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| 3598 | Melksham Civic Awards - report and pictures
Friday Night was the Mayor's Reception - an event to which all the dignitaries from neighbouring towns are invited (and they turn up in full regalia), and at which civic awards are handed out. I received an invite and attended as a representative of the Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Whilst ... | 2012-02-04
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| 3496 | Melksham - Business to Business Speed Networking - build ahead for 2012
Bookings for this event have been very light, and as the whole point of an event like this is to meet a lot of other people, we have taken the decision (6.1.2012) to cancel the event on 16th January. All prospective participants are welcome instead to come along on Tuesday, 21st February as guests to ... | 2012-01-06
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| 3560 | Melksham, Month by month through 2011
It's December 2011 ... and the run up to Christmas. Yesterday afternoon, I was tidying up thousands of picture I have taken this year, and I've chosen one picture from each month - link [here] - to show something of Melksham and remind you about what's been happening in the town / surrounding area.
January's ... | 2011-12-24
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| 3527 | Melksham - changing times, an opportunity for the future
Things in Melksham, they are a'changing. I started the day with a swim in the to-be-replaced Blue Pool in Melksham, then walked down the High Street to Sainsbury's to watch the Mayor cut the ribbon for the official reopening of the store, complete with Coffee Shop and clothes section that's ... | 2011-11-27
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| 3495 | Looking forward - Chamber of Commerce has 2012 and beyond on the agenda
It struck me as I was updating the Melksham Chamber of Commerce Web site after last night's meeting as to just how FORWARD LOOKING our Melksham Agenda has become.
We're looking at exciting times for the town and the area. The recession is, for sure, hitting some businesses but others are asking "recession ... | 2011-10-26
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| 3492 | Upcoming events in and about Melksham - more dates for your diary
Today - Saturday 22nd October - I'm going to a West Wilts Rail User Group Ramble (from station to station) over breakfastthis morning ... as usual I'll be one of the few to arrive by car, as every other West Wilts station has appropriate services to get there. And the I'll be going to the community ... | 2011-10-22
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| 3481 | Some thoughts in answer to some Melksham Campus questions
I was triggered into writing this article by a thread on "Melksham People" - link [here] to open and read that thread in a new frame. I'm answering independently of that thread as my answer may turn out to be a long one, easier to read in a wider format and with pictures.
Last Monday, Sasha Heseltine ... | 2011-10-14
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| 3475 | Havant - Shop Frontages.
Considering Town Centres ... and comparing ours in Melksham to others I visit ... I was a bit shocked at just how many units are unoccupied in Havant last night. A town four times "our size" but with a very large supply of spare shops and a lack of shopkeepers. Perhaps some of that's because people ... | 2011-10-12
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| 3470 | Currently pictured in Melksham
Here's a recent selection of Melksham pictures ... I've got very technical of late, and I know there are some folks who have a look here occasionally to see where I've been walking the dog and what I've noticed. I tend to take (or at least publish) pictures that others might not ...
The Spa Houses ... | 2011-10-09
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| 3438 | Melksham to become a part of Trowbridge?
Initial proposals for change have been made by the boundary commission for Parliamentary Constituencies in the South West - published in full [here].
As part of their pre-amble, they write:
"The South West region has been allocated 53 constituencies – a reduction of two from the current arrangement. ... | 2011-09-13
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| 3427 | What is on the Melksham Agenda?
Pulling together headlines from various sources, I've come up with the following as a list of "interesting things going on / happened recently in Melksham" ...
Events 2012 -> Town Council
Area Board, 20th September
Art in Wiltshire initiative
26th SCOB meeting
27th Chamber meeting
Town Traders Meeting ... | 2011-09-09
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| 3423 | 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 12?
On Sunday - the first time in a long while - Lisa and I visited the shopping Mall at Cribb's Causeway near Bristol. It was lively and busy; we bought some things we needed in John Lewis (and were disappointed that others were out of stock), we looked at a variety of ladies clothing, we ate at Nando's, ... | 2011-09-07
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| 3420 | Making best use of the new enthusiasm for Melksham
Wanted - keen, enthusiastic people to drive Melksham forward into the future. And wanted - those people working together to make us a better community in terms of success, prosperity, greenness, life quality, enjoyability. We have a lot of enthusiastic people and I'm delighted to read in various local ... | 2011-09-05
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| 3383 | Are people who walk into Melksham being asked to subsidise parking?
