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New signs welcome drivers to Herefordshire
7:00pm Sunday 16th September 2012 in News
Herefordshire Council leader John Jarvis with a new boundary sign
DRIVERS may have already noticed the new look Welcome to Herefordshire signs springing up on county borders.
The new signs now read: “Herefordshire – Here you can”.
Herefordshire Council leader Councillor John Jarvis said the new boundary signs will be rolled out across the county over the next six months.
The brand has been developed by the Herefordshire Business Board, Visit Herefordshire and the council.
For more information visit hereyoucan.co.uk .
Comments(55)
silentbull
says...
8:14pm Sun 16 Sep 12
HERE YOU CAN??....WHAT??
Go shopping mmmmm NOPE!!!!
Drive around the traffic using a bypass mmmmm NOPE!!!!!
SORRY, but until there's any improvements in this 'once' beautiful city(and i mean major improvements) nothing else will be good enough
silentbull
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8:41pm Sun 16 Sep 12
But why oh why do they do it??
Its so upsetting watching this city being dragged down and allowed to fall apart just because of a couple of idiots
dr edd
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8:53pm Sun 16 Sep 12
bobby47
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8:59pm Sun 16 Sep 12
Me? I just rant and rave about the Council to get rid of my frustrations. I give the Council grief in the hope that they read it and it makes a difference.
My very warmest regards.
mr.dig
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9:05pm Sun 16 Sep 12
recall the advert years ago, john west said ,we eat what we can and what we cant ,we can......
RogerLFC
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9:23pm Sun 16 Sep 12
RogerLFC
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9:29pm Sun 16 Sep 12
TwoWheelsGood
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11:13pm Sun 16 Sep 12
John1946
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11:22pm Sun 16 Sep 12
TwoWheelsGood
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11:22pm Sun 16 Sep 12
Herefordian
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11:07am Mon 17 Sep 12
Provide me with a little van & equipment and a £50 digi camera and I will take pictures of the potholes at the same time. Pay me £10,000 wages and I would be happy at that
Herefordian
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11:10am Mon 17 Sep 12
The best welcoming signs anywhere in the county are those welcoming you to Ledbury, in my view anyway
VWVWVW
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12:08pm Mon 17 Sep 12
I'd be very interested to know what the reason is for deciding the old ones should be replaced, when it was decided and who by. Perhaps we could be told this, and how much time and money this change has/will cost.
Moreteavicar?
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12:35pm Mon 17 Sep 12
I want to know how much these signs cost to design, produce and install - then I can truly be mystified as to why this money was not spent on the assault course that is daily taking it's toll on my car..........
Patley
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12:35pm Mon 17 Sep 12
cuthbertgriswald
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12:43pm Mon 17 Sep 12
Clarkester
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1:00pm Mon 17 Sep 12
I plan to train them to remove these silly signs. All signs in fact! It will make journeys much more entertaining. Then they will be re-trained to help Bobby47 dig for Studmarsh in the wrong place. Then I will release them to wreak their terrible zombie squirrel army havoc. I thank you.
bobby47
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1:29pm Mon 17 Sep 12
I was simply exercising my freedom of speech and explaining what I feared Jarvis wanted us to do with a member of the bovine species.
My view now and still is, NEVER!
bobby47
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1:43pm Mon 17 Sep 12
Come on here JARVIS and explain to us why you came up with this gimmick, how much we paid for it and why you and your fellow Parasites are still steering us upon this steep slope that will lead us to ruin.
William Rudd
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3:24pm Mon 17 Sep 12
Have a look at the pic below
http://postimage.org
/image/8h8gz6sfx/
bobby47
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3:51pm Mon 17 Sep 12
I just can't get my head around why they would think this new sign would help us. They seem to live in some parallel universe where all is shiny, happy and clappy and they are oblivious to the mess we are all in.
I mean for example, we all know that we have a vast East European population that are having a huge impact upon our fragile community. I ain't having a pop at the good people from East Europe. But, the Council are just likely to announce another Polish week and rub our noses in it some more.
We've got massive problems that are a threat to our future. We are haemorrhaging massive amounts of money to our East European visitors every single month, we have no jobs for our kids, no infrastructure to speak of, no investment, cynics like me are germinating all over the place and the Council give us this new sign!
It's simply madness and I have no idea how we can get them, our Council leaders to listen to us.
I'll shut up now.
Clarkester
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5:02pm Mon 17 Sep 12
It makes no sense to me.
Is the county called Herefordshire?
Which, if I am not mistaken is pronounced "Herryfordshire" pretty much.
