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Comment Etiquette
Nearly four years ago I wrote a post on comments, spam and a recommended etiquette for this site that I still believe is the right balance for creating an open forum with some accountability. Admittedly, this is a difficult balance…
12 July 2009 | Category » editorial | Comments [0]
Save our High Street
Not to point out Nosh in particular, but these are clearly hard times for nearly everyone and we need to help support our local traders. We don’t want St Margarets to become a shopping ghost town. Just look at Church Street in Twickenham, nearly a third of all shops are gone!
If you can, please try and use the shops in our community when you can and keep St Margarets alive and healthy.
26 March 2009 | Category » editorial | Comments [23]
Why I Love That Twang Thang
We are old now and grey, but we still remember those arcane names that we mumbled to each other all those years ago in dreary school playgrounds - Fender, Gibson, Guild and Gretsch, Watkins Copicat, Binson Echolette. Say them aloud and you can still hear their poetry.
20 January 2009 | Category » editorial | Comments [0]
Cllr Morgan Comments on the CPZ
It was made clear to us at the local elections that a main issue for St Margarets was the quantity of vehicles and the difficulty of parking them in some roads, especially at night. Though it seemed unlikely that residents…
12 December 2007 | Category » editorial | Comments [50]
Notes on CPZ
The editorial by Kim Thomas has resulted in a number of questions and comments about the CPZ that I felt warranted a brief note for clarification and balance. Many people had questions about the original consultation’s results. This site published…
10 December 2007 | Category » editorial | Comments [5]
CPZ Update
I hope all of you who are concerned about the spread of CPZ in St. Margaret’s read this so you know what is happening currently. I was informed the night two nights ago that the council would be holding an…
6 December 2007 | Category » editorial | Comments [12]
CPZ Poll Thoughts
To date, with 160 people voting in our informal CPZ poll, ~57% of you have said ‘NO’ to a CPZ in the Moormead and north of the A316 area (only ~37% said ‘YES’). We also know of two non-web…
22 June 2007 | Category » editorial | Comments [27]
Tesco Parking and Richmond Council's CCTV
“The council recently applied for permission to use CCTV images to issues parking tickets to people misusing the loading bay, bus stop and double yellow lines outside Tesco. This is a move that SPASM has been advocating for some time,…
11 June 2007 | Category » editorial | Comments [12]
Site News: New Forum
We have changed the forum software; however, you shouldn’t have to re-register — unless you had a username or email address that was from a Russian spam house or contained ‘xxx’, ‘hodia’, ‘cheap_rx’ or anything similar questionable. Why the change?…
17 May 2007 | Category » editorial | Comments [1]
Online Communities Network Closing Down
The Online Communities (OnComm), the group behind many Richmond Borough sites (e.g. twickenham-online.co.uk, richmond-online.co.uk, Mogden Sewage Treatment Community Site, etc…) has announced that it is closing down after Christmas. Oncom has been been supporting grassroots e-democracy for ten years, but…
23 December 2006 | Category » editorial | Comments [0]
Beware Bogus 'Charities' and Third World Appeals
Residents regularly receive leaflets asking for items of clothing and household goods to be left for collection. It is estimated by the Association of Charity Shops that the potential value of donated clothing and other items ‘lost’ to legitimate charities…
30 November 2006 | Category » editorial | Comments [164]
Letter to the Editor: The Gas Man Cometh (NOT!)
I’m just wondering if anyone knows how much longer British Gas / Transco / whomever is responsible these days are going to leave the hole (or holes, as they have now become) blocking the pavement in St Margarets Road (opposite…
13 November 2006 | Category » editorial | Comments [3]
Review: The First Stone
The First Stone is the first novel by a local man, Guido Casale. Guido has lived on the border of Old Isleworth and St Margarets since 1983 and both of his daughters have passed through the St Margarets schools,…
9 November 2006 | Category » editorial | Comments [0]
Tesco Traffic Blocks Ambulance
At around 11.27 yesterday, I saw one of the worst examples of loading related issues to date There was one Tesco lorry in the loading bay, and another parked outside Around the World, on the corner of Bridge Road In…
21 October 2006 | Category » editorial | Comments [5]
Comment Spam
For the past two weeks the site has been hit with hundreds of spam comments; hopefully, you haven’t noticed anything. However, today the traffic has started to drag down the site. So we have turned on a system requirement that…
4 July 2006 | Category » editorial | Comments [1]
Local Councillors Hear Local Issues
On the 19th of May, the St Margarets Community Website Team sat down with the newly elected local Councillors for St Margaret & North Twickenham; Geoff Acton, Ben Khosa and Philip Morgan to have an open discussion around what we see as the top issues for St Margarets. Topics ranged from neighbourhood security to community events to ongoing communications and more.
