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In a shocking turn up,

as the rest of Liverpool

and the rest of the

country was burnt and

looted, the much media

maligned community of

Kensington and

Fairfield refused to take

part in the August

riots.

Despite reports that the

area would be beset by

rampaging teen disorder,

the two nights of the so

called “Riots” turned out to be as one local

put it “Much quieter than usual, there

were hardly any street drinkers out

there either, Event he Bus Stop (the

smallest pub in Britain) was deserted”.

The Voice‟s very own Mystery Scoffer

made the effort to drive around the area on

both nights in order to report on the

predicted lawlessness from our

disadvantaged neighbourhood only to

contact us via his satellite phone to

say “Why had Jimmy’s Grill shut so

early, all I wanted was quick Shish

kebab, sod this I’m going for a early

night?”

Early indications show that no more 99p

worth of damage was reported during the

whole two nights and this occurred when a

can of Skol Super was accidentally

dropped by a local resident on his way

home to “Get out of the way of all these

friggin’ rioting kids”

The can‟s owner was later seen licking the

pavement at the scene of what was to be

eventually called the “Can incident” when

he realised rioting wasn‟t taking place.

The Voice has always considered itself to

be “the acceptable face of community

news in Kensington and Fairfield” and it

has left us wondering “How much effect

the mainstream media and

the new social media had

on actually stoking up and

perpetuating the extent of

the rioting and what really

was the cause of the social

unrest?”

To try and answer this the

entire middle section of this

issue of the Voice has been

set aside to look at what went

wrong and maybe why. But as

always it is up to you the

reader to make your own

mind up about what didn‟t happen in

Kensington and Fairfield.

TURN TO PAGES 6&7.

Stock Photo of the Youths Rioting which

Illustrate the type of activity which didn't take place

in Kensington and Fairfield in August

Also In The VOiCE

Old Dick and a dog called

Nugget

Deane Rd Cemetery an update

on the Local Heritage Project

Mystery Scoffer plays it safe at

The Corner Cafe

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ARIES Plasma screen, Plasma screen, on the wall, who has the most stolen goods of all? Yes! It wasn‟t me you exclaim!, relaxing in your Aladdin‟s cave of booty, “ On the night of the riots I was on my way to auntie Doreen‟s she‟d locked herself in the outside loo, that‟s why I was carrying that crowbar”. You want to steal everything you see especially if it‟s shiny and made out of plastic. I‟ll be around later for my two hundred Super kings.

TAURUS Problems you come up against now are great opportunities to learn more about yourself and your inability to solve dilemmas. Confront a difficult situation as opposed to burying your face in that can of Skol super strength as you're inclined to do. Spending a little time sober and deliberating over possible solutions will give you a number of alternatives to choose from. Even if you don't solve the whole puzzle you‟re chaotic lifestyle is sure to improve, you may even realise that you are now the proud owner of a badly broken nose. So up! Up! And away...this is your last chance.

GEMINI Yes the neighbours have seen you chatting away to yourself, your imaginary friends have come out to play, it‟s important to get back on the medication asap. We don‟t want a repeat of your stark naked entrance at the Sheil Park Pub Darts night. Only yesterday you were escorted out of Iceland for doing interpretive dance whilst holding aloft a bunch of bananas and barking like a dog.

Cancer The corpulent among us are but the Angels of Buddha. Calorific manifestations of beatific stillness in the image of the One. Unmoved by the celebrity sanctioned, Botox injected, image pruning, Lipo suctioned fad diets of the Occident, instead they gorge on the fleshy fruit of life‟s rich harvest, they are one with the Master, eating all that swims, all that crawls, all that

is. Let he who has not overeaten cast the first scone.

Leo Your celebrity envy has not quite reached its zenith. All this is about to change. Feelings of low self esteem together with an enormous credit card bill will de-energise your aura in the celestial realm tearing the fabric of the space time continuum, awaking Jupiter in its elliptical aspect which will then circumspect your bewildering gullibility in the region of Uranus, while your

narcissism trines with Leo in the tenth house, sending your ocean liner of delusion right in to the path of a cold glistening iceberg of despair.

