When will the council sort out bin problems?
THIS is how ill-informed the council is about areas such as the flats in Empress Buildings, Binley Road. The council sent a letter out warning residents not to put bags outside the two blue bins put there for their use. There is only one blue bin there for the residents to use. When that one bin is full by Friday, where do these residents put their rubbish until the collection day – which is on Tuesday – with four days to go? My brother has tried to get in touch with the council to explain the problem the residents are having. Also, other people have been dumping black bags alongside the blue bin. Nobody seems to want to answer the phone. It’s no good the council sending out letters to say the residents will be fined for putting bags by the blue bin. This needs to be sorted out properly. If they issue two blue bins to cater for the residents, every resident should be issued with a key to use the residents’ blue bin. Also, a notice should be on display for all to see that these bins are only for the use of residents. These residents have had trouble with collecting their rubbish since they stopped climbing the stairs to collect the black bags. They had a letter from the council telling them to put the bags in the entrance, ready for the binmen to collect on their bin day. Once this was started, other people just take it they can put their rubbish there, too. So as the bags increased in number, the council decided to put blue bins in place because there is only one blue bin that gets full – not with just resident rubbish but other people’s rubbish.
So when is this council going to wake up to the fact these bins need to be locked and each resident needs a key to dispose of their rubbish safely so nobody else has access? This is the real answer to the problem – but the council never looks at the overall problem before making a decision.
What are the councillors doing to help sort out this problem for these residents? Councillors are there to help sort out these sorts of problems. In their constituency, the only time you see a councillor in the area is around election time. John Bevan Binley
Join support group for fashion advice
THE Coventry Osteoporosis Support Group invites everybody who wishes to learn about choosing clothes which help to disguise parts of the body that may have changed shape, to our meeting on April 27.
It takes place in St John’s the Baptist Church Hall, which is on the corner of Fleet Street/Spon Street. in the city centre. Our presenter will be Suzanne Hewitt, an National Osteoporosis Society ambassador who will be speaking from personal experience.
The meeting starts at 2pm and the entrance fee of £3 will include tea/coffee.
If you want further details, please phone Mrs J Barby on 024 7645 1352. J Barby Ernsford Grange Coventry
Weeks of childish snipes from MPs
SO, another general election looms.
The MPs will continue to bombard us with their childish arguments like a playground full of argumentative children.
When sitting in Parliament they sound like a flock of sheep, “baa baa”, or are asleep or texting on their phones.
It is utterly disgraceful the way they carry on with their spiteful innuendos about each other.
It sounds like a music hall of comedy, not forgetting the inappropriate remarks by Geoffrey Robinson, and this sort of childish behaviour for the next nine weeks.
No wonder Theresa May is fed up having to put up with this childish nonsense and back biting, day in, day out.
The continuing bitterness about Brexit is farcical. The people of this country made it perfectly clear they want Brexit, so for goodness sake just shut up and accept it like everyone else.
For the next nine weeks we are going to have these political people arguing and bickering, be it on TV newspapers or radio. Thank goodness for the off switch. Gill Gates Wyken
Person who shot cat must be caught
RE: Smudge (April 19).
If the family of the beautiful little cat, which had to have her leg amputated after being shot with an air rifle, are offering a reward to catch the vile person responsible, I will be pleased to make a donation. Jenny Poole Coventry