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The bit of Herefordshire by the border is pretty wild, but not many people live there. If you move to a village near Ledbury or Leominster, you're probably not going to be caught out like John Thaw in A Year In Provence when the Mistral shows up.

I'm told that Kington is like the Wild West. Sink estate, drinking culture, county lines, local 'characters', the lot. And bewildered retirees from St Albans who didn't quite know what they were letting themselves in for.

Killer Whale wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 4:47 pm I'm told that Kington is like the Wild West. Sink estate, drinking culture, county lines, local 'characters', the lot. And bewildered retirees from St Albans who didn't quite know what they were letting themselves in for.

Kington's always seemed a nice place to me. The Marches is a beautiful part of the country but I can imagine there's a retirement timebomb ticking away there.

Killer Whale wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 4:47 pm I'm told that Kington is like the Wild West. Sink estate, drinking culture, county lines, local 'characters', the lot. And bewildered retirees from St Albans who didn't quite know what they were letting themselves in for.

It gets pretty rude down in Trenchtown.

Killer Whale wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 4:47 pm I'm told that Kington is like the Wild West. Sink estate, drinking culture, county lines, local 'characters', the lot. And bewildered retirees from St Albans who didn't quite know what they were letting themselves in for.

Leominster is generally regarded as having more of that stuff. Haven't been there or Kington for a while.

Couple of people in this (2011) article mention it:

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/ ... efordshire

Story of county lines (Liverpool) arrests in Kington in 2021.

https://www.countytimes.co.uk/news/1949 ... -16-years/

The senior villain was from Leominster, mind.

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 10:37 pm

As the comments say, the food court was a pop-up allowed there because the site was planned for development.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment ... t%E2%80%9D.

That’s a lovely comparison.

Nice to see the local Green Party candidate opposed. I suppose that in fairness, every aspiring local politician will be. I don't really get how Adrian Ramsey can pull this stuff and be Deputy Leader, mind.

Unless I've misunderstood, this "oldest road" goes through Maidstone, Guildford, Farnham, Basingstoke and Andover. I think we'll survive if it has a solar farm near some of it.

It's amazing all these record breakers you hear about when somebody tried to build a railway or a solar farm. It was the oldest pear tree a while ago. If Norris McWhirter were still alive he'd be earning a tidy living from advising local nimby groups.

Wasn't he the one who was shot by the provos?

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 11:42 pm Wasn't he the one who was shot by the provos?

That was the other one, Ross.