Cuts to my green bin collections? Leaf it out!
I WOULD like to make a complaint about the green bin collections.
At a time when trees are shedding leaves far later than normal, why have councils stopped weekly collections?
We have two green bins filled to overflowing and two bags full of leaves and a garden again full of leaves that need collecting but the council choose this week to start fortnightly collections.
I complained to the recycling department but all they could offer was a collection next Monday and as the normal collection is on Tuesday morning this was no use at all.
Just what are we supposed to do with the leaves we collect this week? Very cross OAP from Northern Moor
Time to back businesses
NEXT week’s Budget accords a distinct opportunity for the Chancellor to give some muchneeded certainty to business at this time of concern and apprehension over Brexit.
Moving to enact the recommendation within the recent National Infrastructure Assessment of an additional £43bn transport investment in the regions outside London would be a positive signal to investors and also go some way towards laying the foundations for the long-term economic prosperity of the UK as a whole.
As three chambers of commerce covering the metropolitan areas of Bristol, Greater Manchester and London, and a combined GVA of almost £500bn, we know connectivity matters to business.
Business thrives on speed of connection whether that’s moving employees, accessing skills, linking networks, transporting goods or raw materials or digital connectivity.
Travel both within and between our city regions is not easy. For instance, getting employees and goods into our city centres is often tortuous, hampered by underinvestment and high congestion. Whilst transiting, by any mode, between the great northern cities of Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield can be a tortuous, time consuming experience. This is not good for business or Britain plc.
Budget 2018 is an opportunity to make bold investment decisions to ensure that all the UK remains competitive after Brexit.
We’re calling for a more strategic approach towards the allocation of public monies for transport investment. This would prompt more businesses, especially those from outside the UK, to take a closer look at the newly devolved English metro regions as locations to invest and locate.
The UK has long dragged its feet on transport infrastructure. Next year’s Spending Review – on the eve of Brexit – should provide certainty to regional transport infrastructure with funding in place for the next twenty years. Clive Memmott, Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce; Phil Smith, Business West; Colin Stanbridge, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Long wait for my records
I RECENTLY joined a new GP practice. I saw a doctor who said it would be two to four months before my medical records from the previous surgery would be received.
I was told she could ask for a summary or access hospital records, however this would also take time.
I was also informed that the government had put a system in place with a company I presume would be overseeing the transfer of notes from one practice to another.
Is this one of the reasons for my problem regarding transfer of my notes? It is not very reassuring to know that my new GP has no access to my medical records for two to four months.
I am in my 80s with multiple medical problems – confirmed by hospital records.
My question is why, when it used to take a couple of weeks, does it now take so much longer to transfer? Just Puzzled, Eccles
Thanks for tumble help
EARLIER this month I had a fall in St Peter’s Square.
I would like to thank the people who came to help me, especially the two gentlemen who helped to pick me up.
Fortunately, I only suffered brusing. Irene Hammersid