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Another member of the notorious Dobbie family, who stole £32,000 pounds of taxpayers money between 1999 - 2005, has been elected to Knowsley Council.

This now brings the family numbers on the Council to two.

They are now (legally) each trousering £10,000 of public money in expenses.

The family were out in strength on the election night, led by the matriarch who masterminded the fraud against the Knowsley council taxpayer.

Observers said they resembled the Clampitt family from the Beverly hillbillies.

Also on parade on election night, all booted and suited, was the convicted benefit cheat, and x labour councillor, Thomas Barry Ryan.

He was convicted in 1997 of cheating the DSS out of £14, 000 – whilst a serving Councillor. He avoided a custodial sentence by pleading guilty, thus saving the taxpayer the cost of a Crown Court trial.

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PC Says….

Our fellow South African Sonae victims tell me that Sonae staff, from the Kirby plant, has been visiting the SA plant. Why’s that I wonder? Residents of the SA plant, currently in a long battle to stop Sonae from expanding the plant there, are concerned for Kirkby residents as Sonae may be snooping around to check out just how much they can get away with in Kirkby and that maybe Sonae have plans to expand the Kirkby plant too. KIRKBY RESIDENTS WATCH OUT!

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A reader of The Kirkby Times has emailed us warning us about YouTube hosting a sickening video with accompanying song, mocking the murder of James Bulger.

The person who emailed us has contacted Merseyside Police, who have not, as yet, replied.

A YouTube user, aptly named ‘poowizard1’, thinks that creating a video which mocks the murder of James Bulger, and makes light of his murderers, is perfectly acceptable. So do YouTube, who thrive on sickness, giving a platform to the world’s misfits, and shifty characters - racists, perverts, bullies and trash of all colour and race and creeds.

The video is entitled ‘Hey Robert’. Viewers are advised not to view or listen to it– because the video begins with an animated photo image of James from the word go. The lyrics accompanying the song are appalling.

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An Email [not letter!] from our friends and fellow Sonae sufferers in White River South Africa

Dear Kirkby Residents,

I am a concerned resident living in White River, South Africa, and we too have a Sonae plant of our own, pumping dust, formaldehyde and noise into the local environment. This plant has recently undertaken the illegal construction of a new drier that will allow them to more than double their production and likely their pollution too. The local authorities have refused to allow Sonae to commission their illegal drier, so at the moment it stands inactive while Sonae does a great deal of behind-the-scenes work to try and get permission to operate it.

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Most Angels would come down from heaven, but some were here all along.

The original article here has been removed due to the facts regarding the case not being as simple as we thought.

A number of people have commented on the matter, and whilst we can’t take the comments as fact - the photo of the van at the scene is proof that the driver never fled in the van.

Given the van is there, that covers the forensics which will help the police be able to work out exactly what happened.

There are more in the comments for this article - feel free to add anything or protest if you think anything said is not legal or proper.

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Sonae lies to South African residents about Sonae in Kirkby

Ed - Another excellent article from our friend ‘PC’….

As promised in a previous reply to a post, I have made contact with South African residents and other concerned organisations there (referred to by Sonae in their report as IAP’s Interested Affected Parties. Not bad considering they profess that no one is ‘affected’ by their actions and emissions!), who are also suffering at the hands of Sonae. They are currently fighting a proposed expansion of the plant there which local residents are assured will not increase the dust and fumes problem that they already suffer from.

Only it’s not so much a ‘proposed’ expansion any more as Sonae went ahead and built it anyway, despite not having the relevant permissions from the authorities, DESPITE holding Public Consultations and EIA’s (Environmental Impact Assessments). Sounds familiar doesn’t it, they profess to be considering carefully and sympathetically the impact on local residents promising to address problems and concerns of those they affect, when all along they’re doing exactly what they want to regardless. No change there then. They continue to flout the laws no matter which country they are operating in. Sonae have no regard or respect for anything or anyone not even the law of the land but we all know that don’t we, sadly to our detriment.

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Sonae in South Africa, Sonae in Kirkby, globalisation on the doorsteps of the poor.

