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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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Profile	Posted by	Options	Post Date
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 95 680 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:36
	They don't charge Ann unlike a lot of councils now :-0
	Researching: Give a dog a bone!
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 53 188 Send Message	Ann	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:37
	Oh better shut up then Belle :-D :-D
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 95 680 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:37
	Two years :-0 :-0 <3 <3
	Researching: Give a dog a bone!
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 53 188 Send Message	Ann	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:38
	I know :-(
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 95 680 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:38
	I'd hate to live in Birmingham....it looks dire :-0 :-0
	Researching: Give a dog a bone!
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 27 193 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 :-0
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 29 111 Send Message	Von	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:39
	I think our council will be charging after April. :-( :-(
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 95 680 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:39
	Are you a gardener, Kath :-)
	Researching: Give a dog a bone!
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 53 188 Send Message	Ann	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:40
	Wow that is expensive Gwyn :-0 Think ours was around £34 if you applied by a certain date to renew :-)
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 95 680 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 :-0 :-0 Others just fly tipped their garden waste :-\| I paid think I was one of about half a dozen in our street :-0 :-0 The following year they removed the charge :-0 :-0
	Researching: Give a dog a bone!
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 27 193 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: October 2005 Posts: 53 188 Send Message	Ann	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:46
	I remember that now Belle :-)
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 29 111 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. :-0
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 95 680 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:47
	I think our Council just added it to the Council Tax the following year :-0 :-0
	Researching: Give a dog a bone!
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 27 193 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: January 2004 Posts: 29 111 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: January 2004 Posts: 29 111 Send Message	Von	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:49
	Our council tax is up too. One of the most expensive boroughs :-\| :-\|
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 95 680 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: March 2006 Posts: 95 680 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:50
	Mine went up 4.9% too :-\|
	Researching: Give a dog a bone!
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 53 188 Send Message	Ann	Report	22 Mar 2025 19:51
	Well we have to pay for all their wage increases expenses and jollies to all the pub and eatery meetings throughout the year….they are all on the take just like Westminster :-0 :-0 :-\|

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