Virgo Sale ends Sunday! Everything must go! D U F Furniture have reeled you in again, you are now the proud owner of an oversized, eye popping, red, Memphis style, faux leather, Tex mex, nouvelle cuisine, Lego block they call a couch. Unfortunately it won‟t fit through the door of your new bijou, shoebox, Kensington Square dolls house, they call a Home.

Libra The one you have searched for your whole life, the one you have pined for, you‟re missing part, your soul mate, is spying on you through a hole in the wall. Yes it all makes sense now; the identity theft, the phone calls, the muffled giggling, the missing underwear, the Pizza deliveries. Your bosom heaves with anticipation, your breath quickens, oh! the eerie delight of it all, your eyes search frantically around the smokey red flock wallpaper. Come to me you whisper, come to me.

Scorpio Scorpio why worry? Be happy. Worrying is like trying to retrieve a golf ball from a hole with a chopstick, flying to the moon on a tooth brush, roller skating in a fish tank, ITS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Sometimes even erroneous thoughts can comfort us. Our thoughts are like water flowing through a tap we choose which ones we want to keep.

Sagittarius Events surrounding the Worlds Economic Crisis and your volunteer work have had a bigger impact on your psyche than you‟ve realised. Your dream of running naked through fields of Daffodils with Nick Clegg and David Cameron seemed so real. You were just about to enter the Pearly Gates of Big Society Heaven when the gate keeper Eric Pickles remarked “Have you done enough? Have you given enough of your

time for free? ” suddenly Eric turned into a Fondue trolley and as you awoke you realised you had wet the bed. Poor Saggy you long for times when things seemed so much simpler.

Capricorn

In the event of a nuclear holocaust the only thing left alive would be Cockroaches and Capricorns. Out will come the Goats from the wreckage and rubble, dusting themselves off, will gaze out at the eternal nuclear night where no sun shines and immediately declare war on their tenacious crawling bedfellows. No other sign is as acquainted with the cold steely heart of wretched evil and pain as that of our Capricornian friends.

AQUARIUS At your next Zumba class you will have an unfortunate collision with Miranda the instructor. You will be readying yourself for the laughing Monkey stance, leaping forward in your thick cushion hiking socks you will go sliding across the highly polished floor taking yourself and Miranda out through the fire door and down two flights of stairs, fracturing three of her ribs and putting yourself in traction for many weeks.

Pisces Your new pet Parrot Pavarotti is addicted to alcohol, nicotine, and last but not least Valium. His last owner didn‟t treat him particularly well and you are paying the price. Cold turkey is a subjective reality taking different forms and guises. In Pavarotti‟s‟ case he has taken to impersonating the everyday sounds we humans take for granted, car alarms, mobile phones, door bells, fire alarms, house phones, the Go Compare advertisement, microwave ovens, barking dogs, the flush, boiling kettles , to name a few. It‟s time the two of you considered counselling.

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Deane Road Cemetery, the burial home of some of Liverpool’s most renowned members of the Jewish community, is celebrating a much needed restoration grant. The Kensington site has been awarded £494,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund to further develop a restoration

programme which began in 2002 and is due for completion in spring 2012. The restoration project includes the clearing of massively overgrown foliage which has for a long time covered the headstones, and caused them to fall. Repair work will be carried out on the entrance archway which is Grade II listed and was built in brick with stucco and stone rendering in the Greek revival style. All fallen headstones are to be reerected along with the repairing of the boundary walls resurfacing of the driveway, and the reconstructing of gates and railings. This will also be

augmented by further landscaping work to finish. The final stages will include a visitor‟s centre added to the site for people wishing to visit the cemetery, which is to become

a stop on the heritage trail, offering free tours and to attract school. In September the cemetery held a National Heritage Open day and in October an Photographic and Art exhibition is being held. The official opening will be on 3rd September 2012 the 175 anniversary of its consecration The cemetery which is owned by The Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation (LOHC) and

