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Desperate stuff! not long til you need a new job Jenny!
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/dirty-full-rubbish-mp-jenny-8582691
The MP told colleagues this week that Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson had spoken out against the council proposals back in 2013, adding: “Notwithstanding the hyperbole, does the Minister share my concern that monthly collections will cause Cardiff to become dirty and full of rubbish, with a growing problem of fly-tipping, rats and seagulls?”

Clarkson wrote in a Sunday Times article that the move would mean “the entire population of Cardiff will be suffering from the bubonic plague”.

Related: 'Bubonic plague will hit entire population' says Jeremy Clarkson

In Parliament, Mrs Willott quoted Clarkson’s warning that monthly collections would cause “so much litter in the streets that rats and plague are sure to follow”.

Communities and local government minister Kris Hopkins replied: “Those sound like more wise words from Jeremy Clarkson.”

Related: Assembly Member calls Cardiff council's proposal for monthly black bag collections 'absurd' and 'unhealthy'

'We listen to residents not minor celebrities like Mr Clarkson'
Cardiff council’s cabinet member for environment, Councillor Bob Derbyshire, said the authority would take on board what residents said – not “minor celebrities” such as the Top Gear supremo.
 
this been posted yet? :D



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Cellar Door at the Vaults is closed, they've stripped the sound and light out already apparently
 
5 screen cinema opening in Capitol Centre nect month
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/premiere-cinemas-open-five-screen-8819476
tickets capped at £4

Premiere Cinemas is planning to open its five screen cinema in the former Odeon at Cardiff's Capital Shopping Centre on April.

Avengers: Age of Ultron is likely to be the first blockbuster film to be screened at the venue which was formerly run by Odeon.

The firm behind the venture already runs cinemas in Romford, Worthing, Kings Lynn and Lytham St Annes.

Tickets will be sold at a capped rate of £4 for every film.
 
Integrated transport appears to mean making it harder to switch from bus to train. It's actually shocking in its stupidity.
 
just heard that last rave in Koko's in Cathays is tonight as upstairs being turned into flats! :mad:
cafe bar downstairs
 
funny in parts!

Comedy short about a football fanatic's valiant attempt to get one of his self-composed chants past the C.C.C.C.C. (Cardiff City Chant Committee Club)
 
disturbing footage of Mayday protestors being assaulted by police in Cardiff on Sat :(
the 2 arrested are still being held and being charged with actual bodily harm on the pigs :mad:
 
Housing crisis hitting the Diff:

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Cardiff could face a housing crisis worse worse than London's unless more homes are built, figures suggest.

If house building does not catch up with projected growth in families, Cardiff could see 1,384 more households than homes this year, and 41,111 more households than homes by 2036.

It would mean one in five households (20.3%) could be without a home, potentially leading to homelessness or overcrowding.

In London, the number of households over and above homes for them to live in is set to hit 15.5% of the capital’s 4.7 million households or 723,552.

Analysis
The Cardiff figures are based on an analysis of households and house building projections by the Welsh Government.

The analysis assumes both will increase at the same rate as in the 12-month period from March 2013.

In Cardiff, there were 149,579 homes at March 31, 2014, up by 486 from the year before, a rise of 0.3%.

But the estimated increase in households between 2013 and 2014 was 2,222, up to 149,199, meaning new homes only met a fifth (21.9%) of the extra demand.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/one-five-cardiff-families-could-9172713
 
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