Views in this post are personal, and do not neccesarily reflect the position of any of the organisations of which I am a member
We could achieve so much more in our town and area with a bit more joined up thinking. Save money, save hassle too. That's noy to say that we don't achieve a lot already; ... | 2011-08-09
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| 3380 | Melksham Jelly - An Occasional Office for Home Workers
A few years ago, a visitor stood in our kitchen at home and told me that "running your own business from home's not an option - it never works". She was new to the UK, having moved here from a different part of the world to get married to the love of her life who was British, and seeking suggestions ... | 2011-08-06
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| 3343 | Summer Sunday Train Service Starts - Swindon Chippenham and Melksham to Weymouth
I may be away ... but I understand that the "dress rehearsal" run of the Summer Sunday service is going well ... around 50 people on the Weymouth train from Swindon and Chippenham, with a further 25 or so joining at Melksham. That's a good number - considering that the train also picks up all ... | 2011-07-03
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| 3340 | Summer Sunday Timetable - TransWilts Trains
Here's the Summer Sunday timetable for the TransWilts services - please come along, please support the train service! Click on the image for an enlarged version ... and visit [here] for a full .pdf brochure which you can print out and fold. If you want to see that on your screen in the right orientation, ... | 2011-07-01
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| 3334 | A lesson from the sporran market?
Markets change, and we must adopt with the times. If I was still doing exactly the same thing that I set Well House Consultant up to do in 1995, I would be stuggling - or to be accurate, we would probably be out of business by now. But we've taken ideas, adopted and adapted, experimented, not been ... | 2011-06-26
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| 3325 | The Olympic Torch, and Melksham House
The Olympic Torch is being carried by 8000 people ... and without any particular one of them, it wouldn't reach its destination. If you look amongst the 8000, I'm sure you'll find some people who wouldn't get on with all 7999 of the others, but it's a team effort.
Yesterday afternoon, Wiltshire Council ... | 2011-06-14
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| 3307 | Melksham Community Radio launches
Melksham Community Radio's launch event - on NOW at Melksham House. See [here]. Shows are available on podcast so you can hear what's been said; live broadcasts planned too!
With all my various hats on, I welcome Melksham Community Radio to the elite band of town-specific media that brings us news ... | 2011-05-30
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| 3299 | Presidents Report to Melksham Chamber of Commerce, 24.5.2011
Firstly, please register my apologies for missing the AGM of the Melksham Chamber of Commerce; a longstanding committment to spend this week out of the country means I'm not going to be there in person - but at least I'm with you in mind and spirit. I've now served two years as President of the Chamber; ... | 2011-05-23
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| 3279 | Letter to The Editor
From Today's Wiltshire Times [6th May 2011]
Dear Sir,
Your Good Friday edition carried an advert placed by Wiltshire Council looking for land to create a Community Campus in Melksham.
A single site campus to include library, swimming pool, youth centre, sports and many other facilities (perhaps even ... | 2011-05-06
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| 3275 | Melksham Chamber of Commerce - grows to appoint new Press Officer. Welcome. Sam
Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry is delighted to welcome Samantha (Sam) Geddes to the new role of honorary press officer. Sam has lived in Melksham for a number of years, and runs her own business "Organised Little Things" - a holistic lifestyle organising service created to offer tailored time ... | 2011-05-02
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| 3272 | Melksham Car Parking - current charges and limits
This table was checked against signage earlier today (1st May 2011) and lists public car parks and marked roadside spaces in the town. It does not include private supermarket car parks (at some of which you may be able to park and walk into town) nor does it include any roadside parking where spaces ... | 2011-05-01
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| 3249 | Events - Spring and Early Summer 2011 in Melksham
26th April - "Melksham - the way forward?" - sponsored by the Melksham Chamber of Commerce - [link]
12th May - Area Board (younger people's meeting) - [link]
21st May - Komix opens - [link]
23rd May - ASDA's opening day - [link]
24th May - Chamber of Commerce AGM - [link]
28th May - Baby Contest ... | 2011-04-17
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| 3246 | Melksham - the way forward. 26th April, Well House Manor
Library - Postal Sorting Office - Swimming Pool - Youth Centre - Registration Service - The Bear - Professional Development Centre - Art Cafe - Road Safety Training Unit - Sports Centre - Bus routes and services levels - Car Parking - are all changing or on the move in Melksham. And what more to follow? ... | 2011-04-14
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| 3088 | Melksham - two many councils?
