City of Culture? Clean up our filthy streets
HAVING lived in Radford all my life I have never seen such an area of Coventry in such a unhealthy mess.
Not only are the streets in a mess with litter all over the place on each street you walk on. Today I went up to Jubilee Crescent and by the side of the paper shop on the corner of Owen ford Road if there was one black bag there must be over 50 bags strewn all over the place.
On side of roads and entry’s rubbish has been thrown down and no one road cleaner anywhere to be seen.
What do we pay council tax for. If this is to be City of Culture over the next few years then Coventry councillors need to get of their backsides and look at how the city is no a total mess. Terry Prewett, Radford
Phone lines always jammed at GPs
IT is no surprise that many appointments are wasted by patients not turning up.
The reason may be, that if you want to advise the surgery that you cannot attend as booked, the phone is constantly engaged.
Practices need a dedicated contact line just to take these calls if they do not have enough receptionists to take these.
I have tried to ring my local surgery at various times on Thursday, Friday and today and the lines have always been engaged, so no-one is taking any calls. Sheila Bates, Tile Hill South
Vote was simply ‘remain’ or ‘leave’
MY apologies to Kevin Cryan (Letters, Jan 8) if I have failed to grasp his current stance in the Brexit debate. I was probably too busy with the thesaurus trying to decipher the academic spiel of the intelligentsia he quotes in his arguments.
I don’t mean this is a personal slight but I do like plain English. When he says that the Brexiteers might claim that their rights as a “minority” were being trampled on, is he referring to the Parliamentary Brexiteers or those of us who voted Leave? If the latter I believe we were the majority.
Three quick points. If by “miserable compromise” he refers to Mrs May’s deal, those in the Remain camp should feel lucky. When I voted at the referendum the choice was Remain or Leave, nothing about anything in between. When Mr Cameron said the result would be binding I feel certain he knew we would vote to Leave, as Mr Juncker did. (He actually said as much before the vote).
As for our voting system, whichever party forms a government most voters vote against it so the minority has been trampling over the majority certainly for as long as you can remember.
Richard Allen,
A few snowflakes
A severe weather warning Prepare for one inch of snow, So better wrap up warm
And mind how you go.
A severe weather warning
It will be a bit nippy today, Best if you stay indoors Children don’t go out to play. A severe weather warning
For all over the UK,
There will be a slight breeze And it will last all day.
A severe weather warning Cows seen lying down,
That means rain on the way
So do not venture in to town. A severe weather warning
It may be rather cool,
So wear a thick vest
And your trendy cagoule.
A severe weather warning? Nah, they’re just having some fun, It’s supposed to be winter
But you could have a picnic in the sun.
Kevin Halls
Bell Green
Poets’ corner