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News and Comment February 2020

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24 February - Weeding Bonkers

As time permits of I have been trawling through old blogs. I have been shocked by what Bexley Council used to get up to. For example hiring bouncers at a cost of £1,320 and getting 27 police officers to frisk elderly members of the public who wished to get into a Council meeting. Their excuse was that one of them might attempt to video proceedings. Pressure from residents has definitely dragged Bexley Council into the 21st century.

However the main reason for doing so was to check that all the outdated stories that BiB announced in March 2018 and June and July last year had actually gone. With more than 5,000 blog items and 96,000 internal links hunting down the remnants of outdated stories except by examining each one has proved to be impossible.

Several pages relating to departed Councillors and outdated stories have been discovered hiding in plain sight but hugely more cross references to those stories which are embedded in countless more blogs. Without rewriting the whole site it is impossible to get rid of them and to simply remove pages would result in too many Page not Found errors and a server log file large enough to bring the whole site down.

So in the main those pages and their old links must remain but any page that contains significant detail of Councillors’ ‘offences’ are replaced by a short explanation of why the item has gone. It might very well confuse new readers who follow those old links but it’s all that can be done practically.

If anyone doesn't think that is good enough then I am always in listening mode.

 

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