I've only lived in Melksham for ten years - so I may be asking a very delicate question that's steeped in history - but can anyone tell me why we have separate councils for Melksham Town and Melksham Without? The various parts of Melksham rely on one another to make a complete community - with the town's ... | 2011-03-29
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| 3217 | Vandalism and riot from the minority - the effect
Last Wednesday, I walked to work past the Canberra Youth Centre on Spa Road, and I was disappointed to see that the lovely display of daffodils had been severely damaged, with flowers lying crushed and damaged on the lawns, and strewn around on the walkways, pavement and in the road. We've heard such ... | 2011-03-28
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| 3214 | Melksham Campus - any last minute inputs from Melksham businesses?
Over the past few weeks, I've listened and learned about the plans for Melksham's Campus (as best I can, as there seem to be some important questions for which answers are not provided). I've attended a Community Area Partnership consultation, the Melksham Without Parish meeting, and the Chamber of Commerce ... | 2011-03-26
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| 3193 | Melksham Campus - what, why, questions, concerns and how you can input
There's controversy in Melksham at the moment - Wiltshire Council is proposing the transfer of sports, swimming and library, youth and other facilities from various locations dotted around the town to a new single site campus on the Devizes road, out of the town centre and next to the Melksham Oak secondary ... | 2011-03-07
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| 3188 | What proportion of the British Workforce still works a Monday to Friday, 9 to 5, week?
Yesterday, I received an invite to a community meeting that takes place next Monday morning at 10:30; the meeting is for people aged over 55 - that's retired people, and also men who are still working (but into their last 10 years), and women who are into their final stretch too. It's a consultation ... | 2011-03-04
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| 3172 | On consultations, car parking, and Melksham town centre
On Consultations. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. And wash the baby while the water is hot.
There are some consultations around which aren't worth the "paper they are written on" - or should I say that aren't worth the bandwidth and time they take up - those consultations are the the ... | 2011-02-19
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| 3173 | What is the Melksham Chamber of Commerce?
The Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry is an independent organization, funded by its members and run mostly by volunteers (the committee) who give their time for free. The Chamber is a member of the Wessex Association of Chambers of Commerce - a group of 17 Chambers and similar business organizations ... | 2011-02-19
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| 3162 | Keep your business customer-friendly!
If your shopfront say "9 to 6" but a customer finds you in darkness and locked up at 5:30, you'll have lost his business - then and perhaps into the future.
If your staff are whiling away the hours on computer games behind the counter, and continue to do so when you have customers who are seeking help, ... | 2011-02-10
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| 3141 | Wiltshire Rail services - a golden opportunity
This year, some small decisions will be made on future rail services. But they'll be big, big decisions as far a the TransWilts rail line is concerned. They'll have the most profound effect - for years to come - on the communities of the TransWilts corridor. Will the road from Trowbridge to the M4 ... | 2011-01-21
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| 3113 | Trowbridge and Melksham to Chippenham - more roadworks, even slower journey over the winter
I understand that Wessex Water are going to be replacing a water main in Beanacre from mid January until mid March, and that will disrupt traffic on the A350 - the major road which links Trowbridge and Melksham to Chippenham and the rest of the country via the M4. I didn't have to look back very far ... | 2011-01-03
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| 3117 | Opportunities for Melksham - new businesses in the town
1.1.11 ... and walking through Melksham, I mused at the number of new shop fronts that weren't there a year ago. We're in changing times. Online sales have moved from being a quirky novelty to a significant slice of the retail market. Out of town shopping areas have a significance they didn't have ... | 2011-01-03
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| 2487 | Melksham Forum
• Do you live in Melksham?