News has been a bit thin on the ground of late – but the pollution from Sonae hasn’t! The recent spell of a few days sunny weather, bought more pollution here in Kirkby, which we’ll report in another article with more photos.

As it happens, we’ve had correspondence from a doctor in South Africa, who is also an officer of the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (WESSA). He has bravely come out and denounced Sonae for the appalling impact their operation has on the local community.

Here is the email…

Dear Anti-Sonae groups.

We have the same problems in White River south Africa, where a Sonae chipboard and MDF plant is spewing wood dust and particulate matter all over the neighbouring industrial and residential communities. Formaldehyde emissions have been proved to be several times higher than tolerable.

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Since new labour seized power in 1997 they have devised different schemes to increase voter turnout. All out Postal Voting was introduced in 2004. It resulted in numerous prosecutions for people interfering with the voting process.

It is illegal to use some ones postal vote without their permission. In new labours kingdom of Knowsley it was reported that a Kirkby based new labour man was seen depositing a large envelope full of postal votes into a public collection box in the local Council building. At the same time a residential home in Kirkby ordered 48 postal votes for residents, it was only after they were visited by an independent candidate that the Home returned only 8 postal votes, avoiding a possible investigation into why postal votes had been ordered for people suffering various stages of Dementia and Alzheimer’s.

The man who deposited the votes in the Council building was believed to have been the same man involved in the care homes postal votes. For legal reasons we cannot name him, however his identity is known to the authorities charged with the upholding the conduct of local elections. In these two examples of questionable conduct the Councillor concerned emerged unscathed.

Many leading figures in the judiciary have expressed fears about the safety of postal voting.

Now it has emerged that Knowsley Council face charges of breaching the guidelines of the Electoral Commission on publicity during the recent local elections.

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Justice for All.

“And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” John; Ch.8, v.32

“Now, 75 seconds after the evacuation began, the fire erupted. In an instant, clear air was replaced by an impenetrable wall of black smoke, laced with carbon monoxide. It brought with it instant death, killing 19 by the turnstiles before they reached an exit, 18 by the nearest exit and six more beyond it.” Martin Fletcher, aged 12 in 1985 and at the Bradford Fire. His father, uncle and grandfather were all killed at the Bradford Football Disaster of 1985.

The police are generally first to be held to account for the Hillsborough Football Disaster. It cannot be denied that the police command on the day was inadequate and you cannot really make excuses for cops who looked at men, woman and children turning blue, and turned away. You cannot defend cops who saw the disaster as an opportunity to line their own pockets with massive pay-outs or the hierarchy that chose to blacken the name of the fans rather than admit their own failings in the aftermath or the cover-up.

Worse still is the concerted attempted to not only cover up the disaster but another less obvious cover up in which the police, who had the strongest line of defence, were used to shield other parties, whose line of defence would have fallen to shreds.

Today is the 23rd Anniversary of the Bradford City Fire Disaster. Our thoughts, prayers and good wishes go out to those who suffered bereavement, and those poor souls injured and traumatised by the fire.

It is hard to think of the fire without thinking about the rescuers who were involved that day. Compared to Hillsborough, the task of anyone trying to save those poor souls at Bradford was infinitely more dangerous. Despite this, both police and fans acted with courage, with 50 or so named individuals who were verified by third parties as having saved lives.

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Plus, 1st for Kirkby success.

In Knowsley, the turnout for local elections was a disappointing 25%. This included a large number of postal votes, many of which were issued yet not returned.

It seems that postal votes, once a trickle specific to Brits abroad and a few housebound and ill and the armed forces overseas, has now turned into a quite a chunk of the overall percentage of votes cast with the process being made ten times as easy to perform. This is being abused up and down the country, which we will return to in another article.

The biggest turnout in Knowsley was in the wealthiest area of Knowsley, Roby; with a 36% turnout. This little island of comparative wealth amidst the social deprivation of surrounding wards even saw the Tories grab 42% of the vote with the new lab party, grabbing the prize with 46% of the vote.

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