Our new printer – We have purchased a new coloured printer for the magazine but the income stream (£ 3000 per month) from advertisements at present prevents universal use of colour. We shall therefore continue to print the magazine adverts in monochrome until the Trustees have reviewed increased charges for coloured printing and possibly outside work of high quality and speed colour printing up to A3 to banner length. Some of the magazine articles will be in colour.
While the editorial and typesetting members were on holiday, the Printing staff of Roy Edwardes and Jack Hodges performing an outstanding job of installing the new printer, testing it, re-working our procedures and after many hours produced the magazine on time. There was a fault with the stapler which has been rectified and a slightly late magazine for some readers. Our volunteers can only do their best.

Wanted Printing Assistants – Are you retired, would you be prepared to give 1 day (8 hours) a month to help print the magazine with our new equipment. The new printing process now takes at least four days and we don’t want to wear our existing staff out doing all four. Jack may even let you sit in his chair.

Welcome PC Steve Bird – Our new Beat Manager is Steve Bird and who started on the 24^th September

Pilning  Delivering – After many years of delivering Vicarage Road etc. Richard Edward’s work precludes him from continuing. We thank him for his past efforts and are now looking for a volunteer. If you can help, please contact Debbie Edwards (633232) our Pilning Distribution Manager or me.

My mistake – Sorry I attached the John Radcliffe Hospital to Cambridge and it should have been Oxford. I knew it was one of the two but wrote the wrong one.

Stompers – They are not the Monday Night ones but the Wednesday Night Stompers.

Local in one of our Locals – The new mine host at the Plough is David Macleod. Unfortunately his attractive daughters’ cannot be guaranteed to be behind the bar. If you know him, drop in and say hello.
ROSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) – States that 400 deaths by road accidents each year are preventable if the occupant was wearing a seat beat. The Department of Transport said a campaign to address this issue would start and ‘on the spot’ fines stepped up.

 Air Quality – Officially Cribbs Causeway roundabout is one of the county’s area worst polluted spots. I don’t think any locals will be surprised.

Unemployment - has reached nearly 2.7 million with only 1.5 million currently claiming Job Seekers Allowance. Some must be claiming other welfare benefits. Please have sympathy for the graduates and school leavers whose job prospects seem bleak at the moment.

Electoral Rolls Forms – It’s that time of the year again. If you don’t want addressed junk mail, please tick the box on the far right of the form. This will stop commercial enterprises being able to buy your personal details from the government.

Retired citizens with mortgages – 1.35 million people over the age of 65 with mortgages in excess of £50,000 may have their houses repossessed. This is a term of their mortgage.

Farming Challenge – I have read that on average each 1kg of beef requires 40kgs input of corn to the cow. If this could be reduced, it will reduce costs, we won’t have to import so much grain and the surplus grain could help the starving.

Hospital Appointments – missed appointments cost the NHS £100 each amounting to £6.5 million per year nationally. That’s the running cost of two hospitals. This is being investigated by the NHS. 

Light Bulbs – From 1^st September only energy saving light bulbs can be purchased in the ECC.

TV Production – On September 1^st  the last UK  television production factory was closed in Plymouth by Toshiba. The sets will now be made in Poland.

Bush Telegraph – tells me Easter Compton Post Office is closing. No conformation as yet.

The US – In the last 80 years the petrol consumption of American cars has only reduced by 3 mpg.

Nissan Leaf – In late 2010 this fully electric, five seat hatchback with a range of 100 miles on one charge of its lithium-ion batteries and a top speed of 90 mph. It is going to be launched in Japan, the US and Europe. It’s called Leaf because it’s green technology.

PILNING & SEVERN BEACH WI

KNITTING MORNING ON 7TH OCTOBER 09

We look forward to seeing all our knitting ladies on the 7th, and anyone else who has knitting and/or wool to donate would be made very welcome –

Come and join us on our Coffee & Cake morning at 10.30 in the Mafeking Hall.

Pearl Johns 632028