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PAVEMENTS ARE A PROBLEM

AFTER reading about the potholes in Macclesfield, it is not just the roads – some of the pavements are bad as well.

Since my brother had his stroke and has had to use a mobility scooter, we have noticed how bad some of the pavements are. If you can get on the pavement with the scooter sometimes you cannot get off, so some of the time he has to go on the road, which his mobility scooter is suitable for.

We have seen others on scooters on the road because of the pavement access.

Even the path outside our house is not suitable for his scooter as it is quite steep and at an angle, so he has to be extra careful when going down the slope. Jean Shawcross Hurdsfield

CHANCE TO CLEAR DRAINS

IT may be that Cheshire East had already planned to clear the drains on the Silk Road during the closure for National Grid’s (NG) maintenance work (subject to health and safety considerations, of course).

However, the postponement of the NG work gives CEC another opportunity during the subsequent closure to clear out every bit of gunge from every single gulley and connecting drain from Hibel Road to the Bollington turn. This would mean that, this winter, I’m not suddenly faced (on a pitch black unlit road) by the sudden appearance in my headlights of an enormous pool of water, covering half the road.

Or is CEC going to wait for leaf fall? Or an accident? Ian Hemmings Bollington

This week’s Big Picture is by Megg Eveline, who took this snap of Macclesfield Forest. Email your pictures to macclesfieldexpress@menmedia.co.uk or add them to our Flickr page at flickr.com/groups/maccpics. We’ll print the best ones