• Do you work in the town, or nearby?
• Do you shop here, or visit from time to time - on business, to see friends and relatives, or because you just like the place?
• Do you travel through, or past, and wonder what we have to offer?
• Are you ... | 2010-11-03
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| 2995 | A river in Melksham is not just for boaters.
How many boats will the link canal ... the river through the town ... and the ongoing Wilts and Berks canal bring to Melksham? Not as many as you might think - I've seen it written somewhere that out of every 100 people visiting the river in such a scheme, only 4 will arrive by boat - and as there's ... | 2010-10-12
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| 2982 | Travel, Transport and Tourism - A vision for Melksham, 2026
This is a seed document that I've prepared as a pump-priming exercise to help the Community Area Partnership (at the request of the vicechair of the steering group) and other associated organisations think ahead towards what they would like to see in the 2026 area plan. It comes in three main sections:
a) ... | 2010-10-03
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| 2959 | A Melksham news roundup
On 1st September, our Twitter feed from this blog ceased to work when Twitter switched off the ability to automatically submit via basic authentication and went exclusively to a system called OAuth (see [here]). It was well announced ahead of time, but in the mountains of information, work, events, ... | 2010-09-18
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| 2957 | Welcome to Countrywides new Melksham store
Countrywide open their new store in Melksham this week - and yesterday evening, I had a change to look around during a preview session. Wow - what a store! The company's been in the town for many years - and indeed we've been good customers - with a very helpful and friendly staff and (as far as Gypsy's ... | 2010-09-15
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| 2932 | Getting into and out of Wiltshire towns .. a.k.a. Car Parking?
Background - Wiltshire Council is currently consulting on the way forward for car parking in Wiltshire. Parking fees are always unpopular, and can be expensive to collect. But there should be some gains from a degree of system (if not price) standardization in the new, larger area rather than the old ... | 2010-08-24
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| 2883 | Melksham Oak - photos of the new community school
On Tuesday evening, we had a chance to look around Melksham's new school, built and equipped at a cost of some 32 million pounds. And very impressive it is too. Here are some pictures (taken with permission); I rather suspect working pictures will be hard to come by as the stipulation is "do not ... | 2010-07-30
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| 2891 | Wiltshire Council ask how they can help businesses
There it was again ... "we have undertaken projects already in Salisbury, Trowbridge and Chippenham".
Yesterday evening, I attended an event hosted by Wiltshire Council and the Wiltshire Strategic Economic Partnership; a "consultation" where local businesses were being asked various questions about ... | 2010-07-30
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| 2872 | Moved - Melksham Lorry Park
It was last month that a public meeting in Melksham decided that the Lorry section that's been in King Street Card Park for many years should be closed to all HGVs and PSVs as soon as possible, and the signage for "temporary" closure has now arrived. [article]. Here it is ... and the fully published ... | 2010-07-16
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| 2867 | Cycling in Melksham, and looking forward
At the West of England partnership meeting last Tuesday, I attended one session that was looking towards healthier and greener transport; to a very great extent, that session had been taken over by the advocates of cycling - and indeed they had the most dramatic increases in cycling to report, and it's ... | 2010-07-15
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| 2853 | Transport in Wessex - today and into the future
Yesterday, we drove to Chippenham and back - three of us in a five seat car. The three of us then drove to Atworth, and two drove back to Melksham. One returned to Atworth, and then three of us from Atworth to Potterne, two of us on into Devizes, and two back from Devizes.
Look at all that fresh air ... | 2010-07-04
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| 2837 | Lorry Parking in Melksham
From the Chamber of Commerce Administrator ...
