26/09 Goodbye Mr Blair, Hello Mr Brown? goodbye Labour?

Goodbye Mr Blair, Hello Mr Brown? goodbye Labour?

Have labour shot themselves in the foot. Mr Foot oh no!

They are now looking like a gang of headless chickens without a future leader.

Mr Blair has been the real leader for three terms and has the imagination and flair to create a dynamic party. The policies you might not agree with, you may hate him but Mr Blair has the strength to make his case.

Unfortunately most politicians are out of touch with the real world its part of the job.They are too busy playing politics.In most cases they lack the ability to make themselves popular with the public-Mr Brown?.

Mr Blair is popular and has the abilty to convince you he is in touch.He has mass appeal.He sells the product called New Labour and pushed old labour under the floorboards.He could have done the same with The Conservative Party.

New labour? The public do not see a new leader yet for new labour.What happened to Old Labour will this become new new labour? oh no!

Goodbye.

19/09 Come and have your say - East Oxford

Come and have your say - East Oxford

The East Oxford Area Parliament and East Oxford Area Neighbourhood Action Group are inviting local residents to a public meeting at 6.30pm on Wednesday 20 September at St Clements Family Centre on Cross Street.

It is an opportunity for local residents to have their say and vote on what are the top issues in East Oxford at the moment and what you think the police, local authority and other agencies should be addressing.

Neighbourhood Policing is a service based on local priorities identified by local people as the issues that need to be dealt with in their area. It is a real opportunity for people to have a say in which issues are addressed locally.

Insp Jim O’Ryan said: “In other areas people have identified antisocial behaviour or litter and vandalism as their top priorities. They are often quality of life issues which have not been adequately addressed in the past.

“We are carrying out extensive consultation with residents of East Oxford including questionnaires and will now be holding this public meeting.

“Using the information you provide the three issues that are voted for the most will become our top three priorities and each will be addressed in turn.

“This is democracy in action and has had extremely positive results elsewhere in Oxfordshire, cutting crime and improving quality of life for residents.”
Fergus Lapage, East and South East Area Committee Co-ordinator, said: "We are delighted to be working in partnership with Thames Valley Police on the development of the Neighbourhood Policing initiative in east Oxford.
“This meeting will provide local residents with a great opportunity to tell us about their concerns and what they think needs to be improved in the area. Residents will see action resulting directly from their input at the meeting so we hope as many people as possible will come along to have their voices heard."
Your neighbourhood officers for east Oxford are PC Hannah Davies, PC Dave Stares and PC Al Muir. They can be contacted via 0845 8 505 505.
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19/09 Cinderford v Chinnor

Cinderford v Chinnor

Cinderford 32pts Chinnor 7 pts.

Chinnor had yet to register a win against Cinderford, so the game at Dockham Road was never going to be other than extremely challenging, and so it proved to be.As early as the 1st minute Cinderford opened the scoring when Tristan Roberts, one of 5 Hertbury College players in the team and a Bristol Academy player to boot, broke through the middle to put Lee Douglas in for a try under the posts. Roberts , who was destined to be a thorn in Chinnor's side for the whole game, added the conversion and then kicked two massive penalties to put Cinderford 13 pts in front in as many minutes.Another break by Roberts put Douglas in at the corner, and with his third successful kick extended Cinderford's lead to 20 pts at the interval.In between this one man show, Chinnor went close on several occasions. Richard Williams was off song with two kickable penalties whilst Richard Grimsdell spilled the ball when he was over the line so the score could well have been much closer at the half way stage.
With Grimsdell again going very close at the start of the second half Chinnor took the game to their opponents, and looked the most likely of the two sides to be first on the scoresheet.However it was Roberts once again who squirmed his way though the Chinnor defence to score a fine individual try near the cornerflag. He then had the audacity to add the conversion.With Chris Jones , the Cinderford No.5 sin binned for a professional foul Chinnor again attacked and were finally rewarded when they created an overlap for Anthony Pyers to score with Williams converting. With Chinnor reduced to 14 , via a Hennessy sin binning Cinderford scored their final try when Roberts, who else, darted his way through the Chinnor defence and outpaced their cover to go over for another spectacular try.He .had the good grace to miss the conversion.Another Cinderford sin binning in the latter stages gave Chinnor the opportunity to add to their score as they camped on the Cinderford line in the final minutes. However some strange decision taking and a resolute defence kept them at bay.
Although soundly beaten by a well drilled and aggressive outfit, Chinnor should still have come away with a bonus point by virtue of the two tries they squandered along with the opportunities they had in the final minutes. his level of Rugby is hard and uncompromising as Chinnor found out on Saturday. On the positive side Ben Hewitt made a classy debut at full back with Matt Hutchins and Joseph Iosefo the pick of the forwards.