Aberdare’s first sex shop has been granted a license to sell adult-only DVDs.
Lush Lingerie, on the town’s Station Street, applied for permission to sell R18 films on video and DVD.
The store has already been trading for 18 months, selling a range of lingerie, sex aids and saucy novelties.
More than 100 people signed a petition supporting the shop’s application to sell the films.
At a planning meeting on October 17, councillors voted unanimously to grant the license to sisters Michelle McConnell and Sharon Bowen, who own the shop.
- reported in Cynon Valley Leader, October 27 2005
Posted to the Ethical Network bulletin board this afternoon…
Help needed – Speakers – How to Oppose Expansion of a Tesco Store
Type: Discussions
Posted: 23/10/2005 15:59
* We need help *
Tesco Plc would like to expand their existing store in Aberdare, part of the Cynon Valley, which is 20 miles north of Cardiff.
Their current out-of-town supermarket was built around ten years ago. This original store development was subject to intense criticism at the highest level, involving Parliamentary questions, investigation by the National Audit Office etc.
If Tesco expand it will kill off the remaining shops in Aberdare town, which is at the heart of the Cynon Valley. It is inevitable that the further expansion of Tesco will also close shops in remote outlying communities in the Valley, thus depriving people in some of the poorest wards in Wales of basic local food/shopping choices.
As an illustration of just how corrupt the whole process is in this part of the world : The only local newspaper (owned by Trinity Mirror) published a news story a couple of weeks ago announcing Tesco’s desire to expand in Aberdare, and there was an Editorial welcoming “new jobs”. Contact was made with the local Planning Department of Rhondda Cynon Taff Council and they have confirmed they have not received a planning application from Tesco, and have no Retail Impact Assessment or any assessment of the impact of any expansion. In fact, Tesco are doing what they usually do, which is bullying and bulldozing through the planning application.
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* We need help *
I have read recently that Tesco Aberdare have halted their free bus service and stopped trading 24 hours. It has been suggested that this is their usual tactic in ’softening up’ the locals for a planning request.
Is there any one willing to come to speak to a public meeting to launch a campaign opposing the new development ?
Any help or recommendations appreciated.
What is this life if full of care
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep, or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this, if full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
- William Henry Davies 1871 – 1940
It’s a beautiful time of year to take a walk in your local parks.
Hard to believe that the
Stereophonics USENET newsgroup
alt.music.stereophonics is now 7 – yes seven – years old.
The newsgroup was created on the eve of the Cwmaman Feel the Noize gig at Cardiff Castle in 1998. It was a great concert.
There has been at least 50,000 messages posted to alt.music.stereophonics over the years… including a lot of spam but hey! that’s USENET for you and a lot of posts from people mistakenly asking for advice about their stereo equipment which became a group ‘in joke’.
