Wednesday 29 February 2012

Hay in the News Again

This time, it's the Observer. Here's the link, and Hay is about half way down the article.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/26/henry-porter-supermarkets-blight-the-land
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compman said...

Have you read the “News from Hay & District Dial-A-Ride” article in the latest edition of Wye Local?
This must be an enormous mistake by Plan B for Hay as the following is contained within the article:
“Dial-a-Ride is now operating a weekly shopping trip to the Co-op Hay-on-Wye, every Monday for members within Hay. This transport has been organised by Plan B Hay and is kindly being funded by the Co-op”.
Surely Plan B must realize that this is taking people away from the town shops and exactly what they are supposed to be against!
Will they be organizing trips to Tesco in Hereford next?

1 March 2012 at 02:57
Julie Dawson said...

Eigon
This isn't a comment on your blog - more of a big ask and at very short notice. Felicity Aston, the only woman to ski solo across Antartica is giving a presentation at the Swan in Hay-on-Wye tonight (1st March) at 7.30pm. But there has been a mishap with the ticket selling and lots of people have been told that the tickets have sold out, when in fact they haven't and there are plenty of tickets left. The cost is £6.50 and there will be tickets available on the door. If you could promote the event through your blog (which is great by the way), I'd be exceedingly grateful. Many thanks

1 March 2012 at 07:34
Eigon said...

So sorry I didn't see the message until after the talk had happened - otherwise I would have been glad to publicise it.

1 March 2012 at 13:03
Eigon said...

compman - I saw Phil the Fruit today, and he had steam coming out of his ears about this, too. I believe the idea was that people were saying that they supported a new supermarket on the school site because they found it difficult to get to the Co-op, so the reasoning went that, to stop them supporting a new supermarket, it should be made easier for them to get to the Co-op. Dial-a-ride already runs people up to the Co-op for shopping on an individual basis, so this would be formalising the arrangement. I think it was seen as the lesser of two evils. I can see why shopkeepers are against it, though.

1 March 2012 at 13:08

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