Since so many people are being targeted with ‘scams’ FDC Community Safety and Neighbourhood Watch will be holding Scam Awareness Sessions around Fenland.
Scams Poster
You can get much more information by visiting
Whittlesey Neighbourhood Watch Website at
http://www.whittleseynhw.org.uk/
The Bus will be either on the Market Place or nearby the Police Station – Friday 27th May from 10:00 – 13:00
All welcome….
This application (Now approved) again was controversial as many neighbouring properties objected to the development.
Whilst I sympathise with these neighbours, no one has come up with a ‘constructive’ argument for an alternative….The ‘Pub’ as it stood is just not viable, unless ‘someone’ is prepared to throw a ‘lot’ of money at it – with little guaranteed return.
Be practical….
Now of course there is always a ‘question’ – !!!
Will the developers deliver! or will they sit on the site as a ‘land-bank’ which has and is happening on other sites in our area.
We wait and see…. and Yes Whittlesey Councillors made the correct decision in supporting the application.
For those who were against it – please give me/us a good alternative.
See the plans there are parking spaces.
There are at least 3 other Public Houses for sale in Whittlesey, (2) of which would again be prime building sites.
Will the ‘Hero of Aliwal’ be sold (It is going cheap – why!)
©Picture Eric Brickles (1984)
What a success for Friends of the Library (FOWL), following on from the ‘Frozen’ event a couple of weeks ago.
There maybe! a couple of tickets available, please check with Library on the Friday 06th or Saturday 07th.
As a taster of what you may be getting or in some cases missing…
This afternoon FDC Planning committee approved this application.
More Information as usual on the Whittlesey Neighbourhood Watch Website.
http://www.whittleseynhw.org.uk/
Fraudsters are texting members of the public offering a tax rebate. The text message contains a link to a website and requests to provide personal information, such as bank account information, to claim the nonexistent rebate.
Protect Yourself
It has been reported to Whittlesey Police of some concerns over ‘Cold Callers’ it is not a big problem at present – Just be very aware.
The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) and Action Fraud have noticed a rise in the reporting of victims being recruited via Facebook to sell items for suspects on eBay – often stating that it is a quick way of making money. The items are said to be bankrupt stock, purchased via auctions, and need to be sold on quickly. The majority of the items reported have been Apple Mac Book Pro/Electrical Items. The victim places the items on eBay and once the items are sold, the victim will get paid and transfer the funds to the suspect/recruiter. Once the suspect/recruiter gets the funds, the purchasers are claiming that they have received empty cereal boxes or often no goods at all, leaving the victim being reported as the actual suspect, and leaving them out of pocket as their account will be debited.
Protect yourself:
If you, or anyone you know, have been affected by this fraud or any other scam, report it to Action Fraud by calling 0300 123 2040 or visiting www.actionfraud.police.uk.
This afternoon (27th) Fenland District Council will determine the planning application for the ‘Bricklayers Arms’ site. I covered this last week (scroll down).
It would appear that there are ‘more’ objections than ‘for’ the development – that’s democracy. We wait to see what happens – unfortunately I can not attend.
Tonight is Whittlesey Town Council Planning meeting – Agenda below…
Planning-Agenda-27th-April-2016
Here I am in 1973 staying at the very regal Taj Mahal Hotel™ (Bombay) along with Royal Navy man Paul Rogers-Gray.
Our ‘Epic’ journey to Calcutta, to join a ship picking up aid for Vietnam.
Found Paul RG at Heathrow on a cold November day. We were bound for Calcutta India by Air India. (Fly Air India and get there Faster was their slogan).
6 Hours on the runway, waiting to take off as there was an Air Traffic Controllers strike in France.
No Duty Free and only a sandwich in those days.
Taking off, we had to stop in Dubai to refuel, on landing heavily the plane burst a tyre and this again delayed us by several hours.
Arriving at Bombay (Now Mumbai) by some 12 hours late, we had missed our connecting flight. Air India put us up in the Grand Taj Mahal™ 5 star hotel. 3 days 2 nights and looking at what it cost is probably all relative – then around £20 per night B&B today £200+ upwards.
After our very nice stay, we were off again, via somewhere else I can not remember, eventually arriving at Calcutta nearly 6 days after leaving the UK.
Remember Air India slogan ‘Fly Air India and get there Faster’!
Luckily for Paul RG and myself the ship was still there – (Delayed by several weeks).
The Taj is very famous in many ways, being a 5 star colonial hotel, it has hosted our own Royalty and that of many other countries, been subject to a terrorist attack in 2008 and had a Television series recently on UK TV.
An epic journey, was just one of many I encountered – how about when it took me 8 days in Panama on another occasion NOT to find my ship, another story at some time in the future.
I travelled in excess of 1,000,000 nautical miles travelling to over 100 countries in my vocation at sea.
As of today I have been to 111 countries.
Here is a good article and website to get some information on how to protect yourselves online.
The website is http://www.cyberstreetwise.com
The upgraded mooring along the Bower is progressing well.
It has been brought to my attention that 3 more people locally have been caught out with scams occurring via Internet/e-mail. Quite often people are ashamed to admit to falling for these scams and do not report it to the Police.
The 3 were all over 60’s
Important Notice.
Please note starting from March 27th we will be introducing new online banking authentication procedures in order to safeguard the information of our customers.
As part of these new procedures we will be implementing our two step authentication feature this will prevent unauthorised access to your account.
In order for us to launch these new features we require you to validate your account information by clicking on the link below.
(Takes you to a bogus link – which looks very similar to the correct website)
Please note: Failure to comply with this request can lead to temporary suspension of our online banking services.
Best regards,
HSBC Customer Support.
The above is an example of A SCAM in order to extract your details so ‘they can use’
Hello dear client
(A sure give away not addressed personally – wrong grammar – but not always the case)
Your account has been temporarily blocked
(The big give away is that you may not even have a PayPal account)
To access back to your account, you will reactivate your account within the next 24 hours
(Takes you to a bogus link – which looks very similar to the correct website)
The above is another example.
As always there is a great deal of information on the Whittlesey Neighbourhood Watch Website.
Well put on event at the Ivy Leaf this morning, plenty of stalls and a ‘few’ people in attendance when I visited for an hour or so.
