Warnock was ultimately let down by the players
WHEN Neil Warnock was appointed manager I wrote to the Echo to say what a fantastic appointment it was and I was right.
The club was on its knees and Neil has put the pride back into Cardiff City and it is in a far better situation than the absolute shambles he inherited.
Neil Warnock, pictured, has not let this club down but he was badly let down by the players who have underachieved throughout this season.
C Davies
Blackwood
Wood burners are making our air foul
WHY ARE wood burners legal? In my area of Cardiff the air is permanently foul – winter, summer, day and night – relentless toxic smoke from wood burners, chimineas, outdoor ovens, fire pits etc.
This has been going on for more than seven years and has given me a number of serious health conditions.
Nobody in a wealthy country with a moderate climate needs to be lighting fires of any kind.
We all know how bad smoke is for us but there is this ridiculous notion that wood smoke is natural and carbon neutral when, in fact, it is the worst thing you can do for your health (lung/heart disease, stroke, eye disease, ageing of the skin, etc) and is responsible for a large part of the environmental crisis.
When one wood burner has the equivalent emissions of 10 diesel lorries why are we focussing on traffic?
Name & address supplied
Too much coverage of elections on TV
BACK in the day, as older readers will remember, election day was an occasional event which would pop up from time to time with no fanfare.
Most people would vote in accordance with family tradition going back many years to harder times; in some cases with deep and bitter grudges and memories which time would never erase.
It was the one day when the sitting MP and other candidates would swoop down onto the constituency, only to disappear again at the stroke of midnight like Cinderella, the lucky candidate en route to the House of Commons and the remainder back into welldeserved obscurity, never to be seen again.
The new MP making occasional local appearances was duly reported in the newspaper and TV yet to make any impact.
It was a day of great excitement with kids having a day off and schools utilised as voting stations manned by officials getting a tax-free payday.
The candidates would be both seen and heard touring the area in motor cars with huge loudspeakers temporarily strapped to the roof blaring out worthless promises: the promised land was just around the corner, poverty was going out of the window and riches were waiting to
It was a day of great excitement with kids having a day off and schools used as voting stations
be shipped in, all rubbish but there were those who believed. After the euphoria came... nothing.
Elections have become nothing more than a hugely expensive TV event with endless, boring coverage and comment from everyone and their dog. We see panels made up of political reporters endlessly discussing what the future might hold and even a commercial channel organising a canvass of viewers to force party leaders to appear and explain their coming programme in minute detail.
Have the loonies taken over the asylum?
Dave Prichard, Rumney