Chris Major, Parking Services Manager from Wiltshire Council has asked [me] to advise you of changes to King Street Car Park in Melksham regarding the lorry park which is going to take effect c. 5th July 2010. I would be grateful if you could pass this ... | 2010-06-30
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| 2827 | Melksham - a gem in Wiltshire
I have been asked to write a message for the program for the Melksham Carnival and the ... | 2010-06-26
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| 2782 | Tell the Melksham Chamber or you only have yourself to blame
I'm following on from my post on the history of the Melksham Chamber of Commerce yesterday, looking back at the time that Leekes came into the town nearly 20 years ago. Even two decades later, it has sparked discussion.
The Chamber exists to look after the interests of:
(a) Its members
(b) Other businesses ... | 2010-05-26
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| 2779 | The history and future of Melksham Chamber of Commerce
The Melksham Chamber of Commerce was one the founding 6 members of the Wessex Association of Chambers of Commerce, which has now grown to 17 members and shares offices, staff, intelligence, training facilities, marketing and more across Wiltshire and a somewhat beyond. You can find old reference to ... | 2010-05-26
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| 2770 | Melksham Chamber of Commerce - Presidents report to AGM
It's only when you sit down and write a list of what's happened and what you've done in the past year that you realise just how much of it there is!
Last night was Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry's AGM, and I was asked to do a little review of the year. Oh - and I retained (unopposed) my ... | 2010-05-20
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| 2725 | How do our tactics help us meet the strategy, for the greater good?
At what point does one say "look - I'll do this for the great good, not for my own gain"? And how does one turn fine words and strategy into the shorter term tactics within existing rules and philosophies?
Questions that I came away asking from last night's launch of the Mid Wiltshire Economic Partnership. ... | 2010-05-14
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| 2683 | Car Parking in Melksham
Car Parking in the centre of Melksham is a major concern to many residents of the town and the surrounding area. Shops out of town are limited with a very limited bus service to may parts, driving is the only practical way to "nip quickly into town".
This April, car parking costs across Wiltshire will ... | 2010-03-25
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| 2666 | Random thoughts on Melksham Town Planning and development
On Friday evening, I attended the Mayor's reception in Melksham Assembly Hall, and on Saturday I traveled to Taunton to attend TravelWatch SouthWest. At one of those meetings (and I'm ashamed to say I can't recall which) someone made the poignant comment that, for the most part, Town Planners don't actually ... | 2010-03-08
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| 2640 | How is your tax pound spent?
Where does the UK Government Spend your Money? What proportion goes on Defence, on Pensions, or Foreign Aid, on Economic Development, and on Health? Is the same amount spent for each person in the South West as in London and in Scotland?
If you can answer these questions I'll be very impressed ... ... | 2010-03-03
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| 2594 | Melksham Area - your community view is sought
Today was a very public consultation in the Town Hall in Melksham, where the Community area partnership (who's role is to gather and promote the views and aspirations of the Melksham area community) held "Open House" on the core strategy. Newly set up, with a first meeting last December, the Melksham ... | 2010-01-23
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| 2568 | Forums for your Melksham and open source discussions
Do you have questions you want to ask? Views about Melksham, First Great Western Train services or Open Source languages that you would like to post? If you do / have, you'll be very welcome to join our forums / communities - listed below.
Just a word, first, though. There's a minority of internet ... | 2010-01-10
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| 1880 | Melksham Chamber of Commerce, or the FSB
Update - January 2010 This article is from my "blog" - written personally, and does not reflect any official view from either organisation mentioned. I would like to apologise if it has mistakenly given any 'official' signals at any point prior to my adding this clarification.
Yesterday, my email ... | 2010-01-08
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| 2546 | How well do you know Melksham - a quiz for Christmas
I've been out for two Christmas Dinners with local groups this year - the Bowerhill Villager (local newsletter) and the Chamber of Commerce ... and I've enjoyed them both. And in the spirit of Christmas, here's the quiz (via a link) that I put together for the "Bowerhill Villager" evening - how well ... | 2010-01-06
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| 2544 | Vision for Wiltshire
As I tried to put together my final thoughts on Wiltshire's Strategic Plan Consultation, I helped myself by putting an overview of my thoughts together so that my inputs really will be strategic and not just about what we want / don't want in our back yard!
A Vision for Wilsthire ...
