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Reply | Some of the oldtimers here
at 15:45 28 Apr 2024
You’ll love it mate. The best bit? You can hand them back at the end of the day or when they need changing 🤣
Seriously though, I think it’s easier being a grandparent than a parent and I’m sure you’ll make a brilliant grandad. Some special times ahead for you. Sending all our best to you and the family. |
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Reply | Speed awareness courses.
at 18:35 10 Jan 2024
20 years ago my 12year old son Michael was knocked down and killed by a speeding driver. The driver was going just a few miles over the 30 but those few miles can make all the difference between surviving or not. Please think of this as you travel around. I think of little else every time I get behind the wheel. I have no points and never speed and that is how it will be for the rest of my driving life. I appreciate some of the posts above relate to motorway driving which are totally different sets of circumstances but on local roads speed kills. I’ve read numerous posts on the topic of speed cameras and awareness courses over the years and it never fails to annoy me how some people feel so hard done by just because they were caught.
Michael came with me and his brothers to watch many QPR games and also met a few regular posters on the old Rivals site in The BushRanger. I will never forget those posters who either came to Michael’s funeral or sent tributes. They even arranged a floral tribute from QPR. Watching my QPR has never been the same since.
If I may just leave one piece of advice with you all it would be ‘slow down’ There is nothing in our lives that’s worth the hurry. [Post edited 10 Jan 18:41]
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Reply | can we rate the squirrel?
at 20:48 23 Dec 2013
With our move to Old Oak Common i can see the squirrel problem getting worse  |
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Reply | Whatever happened to....
at 10:42 6 Dec 2013
Simon Osbourne is manager at Margate too.
Also Margate now play in blue and white hoops. [Post edited 6 Dec 2013 10:49]
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Reply | Any need to panic?
at 19:48 26 May 2013
Newcastle are after Samba, so probably there to see if a deal is possible????? |
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Reply | Miserable, negative supporters.
at 17:23 23 Feb 2013
Took your advice.....................
......definition...........constant negativity spouted by so called supporters just so they can say "told you so" if the worse happens. 
It's so easy to look on the bad side of everything.
If you haven't got anything positive to say, shut the hell up  |
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Reply | Miserable, negative supporters.
at 17:17 23 Feb 2013
Ok so we lost, still only 7 points from safety though.
Never going to give up until it's mathematically impossible!
Eternal optimist.
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Thread | New (mini) Season
at 19:32 12 Feb 2013
Ok, listen up you lot
This is how it's going to be..................
12 match mini season
Pre season training in Dubai.
(Mini) Season starts at home to Man U, which we will win 2-0  followed by victories against
Southampton, Sunderland, Villa, Fulham and Wigan. (18 points)
We then face Everton and I don't see us getting anything from them, but then we have Stoke and Reading (another 6 points)
That just leaves May. Two home games aginst Arsenal and Newcastle, which again I predict us winning both by 2-0.
Ending up at Liverpool which will by then be a meaningless game, as we will have secured our place in the Prem already.
That is all.........
Now go about your business  |
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Thread | Can anyone help (non footy)
at 20:58 8 Jun 2012
If 15 years is the maximum penalty for death by dangerous driving, so how much worse can this be? Why only 5 years? F'kin joke!
Wakefield hit and run death driver jailed
Published on Thursday 7 June 2012 15:12
A motorist who killed a six-year-old boy in a hit-and-run incident while driving at almost twice the speed limit was today jailed for five years and three months.
Peter Renshaw, 22, struck and killed Owen Wightman, who was crossing a road near his home in Wakefield on June 18 last year.
Renshaw admitted causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident and failing to report an accident.
Leeds Crown Court has heard the defendant barely slowed down after the collision and, despite stopping shortly after to check damage to his car, took three days to turn himself in to West Yorkshire Police.
He told officers at the time he had no idea he had collided with a pedestrian and thought he may have hit a pothole.
The court heard how Owen was struck by Renshaw’s Fiat Seicento car while out playing with a friend on Fishpond Lane, Kettlethorpe, Wakefield.
The court was told the speed of the Fiat in the 30mph limit was 57mph and Owen was carried 75ft (23 metres) down the road by the impact, which one witness said sounded like a gunshot.
Owen was hit a glancing blow by the car and was struck by the front of the vehicle before being pushed onto the bonnet, the court was told.
At an earlier court hearing the prosecution alleged police found “additional” damage to Renshaw’s car which had been inflicted on the vehicle with a “view to disguise what had taken place.”
Elements of the prosecution case were disputed by the defendant and a Newton hearing was held last month but halted when Renshaw eventually admitted failing to stop at the scene of an accident and failing to report an accident.
The case was adjourned to today for sentence.
Renshaw, who has a conviction for possession of cannabis and a reprimand and caution for the same offence, showed no emotion as he was sentenced.
The court was told he was also banned from driving for six months when he was 17 for having no insurance.
On the day of the accident, the court was told he was delivering a Father’s Day card and present to his parents’ home in Emley when he hit Owen who had stepped out into the road in a residential area close to his home.
Renshaw’s barrister Richard Clewes said his client never intended the accident to happen.
He added: “He’s devastated by the loss he has caused and is extremely sorry for it, and in so far as he can, apologise for it.”
He said he was “basically a decent person” who had “wrestled with his conscience” in the days after the accident and voluntarily handed himself in.
He said his university life was now over and he would struggle with a custodial sentence.
Outside court, Mrs Wightman questioned Renshaw’s remorse.
She told reporters: “We miss Owen so much. It gets harder and harder without him. Our lives will never be the same again.
“This lad has shown no remorse and if anything positive is to come out of this, it is that young drivers are deterred from speeding by thinking about what this has done to a family and a little boy’s life.”
Jane Cryer, District Crown Prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “Owen Wightman’s life was cut tragically short and his family suffered a heartbreaking and irreparable loss.
“The Wightman family have been foremost in our minds as we have built the prosecution case in close co-operation with West Yorkshire Police.”
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/wakefield-hit
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Reply | Speed Awareness Course
at 22:52 24 May 2012
I hope to god that none of you ever have to bury a child, killed by a speeding motorist.
Just 5mph over 30 can be the difference between life and death.
It's 30 for a reason. |
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