Skate show photo rolls back the years
THE photo of the skaters in the paper (Apr 4) brought more memories flooding back of the variety show we used to put on every year.
I’m the skater on the far right and the number we’re performing was like a Scottish dance routine.
We used to put on performances every evening for a week and two on a Saturday and each number had a completely different theme.
I remember one year we were doing a Charleston dance number when the long string pearl necklace I was swinging in time to the music snapped and beads flew everywhere. The show had to be halted until the floor was swept clean. The last thing you want to come across while roller skating is small items to make you trip over. Lyn Dowling (nee Bullingham) Woodway Park
Death during crime is ‘self-inflicted’
REGARDING the recent report of the 78-year-old pensioner who has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a suspected burglar.
While not condoning killing of any kind, I feel that in cases where a crime is being commited, any misfortune that happens to the criminal should be treated as selfinflicted. If they choose to commit the offence, they should suffer any consequences. The second suspect should now be contemplating it might have been him. Roy Frost Marton
Where is our strong economy Mrs May?
I WRITE to you as a man still at odds with my faith and confidence in what I am asked to believe. I now read that Coca Cola are reducing their operations in Northampton and Milton Keynes. The latest in a series (Toys R Us amongst others).
Theresa May keeps banging on about the strong economy she’s building, but these two facts do not sit together comfortably. This would suggest that Tory economy now extends to the verb to be economical with the truth.
I am British and always believed Britain to be a democratic state but the facts would appear to cloud this issue in the extreme. Does anyone know where the democracy went to? I’ve looked for it everywhere but so far have failed to locate it. Jock Brownlee Wood End
Fines for beggars not appropriate
RE: ‘Beggars fined under strict city centre rules’ (Apr 2). It would be far more appropriate to fine litter louts, fly tippers and speeding drivers who do damage.
Beggars are just trying to exist in difficult situations, buskers are entertaining and inspiring and just accept what they get. N P Kane Walsgrave
New railway plans don’t go far enough
RE: ‘New hope for £50m railway link scheme’ (Mar 31) on the proposed train service from Coventry to Leicester on a daily basis.
In some ways is a commendable suggestion but it surely doesn’t go far enough to co-ordinate the services bordered by Rugby, Leamington Spa, Birmingham, Leicester and Lichfield.
We currently have a shuttle service from Nuneaton to Coventry, and a service to be introduced from Coventry to Leamington via the new Kenilworth station – when it opens – with through journeys from Nuneaton to Leamington requiring a change at Coventry. Until January 1965, when the Beeching axe fell, we had a through service from Nuneaton to Leamington Spa (Avenue). We also had a reasonable service from Rugby to Stafford, and an effective Birmingham-Nuneaton Leicester service.
Why not think a little further outside the box by introducing services from Leamington to Coventry-Nuneaton-Tam worth Lichfield( Trent Valley )( hourly service) and Leamington–Coventry –Nuneaton–Leicester on the half hour. Re-time the Rugby to Lichfield to hourly giving a half-hourly service from Nuneaton to Lichfield Trent Valley with trains from Leamington Spa.
These services coupled with an hourly service from Birmingham to Leicester via Nuneaton would give half hourly service to Leicester. There would also be a Lichfield Leicester link.
Whilst the services wouldn’t be exactly half an hour apart, there would be two trains per hour on the routes – and the track is in existence.
Hopefully, the service would stop at all stations between Coventry and Nuneaton. A further suggestion is to reopen the Hawkesbury Lane station (renamed Hawkesbury Village) to reflect the housing development at the end of Blackhorse Road and make shopping easier with the station at the Coventry Arena.
There would then be no requirement for a bay platform at Coventry and maybe some joined-up thinking. Barrie Parsons Bedworth