REDDITCH STANDARD, NOVEMBER 3
I’VE read your e-scooter article and have a few things to say.
Whatever happened to walking?
I’m sure we all remember that, when one leg goes in front of the other, we move and get fit.
The town, littered with abandoned e-scooters, creates an eerie backdrop suitable for a dark Dr Who episode.
I don’t see how they are safe on the road or on the footpaths and one thing that’s really puzzled me is how are they recharged.
Do a team of gnomes scurry out when we are all in bed and give the e-scooters a burst of power, their extension cables long and twisted, or don’t they need a recharge?
I might be missing something here?
I get keeping cars off the roads and having a cleaner mode of transport – feet again – but when you have the roads as busy as they are with cars and lorries, scooters are unable to offer protection to the user, it’s just not going to work.
I’ve had an e-scooter zip past me on the footpath, and just like a pushbike, it’s dangerous.
I’m not a fan, but would like to be if it works – sense in employed and safely are paramount.
Walking is still better for the waist…
M Pettifer, Headless Cross
THE Covid-19 Recovery Plan for Warwickshire contains the following statement: ‘We will progress housing and area regeneration schemes targeting Rugby, Nuneaton and North Warwickshire, to deliver on the housing needs of Warwickshire, and support the recovery of our local economy’.
No mention of Studley or anywhere else in our district.
Does the Conservative-run County Council think that the Covid-19 situation will have no economic or social impact on our residents?
At one stage Stratford district had more than 20,000 people on furlough.
This district had the highest percentage increase in the Local Authority Claimant Count in the West Midlands, due to the heavy concentration on the retail, hospitality, arts and leisure sectors.
Studley has an up to date regeneration plan for the centre of the village, ready for investment.
Surely government and other funding should be spread more fairly across the county, rather than concentrated in the north?
As local representatives we will not allow this area to be ignored.
Councillors Clive Rickhards, Neil Edden, Peter Hencher-Serafin
IN your Editorial of October 23 you expressed disappointment that two local MPs had voted against the Opposition motion to provide free school meals throughout half term.
However it was obviously no surprise as both MPs have form in voting like Government automatons, often seeming to put their own careers before the interests of their constituents. The reaction from the general public, businesses, celebrities, sportspeople, local authorities and numerous other organisations throughout the UK has illustrated just how totally out of touch these people are.
I fully endorse the comments of your correspondent P Smith (Letters, October 23). MPs are in a very privileged position, getting £82.000 a year, very generous allowances and expenses from the taxpayer and are in line for an extra £3,000 per year. Shame on them and the other 320 Tory politicians for voting against the Opposition Motion and even suggesting that increasing Universal Credit by £1,000 pa ‘provides support all year round’!
I Welch, Redditch
I HAVE sent this letter to our MP Rachel Maclean:
New restrictions will come into force on Thursday we are told.
Why not ‘with immediate effect’?
The delay can only be for financial reasons and will inevitably lead to panic buying, huge uncertainty (concerts planned for Saturday – prepare or not prepare because diligent preparation, an alien concept to Mr Johnson, is what takes the hard work) for the creative sector (again) and, last but by no means least, there will be a horde of ‘last chance’ meet ups.
I’ve got impaired cognitive function because of brain damage – if even I can see this why can the Government not?
Surely it’s time that personal career advancement and politics were set aside and that the job of looking after the country’s population was put first?
N Braithwaite, Headless Cross
I AM appealing for used postage stamps which help me raise funds which I then donate to the Guide Dogs for the Blind.
Recycling used postage stamps is such an easy way to raise money for the charity and I am always in need of all types of postage stamps, including British, Foreign and Christmas stamps.
If you are able to help I would be grateful if you could cut the stamps from their envelopes (leaving approx 1cm margin around the stamp) and send them to the address below.
M Chave, PO Box 91, Virginia Water, Surrey, GU25 9AR
If you would like to contact me my email address is [email protected]
THANK you to all the businesses and charities who have pulled together to support children with free school meals after this reckless government including Rachel Maclean voted against it.
Unfortunately they are not aware of compassion and empathy.
And then you see the height of hypocrisy when Mrs Maclean and local Conservative councillors and candidates are asking for volunteers to support the local community!
Dr N Patel, Southcrest
