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YOUR VIEWS ON: MARINA CROWDS AND BEACH LITTER
LARGE crowd ‘of hundreds’ filmed dancing and singing together in Swansea. Here’s what you said:
BETH LOUISE It comes to something when you’re in the news for singing and dancing. I was down there yesterday and people were enjoying the sun social distancing. People seem to forget that students live in groups of maybe eight already and they can meet with another household of possibly eight. Let them enjoy. NEIL WILLIAMS God forbid people are happy to be out having a perfectly legal pint in some bank holiday sunshine after being locked up for about six years. SPY Hope Covid does not mutate to attack the young, sadly evidence of this is happening in Brazil, death rate tripled among people in their 20s in February. If that variant got a hold in the UK doubt they would be partying TIME2READ Yet Drakeford considers these folk old and sensible enough to vote in the May elections?
Swansea beach again left in ‘horrendous’ state as people are warned ‘don’t bring your kids or dogs here until it’s cleaned’. You said:
TIM LUTHER LEWIS I’ve
never been able to understand this: people like the beach, so they go there, yet leave it in a terrible state, making it somewhere they wouldn’t like. Is it because the rest of us clean it up and now these undeserving ingrates ‘expect’ others to clean up after them? KELLY MORGAN While I agree there will be rubbish left by inconsiderate people, there are also not enough
bins around Swansea. Numerous times I’ve seen rubbish piled up by the side of a bin. I know more bins wouldn’t eliminate the problem but it would surely help things? People shouldn’t be volunteering to clean it, we pay enough in council tax. However, huge thanks to those volunteers. CHEZZA GRIFFITHS Disgusting leaving all that rubbish!!! I do think cleansing in the council should be emptying the bins more often when the weather is fine around marina/beach areas. There seems to be plenty of car park attendants/wardens. RYAN EVANS Great to be outdoors like the beach in this weather but if it’s going to be treated like this every time you might as well close them until people learn not to leave their rubbish on the beach when there’s children running round. CHRIS N Nails? Am I just getting old. What’s the reason for them? LUNA33 They come from burnt pallets SCRUMPYDOG I volunteered to clean down there this morning. The
worst spot I found was a dead fire with about six broken bottles in it, all the sharp glass facing upwards, then on the step by the council building broken bottles everywhere, it was disgraceful. The only positive out of this is when going down to do these beach cleans with other decent like-minded people it gives you a little hope. Sadly it was a massive eye-opener at the disrespect in numbers we face.
CITYDEFENDER108
Sadly, the UK is a developed country in name only. Anyway, in addition to fines, I strongly suggest that anyone caught discarding litter on a beach or street be legally forced to commit a number of hours cleaning river banks, areas where fly tipping is an issue, and beaches. Make the punishment fit the crime. COLIN PRITCHARD We need wardens who photograph those leaving the mess. Those challenged at the time should be made to clean up and pay an £80 fine. Those images shared on social media and identified, along with repeat offenders should have 7-14 days of community service cleaning parks and beaches etc. Let the punishment fit the crime.