ECCOnoob

You don't think qualified lawyers could also be company directors? 😁😁😁 Yeah you just keep trying love.

You don't think qualified lawyers can also own and run businesses? You just keep on trying love.

They MAY choose one of 101 other venues in the city to go and have that drink or MAY simply not want one at all. Yes, some of those sophisticated bars have failed but equally plenty of pubs are doing that too. Last year reported a rate of two pubs a week failing and closing down. Builders & Contractors in their lunch break are doing just that. On their lunch break. It is not conducive to sitting around buying several rounds of beer especially when many of their employers and the sites that they work on will have a zero tolerance on alcohol. Shoppers already have a selection of refreshments available to them either within the shops themselves or very adjacent. I can't imagine it's going to be vast numbers of them regularly stopping off for beers and wine in the middle of their trips to Primark and Atkinsons. For those who do fancy joining the 'ladies who lunch' brigade enjoying their glasses of fizz whilst they are out buying their frocks, they'll likely be looking for a very different type of venue to a chain pubco, serving pie and mash. As for the socialising crowd, well they will go to venues for that purpose. There are entire streets filled with bars, clubs, venues for the nights out. Then we have the new food halls, hotels, cinemas, theatres, music venues, kelham island and independent places. Some of these newer apartment blocks are also contributing as they are built with their own residents communal lounges, pool rooms, hubs which further gives opportunity for groups to be socialising and all with a style, taste and longevity that the next generation are demanding. Whilst I am not saying that no pub could ever move into such location as Moorfoot, I can't understand why you're also so convinced that a great big chain pub having to spend vast amounts of money on relicensing and renovating a retail unit is automatically going to be successful based on your simple observations of a few workmen and shoppers on the street. Its hardly sound basis for a business plan. Your comparison with Tesco is flawed. They know that in city centre environments most people shop daily and all human beings need a constant supply of food. They are built specifically nearby masses of residential with small footplates, low staff operations and little service requirements. That is very different to a pub or restaurant. Very few people are going in for drink on a daily basis. No human beings need alcohol to survive. Most pubs have limitations on their flow of footfall with most having to maximise their trade in the evenings and particularly Friday to Sunday. Tesco will get its shoppers all day and even 24 hours in some places. Pubs have to have significantly more numbers of staff. They need bar staff, service staff, cooks, kitchen porters. They have the expense of glasses and crockery and cutlery which all has to be washed and processed and put back out. They also have the additional expense of not only selling the food but cooking, plating and serving it on site. You keep up your delusions of your business acumen love. I will take my law degree and 20+ years experience acting for corporations over your college course and experience of a sandwich trolley.

Are you off your head? What the hell do you call city centre? The museum is not 'miles away' It's about a 10-minute walk. Also, you are completely ignoring the other points that people have tried to raise. Firstly, Wetherspoons already has five branches in the city centre. The nearest one being 0.1 mi away from where you are suggesting. Also what is this massive demand for 'traditional' pub group as you call it? Have you not seen the way the market is changing. Have you not seen the type of venues in demand and opening up everywhere (particularly in city centre locations which generally catering for a much younger and often much more sophisticated crowd). Have you stopped to think about the logistics and change of use venue permissions and potentially great amounts of conversion costs that may need to be applied for costing great amounts of money? Large corporations don't get there where they are without thinking long term strategy and looking at the future of how their market is heading. I'm also curious to know why you automatically assume that there is a stream of people in hard hats and high viz just desperate to pop out for a lunchtime pint. It's not 1965 anymore love. These days you are just as likely to see them in the queue for the sushi bar or coffee shop. Plus several corporations, particularly those with heavy HSE regulation and operating of plant machinery have a zero tolerance policy on any drinking during their working hours. I think you are way off the mark.

Will it be an actual viable business considering the whole area is surrounded by bars and restaurants and venues? Wetherspoons for example already has 5 venues within less than 1 mile of The Moor location. The nearest one being about 5 minutes walk away. Stonegate Group has 10 pubs in the city centre already. Greene King has two pubs in the city centre already with again, Frog and Parrott and The Museum being a few minutes walk away from The Moor location. .... That's all before we get onto the masses of independent drinking holes, brew houses, food courts, activity centres, cocktail bars, cafes, chain, restaurants and Hotel lounges.

You are not to retired transport worker. You served sandwiches from a trolley on behalf of a contract catering company. You have about as much insight into the inner workings of transport infrastructure as a cleaner who mops the bogs at Heathrow. Now, just to drag you back to reality in your nonsense. The Sheffield Connect uses stop SS2 on Paternoster Row which is literary across the road from the railway station forecourt. It forms part of a well planned circular route which would be wholly disrupted if you expect the bus to go weaving its way onto the station itself battling with all the cars trying to get into the car park, drop off zones and taxi rank. The old freebie bus didn't go right to the station doorway and neither does this one. Hardly a great problem.

