Happy memories of music teacher Len
SEEING a picture of Len Pepper with other musicians from Coventry Hippodrome Orchestra (Mar 21) brought back memories. Len was our peripatetic music teacher at Tile Hill Wood Girls’ School (Nutbrook Avenue) in the late 1960s. I distinctly remember one Saturday afternoon having back-to-back engagements, first with Tile Hill Wood Brass Band (conductor Margaret Trew) and then with the Salvation Army Young People’s Band. Myself and another Young People’s Band member Karen Tenge changed in the back of my dad’s car, we changed our terracotta ties to the yellow, red and blue of the Salvation Army, and put our navy skirts on over the forest green of Tile Hill Wood and were there on time for the Salvation Army Young People’s Band engagement. The standard of music in both bands was second to none and at the particular time our assistant Young People’s Band leader was Brian Chappell, who of course has conducted City of Coventry Youth Orchestra for many years. Happy memories. Jill M Pinks Tile Hill South
No more web insults
HAVING read in your paper about the problems which have happened with Facebook and Twitter, it has proved to be an internet service by where it gives people a licence to insult folk and say just what they like.
Whereas, if people said their comments face-to-face, without any doubt they would be on their way to hospital with a blooded nose and a black eye. It is not always the public that fall into this category. Several of Coventry councillors are at the top of my list.
I hope the election on May 3 gives us all reassurance that the public will be listened to in the future and this low, intellectual behaviour will cease.
I would have thought that these council keyboard warriers should recognise that it is not within their remit to exercise verbal brawling on the internet, with their often rude, insulting, offensive remarks. I don’t believe this is the first time it has happened. Who do they think they are?
If the public – who they do not seem to deal with any more – disagree with what they are doing, then why can’t the public say so?
Councillors must take notice, they are not gods or demi-gods and if they should simply recognise that they are public servants to which we Coventry folk pay for – and can also get rid of – in May.
I hope the election on May 3 gives us all hope and reassurance that the public will be listened to in the future and that the chairs in council confines may see new names upon them. Sandra Camwell Keresley
City taxi fares are a major disgrace
IT is a major disgrace that Coventry has the most expensive taxi journeys in the UK (Mar 22).
To be more expensive than London, which is one of the most dear places to live in the world, is just a joke. Ian Harris Radford