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  • "hmm well i travel this road alot and as an IAM driver I can say this. The Road is safe for a 60mph limit their are a number of Speed limits inforce that are totally unnecessary Tillington could be 40 not 30!! the 30 beginning just before hospital farms is a complete waste of tax payers money! the 40 speed limit by golf club is another waste of tax payers money....... the Road surface is appalling you can only fill so many potholes in sooner or later it needs to be resurfaced like now!..... The police well they have better things to do like Catch kid nappers, lockup rapists, arrest burglers fight REAL CRIME not sitting in a £60,000 BMW wasting diesel with a speed gun... and no i do not agree that giving local people a Radar Gun is the answer this is a very bad idea and i think West Mercia Police are right in their stance not to allow this as it will allow Mini Hitler's to cause problems for other people which will likely cause someone to take the law into their own hands.

    I would also like to add that the parish councillor has spent too much time campaigning for unnecessary speed limits when really they should be campaigning for Hi Grip road surface on a certain few corners and re-engineering the road where a fatal accident occurred not so long ago (not speed related!!!)"
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David Williams says there is no answer to speeding in Tillington

11:09am Thursday 12th July 2012 in Letters

I WRITE regarding the report (Hereford Times, June 21) that a man car was caught doing 36mph in a 30mph area.

I have been complaining to the police about the speed of vehicle travelling through Tillington for the last couple of years. Last October I made a further complaint of speeding vehicles between the Bell Public House and the Junior School, Burghill, a short distance of 500 metres.

The police tasked a community support officer to deal with the problem. He held a speed check a mile away from the problem I reported (on health and safety grounds) but still within the 30mph area.

He was stopping vehicles travelling at over 50mph and gave then a ticking off – the CSO does not have police powers to issue fixed penalty tickets for speeding.

Now the parish council has to consider hiring a speed indication device (SID) at the parish’s expense to further investigate the problem.

Once they have the evidence the speeding partnership may consider what to do.

Our local councillor has been trying to set up a speed watch scheme whereby local residents are trained to carry out speed checks but she is hitting a brick wall with the local police.

Other police forces carry out this initiative without problem and with great success.

DAVID WILLIAMS, Hollycroft,Tillington.

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