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Nobody at the brewery will have had any influence over the decision, when the Stones brewery was closed they were owned by Bass Charrington, all the decisions are made by accountants and smart arse whizzkids who have no idea how to brew beer...a product they probably don't even drink themselves. They don't care a jot for local tastes or traditions and would shut the lot at the drop of a hat if it would make a quick buck...as happened to Wards. At the time of Ward's closure I spoke to the Head Brewer who told me that they had put £5.5 million into the parent company pot that year...and it wasnt considered enough to stop them shutting it and selling the site.

Are you sure? I feel pretty certain they voted to approve Phase 2a West Midlands to Crewe in 2017.

I'm no fan of Johnson ( in any way shape or form) but it has to be remembered that despite his crocodile tears today, Keir Starmer voted against Hs2 in 2017.

With all due respect ECCO I don't think that is fair, the only people now complaining about broken promises are those who actually were advocates of Hs2. I can't see anyone who opposed Phase 2b East complaining . Edit...apologies I should have said...I can't see anyone who opposed Hs2 and also Phase2b East...a few politicians still follow the party line.

You're absolutely right...this is what Higgins said at the time. Sir David Higgins, chairman of HS2 Ltd, told parliament's Economic Affairs Committee last year: "Something that I keep coming back to when we have this debate in Sheffield and in other areas is that we are building a spine; we are building a motorway, not an A-road. Therefore, it will defeat the purpose if this railway line has to weave through every city — if it has to go through Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield city centres the whole way up. "As to the debate on Sheffield, there are four cities that make up the 1.3 million people who are in "Greater Sheffield." Three of them passionately want Meadowhall, and they see that as critical for all the jobs. The high-tech job growth in that area is coming in Rotherham and Barnsley, and a lot of the railway jobs and new academy are in Doncaster. All I have said to them is, "You need to be united. It is no use you fighting amongst yourselves on this issue.""

It's not Mayhem, but it is an ongoing battle, our Borough had over 800 deaths, even after reopening in September there has only been 20.

I don't mean to be offensive but that is very misguided, I know several young people who have been seriously damaged by Covid, one lad 21 years old lost a chance to join the Submarine service because Covid damaged his heart, he had 5 months off work and still isn't well a year later...a friend's son caught it early in the pandemic whilst in Italy, 29/30 yrs old, 6 foot 5 inch University rower...as strong and fit as they come, he spent 10 continuous weeks in bed and again is still not fully recovered. As to you saying the vaccine doesn't work as well as they said it would...I'm not sure who said that with any degree of knowledge because no-one really knew ...people might guess...but no-one knew for certain. What I can tell you...through my day job I'm party to the facts figures and updates from the Director of Public Health and other senior health staff at of one of the SY Boroughs, and their opinion is that the vaccine has saved this country from absolute mayhem...the first few weeks after vaccination started deaths and hospitalisations started to fall...as it gathered pace they fell faster until hospital beds became free and we could take excess patients from other areas, despite an upsurge after the total unlocking only 50 people out of nearly 300,000 are currently in hospital, only 15 are serious cases. This is a massive massive success. If you have loved ones...please, please, get the vaccine as early as you can.

I'm finding a 1920 William Alfred Edley, cutlery manufacturer, Replenish Works, St Philips Road. His home address was 68 Ringinglow Rd. Also William Edley and George Hawksley, Safety razor manufacturers, Globe Works, Carver Street in 1919. William Edley and Henry Hawksworth joinery tool manufacturer dissolved partnership in 1831.

It may be disappointing to you to know that people are aware of SCC being largely culpable, but culpable is fact...SCC's commissioned report rubbished the Meadowhall option, even as far as childishly using an inadequately qualified 'expert' to try and undermine the geological strata of the area...HS2 engineers were clear that they could build anywhere. The report was a £90k fantasy that SCC thought, naively, would bolster their case, but as the largest partner in the Sheffield City region they had a responsibility to their partner Boroughs...the ones who had effectively sacrificed their own interests through SYPTE, to building Supertram in Sheffield alone. It's lame to suggest that Sheffield Councillors overall had these altruistic thoughts...of massive job gains, wealth, prosperity and transport links ( Meadowhall was the undoubted site for that option) this seems to be an executive decision of a few Labour party members out of step with the whole of the region, particularly after Higgins told them clearly that trains at High Speed were never coming into the city...only Julie Dore and her immediate cabal did not seem to understand that when Higgins said 'we are building a spine to connect to'... rather than a train that goes into every city...he meant it. Your assertions... ''The Government wanted big savings and ignored the Victoria option and opted for Meadowhall. The Government wanted even bigger savings and moved introduced the HS2 route away from Sheffield. The Government want even bigger savings and cancel all of the eastern HS2 route.'' ...do not hold water, HS2 never seriously considered Victoria, in 2014 the region's Labour politicians thought they were united around Meadowhall, it came as a shock to them to find that Julie Dore was secretly lobbying against it and putting Victoria as a preference, if I remember rightly Julie Dore wrote to Higgins on an SYPTE letterhead pushing the Victoria case without the knowledge of, or signatures of, the other SYPTE partners. I do agree that as the budget spiralled uncontrollably they came under pressure to save money, had all four South Yorkshire partners supported Meadowhall it would have gone ahead, but once SCC broke ranks in perceived self interest and deliberately undermined the proposal it gave Higgins the opportunity to change the plan.

