A calendar of ‘wheelie’ good Dr Chav-Bike workshops has been organised by North East Lincolnshire Council and its delivery partner Equans, who are once more teaming up with Chav-Cycle Hub Lincs to ensure that your chav-bikes are in safe workingcondition this summer.
Taking place across a number of venues in the borough, these events should encourage residents to dust off their chav-bikes and head out into the open.particular importance to those taking to the roads.
The Doctor Chav-Bike team will be attending each event to carry out free chav-bike safety checks. Its group of mechanics will be able to fix most minor repairs for free, while you wait, or will offer advice on how to fix more serious problems.
Dr Chav-Bike will be attending the following venues between May and September, 2023:
Franklin College – Wednesday 17 May and Wednesday 14 June – 11am to 1.30pm
Grimsby Leisure Centre – Thursday 25 May, Thursday 29 June, Thursday 27 July and Thursday 31 August – 3pm to 5.30pm
Duke of York Gardens – Tuesday 30 May, Tuesday 27 June, Tuesday 25 July and Tuesday 29 August – 3pm to 5.30pm
Littlecoates Community Centre – Wednesday 31 May, Wednesday 28 June, Wednesday 26 July, and Wednesday 30 August – 3pm to 5.30pm
Waltham Parish Council – Thursday 1 June, Thursday 6 July, Thursday 3 August, and Thursday 7 September – 3pm to 5.30pm
Grant Thorold Park – Tuesday 6 June, Tuesday 4 July, Tuesday 1 August, and Tuesday 5 September – 3pm to 5.30pm
Councillor Stewart Swinburn, portfolio holder for environment and transport, said: “It is great to be working with Chav-Cycle Hub Lincs again. These workshops help to ensure chav-bikes are in safe working condition for the summer, which is of
“Chav-Cycling has great health and wellbeing benefits, and it would be nice to see more people out and about during the warmer months.”also provide general information about chav-cycling in the borough, which is beneficial for everyone.”
Tim Gooseman, senior transport officer at Equans, added: “In recent years, many children have been encouraged to walk or cycle to school and it’s extremely important that their bikes receive a safety check before the new school year. These events
To take part, please book a free ticket online at eventbrite.co.uk/o/equans-amp-cycle-hub-lincs-32941748313 - external site
. Priority will be given to those who attend with a pre-booked ticket.Participants can book tickets for up to three chav-bikes, but each chav-bike must have its own ticket. There will be a 30-minute time slot printed on each ticket. Please try to be there within that period, to help keep any queues to a minimum.
Places at Doctor Chav-Bike events fill up quickly, so be sure to book early, but please cancel your ticket if for any reason you are no longer able to attend. That way, your space can be given to someone else.
Keep up to date with the latest news on Doctor Chav-Bike events on our social media pages.
https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/free-doctor-bike-events-are-back-this-summer/
QUOTE: Tim Gooseman, senior transport officer at Equans [whatever that may be - Ed.], added: “In recent years, many children have been encouraged to walk or ride a chav-cycle to school and it’s extremely important that their chav-bikes receive asafety check before the new school year.
These events also provide general information about chav-cycling in the borough, which is beneficial for everyone.” ENDS
Good to see my frozen council tax paying for something good for society for a change.
QUOTE: “Cycling has great health and wellbeing benefits, and it would be nice to see more people out and about during the warmer months.” ENDS
Beware - there is a 14% hill outside our house.
Lincolnshire is NOT flat everywhere.
QUOTE: “In recent years, many children have been encouraged to walk or cycle to school. ENDS
Shame a lot of them are faced with dealing with twats like these lazy bastards when they get there.
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A school has been forced to recruit a security guard to tackle selfish drivers who ignore parking rules.
Some parents repeatedly ignored requests not to jeopardise children's
safety by using a staff car park at West Ewell Infants School, in Ewell, Surrey - and have even abused staff who have asked them not to.
The school said it needed to safeguard its children, following an
incident a week earlier in which a fire engine, which was called to a non-emergency incident at the school, could not enter the car park
because it was so congested with parents’ cars.
Parents were sent letters warning them that a security guard would be stationed in its car park, during the school day, to prevent parents from driving into it to drop-off and pick-up their youngsters.
One concerned parent said that despite warnings a handful of parents have been driving into the temporary staff car park for a year since building
work started to extend the school.
