tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58005172011-04-22T01:49:39.675+01:00Doncaster ThoughtsIs Doncaster the fit place in which we all deserve to live?Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1097782459782935942004-10-14T20:34:00.000+01:002004-10-14T20:34:19.783+01:00Brilliant!
Announced today Doncaster LEA have caved in and rejected Reg Vardy's religious foundation's efforts to take over Northcliffe School. The local people rose up and told the LEA what they thought of it. Precisely what they thought of it.
Doncaster had hoped to palm off what they considered a problem school on to the foundation and then blame them if things didn't go well. Now they'll haveWebmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1097448229724613392004-10-10T23:43:00.000+01:002004-10-10T23:43:49.723+01:00Although Doncaster's attempts to make the lives of Danum School's kids a little safter are laudable, do they have to make the lives of the rest of us ever more miserable?
The kids are pressing the button to the crossing as they pass by, even though they have no intention of crossing, so the cars have to stop thereby adding to the jams at rush hour.
The narrowed junction at the top of Ledger Way Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1095603637938027882004-09-19T15:20:00.000+01:002004-09-19T15:20:37.936+01:00The Earth Centre is closing. A pity in a way, but I never felt excited enough by the idea to visit it. Not interactive enough. Nice idea overall though.
I hope Doncaster MBC can make proper use of the facliities.Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1094750297181531802004-09-09T18:11:00.000+01:002004-09-09T18:18:17.180+01:00Doncaster seems to have allowed the thin edge of the wedge of religious extremism to slide under our doors. Conisborough Northcliffe Comp is becoming an Academy, with a couple of million from Reg Vardy's religious foundation, one of the credos of which seems to be creationism.
Northcliffe was put into special measures following a poor Ofsted, but unseemly haste has been shown by the LEA in Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1089206210003228892004-07-07T14:13:00.000+01:002004-07-07T14:18:13.100+01:00Having been through Rossington recently I see the roads are more like a ploughed field than part of a transport infrastructure. Speed bumps are everywhere: pernicious devices designed to damage vehicles and their occupants at well below the 20mph limit. The bumps are everywhere - except outside the three primary schools, where there are no real restrictions. Mental, absolutely mental.Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1083620161922300892004-05-03T22:34:00.000+01:002004-05-03T22:38:57.810+01:00Wow. Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport.
Poetry, sheer poetry.
It's also a lesson in how to alienate an entire town with one idiotic decision.Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1081431175927737582004-04-08T14:28:00.000+01:002004-04-08T14:35:40.670+01:00Doncaster's published the options for access to Finningley Airport.
Option one is do nothing. I'm sure they'd love that one: it costs nothing!
Option two is an M18 exit at Black Bank, a new road leading to Parrot's Corner and then on to Finningley.
Option three is an exit at Armthorpe, Junction 4, then a brand new road across country to Finningley. Additionally the Rossington connection to the Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1078665530157536482004-03-07T13:09:00.000Z2004-03-07T13:54:29.716ZI note the Mayor's special education policy is in disarray because the Government refused funding for two new schools to replace most of the current facilities.
Doncaster's SEN provision has been quite good for the most part over the last 20 years. It lacks cash, like all areas of the Council's education department, and in particular, for the teacher in the mainstream classroom access to Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1078517611626364892004-03-06T04:17:00.000Z2004-03-07T13:06:59.936ZI often think it a shame people don't have the loyalty towards Doncaster that people in other South Yorkshire towns do. The folk of Barnsley are proud to come from there, proud of their industrial heritage, even of their distinctive accent. Yet - not here. We have our own accent, not Sheffield's or Wakefield's, but our own. We have an industrial past second to none, yet - it's just Donny.
We shopWebmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-107783990086808582004-02-26T23:57:00.000Z2004-02-27T00:00:23.640ZWahey! A 10,000 signature petition against the Mayor's £20k salary rise. And that's without asking me for mine!Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1074343867642291872004-01-17T12:44:00.000Z2004-01-17T12:52:59.826ZSo, the Mayor and some others among the Council's wonderful officials are getting a massive hike in pay. £400,000 a year extra on the Coucil's bills, and paid out of our Council Tax. That adds up to 15 teachers, or Intensive Care nurses, or bobbies on the beat or extra care for the elderly.
I wonder which we need more.
Mayor Winter's argument that the extra pay is justified because we need to Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1068070345532021122003-11-05T22:10:00.000Z2003-11-05T22:12:23.903ZI note from The Advertiser that the Mayor is planning to ban prostitutes from Doncaster's current red light district and send them out into the 'business and industrial' areas.
I suppose that means that when a guy's going home from work 'nipping in for a quickie' has a whole new meaning!Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1066426181208511832003-10-17T22:23:00.000+01:002003-10-17T22:31:08.710+01:00So, Rossington is now almost wholly a 20mph zone. Even most of the bus routes.
Ha.
I can see the sense outside the schools, or those roads so narrow that you have to slalom past parked cars to get through, but the main roads? Sheer idiocy.
It only reinforces my opinion of most local councillors' intelligence and how closely it's related to that of peanuts! 20mph at 6 a.m on one half of an open Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1065566290954620142003-10-07T23:36:00.000+01:002003-10-07T23:38:10.603+01:00I was really pleased to see Doncaster won an award for the decorated roundabouts and the like. Imaginative (in which case I don't suppose the Council came up with the idea then!).
Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1063562325991945022003-09-14T18:55:00.000+01:002003-09-14T18:58:46.006+01:00I don't know what other people think, but I seriously have to question the mental capacity of the Borough's road planners after trying to negotiate the roundabout on the town side of the new bridge the other day.
I wanted to go to Sprotbrough, which means of course the lefthand lane over the bridge, but in turn that means not the lefthand lane approaching the bridge.
The net result was that I hadWebmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1063318532424985392003-09-11T23:10:00.000+01:002003-09-11T23:16:34.486+01:00Traffic calming measures, or so they're officially called often enrage the drivers in that traffic!
Latest in a line of such deeds is the excrescences they've made grow out of the pavements in West End Lane, Rossington. One can understand wanting to protect the kids at Pheasant Bank, but the rest is such a waste of people's council tax and has set created a situation where accidents are more, Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800517.post-1063317748353989262003-09-11T22:59:00.000+01:002003-09-11T23:02:42.280+01:00Doncaster should be the vibrant hub of a multiplicity of activities; is it?
Are the council pursuing policies good for us or good for their image?
Notes on this log will tell all!
Email me if you disagree or otherwise want to comment.Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376021934860534091noreply@blogger.com