Milton view Festive cheer at school
Dear Editor, I was delighted to attend several Christmas functions recently. A big thanks for the hospitality.
I must mention the Christmas concert at St Blane’s Primary School, Blantyre. The staff and pupils were excellent hosts – a fantastic, entertaining show.
At the end of the concert the head teacher, Miss Pauline Brown, made an announcement. All ticket and raffle sales were being given to The Haven in Blantyre and raised £500, a great amount.
I had a fantastic day and was very encouraged by the generosity from the school.
Well done pupils, staff and parents.
Councillor Bert Thomson As a resident of Laurel Drive in Larkhall, I am writing to say I am appalled by gritting at Laurel Drive and also the surrounding roads over the last 12 days or so.
The majority of residents in Laurel Drive are elderly people and the roads were like a sheet of glass.
The pavements were the same, and the roads had not been gritted.
I phoned and was told that Laurel Drive was not on the priority list for gritting.
What I would like to know is that after the priority roads are gritted, what happens next, for we haven’t seen a gritter here for around 10 to 15 days.
The postman was told to take the letters back to the office as it was too dangerous to walk on the icy roads and pavements.
On Boxing Day, there was a fall of snow on top of the ice and still no gritting was done in Laurel Drive.
I would like to point out that we pay our council tax the same as the folks who live in the so-called priority streets.
I trust that this fiasco will not repeated as the residents of Laurel Drive etc., are not getting the service from the council which we are paying for.
Name and address supplied Dear Editor, In the week before Christmas there were many complaints in the Advertiser about icy footways and car parks in Hamilton.
One thing it did show, contrary to popular belief, is that Hamilton town centre and Almada Street do not get preferential treatment.
Essential paths in outlying villages had been treated before 6am.
It is true that a sudden drop in temperature during the day caused most of the problems, and some commercial retail car parks were dangerously icy as well.
Years of year-on-year cuts to council funding by the SNP Government must be the other part of the problem.
The majority of voters in South Lanarkshire clearly voted for these cuts, so I hope they are not the ones who are complaining about ice on footpaths.
The official answer would be that people should take responsibility for going out in very bad weather or use appropriate footwear.
I half agree with that, but what the Scottish Government should take into account is the cost of, say, just one broken shoulder due to a slip on the ice.
What would that cost the NHS? £50,000 , perhaps?
Ralph Barker, Carlisle Road, Crawford