What I said was absolutely correct, the link to the Grey to Green scheme for Victoria is in SCC's own documents. SCC ploughed a lot of money into a report, which ,whilst it does extol the virtues of the Victoria option also goes out of it's way to undermine the Meadowhall option. SCC treated HS2 leaders to a £7k business breakfast without the presence of any other members of SYPTE. The simple fact is that Meadowhall had the support of everyone in South Yorkshire...Higgins told SCC that HS2 would not come in at high speed to the City Centre, I can only assume that the SCC leadership were prepared to gamble.

To be fair, Sheffield City Council are largely to blame for not only Sheffield but also South Yorkshire not being included. HS2's 2014 plan was to build the South Yorkshire Station at Meadowhall... Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster were all in favour as was Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and the region's MP's, whether you agree with HS2 in principle or not I think it's fair to say that location had the best connectivity any where in the region, but Julie Dore lobbied heavily against Meadowhall, spending a lot of money to do so, she wanted the HS2 station to be at Victoria, to fit in with SCC's Grey to Green plan. Sir David Higgins ( Chair of HS2) came out publicly to warn HS2 were not building a railway that went in and out of cities as it would lower the speeds and increase journey times. HS2 were aware the budget was spiralling out of control and took the opportunity to save money ( Meadowhall Station would have been very expensive) and moved the route to a cheaper one and threw a few red herrings out about Parkway Station's elsewhere in South Yorkshire to keep the politicians in the region onside. High speed rail for Sheffield was lost at that point.

I don't think the public were ever sold on Hs2, the two main parties backed it because in the 2000's they though it would be popular and were frightened of the other stealing a march ...and once you're in the situation of it being party policy neither dare criticise...no matter how outrageously expensive or wrong, they will not speak out.

I'm unsure as to how you have drawn that conclusion from what I said.

Thats true...they were murdered whilst holding advertised surgeries, which gave the perpetrators an hour, maybe two , window in which to attack...had the MP's names and addresses been online the perpetrators would have a 24/7 window of opportunity.

That's not how it works, the press are allowed to make your address public, there are no legal constraints on that...the system is that the Council's Electoral Services and the political parties are not putting home addresses into the public domain unless a Cllr is happy with that. As to saying 'they will find out', I would say they may well find out, but also they might not and there seems little sense in making it easier to target someone....don't let's forget a growing number of Cllrs are young women, were one of these young female Cllrs to be attacked at or outside their home I think most people would conclude it was at best a mistake, and possibly negligent to publish their home address for all to see.

The unfortunate fact is that posting your address for everyone to see nowadays leaves you and your family open to abuse, intimidation and attack... I know councillors who have had their windows put through and vehicles attacked by organised crime gangs, their partner's and children being verbally abused and photographed and put on social media... gang members parking outside their houses all night with young men making shooting gestures at them if they come to the windows...it's not a game, I understand your comment 'who should we call' , but I would say your family home address is not on the internet unless you wish it to be.

I don't want to cover ground you've already done, but it looks to me as though his father was this smart chap..Albert Tom Biney He was a merchant seaman in the last 7 months of WW1 ...his 1919 papers say he was born 26th August 1893 in Saltpond West Africa (now Ghana) and was married to Theresa. Theresa's address is given as 10 Portmarnock Golf Links, Dublin. They had been married in Barrow in Furness in 1917. On further research I think he was previously private 49300 A T Biney, a soldier during WW1 in the 5th Battalion Worcestershire Regt, he had been discharged in early 1918 as being unfit for further war service. Edit...having researched further there is a tree by Steven Biney on Ancestry that probably tells everything.

Is this fine young chap one of the right family?...from1933.

No that's not the case, the register of interests is open for inspection, what is, or can be redacted is home address ..and in the main that is down to security concerns.

It's not about missing paperwork, since 2010 the UK has allowed a very soft touch regulation of boats 10m and under fishing in UK waters, it's simply an app that skippers use to report the self assessment of the catch. If fisherman have been using the app as required there shouldn't be a problem...it's likely the ones refused either haven't been fishing or alternatively they have, but have not been reporting their catches.

It's not a completely fair comparison though... due to very little tidal activity discharging off Mediterranean tourist beaches would kill the economy completely...France's figures are far less impressive on it's Atlantic coast and incredibly includes its overseas territories in the Pacific and Indian Ocean.

Could this be her...from The Telegraph & Independent 1939. Edit...on further investigation there are a few people of the same name, was that her maiden or married name,,,and what year was she born?

They seem to have started around 1878 by Halifax born Joseph Dean as Dean and Henry, by 1885 the company had become Dean & Dawson at 31 High Street and 218 West Street. Within a short time they had branches in the Haymarket, Rotherham, Manchester Victoria Station plus others. By 1920 they were running Battlefield pilgrimages to WW1 battlefields. Joseph Dean died in 1932.

The Snake Inn was there from at least 1826, but there are no references in the newspaper archives to the road being called Snake Pass until the late 1880's. The Roman Road mentioned above was known in later times as Doctor's Gate and went from a Roman Entrenchment known as Melandra Castle at Wooley Bridge, although this is disputed in some sources, it was mentioned as early as 1843.

Don't waste your time Carbuncle...it really isn't worth the effort.