People need more help now to survive
IT was worrying to read that a Coventry Food Hub had been hit due to fewer donations as the cost of living crisis really starts to bite now.
As the days and nights start to get darker and colder and people need to choose between food and heating, places like this are bound to suffer in turn causing more misery to the families and others who rely on them to live.
How can it be that in 2022 in one of the richest countries in the world people are suffering like this?
And with the never ending rise in food, petrol and now rents and mortgages, people need more help from this chaotic government.
J. Taylor, Coventry.
Run down area
WHY is everyone up in arms against another betting shop opening in Ball Hill?
The area used to be thriving with quality shops and a great community spirit. Now it is run down and littered with rubbish with many of the traders pulling out of the area. You know something is seriously wrong when the charity shops are leaving.
In truth betting shops are ideal businesses for the area as it is practically impossible to steal from such businesses as there is no stock to steal or tills to grab.
Ball Hill has been going down the pan for many years now, and the area is not alone. Even the city
centre businesses are suffering the same fate.
And I do wish that such areas are not referred to as “deprived” implying that there is little money there. There is much wealth and fortunes made in Ball Hill as two bed terraced houses are converted into flats with no consideration for parking.
The council’s head of planning needs to wake up and smell the
coffee and sort the problems out, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
B. Nathan-partridge, Coventry.