Compo.

[TWR]

Should the Government pay Comp to those poor Souls in the west Country that was was flooded due to withdrawing funds for dredging?

[emmie]

mega bucks are paid out to people who have accidents because of councils negligence, not just pot holes, but bad paving, uneven kerbs, and ephemera that councils put on the pavement and streets, which can harm the unsuspecting pedestrian. I have come a cropper because the dippy council cleared one side of the pavement when it iced over completely, making it absolutely treacherous, but didn't do the other bit, there was no way to cross it without going over the ice, and i fell. I didn't sue them, but their actions caused me to have an accident, and i wasn't alone. I have since bought some shoe/boot ice type crampons, it was a hard lesson, and one that could have contributed to the state i am in now.

[TWR]

Emmie, our neighbour that has now passed away fell in our local Market a few years agoo, her glasses smashed and cut her face, the council were FULLY AWARE of the problem that these flag stones were causing but would not do anything about it, with the poll tax & the likes that we now pay, You have no doubt knowing the direction that I would have taken that would also be in relation to the damage IF my car was damaged by a pot hole.

[Baldric]

//with the poll tax & the likes that we now pay,//

You still have Poll Tax oop north?

[emmie]

council tax, but not sure whether the receipts for it are used for paving,
we usually get a glossy brochure from the council as to what the money does go to,

[TWR]

Call it what you like Baldric, it still does not get away with the fact that councils should do repairs thou knos.

[TWR]

Would that be stupid bloody Cycle Lanes Emmie? Their Exmas Pizz up's, the Mayors Cars.

[Baldric]

Aye!

[emmie]

cycle lanes are not planned well, they seem to be done by people who never had a bicycle in their lives, nor will ever.

[woofgang]

40 years ago I lived in Wells (Somerset) We knew a lady who lived down the road towards Glastonbury at Coxley. She told us then that she could only get home insurance if she had her washing machine and freezer upstairs and didn't have fitted carpet downstairs. She kept a stack of bricks around to stand her downstairs furniture on if it looked like flooding because it did. Our house was at Keward up a slight hill which went downhill again towards both wells in one direction and Coxley in the other. It wasn't common, but not rare either to wade into Wells from our house at some point during the winter. This was in "normal" 1970's winters. Unfortunate? Yes. A new problem? No. As others have said, don't build on floodplains.

[emmie]

some haven;t built on flood plains, how do they get help. and this weather has been extreme, so you can't always plan for these sorts of emergencies