Sad farewell to a true man of vision

Vic Banks was our friend for 50 years and was truly “a man of vision” (Engineer Behind Talking Newspaper For The Blind Dies, Kentish Gazette, October 13).

We first knew him 50 years ago when he started the Canterbury Cine Club and was our chairman for several years, always willing to help and explain the camera and how to make films.

He showed some of his films at club members evenings.

The club is still functioning but under the name of Canterbury Film Makers.

Last year we met him at the social gathering for the Canterbury and District Recorder talking newspaper and he was the same friendly person he always was.

We bid a sad farewell to him and send our condolences to his wife Pauline and family. Kathleen and Denis Ratcliffe Heathfield Way, Barham visual impact with negative intrusion and aesthetics for the whole area without properties being affected or devalued if the undersea electricity cable from Zeebrugge across the English Channel to Richborough at the River Stour estuary) continued up the River Stour to the back of the Broad Oak sub-station Canterbury.

This would cut the previous cost of £132 million of burying this cable in the bed of the river via a trench which is then back filled.

The cable would always be accessible if required the same as the transatlantic phone link cable .

So why does it take the Planning Inspectorate and the Secretary of State to become involved when I have identified this very simple solution to a problem that is being escalated out of all proportion? D Easton Forest Road, Ayr, Scotland