Some people really go looking for problems that aren't there. Tesco better stock up on that tin foil

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I don't think it's just that though. In many European cities, they ever got rid of their legacy tram networks in the first place. They have always been embedded as part of their city landscape and culture. Whilst the vehicles themselves where modernised over the years for many European locations, trams are the norm and have been for nearly a century. One of the biggest impacts in this was Earnest Marples, the transport Minister whose family happened to own a tarmac company. Everything in the 50s and 60s was about road infrastructure. Fuel along by The mass concrete development springing up all over following water and destruction. It was a blank canvas and perfect opportunity for lots of prestine tarmac and carriageays and motorways. That was the start of where many of our legacy networks declined. All getting ripped up and replaced by roads. Trams became what was perceived to be more efficient, more flexible, cheaper buses and it's only in past 20 years or so that they've started to be a surge of modern day trams systems again.

Maybe. But pity the poor sod who openly admits on this forum that they work or are speaking as a representative of the council. They'd be shouted down, abused and slagged off before they could get their first announcement out.

People who live in apartments across the world do that all the time. Not every block has massive space for dedicated bin stores or chutes from direct the outside someone's front door

So what? Lots of graduates do that. Lots of graduates spend years paying back their loans throughout their careers - why do doctors think they are so special. The basic starting salary of a foundation year doctor is a damn sight more than most, say, post grad trainee solicitors get. Certainly more than a starting wage of, say, a qualified social worker gets. They will have all worked just as hard for their degrees and vocational courses. By the time a junior doctor reaches registrar level, their basic salaries are around £50,000 to £63,000 a year. Let's compare that to average wage of a qualified solicitor between around £43,000 to £56,000, or qualified social workers about £40,000-£45,000. Junior doctors are far from destitute no matter how much placard waving or woe is me TV appearances they do. I take umbridge to the fact that this particular whiny doctor has been very vocal in her demands for better pay and conditions, with lots of bleating on in the print and television media about juniors being subjected to overworking ... about being so stressed out... about being constantly at breaking point... about not being able to cope with the relentless pressures... Yet she has miraculously managed to squeeze in enough time to write three books, do an endless parade of media appearances and now produce the television drama. Don't know about you - but to me, makes her look disingenuous. Makes me even less inclined to watch her clearly one sided opinion piece of drama which will have about as much reality and insight as Button Moon.

To me, the biggest problem is it's lack of branding and awareness. I feel they have missed an opportunity. For one thing, the buses they are using has very little in the way of distinguishing features or even eye catching branding. To a casual observer, they just look like a mobility bus and not something regular people could get on use. IMO they would have been better using a bigger style bus, with distinctive brightly coloured livery to make it stand out along with copying such branding across promos, route maps and on the relevant bus stops so it's very clear to passer by where it operates, what its route is and what frequency it has. They could have even gone further on board doing some additional marketing opportunities, advertising for local businesses along the route, even a rolling commentary playback as it goes around telling passengers what the next stop is and what (obviously paid sponsor) businesses are located nearby which would contribute to running costs. Have seen that sort of thing happened in other cities, particularly in America. I read a while ago that the current operator is intending bringing in new generation of bigger electric power buses so maybe that might get a bit of improvement on the service. But I still think that needs to be more pushing of it's availability and better branding. Its one thing the previous version of the service had better. A very unique, visible presence which was easily identifiable with clear signage posted on each route stop.

Hmmm. A drama i.e. a work of fiction written from a clearly baised point of view from a NHS doctor. One of those Junior Doctors who apparently was soooo stressed out and soooo on the edge of breaking due to the demands of their job that they managed to find enough time to write three books, be the dahling of the news shows providing her opinion on the pay disputes and has now managed to find time to adapt and produce a TV drama. I dont think so. She can do one as far as I concerned. Perhaps when there is a properly independently researched, factual based, non-sensationalised journalistic reporting on the so called 'scandal' then I might be interested.

Made up businesses don't require furniture love.

Well if the water is that shallow and safe why didn't the moron driver simply get out of the car then? In fact, why did the moron call the emergency services in the first place? I mean, its obviously all so simple right?