Princes Road synagogue, is the burial place of Charles Mozley, Liverpool‟s first Jewish Lord

Mayor, Moses Samuel founder of H Samuel and David and Bertha Lewis (Lewis‟s department store) and Israel Barned the founder of the cemetery who died in1858. It has a capacity of 1500 including 800 babies and children and others buried there include clerics, artists, politicians, medics and musicians all of whom

changed the face of Victorian Liverpool. The site was first opened in 1835 and eventually closed in 1906. It has had several shelved restoration plans, one for a Rest Centre in 1978-80 and a more recent one in 1996 where £10,000 was promised but never received. At present the Jewish community and the Merseyside Probation Service Volunteers are involved in the restoring the site which has stood derelict for the last century.

Labour Cllr Louise Baldock is a member of the committee along with (LOHC) member Saul Marks and has been involved in taking care of events and publicity for the cemetery. Louise says “For nearly a hundred years people living in the immediate area have either been unaware of the cemetery or unable to gain access to it. This project will not only restore the cemetery and make it safe and

accessible for the next 100 years but it will make it a great stop on the city’s heritage trail, and once the visitors centre is open we should have something to be proud of ”. Alongside the 2010 lottery grant there have been many other donations from local businesses and organisations but further donations from the public are still welcome and can be given to (LOHC) at Princes Road Synagogue. You can find information about Deane Road Cemetery and how to make a donation on

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Hidden Gem In The Heart Of Kensington

Volunteers Working Hard to Clear Site

By the time this goes to print the August “riots” may have faded in memories, but the reasons behind them will still be there in our community, because the underlying problems will still be there. Well the good news is Kensington and Fairfield seems to have missed the worse of it, in fact it was very, very quiet round here, although joking aside there probably wasn‟t a lot to loot (there‟s not a big resale value for a 5 minute suntan, a nail treatment, 99p can of Skol Super or a kebab), although we could have been subjected to mindless damage I suppose. On the second night the story goes that the Police had concentrated their efforts on protecting the city‟s Crown Jewels which is the beloved Liverpool One or the Grand Temple of Consumption.

But let‟s take a quick look at the economics behind all of that, limited police resources being rallied to make sure the Grosvenor Estates didn‟t get their financial fingers burnt, (maybe the strap line for the place should be “Liverpool One, a great place to get into debt” ).

It would have been more than ironic and a tragedy if the rest of the city‟s small retailers businesses in disadvantaged areas had been sacrificed and laid waste on the altar of saving the income of out of town businesses owners.

So in the blame society we all live

in there‟s a lot of finger pointing

going on, the words Rats, Scum,

RIOT! bringing out

the “Hang and Flog

Em” even in the

most mild

mannered of

people, no real

analysis just blame,

let‟s all phone

Roger Phillps or

Pete Price and see

who can be the

most right

wing caller of

the day.

The Blame Game tends to split

down an anti government /pro

government fault line, one being

ungrateful anti social benefit

claimants rioting and the other that

it‟s all down the “Cuts”.

The problem with the second

argument is the cuts haven‟t even

been fully implemented yet, we‟re

just talking about them, we know

they‟ll be bad, and we know it‟s

going to affect the poorest, but

really the political party which is

historically supposed to protect

and change the lives of the poor

had thirteen years to make things

better. They had their chance and

didn‟t really change things at a

fundamental level.

Locally even after Kensington had

the £62.5 million spent here, there

doesn't seem to be any real,

proper jobs in the area? If there

are let me know.

Sheil Park Before the Riots...

...and after!

