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Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 97 222 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:49
	It's all well and good building new houses but they don't seem to think it through do they Gwyn The hospitals and schools already can't cope
	Researching: Give a dog a bone!
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 29 616 Send Message	Von	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:49
	Our council tax is up too. One of the most expensive boroughs
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 29 616 Send Message	Von	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:48
	We’re lucky here re the hospital as funding has been earmarked for a new build. Will take a while yet though
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 27 459 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:47
	Council tax up by 4.9% too. They'll get money off us somehow
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 97 222 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:47
	I think our Council just added it to the Council Tax the following year
	Researching: Give a dog a bone!
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 29 616 Send Message	Von	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:46
	We don’t think we will pay. I have some empty compost bins and any perennial weeds we’ll take to the tip.
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 53 988 Send Message	Ann	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:46
	I remember that now Belle
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 27 459 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:46
	'Poor' council has to try to get in cash to replenish the coffers after some expensive decisions, which fell through Still waiting to see whether a new garden town will be built a few miles from here..... no new hospital of course, so what will waiting lists be like then?
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 97 222 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:43
	They started charging us must be 6-7 years back .....very few took them up which meant the local dump was heaving with people so much so that the queue of cars stretched back to a major roundabout which caused havoc Others just fly tipped their garden waste I paid think I was one of about half a dozen in our street The following year they removed the charge
	Researching: Give a dog a bone!
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 53 988 Send Message	Ann	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:40
	Wow that is expensive Gwyn Think ours was around £34 if you applied by a certain date to renew
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 97 222 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:39
	Are you a gardener, Kath
	Researching: Give a dog a bone!
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 29 616 Send Message	Von	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:39
	I think our council will be charging after April.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 27 459 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:38
	Our garden bin is collected all year, once a fortnight, except for a short break over Christmas. Have had notification it will be £61.70 for the coming year
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 97 222 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:38
	I'd hate to live in Birmingham....it looks dire
	Researching: Give a dog a bone!
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 53 988 Send Message	Ann	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:38
	I know
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 97 222 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:37
	Two years
	Researching: Give a dog a bone!
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 53 988 Send Message	Ann	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:37
	Oh better shut up then Belle
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 97 222 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:36
	They don't charge Ann unlike a lot of councils now
	Researching: Give a dog a bone!
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 53 988 Send Message	Ann	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:36
	2 years ago today since we lost Emms
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 29 616 Send Message	Von	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:36
	I keep getting butterflies in the greenhouse but not sure if they are hatching in there or just flying in now that I’m opening the door more often

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