A BIG thank you to Councillor Juliet Brunner, who played a big part in helping the residents of Munsley and Ledbury Closes, Redditch put a stop to the controversial proposed building of a 4 bedroomed house on a tiny piece of land connecting the two Closes.
Thank goodness common sense has prevailed.
Watch out Redditch residents – any tiny piece of land near you could also be in danger.
K Simpson, Matchborough
In answer to D Vincent of Winyates (Letters) – why are acres of warehouse roofs, including Amazon Redditch not covered in solar panels?
They would attract higher business rates.
Instead farmers are finding it more economic to cover farm land with solar panels and blight the countryside.
Added to which there are higher transmission losses taking power from the countryside to where it is used.
Where is the sense in that?
S Hill, Oakenshaw
AS A retired nurse I was invited by Morrison’s community champion Bev Allington for their NHS big tea to thank me for my 35 years service in nhs.
Joined by my husband who is also a nurse we enjoyed a lovely tea.
Afterwards Juliet said,” I was delighted to be invited alongside other members of the local NHS who were being acknowledged for their wonderful work.”
Councillor Juliet Brunner,
Matchborough Ward
REGARDING Ipsley Meadow (Redditch Standard). I see the term ‘Nimby’ is being thrown about again ( D Vincent, Letters).
This is invariably used by those who aren’t directly affected by something and who would no doubt be equally up in arms if they found that something unwanted was going to be put at the bottom of their garden!
It’s also invariably used as a pejorative term irrespective of whether objections are valid.
Perhaps if D Vincent spent some time reading the 700 plus letters of objection he/she will see that those objections come from not just all areas of Redditch, but from beyond the borough boundary as well, so their use of the term is somewhat inappropriate.
M. Jones (Letters) argues that it’s only nine acres.
Well that nine acres happens to be a very well-used nine acres and its loss would effectively annex the southern part of the Arrow Valley Park.
Apart from walking, I don’t know what other activities he/she considers would be both possible and acceptable to conduct within a cemetery.
In addition, as there are proposals to install both fencing and gates, outside normal working hours the area would be inaccessible for all.
S Williams, Redditch
This country fought very hard indeed during World War 1 to thwart the Kaiser’s attempts to create an empire for himself.
We fought very hard during World War 2 to kick the Germans back out of occupied France and Poland, and, to denounce the concentration camps for the ghastly horrors they were.
We were a major part of the struggle to set fair boundaries for each country after the Armistice.
Not always successfully, but the intent was there.
Why, then, are we now so keen to support Israel in its oppression of Palestinians?
Our governments had been plotting to create a state of Israel since before WWI, and it was always going to be stolen from Palestine; tens of thousands were displaced or died during the initial grab.
Why do we support Israel in its daily containment of Palestinians in Gaza under the most brutal and deprived conditions of poverty and hunger, its settlers’ land-grabs, wholesale destruction of homes and villages, murder, on the West Bank?
Why do we sell arms to the Israelis. How much Palestinian blood do we need to fill the Treasury coffers?
I am ashamed of us for so gleefully profiting from the misery, bloodshed and death of innocents.
V Gaize, Studley
Today across the country there are many people saying Thank You to those that have helped them in different ways. This may for something small or something large.
My colleagues and I from the County Scout Team would like to say a huge thank you to our scout leaders for everything they have done over the past 15 months. We have all had to adapt, think outside the box, learn news skills and re-imagine the way in which we have done Scouting.
We have been amazed how they have kept in touch with their young people and the adults in their team. Inevitably there have been some people who have not engaged as fully as others, but you have been there for them.
We are shortly, hopefully, moving onto a new phase of dealing with the virus. We all hope that life will return to something approaching normality. We will be able to meet with our young people face to face, go on expeditions and camps.
It won’t be quite the same, we have all learnt to do things in different ways and some of these have been improvements and we will stick with them.
What won’t change is the benefit that Scouting brings to young people, to help them grow and develop their skills for life.
Of course it is not just for them, as adults we enjoy the camaraderie, we learn new skills and challenge ourselves as well.
So a huge and heartfelt Thank You from me and my team,
N Hailey, Warwickshire Scouts