Where should ... | 2009-12-21
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| 2288 | Wiltshire Community Area Partnerships
A few days ago, I wrote about all the new structures at Wiltshire Council; I was having trouble working out what they all did, and I don't think I am the only one having trouble understanding it. (See that article). I got stuck at "Community Partnerships" or "Community Area Partnerships" which seemed ... | 2009-12-19
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| 2289 | pre-Inaugural briefing - Melksham Community Area Partnership
14th July, Semington Village Hall - the sort of inaugural meeting of the Melksham Community Area Partnership (see about CAPs and about Wiltshire's new structures).
I wondered why Semington Village Hall for a "Melksham" meeting - Semington Village has been made an awkward place to drive to due to road ... | 2009-12-19
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| 2540 | Rock and hard place .. and the relaxing right one won
Occasionally - just occasionally - I let my hair down and say "enough is enough" with meetings and work ... and let my hair down. And so it was on Wednesday evening, when a long standing Christmas Dinner with some of the 'core' folks at the Chamber of Commerce got overbooked by the Melksham Are Board ... | 2009-12-18
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| 2531 | Melksham - new Tuesday Market
A new Tuesday market opened this week in Melksham ... I popped in briefly and took a few pictures. It's good to be able to shop local (and indeed the Chamber of Commerce current has a "shop local" campaign running.
The market include both food and non-food products ... but on this first visit, ... | 2009-12-10
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| 2514 | The road show has been - where now?
Yesterday Wiltshire Council's "Road Show" came to town - showing their core strategy plans for the next 20 years. Rather than allowing haphazard and undirected growth and development there is sense if the unitary council providing a degree of 'steer' ... making sure that any new housing is built in ... | 2009-12-09
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| 2521 | Melksham Market - Tuesdays, 09:00 to 14:00
A new market comes to Melksham - every Tuesday from 8th December, open from 09:00 until 14:00. It will be a general market, and will run in the Assembly Hall and in the car park adjoining the Town Hall, with some 18 to 20 traders. [Notice from Mayor]
The Assembly Hall is a large covered area just behind ... | 2009-12-02
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| 2508 | Community Area Partnership - inaugural AGM
This evening was the public meeting and first AGM of the new Melksham Community Area Partnership. The CAP is an independent (there's an interesting word!) body that mirrors the area covered by the Melksham Area Board of Wiltshire Council, and is (I understand) the last such CAP to be set up of 20, ... | 2009-11-21
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| 2495 | Planning the future of Wiltshire
Background to planning the future - the mechanism
Where will Wiltshire be in 20 years time? Will it grow, and if so how - will development all go into 2 or 3 major towns, leaving smaller towns to loose their significance and hearts? Will development spring up all over the place, or in a new town as ... | 2009-11-08
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| 2465 | Melksham Town - asleep or awake?
I'm writing this early - before six in the morning - and already I've been around Melksham town as it starts to awaken for another day, dropping off a Melksham Chamber of Commerce Update Letter through the letterboxes of all the businesses. When I checked all their details for the town map a couple ... | 2009-10-21
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| 2459 | New Web Site for Melksham Chamber of Commerce
I'm going to "hit the button" this week ... a small, but very important new website for Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry and under their own domain name too!
http://www.melkshamchamber.org.uk/
The Chamber is a member of the Wessex Association of Chambers of Commerce - covering more that a ... | 2009-10-18
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| 2437 | Wiltshire Unitary News - Chamber of Commerce Intelligence
In my role with Melksham Chamber of Commerce, a number of "nuggets" come my way - four recently relating to the new Wiltshire Unitary Authority and how things are changing / have changed.
1. Charity shops, which used to get 80% discount off the business rates on their premises in our area, now get 100% ... | 2009-10-05
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| 2328 | Melksham - no trains, no southbound buses through the town
There have been NO TRAINS AT ALL to Melksham for a week. And the town centre is closed to southbound traffic, sending the buses around the bypass, and the local "we know where to go" vehicles around the suburban streets. All of which does precious little immediate good for the businesses.
