Home Secretary Alan Johnson visits St Peters Leicester

(HD Video's and Extensive Slide Show coming soon...)
St Peters was pleased to welcome Alan Johnson the Home Secretary to our neighbourhood in Leicester.

He was met at the Highfields Centre by local Police including Inspector Shane O'Neill and community workers from the Highfields Centre including Priya Thamotheram along with local councillors Hanif Aqbany and Mohammed Dawood.

The day started early with school children on the way to nearby schools being greeted by the rare sight of a police sniffer dog checking out Stoughton Street and Oxendon Street.

Naturally we are pleased to report that nothing more malevolent than plenty of litter greeted it on its rounds. (Especially that permanent litter blighted eyesore, the Highfields Centre Rear 5 bay car park that we can't seem to be able to persuade Highfields Centre Management to keep clean.)

The Home Secretary, Alan Johnson is the UK's top policeman with over arching responsibility for crime fighting.

The Leicester Mercury reports that the Home Secretary feels that the crime figures for this area of leicester were really good and how Leicester is a place that other parts of the country can learn lessons from.

He also praised the Highfields Centre as being a "magnificent place" that brings people together from various communities.

He also is reported as stating that Leicestershire had been at the vanguard of community policing since before it very conception and how money taken from criminals will now be used for community projects.

Profile raising praising...

Naturally, with the profile raising praising for our Highfields Centre, local residents here hope it will spur the Highfields Centre Management into now keeping the litter cleared within its perimetre and perhaps get the 2 yr old grafitti cleared off its walls lest it be 'found wanting' in the 'magnificent places' stakes.

We also encourage the Highfields Centre and Leicester City Council to now put in a bid for litter bins that should have been added around its perimetre on completion of its construction. New litter bins perhaps funded from the proceeds of local criminals.

StPetersNM will bring you HD Video and Photo Slide Shows of this visit in next few days.... so watch this space.

Article Written by Albert Berer
Photography by Albert Berer
Date Written June 26th 2009
Date last Modified June 27th 2009
Status: Article in Progress

 

 

 

June 2009 - Graffiti Grandad Filmed

This man, decided to graffiti the wall of a local mosque here in St Peters.

Now we are intent on identifying him so we may get action taken against him.

Do you recognise him? If so please contact us and let us know who he is.

Please be assured your anonymity will be retained.

Video coming soon... watch this space.

June 2009 - More Litter Louts Filmed

These two people really were pretty appalling in the way they threw not only food remains but also the sandwich bags and even a plastic carrier bag itself down onto the ground next to our Highfields Centre and all with total arrogance that they could do this without any fear of anyone saying or doing anything about it.

And then they just walked away and left it all to blight us all until the council came clear up.

They showed total contempt for this neighbourhood and the people who live here.

What really aggravates their case is the fact that they were 10 feet or so from a litter bin. Although even if they were not, they ought to have brought it all home to discard.

How are these people we film littering, being brought up?

Now we are intent on identifying them so we may get action taken against them.

Do you recognise them? If so please contact us and let us know who they are.

Please be assured your anonymity will be retained.

See the video of this litter lout and some of the other Litter Louts we have filmed here in St Peters, Highfields, Leicester.

This video is downloadable in HD 1280 x 720 MPEG4. This is a much higher quality format that will display on most modern computer displays. Please email us and we will send you the link to this video in High Definition.

He can also find himself on YouTube

Article Written by Albert Berer
Photography by Albert Berer
Date Written June 15th 2009
Date last Modified June 15th 2009
Status: Complete

 

The Foxes of St Peters

St Peters - Highfields... Leicester, has a wealth of greenscaping that brings in birds, insects, badgers and foxes.

Our website designers and Leicester based Digital Media wizards (Webwordwizards)have prepared new digital media video for us showing some of our many foxes.

This Video is 80MB in size and will play intermittently on first play as it downloads.

Where are our new litter bins? - A 'Risk It or Bin It' Campaign Article.