So, are the Powers That Be suggesting that we should alter that to Herefordshire, pronounced the same as Hear? If they are not...Aaarrggghhhh..
.. My brain is imploding!
missingtwick
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6:40pm Mon 17 Sep 12
Here you can...'t
Here you can get stuck in traffic
Here you can have your pic taken touching a bronze bull's bits.
I love it!! hmmmmm. It will at least make my husband and I smile the next time I return. So many opportunities for graffiti though, no??
And Clarkester, I do believe it did used to be pronounced like you say as it comes from - ford here or something like that in reference to
river crossings of old. Who knows. Might be a load of old bull. No pun intended.
RogerLFC
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8:04pm Mon 17 Sep 12
TwoWheelsGood
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8:06pm Mon 17 Sep 12
Lukio
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9:55pm Mon 17 Sep 12
I would be very interested to know how much this has cost in total.
And Bobby, be careful pointing that cannon at Brockington as I'm not too far from there...although a quick lights out may be less painful than watching this wonderful county slowly fade away to obscurity.
bobby47
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7:28am Tue 18 Sep 12
I'm going back to my original idea, prompted by Lukios, Quick Lights Out job, I will become a Jumper. I allways had it in mind and that's me plan.
Ubique5740
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7:39am Tue 18 Sep 12
ad47uk
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10:16am Tue 18 Sep 12
Would they have been any better who knows, but we should have given them a chance. so you get who you vote for.
Hereford is done for anyway, no shops, no work only part time and that will be no good when the useless tory government decide that we should all have full time, which is difficult because there is none.
so in Hereford you can sleep on the streets and starve while the council wastes more money on stupid signs.
Themightyboosh
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11:53am Tue 18 Sep 12
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING
i want to know who is responsable for
"signing" this off.
as a council employee at the bottom of the pile if i messed up and cost them £50
i would get pulled over hot coals
apparently if you cost them thousands its
ok.
another case of imunity at the top
VWVWVW
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2:49pm Tue 18 Sep 12
VWVWVW
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2:51pm Tue 18 Sep 12
VWVWVW
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2:52pm Tue 18 Sep 12
TwoWheelsGood
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3:15pm Tue 18 Sep 12
By the way, has anyone spotted this sign appears to be in front of a stile, blocking a footpath? Why is it not facing the road?
IanMurray
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3:52pm Tue 18 Sep 12
and then they'll wonder what the two words - something about cans - was underneath.
An advert for some private highway maintenance perhaps?
We have some real idiots leading the council don't we. I am embarrassed.
IanMurray
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4:19pm Tue 18 Sep 12
I have not met and do not know Mr Jarvis, I am not even aware of which party he aligns himself to, but as he has deliberately put his name to this and is clearly the man in charge, I believe this appalling error of judgement suggests that he is not be fit to hold such high office and I think Mr Jarvis needs to consider his future.
IanMurray
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4:26pm Tue 18 Sep 12
littlewhitebull
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6:46pm Tue 18 Sep 12
dr edd
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9:38pm Tue 18 Sep 12
35 Hafod Road
Hereford
Herefordshire, HR1 1SH
"Because here you can"
mizza21
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11:39am Wed 19 Sep 12
It's embarrassing.
I imagine the highly paid designers took the view that the client, Herefordshire Council's John Jarvis, is a bit thick, so a sophisticated message wouldn't be acceptable.
Then they probably came up with this in 5 minutes in the corridor and submitted a huge invoice.
It would be funny if we hadn't paid for it.
bobby47
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1:39pm Wed 19 Sep 12
VWVWVW
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4:48pm Wed 19 Sep 12
probono
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4:52pm Wed 19 Sep 12
bobby47
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6:26pm Wed 19 Sep 12
Ticketyboo2
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7:15pm Wed 19 Sep 12
Colin J Marschall
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7:17pm Wed 19 Sep 12
ad47uk wrote:If you are talking about IOC then you are as mad as a hatter, that lot would have seen Herefordshire stepping back to the 1800's
No good moaning peoples, you voted this lot in again and at least the last time we did have a alternative.
Would they have been any better who knows, but we should have given them a chance. so you get who you vote for.
Hereford is done for anyway, no shops, no work only part time and that will be no good when the useless tory government decide that we should all have full time, which is difficult because there is none.
so in Hereford you can sleep on the streets and starve while the council wastes more money on stupid signs.
ad47uk
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8:06pm Wed 19 Sep 12
Colin J Marschall wrote:Maybe, maybe not. i do think Hereford need updating, but I think the main city centre should be the focus first. what is the point in having a new shopping centre in Edgar street when the main city centre is falling apart?
ad47uk wrote:If you are talking about IOC then you are as mad as a hatter, that lot would have seen Herefordshire stepping back to the 1800's
No good moaning peoples, you voted this lot in again and at least the last time we did have a alternative.
