allotment taken away - conclusion (of sorts) post 668 onwards

[lottie dolly]

i know of face book,but do not know what it's purpose/is about,like we know our forum is for gardening,i'm not being funny,just trying to understand,after all,is no good going into the bank if you not know what it's for,lol

[BrideXIII]

What shall I call it?

Ideas are;

Reinstate Trickys Scunthorpe allotment - having scunthorpe in the title will get locals more involved as in will come up in a search of "scunthorpe"
Reinstate Richard Baxters Allotment - perhaps we should use his real name
North Lincs Council took my allotment


Any other ideas? - school run now so will create when I get back

Tammy

P.S. - the group set up to fight "dead babies make me laugh" is now at over 25,000+!

best ask him if we can use his real name first.
and definately get scunthorpe in there for the search engines.

[ailsasyl]

Great news Tricky! Bet council don't know whats hit them That will teach them to mess with one of ours

[Polly Fouracre]

Wow!! I know now who to have on my side when life is against me!!!

[BrideXIII]

not sure how much help i can be on the JO front now...i made the call and it seems unlikely i'll get much further, but then i only talked to my contacts wife, not him directly.....which i should be able to do next week when i'm back at work.

well thats further than we got with HFW so thanx for the effort, and you never know, something might come of it.

[Skotch]

Have you contacted Private Eye? They seem to have an ongoing campaign against Scunthorpe and Doncaster councils, so any news snippet could be of interest to them. HTH

Skotch

PS Good Luck Tricky

[BrideXIII]

Have you contacted Private Eye? They seem to have an ongoing campaign against Scunthorpe and Doncaster councils, so any news snippet could be of interest to them. HTH

Skotch

PS Good Luck Tricky

dang!! how could i have missed that one? i read PE all the time!!!

will get on it see if i can find linkage.

[SarzWix]

Presume you've found it, but just in case;

Editorial

6 Carlisle Street
London
W1D 3BN
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7437 4017
Fax: +44 (0)20 7437 0705
Email: strobes@private-eye.co.uk

[BrideXIII]

Done

To whom it may concern

knowing how well you expose the ineptitude of various councils, I hope this local story from The Scunthorpe Telegraph may be of some interest.
allotment, Wheatfields, North Lincolnshire Council, Bottesford Lane, Scunthorpe,

despite admitting that 'an administrative error' occured, they ploughed up this gentlemans plot destroying all his produce, re-allocated said plot to a council worker, and have since said Mr Baxter will have to go to the back of a 90 strong queue!

I am sure the council hoped that the problem would quietly go away, however they are in for a shock as this incident has come to the notice of a national online community, who are actively agitating to have Mr Baxters plot returned to him, plus interest has been shown today from the local news, on following the story.

Regards.
C Headley.

sent to :
strobes@private-eye.co.uk

[BrideXIII]

Presume you've found it, but just in case;

Editorial

6 Carlisle Street
London
W1D 3BN
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7437 4017
Fax: +44 (0)20 7437 0705
Email: strobes@private-eye.co.uk

thankyou , i did indeed, but there it is for everyone else who wants to knock off an email.
any other suggestions welcome, i was impressed with THRIVE phoning me first thing this morning, but........ as charities they cant get directly involved, only offer advice, so it seems at the moment, the best way to go is to get as many 'news' outlets informed as possible, i am still intrigued as to where the TV station got the nod from, perhaps Tricky can enlighten us at some point..as it stands someone out there has picked this up, and the wider we cast the net, the more chance we have of a resolution that suits us, so.........
I would like to take the opportunity here , to thank each and every one of you , that has commented, posted emailed and suggested anything, i know it can look like a few are doing loads, but that is NOT the case, you all are! and it is much appreciated, some are just more .........quiet than others this is an equal opportunities campaign

[SarzWix]

Perhaps the newspaper told the TV people?

[lynda66]

yeah bride you're just sooooooooo noisy lol ...... may i aslo add my thanks for absolutely everything everyones done so far ....... you are all absolutely wonderful ..... i love this site ...... we do need to keep it up though ..... we don't want it to die down even slightly .... so anyone else anyone can think of????

got a couple of auto emails from gardeners world today, not much use really basically saying buy the magazine to see if we wrote about what you sent, cos we don't read all the emails.

[BrideXIII]

Perhaps the newspaper told the TV people?

well i did wonder, whichis why i am intrigued to know, if they did thats good for us, because it shows the effort you are all putting in is making the story big enough to pass on to other media.
if it was something else, to know would give us a direction to concentrate on. either way i am dead chuffed they have contacted Tricky.

[lynda66]

Perhaps the newspaper told the TV people?

i think theres usually someone at news channels scouring local papers for big news stories or even small stories that are news worthy ..... and lets face it growing your own is news worthy right now....... and so are councils who break the law. ...... a contract is a legal document .... they broke it.

[BrideXIII]

yeah bride you're just sooooooooo noisy lol ...... may i aslo add my thanks for absolutely everything everyones done so far ....... you are all absolutely wonderful ..... i love this site ...... we do need to keep it up though ..... we don't want it to die down even slightly .... so anyone else anyone can think of????

got a couple of auto emails from gardeners world today, not much use really basically saying buy the magazine to see if we wrote about what you sent, cos we don't read all the emails.

hmmm not that i didn't expect that, but let me think on something, cos GW and other progs have their own forums like we do, Digital spy especially has forums for all sort of progs, maybe, just maybe............