When Bath ... | 2009-08-08
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| 2260 | Important - the future of Melksham / Chamber of Commerce
There's a difference between 'urgent' and 'important' ... and one of the things that we sometimes do is get bogged down in the urgent without looking ahead to the longer term important. Here is a piece I have just written for the "Party in the Park" program ...
A message from the Melksham Chamber of ... | 2009-06-29
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| 2220 | Melksham Traders - where do we go?
Some people tell me how quiet Melksham in these days, and other tell me that it's bustling. The picture above shows that it's somewhere between the two - there's certainly a reasonable number of people about, but we could do with more.
Some shopkeepers / shop owners are concerned at the effect that ... | 2009-06-06
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| 2194 | Melksham Business Map - Chamber of Commerce, Tourist Information and Town Council
Melksham has a wonderful array of retailers in the town ... but many of them are not obviously located and not well known. The three local bodies are putting together a map showing the town, and where all the businesses are located ... and I have spend several hours each day this week walking round ... | 2009-05-22
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| 2181 | You cannot please all of the people all of the time
In my role with the Melksham Chamber of Commerce, I take an interest in the business activities in the town, and the various factors that inspire and concern our shop owners.
At the tail end of last year, Bath Road was closed for a period and the shopkeepers were pretty upset about it - talking of how ... | 2009-05-14
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| 2119 | Make your business a DESTINATION business
I'm writing this for Melksham. And for Melksham's Businesses. Let's make Melksham a town of destination businesses.
Are YOU running a business that trades in Melksham? If you are, then read on - there's something in this for you AND there's something in this for the town. And - together - it's for ... | 2009-04-06
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| 2111 | Business Networking for Melksham - 23rd April
Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry is pleased to announce a series of networking events ... specially for Melksham's businesses.
* Make new contacts in other Melksham businesses and exchange information.
* Learn how local government changes will effect Melksham businesses.
* Recession-beating ... | 2009-04-01
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| 2095 | Blue Ridge and Melksham Chambers of Commerce
Seeing a sign marked "Fannin County - Chamber of Commerce" at the roadside here in Blue Ridge, Georgia, and being elected within the last few months as the President of Melksham's Chamber of Commerce on a platform of "Let's have this Chamber be a really effective voice and help for the businesses of ... | 2009-03-22
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| 2043 | Confidence, Customer Service and Tourism in Melksham
I was very disappointed to miss the "business opportunities / where do we go from here" meeting in Melksham last week - organised by the Town Council and with support from many including the Chamber of Commerce. But Lisa (who is on The Chamber Committee) did go along, listened, let me know what happened ... | 2009-02-15
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| 1507 | Comments on proposed Asda Superstore for Melksham
I welcome the proposal in principle but - oh dear - what a poor application in terms of traffic, in terms of safe access by anything other than private car, and what a lost opportunity to provide decent access if it were to be accepted in its current form.
Please have a look at my draft - following ... | 2009-01-28
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| 1892 | Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry
I'm passionate about Melksham - it's a great place to live and a great place to do business, and Lisa and I, although we were newcomers in 1999, feel greatly welcomed here. And I hope that we have given, and will continue to give, something back as part of the community. We bring visitors to the town ... | 2009-01-12
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| 1987 | One Cheer for Local Democracy - Asda in Melksham
On Thursday evening, Lisa and I attended the Planning Committee Meeting of West Wiltshire District Council. Sounds boring, doesn't it? Well - it wasn't; a big decision to be made with regard to a new Asda supermarket to share a site on the edge of the town with Countrywide Farmers.