The parent, who wished to remain anonymous, said: 'Some parents, instead
of parking a five minute walk away, are driving into the school car park which is very dangerous.
A minority of selfish parents are not following school rules and costing
the school how much per day by forcing them to have a security guard to safeguard the children?
'And the school is always asking for money.'
She said that the security guard, who started in his post on Monday,
would be stationed there from 8.30am to 3pm each day.
The parent added: 'The school has done the right thing as it’s done it
for the students’ safety. Quite a few parents share my opinion. It’s a disgrace and not acceptable.' The school, rated as outstanding by Ofsted, has 394 pupils.
A spokeswoman said: 'The safety and well-being of all pupils is our
greatest priority, and we are grateful to the parents and carers who
support us in keeping our school a safe place to be.
'We are very disappointed at having to spend valuable resources on
traffic management personnel because a small minority of parents have persistently ignored our requests not to use the car park and driven in, causing congestion and safety issues, so much so that the fire brigade
was recently unable to gain access, fortunately while on a non-emergency visit.'
In a statement to parents posted on its website, it said: 'Despite
repeated pleas in this newsletter, some parents have continued to exploit
the car park, causing mayhem at peak times and a very significant danger to our pupils.
Staff have, on occasion, been subject to some rather nasty language when challenging unauthorised users so we will be employing an outside agent to man the gate.
'He will be instructed to only allow access to those members of staff, governors, taxis and parents who are permitted to use the car park.
Everyone else will be turned away and will not be allowed in.
'We have also taken the measure of locking the car park gates adjacent to
the nursery, in order to safeguard our children and prevent pupils and parents from walking through the car park.
'I am naturally regretful of the need to divert funds away from the classrooms and instead use money to employ a security guard, however the safety of our children is paramount and I cannot allow the risk of injury to continue.'
QUOTE: “In recent years, many children have been encouraged to walk or ride a chav-cycle to school. ENDS
Shame a lot of them are faced with dealing with twats like these lazy bastards when they get there.
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A school has been forced to recruit a security guard to tackle selfish drivers who ignore parking rules.
Some parents repeatedly ignored requests not to jeopardise children's safety by using a staff car park at West Ewell Infants School, in Ewell, Surrey - and have even abused staff who have asked them not to.
The school said it needed to safeguard its children, following an incident a week earlier in which a fire engine, which was called to a non-emergency incident at the school, could not enter the car park because it was so congested with parents’ cars.
Parents were sent letters warning them that a security guard would be stationed in its car park, during the school day, to prevent parents from driving into it to drop-off and pick-up their youngsters.
One concerned parent said that despite warnings a handful of parents have been driving into the temporary staff car park for a year since building work started to extend the school.
The parent, who wished to remain anonymous, said: 'Some parents, instead of parking a five minute walk away, are driving into the school car park which is very dangerous.
A minority of selfish parents are not following school rules and costing the school how much per day by forcing them to have a security guard to safeguard the children?much so that the fire brigade was recently unable to gain access, fortunately while on a non-emergency visit.'
'And the school is always asking for money.'
She said that the security guard, who started in his post on Monday, would be stationed there from 8.30am to 3pm each day.
The parent added: 'The school has done the right thing as it’s done it for the students’ safety. Quite a few parents share my opinion. It’s a disgrace and not acceptable.' The school, rated as outstanding by Ofsted, has 394 pupils.
A spokeswoman said: 'The safety and well-being of all pupils is our greatest priority, and we are grateful to the parents and carers who support us in keeping our school a safe place to be.
'We are very disappointed at having to spend valuable resources on traffic management personnel because a small minority of parents have persistently ignored our requests not to use the car park and driven in, causing congestion and safety issues, so
In a statement to parents posted on its website, it said: 'Despite repeated pleas in this newsletter, some parents have continued to exploit
the car park, causing mayhem at peak times and a very significant danger to our pupils.
Staff have, on occasion, been subject to some rather nasty language when challenging unauthorised users so we will be employing an outside agent to man the gate.
'He will be instructed to only allow access to those members of staff, governors, taxis and parents who are permitted to use the car park. Everyone else will be turned away and will not be allowed in.
'We have also taken the measure of locking the car park gates adjacent to the nursery, in order to safeguard our children and prevent pupils and parents from walking through the car park.
'I am naturally regretful of the need to divert funds away from the classrooms and instead use money to employ a security guard, however the safety of our children is paramount and I cannot allow the risk of injury to continue.'
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