David's blog

The first ever national strike undertaken by firefighters, lasted  nine weeks from November 1977 to January 1978 . Police had received a substantial pay rise while firefighters had seen years of falling real wages, creating a low pay industry. Many firefighters had to resort to claiming state benefits.  Last night in the pub I was talking to a friend who I grew up with in the village and specifically talking about the fire was in the street in the 1970s the Athens I can remember waking up and hearing glass breaking and I got out to bed went outside and I could see there was a fire wasn't middle of the night so I could the place was lit up and I went into I walked into the street and I could see the fire shooting across the road you couldn't walk up the street because the fire  flame just covered the whole street it blocked the whole street My mother tried to go into the house to save the person who was in the house but she couldn't she was repelled back by the heats and s...

The picture. is of the village fair. When it was in its heyday. Why are they trying to stop the fair now? When it's nowhere near as busy as it was then. Very odd. I have read the. Correspondence from the Council. They say they sent the local councillor an email. In me regarding their decision not allowing the fair to go ahead. But when we had a meeting in the local pub, there was no mention of. This email from the councillor. She must have been told about it when she rang up inquiring about the fare. The councillor is being very deceitful here she should have brought the email up in the meeting  in thepub . She no longer lives locally. The council also trying to say that its not a fair so to make ou they are doing us a favour by not letting it go ahead which is not good  From some council brief offf some blogg ei llafar bro I see that last january gwynedd council tried to palm off the fair to the town council who refused it on the grounds on cost, gwynedd council were not that...