New On SEMILONG.ORG

19th June 2010

SEMILONG.ORG would like to acknowledge Sunshade Blinds Ltd for their contributions and support.

Sunshade are the UK based worldwide brand leaders for Integral Blinds (interstitial blinds) Manufacturers based in Corby, Northants.

Their contributions enable SEMILONG.ORG to fund our campaigns as well as web publishing.

12th June 2010

Royal Mail's plans for the Sorting Office on Barrack Road in Semilong Northampton can be found here.

7th June 2010

Various new photographs taken of the Semilong Northampton neighbourhood deployed across the SEMILONG.ORG website.

Also new article on the Royal Mail Sorting Office can be found [here]

4th June 2010

The Google Translate service has been deployed across the SEMILONG.ORG site on almost all pages to enable both non-English speaking residents and visitors from across the globe better access to the information from the SEMILONG Northampton neighbourhood website. To use this service, just click your chosen language in the drop down box on the top left of each page.

4th May 2010

Appeal for lost cat in Semilong Northampton.

[see main home page]

15th April 2010

Since our last update SEMILONG.ORG have been extremely busy. We have:

• Launched ouselves on TWITTER (Profile: SEMILONG)

• Created a separate TWITTER page on this site where you can see not only our `tweets` but also those of our twinned neighbourhood group of STPETERSNM.COM

• Presented Northampton Borough Council's Environmental Crime team with the evidence of fly-tippers treating our Semilong Northampton neighbourhood like a rubbish tip. This resulted in the cautioning of two fly-tippers in Semilong Northampton. (and more are to follow)

• Presented evidence to Northampton Borough Council of a litter lout who discarded litter from his car in Semilong Northampton.

• Reported graffiti, pot holes, litter and fly-tipping to the Street Care Team of Northampton Borough Council for clearance / repair.

• Worked with the website FIXMYSTREET.COM not only to publically highlight issues in the Semilong Northampton neighbourhood across the whole internet, but also to get those issues brought to the attention of Northampton Borough Council or where relevant Northamptonshire County Council.

• Launched SEMILONG.ORG onto FLICKR (profile SEMILONG.ORG) which is a great medium to present the photographs of our neighbourhood.

• Supported our twinned neighbourhood group of STPETERSNM.COM in their very successful and nationally reported upon `RISK IT OR BIN IT` anti-litter campaign.

• Monitored the prostitution problem in Quorn Way and reported incidents to Northamptonshire Police for their attention and action.

These matters and more will be discussed over the next few weeks to bring you totally up to date with all our efforts to improve our Semilong Northampton area.

20th September 2009

Launch of our new look and updated website. After months of behind the scenes work the site has now gone live which we at SEMILONG.ORG are incredibly proud of.

We would also like to pass on our best wishes to the Semilong Neighbourhood Watch Scheme which was set up in July and their website at http://semilongNHW.co.uk has also gone live.

The group at SEMILONG.ORG had an online brainstorming session at the start of this week to come up with new projects for the new website. You will see the first of these shortly.

Thanks for your patience during this major overhaul of the site.

Please note that our old domain at SCN-Northampton.com will cease in the next few weeks, so if you need to do so, please update your bookmark to SEMILONG.ORG soon.

21st July 2009

New article - Semilong Northampton residents gather at Miller's Meadow to watch seventy fire fighters tackle intense blaze across the river at a wooden pallet storage yard.
[read article and watch video here]

29th June 2009

New article - Trilogy Gym Special Offer for Castle Ward Residents.

29th June 2009

New article - Focus On Initiative and Talent highlighting JANMANPRINTS.COM

19th June 2009

Posted new comment and SEMILONG.ORG's reply onto the comments page

4th June 2009

New article - Northamptonshire County Council Election 2009

30th May 2009

New article - video of ducks swimming about and drinking rain water from a puddle caused by a blocked drain in Semilong Northampton
[deleted from site]

29th May 2009

New article - Map of crime. This map shows where reported crime in our Semilong Northampton is happening.

29th May 2009

Updated appeals section with two incidents from outside Semilong Northampton. Reason being is that criminals are unlikely to stick to an area and will try elsewhere and will live elsewhere. So any help that the police can be given to catch them would help Semilong residents and businesses.

28th May 2009

Updated the current crime rate for Semilong (Castle Ward) on the Northamptonshire Police page.

28th May 2009

Uploaded new image to the site of the mobile police station on Semilong Road with link to larger image.

28th May 2009

New article on the Semilong Forum page regarding the minutes of the meetings etc.

24th May 2009

New article - SEMILONG.ORG - Who Are We?

24th May 2009

New article - Mini-Mopeds - What's The Deal / SEMILONG.ORG Takes A Stand

24th May 2009

Updated the current crime rate for Semilong (Castle Ward) on the Northamptonshire Police page and made it easier to read by using adjacent cells rather than subsequent cells in a traffic light system.

23rd May 2009

New article - County Council Election June 4th 2009
[No longer available on our servers]

19th May 2009

Uploaded 1901 Semilong census records to our server for the `Your House - Who Lived There` project. (If any local budding history individual or group would like copies, please contact SEMILONG.ORG)

18th May 2009

Main menu altered to allow adequate spacing for an `About SEMILONG.ORG` section, as well as this new `What's New` page. The `About SEMILONG.ORG` section will include a comments page showing a few received comments.

17th May 2009

Spacing on the site web pages increased.

January 2009

SEMILONG.ORG enters into a Twinning Partnership Initiative with STPETERSNM.COM of Leicester.

December 2008

Semilong Community News, despite featuring in articles both online and in print migrated to SEMILONG.ORG for a stronger identity to all the issues that it covers instead of just news. Though we will also continue to use the Semilong Community News 'branding'.

Semilong Issues Include...

Rubbish in Lower Hester Street in Semilong Northampton on the 25th May 2010. This rubbish is taking up practically all the width of the pavement. Perhaps whoever dumped it there thought residents could walk in the roads...or perhaps they didnt bother to think !!

Flytipping in Harding Terrace in Semilong Northampton on 4th May 2010. A minority of people seem to think it is acceptable to spoil the environment for everyone else...this time by dumping two dirty mattresses and a broken bed frame. The fact that it was round the corner from a Primary School apparently didn't matter to them.

Roads in Semilong Northampton are in a disgraceful state of repair. A true rollercoaster of disaster, uneven, pot-holed & dangerous.
[Read the article here]

Prostitution & Kerb Crawling has never been stopped in Semilong Northampton & it divides our community.
[Read the article here]

Crime is HIGH in Semilong Northampton according to Northamptonshire Police.