Let‟s be frank what sort of an example did some Labour MPs make, they had their snouts as deep in the trough as the Tories. In reality what is the difference between a labour MP fraudulently claiming for a 42” TV and getting their wrists slapped and a disenfranchised teenager taking one from Argos window, that is apart from filling out a claim form as opposed to wielding a brick. But it has been the Left who have been the main force complaining of cuts before they take place, they‟ve taken the bullet and, putting the bullet in the gun, have given our very own “insurgents” a reason for their anti social actions and let them pull the trigger. Their thirteen years in power didn‟t include a renaissance of the British industrial base, didn‟t really fundamentally improve education, and didn‟t create working class sense of aspiration or mobility, but they did let unlegislated Banks run out of control and let the rich get much richer and the poor gets lots poorer. 1997 the cake was rotten and Labour just put some very attractive icing on it. Like it not Cameron will sort this out, and as a consequence, the cuts will be implemented. The Tories will cure the rioting (by spending a few bob in strategic areas on window dressing, community safety measures and employing the inevitable expert consultants) and they will be a “successful” at solving the law and disorder problem and as

consequence they will win the next election even without the need for an emasculated Lib- Dems (who will get slaughtered). Job done, standby for a Tory government until at least until 2020, after all the Tories have nothing to lose by getting super tough, rioters don‟t vote after all, not even for Labour. I still blame Thatcher, I still blame her destruction of our industrial base, and I will definitely dance a jig when she finally dies, but the way it stands the working and underclass of the country have no one to represent them and people really just want work, a job that pays them enough to have aspirations, and a decent life in a decent house in a decent area, they want fear removed and a future. The Wire TV series sums it up thus “We used to make things in this country now we just put our hands in other people‟s pockets”. So what do you think? Email your comments to;

steve@kvfm.co.uk

...and after!

Polish Food Shop Before the Riots...

Riot is a statutory offence

in England and Wales. It is created by section 1(1) of the Public Order Act 1986

It is defined as being; Where 12 or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose

Mens rea is Latin for „guilty mind‟ In criminal law, it is viewed as one of the necessary elements of a crime

A person convicted of riot is liable to imprisonment for up to ten years

In the past, The Riot Act had to be read by an official - with the wording exactly correct - before violent policing action could take place. If the group did not disperse after the Act was read, lethal force could legally be used against the crowd.

There is an offence under the

law of Scotland which is known both as "mobbing" and "mobbing and rioting"

RIOT FACTFILE

Hello Old Dick Fans If you cast you mind back to the 1960‟s when local lad, MP and Prime Minister Harold Wislon had to devalue the £, and came out with the “Pound in your

pocket” speech, little did the nation realise that the cause of the economic crisis had its roots somewhere in Kensington and Fairfield. My tale begins with an ordinary looking Golden Labrador called Nugget, owned by a local man from the Marmaduke Street area. In the 1960‟s Nugget‟s owner (who I will call Chris) would put Nugget out into the front garden and let him do “his business”. One day Chris had put out Nugget and once he had relieved himself, Chris opened the door to let the him back in when he noticed a shiny object peeking out from the ground, he walked over to see what it was and as he got closer his eyes nearly popped out of his head, instead of the dog mess he was expecting, sticking up was what could only be describes as a solid gold “turd”. He rushed in for a shovel, and taking it inside he examined it closely, poking and prodding it, to all intents and

purposes it seemed to be made of solid gold Putting his reservations aside he picked the object up and the first thing he noticed was the heaviness and metallic quality of the object. He decided to get it checked out but thought it might be better if it looked less turd like, so he hammered the stool into a flat piece of metal and took it to be assayed at a jewellers. The jewellers confirmed that the piece of gold was 100% pure and that this type of gold hadn‟t been seen in this country since Roman times, the astounded Chris found out it was worth £10,000. He rushed home and sat Nugget down, he looked into the dog‟s eyes to see if he could find some clue for the source of the canine alchemy, and unbelievably the dog winked, smiled and spoke to Chris, the dog said one sentence and one sentence only “I am here but once”, the phrase was strange as it was delivered in a thick Irish accent. Over the coming months Nugget continued changing the basest of materials (his dog pooh) into pure gold and Chris would, flatten it, take it to the jewellers and sell it, explaining that he had been panning for gold in a secret Welsh location and that this was the result. Pretty soon Chris had amassed a small fortune, but unfortunately his activities had come to the attention of the authorities, as this amount of gold coming into the market had began to destabilise the nation‟s economy and the Exchequer had to devalue the pound in order to make our exports viable.

