We have to do more to stamp out racism
MORE than 1,000 hate crimes have been reported in Coventry in the past three years.
This shows that there is not enough being done to combat racism and we all need to do more to stamp it out. Schools in particular need to do more as prejudice is often formed in young minds.
As Cllr Khan said, “Coventry is well known as a multicultural city, where people of all races and faiths are welcomed and where people live side by side in friendship”.
Hence I was shocked to hear that Britain First are planning to hold a rally in the city. Why is the council granting this blatantly racist group permission to promote their vile views in Coventry?
I am all for free speech, but this privilege should not be used and abused to promote racism.
How can we bid for City of Culture status when groups like Britain First are allowed to march on our streets spreading their hate? Hopefully the council will see sense and send this hideous group on there way. Phyllis N. Bembridge Coventry
I bet students get their bins emptied
ON August 29 you published a letter from me about a missed bin collection. My garden bin has only been emptied once a month over the past four months, and they have also missed my household waste bin. You are not allowed to talk to anybody on the City Council, only the lady on the switchboard. They are probably too busy moving into their ivory towers. I suppose that if I were a student I would get my bin emptied. They get priority in the country. Gordon Hughes Tile Hill
Life was hard but we were fed and loved
MUM was born in Warwick in 1905, the seventh of eight. They lived near Market Square.
Grandad was brought up on farm work, no schooling. Aged four, he was holding bags to put vegetables in from sun up until sundown.
Later he was one of the men to turn the spit roast.
Gran was seven when she stood in line for work with a borrowed apron too big for her and mop hat.
If you had a shilling pressed in your hand, you were hired for a year. She had no schooling, her brothers did.
Gran did domestic service later she took washing, cleaning, etc. The family was all fed and loved. D Thorpe Bell Green
Let down by the Scrooges again
THERE will be no Christmas decorations at Pool Meadow Bus Station as usual this year.
With many thousands of visitors coming by coaches and buses, they will see no sparkle or glitter. Another let down by our Scrooges at the palace of the Council Houses. Ian Harris Radford