Cemetery is a mess
Through my work over the last 26 years, I have noticed the steady decline in the presentation of Hawkhead Cemetery.
Once, it was beautifully kept. Bins were emptied regularl and roads were in an acceptable condition with no weeds.
However for the last five or six years, it could win prizes for the size of weeds growing among the headstones at this once well-kept cemetery.
I have complained over the years not only to councillors but to the council executives, with no reply other than ‘We don’t have the resources’ to maintain it. Now I see a councillor in the Express ( June 2) beaming about what they are going to do and looking for praise. But it’s down to you and your council’s lack of action that the cemetery has been left in the mess it’s in.
Go look at it today. The weeds are, in places, higher than the gravestones – and they are plentiful.
No weed killing has been carried out here. The paths are full of potholes, and the place is a total mess.
Councillors should be ashamed of the state of Hawkhead, instead of looking for praise for trying to put right their lack of action on it.
Tommy McShane
Openyoureyes
I am not a bit surprised at the drivel in Derek Mackay’s piece in the Express of May 31.
He is obviously being fed lies from SNP councillors, or it is he who is spouting rubbish? Councillor Cathy McEwan has been told on numerous occasions that the complaint is that she is taking primary schoolchildren out of their classes to do the clean-ups without parental consent and getting the kids to pick up hundreds of dog poo bags, cigarette ends and cans with unknown liquid in them.
People taking a pride in their area is NOT the problem. Even the parents of pupils from a primary school in her own ward have said they picked up over 100 poo bags. And as for him stating that they have been left to clean up – this is utter rubbish. Renfrewshire is now the dirtiest I have ever seen it since the SNP took control of the council over one year ago.
You only have to look at the dirt and litter. So stop having a pop at Labour Mr MacKay and start opening your eyes – the streets of Renfrewshire are filthy and it is all down to the party in power – the SNP.
Margaret Devine Paisley
The weeds are, in places, higher than the gravestones – and they are plentiful