One day after Nugget had done his business but before Chris had been able to dig it up, Chris‟s door was violently pushed in and he, his wife and the dog were whisked away by Special Branch in a Black Maria and interrogated over several days. Chris endlessly repeated his story, but for some reason was not believed, they even tried fruitlessly to get the dog to “speak” and to deliver one of his prize poohs, but despite everything Nugget‟s lips and backside remained tightly shut. Because of the Official Secrets Act Chris was sworn to secrecy but as a condition of his

release he had to assume a new identity, give Nugget a new name (Goldie) and a new address in a different city.

So what was the cause of this transmutational phenomenon, and why did the dog have an Irish brogue My theory, for what it‟s worth is we all know Kensington had been the object of Leprechaunic activity and Nugget had somehow been possessed or beguiled by the Irish diddymen.

The other big mystery is that whatever happened Nugget‟s last golden turd? Was it ever dug up or does it still remain buried somewhere beneath the soil in the front garden of one of the houses on Marmaduke Street. Who Knows? So if you have any pooch related paranormal phenomenon happening down your way then get in touch with me Olddick@kvfm.co.uk. Remember you can‟t beat a bit of Old Dick in your life.

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Rising electricity and gas prices are crippling family budgets and tipping more people into fuel poverty despite the fact that wholesale rates are falling.

On average rises of 18% for gas and 11% for electricity are being seen whilst energy companies are paying the lowest rate since 2010. Wholesale price to energy companies have fallen by a third since peaking in 2008 and yet these latest energy price hikes dwarf the average pay rise of 2.1%. Ofgem, the regulator, says it has evidence that energy providers increase prices faster than they reduce them, no surprise there then. Price hikes from utility companies will have a serious impact on those receiving benefits or in low paid jobs. The Government estimates that over 4 million households are already spending over 10% of their income on fuel bills and are therefore classified as being in fuel poverty. With current increases the average combined gas and electricity bill will now be £1270 per year, potentially leaving 12 million people in fuel poverty. For many the only option will be the pre pay meter but utility companies have a terrible track record when it comes to these meters which are very often installed in homes where the occupants have had difficulty paying their energy bills in the past and are therefore already struggling with fuel costs. Despite the fact that there's no risk to the energy company of not getting paid, the price per unit was often higher than with a credit meter. Energy companies now claim that they don't charge extra for prepay, but this is based against their 'standard' tariff.

This is usually the most expensive price plan they offer. When moneysavingexpert.com compared the cost of prepay and credit meters, they found that the average customer would be paying £340 more for a prepay meter. Even credit meter customers are likely to be on the standard (expensive) tariff unless they have specifically asked to change tariff or have switched suppliers. Hundreds of tariffs are available from the six main suppliers, but they're not straighforward. Typically you may pay different amounts per unit depending on your

usage, or you may have peak and off-peak rates. The easiest way of finding the cheapest deal for your energy usage is via online switching services such as uswitch.com, energychoices.com or confused.com. You'll just have to enter your energy usage information from a

recent bill. These comparison sites get a commission from the energy supplier that you switch to, although this doesn't affect the amount that you pay. This does, however, mean that suppliers such as the non profit ebico.org.uk don't appear on the comparison sites lists. This is because they would have to pass this cost onto their customers, which they're not prepared to do. It's worth checking ebico's prices against the best deal you can find on the comparison sites. You'll have to do your own maths though and remember there's no guarantee that they'll be cheaper. The energy companies cheapest tariff is intended to tempt customers from their rivals and they don't want most of their customers to be getting this deal, so they have one final sneaky trick up their sleeves. The previously cheapest tariff will steadily get more expensive,

whilst new tariffs will be introduced to tempt new customers.It's therefore necessary to keep checking you're getting the best deal and switching when appropriate to keep your bills as low as possible. Any readers needing help or advice with fuel bills can contact local organisation HEAT the Health Energy Advice Team based on Durning Rd