Would they have been any better who knows, but we should have given them a chance. so you get who you vote for.
Hereford is done for anyway, no shops, no work only part time and that will be no good when the useless tory government decide that we should all have full time, which is difficult because there is none.
so in Hereford you can sleep on the streets and starve while the council wastes more money on stupid signs.
I would prefer to give IOC a go, after all they can't be any worse than the idiots we have in power now. Tell me what have the Torys done for Hereford since they been in power?
Nothing , apart from wasting money and forcing local stores to close.
i voted for IOc the last time, not voting again, what is the point when the people of Hereford follow like sheep.
i can understand why younger people want to leave this city, nothign for them what so ever and never will be, Hereford is a dead city.
We need new shops, sure, after all most of my shopping is now online as with Amazon or other sites like it as the item is either not sold here or too expensive. but what we need are shops in the city centre, not in Edgar street because some company that got people in charge that knows nothing about Hereford want to charge a lower rent.
i tend to stay away from the city centre now, no point in going there.
fmrbill
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10:29pm Wed 19 Sep 12
Is this a fair question ? if not I presume it will be taken off ))))))))))))))))))))
)))))
Colin J Marschall
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12:20am Thu 20 Sep 12
ad47uk wrote:But thats the problem IOC wouldn't have done any of the things you mentioned, they don't want anything to change in Herefordshire at all.
Colin J Marschall wrote:Maybe, maybe not. i do think Hereford need updating, but I think the main city centre should be the focus first. what is the point in having a new shopping centre in Edgar street when the main city centre is falling apart?
ad47uk wrote:If you are talking about IOC then you are as mad as a hatter, that lot would have seen Herefordshire stepping back to the 1800's
No good moaning peoples, you voted this lot in again and at least the last time we did have a alternative.
Would they have been any better who knows, but we should have given them a chance. so you get who you vote for.
Hereford is done for anyway, no shops, no work only part time and that will be no good when the useless tory government decide that we should all have full time, which is difficult because there is none.
so in Hereford you can sleep on the streets and starve while the council wastes more money on stupid signs.
I would prefer to give IOC a go, after all they can't be any worse than the idiots we have in power now. Tell me what have the Torys done for Hereford since they been in power?
Nothing , apart from wasting money and forcing local stores to close.
i voted for IOc the last time, not voting again, what is the point when the people of Hereford follow like sheep.
i can understand why younger people want to leave this city, nothign for them what so ever and never will be, Hereford is a dead city.
We need new shops, sure, after all most of my shopping is now online as with Amazon or other sites like it as the item is either not sold here or too expensive. but what we need are shops in the city centre, not in Edgar street because some company that got people in charge that knows nothing about Hereford want to charge a lower rent.
i tend to stay away from the city centre now, no point in going there.
I hate the Tory council we currently have and consider them nothing short of common thieves, but IOC would have been just as bad. You only have to look at their record at town level to see that they have regularly voted against any type of development, so you wouldn't have got your city center improvements anyway.
I agree too many sheep in Herefordshire who vote the same way as their parents and grand-parents did .. perhaps its time for a radical change with a party created that REALLY wants what is best for Herefordshire and its people.
Lukio
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8:17am Thu 20 Sep 12
I do agree with their stance that the centre of Hereford needs redeveloping - not an out of town precinct.
I'm kind of at a loss who I'd vote for next time around.
John1946
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9:24am Thu 20 Sep 12
probono
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9:57am Thu 20 Sep 12
PS - I imagine after the You can - there will be a string of comments from the local wits. Still it will keep Amey busy, scrubbing it off
probono
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9:57am Thu 20 Sep 12
PS - I imagine after the You can - there will be a string of comments from the local wits. Still it will keep Amey busy, scrubbing it off
M M
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6:02pm Fri 21 Sep 12
bobby47 says...
8:08pm Sun 16 Sep 12
Here you Can! Can we really. Can we really what? Here you Can go bust. Here you can lose your job. Here you can pick fruit. Here you Can what.
Were on the fast slope to oblivion and the Council say, Here You Can.
I honestly despair at their incompetence.
Please tell me cos I'm keen to know, What Can We Do Here.
Window Dressing, Slogans and Gimmicks ain't going to slow or stop this rapid and accelerating decent into a doomed future.
I'm going to bed and swallow another diazepam.