Here we go again - http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/paved-paradise-Grimsby-Town-football-stadium/story-26084993-detail/story.html?

What a complete deleted expletive. I guess the telegraph have to show both sides but this is bizarre. It was never a place of historical importance before was it?

Graham Hicks, you are a girl private.

It's only a letter to the paper.

Ratty out of Wind in the Willows is a Water Vole.

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Have you ever seen anyone resembling him around the site?

I'd imagine Mr. Hicks must have campaigned vigorously against the building of the Peaks Parkway road 20-odd years ago as well? After all, constructing a bloody big road through that area can't have been great for the water voles, kestrels, finches et al?

Has he asked the voles what they think? Maybe they'd welcome a new stadium?

Perhaps it is another theme for an away game? Voles are Us :)

Quoted from promotion plaice

Here we go again - http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/paved-paradise-Grimsby-Town-football-stadium/story-26084993-detail/story.html?

FFS

If I was going to write an opinion piece that might stand to upset several thousand football fans, not sure I'd want them to print my home address at the bottom of the article!

We could arrange a testimonial game against Port Vole.

These voles might NOT have been there since the Ice Age.  They could have moved in recently taking advantage of the EC policy on open country borders.  They might even be illegal (immigrant) voles and only have limited rights of abode or access.  Voila! or (VOLa).

Bloody Bulgarian voles, taking our jobs and women

Quoted from chicaneuk

If I was going to write an opinion piece that might stand to upset several thousand football fans, not sure I'd want them to print my home address at the bottom of the article!

Maybe that's a tactic, write an infuriatingly stupid article and then wait for the hate mail and threats to come in, then tell the paper about your awful treatment by evil grimsby fans and suddenly the anti stadium campaigners are given oxygen

Talk about blowing things up out a-vole proportion.

You just don't no whether to laugh or cry....

i think i smell a ......

Come on this has got to be the best wind up ever ?
Own up who is the comedian behind this ?

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

These voles might NOT have been there since the Ice Age.  They could have moved in recently taking advantage of the EC policy on open country borders.  They might even be illegal (immigrant) voles and only have limited rights of abode or access.  Voila! or (VOLa).

They probably have, it's just e vole lution.

What a stupid comment to make! Every single housing development in Grimsby for the last 100 years or more has been on land that supported wildlife at one time or another. All towns and cities expand , it's called progress FFS. The Willows , Laceby Acres, Wybers Wood and The Springfield road development around The Seven Seas are just a few that spring to mind that have been built in the last 50 years within my memory. I bet there are many people who remember walking these areas and seeing all the wildlife that this " plank " mentions. I remember walking around The Willows and Wybers long before the housing came. All the farmland between Grimsby and Great Coates , which is a huge industrial estate was a favourite area of mine for wildlife. Whether we get anew ground there or not one thing is for sure - the area in question will be developed.

Somebody just needs to kill them all before the plans are submitted.

Quoted from grimps

Come on this has got to be the best wind up ever ?
Own up who is the comedian behind this ?

Whoever it is he's an ArseVole! ;)

More peas please Norma, sounds like a right sad sharp object, has this goon ever visited Weelsby woods, which has the same birds, voles, newts and lesser spotted load of balderdash ect

Whoever he is the two mentioned species are not two great a problem, but the newt is protected by European, legislation, we developed a site ten years ago, with newts, what a pain in the bottom the little blighters are, had to bring a specialist company in to erect a fencing system, and lost one plot to the little blighters, best part of 100k, the water vole is also protected, but to a lesser degree, good job he didn't find , oh I better keep that one quiet.. Couple of hundred grand to a development this size is nothing, he'll after try harder. UTM    

Quoted from psgmariner

Somebody just needs to kill them all before the plans are submitted.

Are we talking about councillors, objectors, voles or all three ;)

I've seen big foot around Peak's parkway a couple of times too.  ;)

That's not big foot - it's probably Sutton Mariner who takes size 14 or 15 shoes.  Well he is extremely tall.

They must have trouble with these little blighters near the Humber Bridge

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What you need then is a barren piece of land like Chernobyl, mind you the luminous eight toed three eyed giant bull turd frog might be in danger.  

Quoted from cmackenzie4

Whoever it is he's an ArseVole! ;)

;D

If we're going to kill them all, then we should at least eat them too.  Who knows it could put us on the culinary map for something other than fish.

Vole au vent anyone?

I blame that bloke with the ark who must have let them on two by two...although to be fair he might have tried to stop them but to Noah vole

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

I blame that bloke with the ark who must have let them on two by two...although to be fair he might have tried to stop them but to Noah vole

Haha! This was such a strenuous attempt at word-play it made me laugh the most yet! Brilliant  :)

Quoted from promotion plaice

They must have trouble with these little blighters near the Humber Bridge

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Horrible little excrement, should be a cull on with the likes of this vermin  ;D