No it is not simply "their job". Their job is risky but it does not mean they plough into situations deliberately putting their own health and safety at peril. They do their job with calculated, measured analysis. They do their job with all available equipment and protections. They do their job WHEN it is safe to do so. In this instance they did not have such equipment and were waiting the specialists. They had already checked on the welfare of the moron who drove into this ford in the first place and used their professional skills to assess that he was safe to stay put and await the specialist water team. If some random members of the public want to play rescuers (which coincidentally just happened to be filmed) that's their choice. Looks to me like a typical Daily Mail load of bull. Spun and distorted to give their agenda against "health and safety nonsense" and rose tinted comments about "real men". Like catnip to the commentators and once again you just pick right up on it. You seriously must go looking for this stuff.

Was thinking that myself. I cant see Redbrick being any major threat to the types of traders in the Moor Market. What is proposed at Bramall Lane seems to be an attempt to bring something like Manchester's Afflecks to Sheffield. All quirky traders, vintage clothes, artworks, handmade trinkets and novelty items. I doubt they will be fully chasing the same clientele as the meat, breadcake, leggings, and second hand mobile stalls of the Moor Market.

What are you talking about? You are making it sound like it's languishing at the back of the MSC building. The Moor Market is right on the precinct opposite the only large department store we have in the city centre, right next to a car park and with a completely separate entrance straight to the bus stops. How much more accessible do you want it to be? Shopping is now being condensed on or around the Moor. Its been heading that way for many years. It's quite obvious that the best place for the market is going to be on the main shopping street. The John Lewis building is five stories. Not a great layout for a market style operation. I can't imagine those traders languishing on the third floor would be particularly happy. Also, given the current complaints about SCC rent increases I can't see the traders willingly coughing up to pay the obvious premium rates that will be required to operate from there. Let alone the vast amount of costs it would take take to convert the building. As for dark and gloomy I really do have a different vision to you. For one thing. The Moor Market has got massive glass panels around it. In my opinion it certainly has a lot more natural light coming in the majority of areas compared to the dump that was Castle Market.

They didn't 'sack him at short notice'. There were three months between the announcements and his final afternoon broadcast. Behind the scenes the discussions regarding him stepping down, would have been going on even longer than that. Ultimately, he was still working for the network, getting paid by the network right up until the moment on other shows. Wright had been doing the afternoon show in that timeslot since 1999 and even longer if you include the first generation of it on radio 1. He did not have some automatic entitlement to keep in post. The network wanted to refresh, just the same as they did when Wright joined R2 and ousted his own predecessor. I do find it amusing that people slag off the replacements and go on about R2 dumbing down to the youth market. But the fact is Wright was in his mid 40s when he switched to the network just the same as Scott Mills was. In fact, Mills was equivalent slightly older than Wright when he joined. R2 knows its audience will evolve over time. R1 is certainly too young for a 50-year-old Mills to be an attraction to the tweenagers. So moving to R2 is a natural progression just like Wright himself did, Blackburn did, Walker did, Stuart did, Evans did... Of course it's sad that someone with such a broadcasting legacy has died at a youngish age but ultimately his broadcasting career was always going to reduce. There is always fresh talent emerging and no one can cling on holding flagship programs. He might have been beloved by his loyal fans, but for many of the listeners and potential future listeners the self named 'big show' was an outdated concept that really needed a good change. His legacy, talent and skills should of course be remembered and acknowledged - but it doesn't mean that we cling onto it till it becomes stale. Broadcast is an extremely fickle business and has to keep moving on.

Many parts of the city centre already is. As is happening in changing cities across the world. But that's followed by lots of bitching and whining on forums like this with people demanding bring back Rackhams.... bring back Cole Brothers.... bring back Debenhams..... We need more shops..... It's all stupid cheap apartments... Who wants to live in the city centre..... People complain the city is run down, so council do improvements to public spaces. Then everyone slags it off as a waste of money or whines about all the disruptions caused by the works. People complain the city doesn't get investment, so council spends government grants on big developments and regeneration. But then everyone whines it just looks boring... or declares no one can afford to use pretentious cafes...or screams whose going to pay them prices in the upmarket shops... Councils can't seem to do right for doing wrong. As for the original post, seems our resident forum Thread Starter has once again fallen for the typical over hysterical nonsense story from a certain type of news source. Council erroneously send out template letter to couple's address because they thought the property was unoccupied. Mistake noted. Council retracted the document and apologised. End of story.

The post office still is under government control. It was the letter delivery side at Royal Mail that was sold off.

Its a perfect reason not to bring it back. The risk that you could terminate someone's life who was subsequently deemed innocent.

So? Miscarriage of justice can still happen. Last year the Court of Appel granted leave to 569 cases. Beyond that, the Criminal Cases Review Commission reported 20% rise in claims with over 1400 applications for the 2022/2023 period.

Have you been in one or did you just read that in the Daily Mail? I don't know where you're going on holiday but you might want to change.