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WHAT you’ve been saying on our Facebook page:
●●CT scanner to check for lung cancers installed in Adrenaline Centre car park (July 29):
Samara Barnes: Is this counted as one of the 40 new hospitals the Tories promised?
Victoria Gamble: This isn’t something to score political points about! These scanners detect cancer early and save lives
Eam Freeman: It was a fantastic idea, surprised that it is only now being reported as it was there in June and they posted me the results in just a week. Hope that they make the mobile screening part of a permanent rolling programme.
●●TRUCK ‘legend’ Dennis ‘Strap’ Law’s last journey to work (July 29):
Maxine Leyland: It really was an emotional send off for a wonderful man. RIP Strap, thinking of your family x
Andrew Roberts: He will be sadly missed by everyone
Connor Ludlow: What a man, he will definitely be missed
Jean Howarth: Lovely tribute.
Teresa Walker: He couldn’t have had a better send off and what an amazing friend he was. Rip Strap they don’t make them like him anymore x
Michael Reeves: A top man with a heart of gold
●●FURY over council plan to slap £22 charge on ‘lifeline’ service for vulnerable people Telecare (July 29):
Laura Walden: My 83 yr old mum got a note to advise about the charges. I think it’s appalling! Francesca Dean: Me too! I have cerebral palsy and people with disabilities have enough limitations as it is! We don’t decide to have a disability, it’s just human nature! The council and government think we don’t exist but we do! We’re not robots or machines, names on paper but above all we are human beings! When are those with disabilities going to start to be treated with dignity, compassion and above all respect? Enough is enough!
Matt Young: Always hit the helpless eh
Edith Challinor: How selfish are these councillors, I hope one day they need help and they can’t pay for it. They are disgusting but people voted them back in
Jonathan Faulkner: Unnecessary charge on the vulnerable. Get the money from elsewhere.
Karen Lynch: Why do they have to mess with things? This is going to cause a lot of problems to vulnerable people who rely on this service so much, what about people who live alone and have nobody to help in a situation? x
●●HALIFAX branch announces winter closure date in Rawtenstall (July 29):
Philip Taylor: A sign of the times. Why pay people to sit behind a counter for two customers a day? I just hope it’s not just boarded up and left empty.
Joanne Emberga: Gutted, I queued for 40 mins last Weds lunchtime, was so busy. Can’t do everything online and haven’t got time to get to a different branch.
Kim O’Brien: It’s a shame but at least we can still use the post office to pay in. As long as that stays open
Sarah Mitchell Barrett: It’s just not fair to keep closing banks and building societies
Kimberley O’Brien: That’s online banking for you...the big
supermarkets closed the shops and online banking will close the banks...soon there will be no staff anywhere thanks to technology
Vivien Richardson: It’s always busy!
Carol Louise Cryer: Won’t be called Bank Street next
Stephen Rothwell: Shocking decisions!
Claim the banks don’t get used but then there are always people queuing?
Mark Tickle: At this rate there’s going to be no banks open for people to rob!
Dorothy Johnson: They told me Accrington, which is ok, but still a 15/20 minute drive.
Jodie Walsh: Submit a complaint online or by phone...I have and maybe if they get an influx they may reconsider? Doubtful but worth a try
Lynne Antoinette Aspden: There’s going to be nothing soon, it’s as though we don’t exist.
Now I understand why council have planted hundreds and hundreds more trees, it’s so we disappear into to background.
Mary Brady: When I was a Post office counter clerk, we knew this was coming and that was in the 80s.
Sharon Holt: And Mary you were brilliant at it x
Andy Hoare: Which is why the industry wants everything cashless, as does the government (of any colour) so they can tax every last penny. Wake up and go back to cash.
Shb Birt Huxley: NOT good news
Colin Brennan: Our high street gives an all new meaning to getting drunk
John Keith Brennan: Rammy just the same, used to be 6 cash machines, now just 2
Debra Marsden: It be turned into a micro pub and change the road name to pub street lol.
Chris Slattery: The other week I was in Morrisons and the Internet went down. No card terminals working and cash machine down. Out of the 20 people at the till, only me and another lady in the queue had cash. Everyone else just had to abandon their shopping Pam Lang: Can’t believe this. We need banks.
Can’t pay everything by card or transfer. Used to love getting my pay packet at the end of a hard week grafting and made it worthwhile seeing it in cash. Now paid straight into bank Sandra Turner: I feel sorry for the elderly people who can’t cope with online banking. Some of them will have been with the Halifax for many, many years and now they’re expected to travel out of town. Not everything needs to be online. What’s happened to good old customer service?