youre interested why Fancies are so in the wrong then look it up.
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