We’re so fed up of bin collection farce
I AND many others in Westmorland Road and Keswick Walk are totally fed up with not having our bins emptied. Firstly only a quarter of households received notification and a new diary saying our day had been changed to a Friday, which it already is. Told to put all three bins out and only one collected on the Friday, so back they had to come on Saturday. The same happened the following week, needing them to come back on Saturday. This week half the estate was done, the rest were left and no bins emptied. Three weeks of this farce is enough. If they want bins putting out on a Saturday – say so. We are all fed up bringing them in and out because selfish people seem to think they can go around putting stuff into people’s bins that should not be in there. Residents are transporting their rubbish to the tip in their own vehicles, if this is to be the practice a reduction in council tax should be due. For goodness sake get a grip and departments speak to each other. Rat infestation is becoming the norm. It is totally unacceptable every week. Gill Gates Wyken
Despair at decisions
REGARDING the lovely picture of the Canal Basin sent in by Teagan and Clara (Jun 23), a rare, tranquil and peaceful historic setting of Coventry’s surviving past. There is not much of that left, being bulldozed left right and centre. Then I look again and what is that monstrosity rearing its ugly head over the roof? Another student accommodation block totally ruining the Coventry skyline. But then, given history, in a few years’ time the council will realise their mistake and bulldoze again because they were built on the cheap, not to last. Take Priory Tower and Coventry Point or whatever they call it, as an example – knock them down before they fall down. I despair at this council’s forward planning if any. K J Clarke Wyken
Ridiculous display from footballers
I WRITE to you as one totally convulsed in wild laughter after watching the Russian presentation of the World Cup football.
I believe in my own mind that the puerile players involved in this selfgratifying spectacle are merely trying to see which one can get away with the most outrageous dive or claim for foul-play. Perhaps it alleviates the crushing boredom of being a professional footballer in the modern world. I may indeed be wrong, but this is where logic leads me to in a serious world increasingly made fun of.
The thing that hurts the most is, childlike fools getting gales of laughter with unsubtle ,very poor jokes. I must go now as I am in serious danger of becoming incapacitated by wild, uncontrollable laughter. Jock Brownlee Wood End
Great memories of the Rainbow Inn
IT was nice to see the picture of the Rainbow Inn (Jun 16).
It was lovely for my grandad Gerald James as he lived in the house next door and knew the Tatlows and their granddaughter Gill, who used to take my father for walks in his pushchair. Kirsty James Exhall