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Not an easy rider then?

You should read the threads about those crooks on this forum and many others.

Thanks, I will.

Most of my friends are women.

I dont for one minute think what it would be like to spoil that relationship with a short term pleasurable feeling. Its not worth the 99% chance of ruining a friendship...

Same here. Seems perfectly normal to have platonic friends of the opposite sex.

Oh no! where am I gonna go now? Also looks like Steel City Guitars on London Road has shut down too.

I think it's better than the shaken fists they probably get because of the noise. Hopefully though, they won't think you're signalling a distress call.

it is. if your registered at an NHS dentist, all nessessary dental work is free for children (cosmetic work will be charged for)........ start demanding answers from your dentist

I agree, necessary dental work for children is free on the NHS.

My daughter had a couple of appointments at the Charles Clifford and they were very thorough.

There are no direct trains between Dore and London. They would have to change at Sheffield, which, with barriers on the platforms would mean they would have to buy a ticket. Perfect!

Thank you -I stand corrected (if the barriers are indeed going to be on the platforms but that appears to be in dispute) For Dore, substitute Chesterfield.

If they'd been handling lead then there would have been traces on their gloves, but I guess that would have cost lab time to check, and even then also be considered circumstantial evidence.

...vastly reducing fare dodging...

:hihi: Don't hold your breath. You'll still get people buying a ticket to Dore and travelling on to London. Barriers or no barriers.

Dev Green - Modernised beyond all recognition

I agree ...if you can call copying the style of a Catalan architect who died over 80 years ago, modernisation

[sorry, have moved off-topic]

So did the bakery relocate?

I don't think so. Pity, as they did some gorgeous vegetarian pasties.

While you're all shouting at one another, it's probably got more to do with it being nice weather. You don't cut the grass in wet weather or it turns into mud

I see no shouting Grass shoots up in this intermittent rain/sunshine - had to cut my lawn twice in the last 2 weeks.

Sorry about my last reply, maybe it was out of order. I started this in good faith to try and find out what other people thought about paying overtime for Saturdays when it wasn't required but you don't seem to get any sort of opinion i.e "maybe guerrilla Gardeners" whatever that might mean. Thing is maybe forget this subject and let the council waste our council tax payments as they wish.

Hi sparky2: Guerrilla gardeners are just local residents who adopt unkept green spaces and derelict land and look after it [free] - for the community - removing rubbish, planting flowers and shrubs... and even mowing grass. It's a growing movement - we have a group in this neck of the woods.

Could be guerrilla gardeners?

It's worth paying the fee to have the post office check the form, they will highlight any errors before you send it off, saves time. Mine came back in about 3 weeks.

And the post office at Heeley Green will even take your photo to send in with the application form. Perhaps your local post office also provides this service, danny.

How? How do they collect fares from the dishonest people without penalising the honest people? Bear in mind it's impossible for the ticket inspector to get up a three carriage train say from Meadowhall to Sheffield in time because so many people have not bought tickets prior to their travel (and yes, the ticket office is very much open).

A barrier on each platform (or group of platforms) as per London termini, thus allowing free access to the footbridge.

Informative info Malan - please continue.

People without tickets ... if you want to be angry at anyone - be angry at the people who dodge the fares they should be paying - it is they that have ruined it for the rest of law abiding ticket-purchasing people. I guess it's a revenue issue - in that it's revenue they are entitled to as people who have used their service and thus should pay.

 

Those are the people that have ruined it - I know on the service I get the ticket inspector has lost patience and now starts at the other end of the train and is starting legal proceedings against passengers who constantly board at a manned station (with no queue) and hope to get away with it because the ticket inspectors don't get to them before the stop they get off at.

I don't think anyone is objecting to fare-dodgers being brought to book, but just the way it is being implemented - a clumsy collective punishment that penalises honest people too. The solution could be more sophisticated and just target the wrong-doers, but it seems a sledgehammer is being used to crack a nut (to make use of a rather hackneyed expression).

well its nice to know that our MP's are taking the matter of knife crime seriously.

 

its comforting to hear that a massive 16 of them ( thats 16 out of over 600) managed to make it to the houses of parliment to debate the matter yesterday.obviously they had much more important things to do,than wonder why kids feel the need nowadays to kill each other.

16 eh? That's one MP for every teenager to die violently in London so far this year.

A decade pre-satnav, I left an out-dated road atlas in my car overnight in S2. Next day - broken window - no road atlas. Times ain't changed much.

You don't sound fussy to me, Innocence. Wasabisabi has a few vegetarian dishes - variations on noodles (possibly made with egg) with tofu and vegetables, and the crispy seaweed roll filled with rice, avocado and asparagus looks interesting. There's always the vegetable curry and the seaweed salad!

I know a few vegetarians who eat fish and chicken sometimes.

If they eat fish and chicken then they ain't strictly vegetarians.

i can't wait for them to barrier it..bring it on stop all the scroats,vagabonds,druggies and all the fare evaders who i subsidise..i welcome any effort by EMT to recoup any lost revenue.

The barriers will be manned if like the ones at Leicester, so disabled people will be able to get assitance and there is already a perfectly good luggage assitance scheme in operation at the station where,if pre booked, a member of staff will meet you at the enterance or of your train and assist with your luggage...if more people use it, they'll have to employ more people oviously bringing more jobs to Sheffield pip pip!!!

and it was only 3 years ago that there was no direct link to/from the rear of the station..and most people managed then..somehow.

and as EMT is owned by Stagecoach who own the trams i'm sure they'll let tram ticket holders thru.

bring it on EMT

All you'll need is a couple of trains arriving or departing at the same time, with several people all in need of assistance getting on or off the trains and the system will collapse regardless of pre-booking. Thinking that the rail companies are going to employ enough people to deal with this eventuality is just delusional. Dream on if you think the revenue generated by catching fare dodgers will be spent on sufficient extra staff who may or may not be required.

What on earth is wrong with friends and relatives being allowed to help their loved ones off or onto a train? The majority of us aren't fare dodgers so why are we going to be treated as such? I'd recommend the reintroduction of platform tickets but these were used by fare dodgers to gain access to trains. Far better to have more stringent checks on board the trains themselves.

And concerning the dodgy characters that hang around the tram stop entrance - just pipe Des O'Connor over the tannoy.

...I wasn't aware of that shop. I'll give it a try this evening! ....

Sorry, brianthedog, just been past what was the Portuguese grocer on Chesterfield Road and it's closed down - premises empty. Apologies for your wasted journey.

There's also that Portuguese food shop on Chesterfield Road just up from Heeley Bottom. Are padron peppers originally from Galicia?

Yes, I'll use the relocated markets.