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Many a time I have passed the Corner Cafe on Prescot Road, never giving it a second glance except to question whether rather than giving it a continental ambience the chairs and tables outside merely make it look like a chapter of “the Smokers Club of Great Britain”. Smoking has always been a problem for me since I was forced to eat a Woodbine whole at my prep school. Prejudices aside I took the plunge intending to

sample a roast dinner, but as it was a Saturday I felt that I would committing an act of sacrilege, maybe next time on some future Christian Sabbath. Instead, when inside, I decided to try the cottage pie, chips, and beans with bread and butter and coffee thrown in all for a very affordable £3.50. Not knowing what to expect I sat and waited for the food to arrive, which gave me the chance to sup my coffee, examine the decor and gaze voyeuristically through the window as the populous of Kensington and Fairfield passed by. There was a bit too much formica on show for my liking, but the place is very welcoming and seems to be doing a good trade with the locals. Soon the food arrived and I was pleasantly surprised to see a platter containing a homemade individual pie, crisp well cooked chips and a mound of beans. The pie had a topping of melted

cheese and had obviously been assembled freshly. Tucking in, (as I was starving), I wasn‟t disappointed the visual promise of the chips was confirmed in the eating and I plunged my fork into the potato and cheese “roof” of the cottage pie,

and examined the inside, very meaty, but extras such as carrots, tomato, and leek( three of my five a day sorted?). Again the freshness of the interior was very gratifying, if a little under seasoned (easily rectified by a dash of salt and pepper to taste). The whole dish was heartily wolfed down, the bread made a great device for extracting the

last meaty remnants of filling from the dish. So if you‟re looking for a well constructed hearty meal, good ingredients and at an affordable price then the Corner Cafe is on par with the best eateries in K&F and seems to have the measure of giving the customer what they want. As a certain Mr A. Schwarzenegger of Austria once said “I‟ll be back” or maybe more appropriately and to paraphrase the old Lindisfarne song “Meet me on the Corner (Cafe)”. Maybe a few red gingham tables might not go amiss though. I give it 4 out of 5, friendly staff good homemade grub, no airs or graces needed just a good

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The Mystery Scoffer indulges himself at the Corner Cafe

After our last Kenny and Max artist Chris Sharrock left for a new prestigious job Stateside in charge of the Philadelphia School of Art (I'm not joking here), the task of finding a talented replacement was undertaken. Beating off all the opposition in an X-Factor style “Draw Off”, we are proud to announce that Chris O’Toole will taking over the rapidograph and Indian ink for the foreseeable future. Chris hails from Runcorn but admits to having “Once stopped for a Jimmy's Grill in Kenny on the way home”. He is a freelance illustrator who studied at the world famous Liverpool John Moores University Art School. More of his work can be found online at www.chrisotoole.co.uk He is unfortunately afflicted with being an Everton fan, so any money he makes we will ensure he put towards intensive therapy. It‟s a good job we don‟t pay him in cash (we pay him in those green pooh bags we give away), otherwise he might waste it on an Everton season ticket. Nice One Chris.

Well there you go Max should have paid more attention in the geography lessons and he would have realised the Pacific was a long long long way a way, now he’s got to explain to Job Centre Plus why he hasn’t been on his job seekers course for a month and get some new trabs and a trackie. Kenny on the other hand has to start writing his account of the whole escapade for the next months edition of Posh Pooch. So no matter where you are, on Kenny Island or just Kensington and Fairfield remember to PICK IT BAG IT AND BIN IT and then wash your hands as even kenny’s Bounty filled dog pooh may contain TOXOCARIASI! a horrible disease that causes blindness in children (http://en.wikipedia.org/

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