With our launch of our 'Risk It or Bin It' campaign we take a timely look at the six new bins LCC put into the neighbourhood in May 2008 as a result of our 5 month campaign to get 50 new bins here. (Read more...)

Article Written by Mel
Photography by Mel
Date Written March 8th 2009
Date last Modified March 10th 2009
Status: Article in Progress

Overflowing Council Bins Outside our Homes

Article in Progress...

Article Written by Mel
Photography by Mel
Date Written Jan 27th 2009
Date last Modified Feb 12th 2009
Status: Article in Progress

 

A number of local residents have emailed into Stpetersnm.com expressing concern about the increasing incidence dog fouling on the paths throughout the neighbourhood.

In particular they have expressed anger that either they or their children have stepped in the dogs mess and then having walked it into their homes. One lady described to us how she had to scrape it of her daughters shoe.

Another resident said "stpetersnm should film people like this" who allow "their dogs to crap all over the place" and "put them on the website".

Well, we agree. Like any other littering, people who fail to pick up and dispose of their dog mess in St Peters risk having their photo placed on the St Peters neighbourhood website here so we can try to identify them and pass the details to Leicester City Council's environmental crime unit for enforcement action to be taken.

Update 22nd Feb 2009:

True to our word the team at St Peters NM has now filmed and photographed a number of people in St Peters who walk their dogs in our neighbourhood without cleaning up after them. See our ignorant dog owners slide show ...

Article Written by Albert Berer
Photography by St Peters NM Environment Team
Date Written Jan 27th 2009
Date last Modified Feb 23rd 2009
Status: Article in Progress

 

St Peters Neighbourhood Management Board provide funding for new trees.

See our stunning HD Digital Media Video (30MB)
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We had some money (approx £700) left over in our neighbourhood management budget and decided to try to find a way to spend it in a way that would have a long term benefit to the whole community and neighbourhood here in St Peters, Leicester.

After some thought the suggestion was raised that with the loss to the community of so many trees (at least a dozen) in recent years in the vicinity of the Highfields Centre and local school that we ought to reinstate at least some of them to what extent we are able.

In recent years, in the bid to build the new Highfields Centre, four cherry trees were removed and never reinstated. Whilst, in the grounds of an adjacent school, several more cherry trees in what is now the Highfields Centre car park fell to the chainsaw.

During 2008 this arboreal massacre persisted with the destruction and removal of three significant and well established trees in the grounds of the school car park in order to make way for 2 additional parking spaces.

So although we only have the funds to put in four trees at this time we hope it will go some small way to give back to the community something towards what has been lost and to undo in some small way at least the erosion of our greenscaping which after all is the neighbourhoods greatest asset.

The trees chosen will be colourful for approx 2 months of the year with vibrant yellow blossom. We hope it will improve the appearance of what is a major walkway for many hundreds of people each weeks as they walk between the area of the shops, highfields Library and Highfields Centre and the centre of St Peters via Galaxy Walk and the walkway towards Pluto Close and Framland House.

Many of us hope to see more trees being planted in this area very soon also.

St Peters NM would like to thank Leicester City Council and the Parks and Trees team who planted the trees here for us. But would add that we also hope that Leicester City Council will add to this with more new trees in this vicinity in the very near future.

Article Written by Mel
Photography by Mel
Date Written March 1st 2008
Date last Modified March 1st 2008
Status: Article Complete

 

Blackbirds become tolerated trespassers in a St Peters hanging basket

Each year like clockwork, a blackbird returns to her nest in St Peters and begins to patch up and repair her nest. This video and photography taken in May 2008 shows the family snuggled into their nest in an annexed hanging basket at the doorway of a maisonette somewhere right here in St Peters.

This year in 2009 we are awaiting news of her safe return to set up home again here once more.

Stpetersnm.com promises to keep you all posted... and the moment we hear she has returned again we will let you know and bring you coverage with new HD digital media of her arrival.

(See Digital Media HD VIDEO ...)

(Article, Slide Show and HD Video Digital Media in Progress...)