Our vaccine centre’s car park is a disgrace

I recently had my third Covid jab at Toys R Us in Cardiff and I wish to draw your attention to the disgraceful state of the car park.

The entrance is to the rear of the premises and the car park is in an area which appears to be of shale, which is full of depressions and of water.

Also the surface is so bad it is like riding a switchback.

If one is not equipped with gumboots, then to descend from the car would mean, in shoes, wet feet.

Why oh why is the front tarmacked area not in use during this very wet period?

The medical team are to be congratulated on a very smooth and quick service.

Fred Jenkins Whitchurch, Cardiff

Concern for UK’s ageing population

I’M glad that Dr Allison Wroe (Letters) agrees with me that palliative care should be and must be improved.

Firstly, the wording of the 1967 Abortion Act even then was described as being able to drive a coach and horses through it, that’s where the real problems started.

As early as 1969 the annual abortion rate for England and Wales was close to 55,000 abortions, in Scotland there were 3,500.

Skipping a few years to 1972 abortions for England and Wales were registered at 159,000, Scotland 7,500.

The present annual abortion rate across the UK is now 200,000 annually, remembering of course that we have free contraception available across the UK and the availability of the morning-after pill. No figures would be available for these early abortions, as Dr Wroe will know.

We have now reached the astounding figure in the UK of 9.5 million abortions since the enactment of the law.

I’ll leave it to readers to assess for themselves if these are abuses of the Act. My worry is that with so many missing people as a result of this Act, that an opportunity to decrease our ageing population via euthanasia is a financial attraction to the powers that be.

Paul Botto

Splott, Cardiff

Drug issues mean we feel unsafe

INTERESTING to read the article regarding the survey which claimed Cardiff is the least safe city in the UK.

Of the 2,000 people surveyed, 135 were from Cardiff.

It said in the report that Cllr Thorne stated “community safety has been a top priority”.

Having had first-hand experience of the issues relating to drugs and dealing with Cardiff council, this, as the ONS figures show with four similarly sized cities, isn’t the case.

It also quoted people saying they don’t feel safe and I can concur with that statement, and continue to feel unsafe in and around where I live.

High drug rates in Cardiff are a fact.

Neil Fletcher Cardiff

Do the arithmetic on our electricity

SWANSEA Bay lagoon will only generate 61MW on average. It is peanuts. Wales uses less than 1850MW on average, but the gasfired power station in Pembroke in the far west of Wales only opened in recent years, generates over 2100MW, so it power Wales on its own. It must do.

Therefore, it follows that Wylfa nuclear power station, all the other gas-fired power stations in Wales, Dinorwig “magic mountain” hydro power station, every wind turbine and every solar panel must be powering England already. That’s simple arithmetic. Why is no-one doing simple sums and asking questions? Lyn Jenkins

Cardigan

If one is not equipped with gumboots, then to descend from the car would mean, in shoes, wet feet

Fred Jenkins Whitchurch, Cardiff

Remember loved ones at service

ON Sunday, October 31, a special All Saints Remembrance Service will be held at 10.30am at Conway Road Methodist Church, Canton, Cardiff.

This is a special opportunity to remember all loved ones who have gone before, particularly those lost to family and friends as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

All are welcome, not only churchgoers.

The service will be led by the minister, Rev Paul Martin.

Stuart Bailey

Radyr, Cardiff

Decision needed now on housing

IT has now been several months (April 2021) since the housing appeal lodged by Persimmon homes to build 300 houses on green fields/ farmland in Blackwood was heard in the High Court.

At the hearing Welsh Government failed to submit any evidence in support of its previous decision to refuse planning.

The judge then passed the issue back to local government minister Julie James for her to decide. Residents and councillors were not informed of the High Court outcome until after the Welsh Government election in May 2021, one can only guess why we were not informed until after the elections. The minister has had ample time to decide if she supports the people of Blackwood in their fight to save our green fields/farmland, or Persimmon.

Residents have been on an emotional rollercoaster, delaying the decision is causing more uncertainty and stress.

I am asking that the issue be resolved before next May’s local government elections.

Cllr Nigel Dix Blackwood

All aboard for the green revolution

VAUGHAN Gething’s economic initiative attempting to retain the young workforce here in Wales is to be welcomed.

It has to be recognised, however, that large highly populated areas in the north of England and the Midlands face similar problems to Wales with the decline of heavy industry, and the transport system, in particular throughout Lancashire and Yorkshire, is com

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pletely unfit for purpose.

Indeed, the life expectancy of a resident in the south is 17 years more than one living in Blackpool.

It has often been said that the south east of England makes nothing except money, with the prominence of the City of London ensuring that much of the finance generated there is retained in the area.

Prestige rail projects costing billions and threatening the environment ought to be curtailed or even abolished, and the money used for the benefit of those more greatly in need.

Often the Welsh Government has been thwarted in its aims, one example is being prevented from offering more reasonable landing rights to airlines in an attempt to attract them to Cardiff Airport because of opposition from Bristol Airport.

Welsh ports have been seriously disadvantaged by our untimely withdrawal from the EU and perhaps Fishguard and Pembroke can now be extensively used, offering direct routes to the Continent and saving the blockage experienced in the south.

Holyhead too must re-establish its hub facility as the major port for goods to Ireland.

So may I suggest – full speed ahead for the green revolution.