There were two ... | 2009-01-11
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| 1979 | Looking forward, in Melksham, in 2009
Late in 2008, I was delighted and honoured to be elected the President of the Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry - something of a figurehead role in which I can listen to the views of businesses in the town, and advocate the shared business views both within the town and further afield. Here, ... | 2009-01-05
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| 1934 | Lidl opens in Melksham
Now here's an odd morning for you; in my recently elected role of President of Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry, I was invited to attend - "in chains" no less - the opening of the new Lidl store that re-extends the Town Centre across the river Avon. And indeed I was very happy to do so; Melksham ... | 2008-12-11
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| 1904 | Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes
We have just come to the end of a solid 12 days of training ... and we are just getting ready for the next week, with delegates arriving this evening. There's a lot going on behind the scenes, even over this weekend, with the hotel to be prepared as well as the training course. (Picture - our clean ... | 2008-11-24
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| 1881 | Wiltshire Council says - part 1
Last night, Lisa and I attended the annual budget 'consultation' evening arranged by the Wessex Federation of Chambers of Commerce with Wiltshire (County) Council. It was our second year at the event ... last year we had come away very depressed indeed, but this year was rather better - partly because ... | 2008-11-13
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| 1792 | All the pieces fall into place - hotel and courses
It's when the best-laid plans start to come together that you think "Yes - this is working" - and some of these best laid plans have come together for the public Python course just completed.
Quite apart from the courses (where things usually come together very well almost - dare I say it - as a matter ... | 2008-09-11
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| 1748 | Hotel room prices - Melksham, Wiltshire
Like other businesses, we are seeing some of our costs rising at present rather faster than has happened in the recent past. However, I am happy to announce that hotel room prices, and training course prices, will remain unchanged for the rest of the year. We review prices annually (at the end of the ... | 2008-08-11
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| 1642 | Summer!
Summer came at the start of this week ... here are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday pictures - at the Barge at Seend, with the Chamber of Commerce meeting in the garden at Well House Manor, and at lunch on the Python course on Wednesday when we couldn't resist grabbing a picnic and going and seeing the ... | 2008-05-15
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| 1633 | Changing a screen saver from a web page (PHP, Perl, OSX)
Here's a challenge. I want to change the screen saver on a mac mini, running OSX, from a browser anywhere in the world.
You may well ask why ... the screen of the mac mini is to be visible at Well House Manor where it will provide an information screen at the front door when it's not otherwise in ... | 2008-05-07
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| 1504 | Flooding by Asda-s proposed new supermarket
It's been raining heavily over the last couple of days and, once again, the river has burst its banks to for what we call Lake Melksham. The corner by "Countrywide Farmers" is flooded yet again ...
This is the site where Asda have their planning application in to build a store - something I've written ... | 2008-01-13
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| 1476 | Shopping for Christmas and looking forward
It's mid December and we're back from a record shopping session at Tesco. Life has been just so busy of late that we haven't had the time to do replenish our supplies of tins and packets and the meals we've been having have been more weird, more wonderful, and more eaten-out or take-away than I care ... | 2007-12-16
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| 1432 | Wiltshire County Council - Budget Consultation
Last night, I attended a Wiltshire County Council Budget Consultation meeting hosted by the Wessex Association of Chambers of Commerce.
The meeting was billed as "an opportunity to meet the leader of Wiltshire Council [Jane Scott], the Chief Executive [Keith Robinson] and the county's chief financial ... | 2007-11-15
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| 1429 | Remembrance day - inside a church and inside the day
I remember how bored I got at school at the end of term Church service - we all shuffled across the road to St Nic's and listened to Rev Ogilvie - who was a nice and earnest man, and great in a pastoral role. But listening to him and to the head have us sing songs with words I found - even in those ... | 2007-11-12
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| 1250 | Business speed networking - a place tonight!
Tonight is our Melksham Speed Networking Evening for local businesses to get together, spend a just a couple of minutes introducing themselves, and then seeing how and if they should be working together. "It's amazing what you can find in Melksham" we always say, and we're also reminded that even local ... | 2007-06-28
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| 1223 | Asda opening large new store in Melksham
Breaking News in Melksham is that Asda, the supermarket chain, is looking to build a large supermarket with 28000 square feet, 250 parking spaces and create 300 jobs on the outskirts of the town at "West Country Farmers" near the railway. Currently, we have a smaller Sainsbury's and a Somerfield in the ... | 2007-06-12
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| 717 | A customer service company
"We're a customer service company who happens to be in the computer training industry". So said the sign stuck on the wall at a training centre where I was a guest presenter a few weeks ago. The words were the right ones for them, and they're right for us too, but their actions based on those words were ... | 2006-06-05
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