23 May 2006 | Category » editorial | Comments [0]
Building a Community — Online & Off
The election discussion has thrown up the possibility of us creating an online local community plan for St Margarets. Everybody could contribute, everybody can take part. Why not join in. Leave your party politics at the door. Come with an open mind and be prepared to learn something new. Will you show your support for this idea? Will you join in and help to be part of something new that creates an independent vibrant, local identity for our neighbourhood?
8 May 2006 | Category » editorial | Comments [2]
Newsletter Link Problem
Apparently there is a problem with the newsletter links today. Rather than resend it, we recommend just looking around the homepage to find all the same content. Sorry for any confusion….
14 April 2006 | Category » editorial | Comments [0]
Moormead Area Parking Issues
Following up from the Councillors CPZ Questionnaire piece we wrote back in February we have two things to share. The first is that Councellor Annie Hambidge is calling a meeting for any interested residents to come to the Turk’s Head and discuss ideas with her and the Council’s Transport Officers. The second are some data and comments from the questionnaires given to the Councillors and shared anonymously with us.
17 March 2006 | Category » editorial | Comments [2]
Letter from ParVinu
After their recent conditional planning approval we asked the principles of the wine bar if they wanted to comment. This was the letter we received and they were happy for us to publish it.
10 March 2006 | Category » editorial | Comments [7]
2x2 Opera Needs Your Help!
We recently ran a story on the local young person’s opera company, the 2×2 Opera. Right now they are getting ready for their next performance called A Very Magical Flute and they really need your help. According to Deborah Meyer,…
16 February 2006 | Category » editorial | Comments [0]
Councillors CPZ Questionnaire
Recently the current Councillors for St Margarets, have circulated a questionnaire to residents of; Bridge Road, Kenley Road, South Western Road, Brook Rood, Moormead Road, St Margarets Grove, Godstone Road, Sidney Road and Winchester Road asking their opinion as…
11 February 2006 | Category » editorial | Comments [10]
Our First Ever Reader Poll
Well, it isn’t exactly our year anniversary, but its the end of the calendar year, so we thought we should run our first ever Reader Poll to see how we are doing. It would be great if you could…
6 January 2006 | Category » editorial | Comments [0]
Happy Holidays 2005
Happy Holidays&Best Wishes for 2006 from all of us atSt Margarets Community Website…
24 December 2005 | Category » editorial | Comments [0]
On Comments
We all know that email attracts SPAM. Well websites with Forums and Comments do as well. In the last few months this site has been getting more and more SPAM comments. Hopefully you don’t see any of them as I…
7 December 2005 | Category » editorial | Comments [2]
- Tracking the Loading Bay for the Council
1 December 2005 | Category » editorial | Comments [4] - Tesco's Expanded Loading Bay — Two Weeks On
15 November 2005 | Category » editorial | Comments [4] - Details Emerge on Tesco's Loading Bay
24 October 2005 | Category » editorial | Comments [9] - Misquoted
ApologyCorrection
20 October 2005 | Category » editorial | Comments [1] - Misquoted
2 October 2005 | Category » editorial | Comments [0] - Message from the St Margarets Web Team
25 September 2005 | Category » editorial | Comments [0] - Update on stmgrts.org.uk
30 July 2005 | Category » editorial | Comments [1] - Site News: No Newsletter this Week
8 July 2005 | Category » editorial | Comments [0] - PLEASE BE SAFE!
7 July 2005 | Category » editorial | Comments [0] - Recycling Really
CanCould Help the Community?
23 June 2005 | Category » editorial | Comments [6] - Welcome to stmgrts.org.uk
28 April 2005 | Category » editorial | Comments [2]
