Challenge to council leader to show how system can work POOR GETTING WORSE OFF
I’D like to bring up a valid point on the current recycling in Stockport. We as a family do our best to recycle to the fullest. We find this is a great way of helping our environment for the future.
This is all fine until we face the biggest challenge ever. Our green bin goes out every week, our blue bin twice a month, our grey bin twice a month and last but not least, our brown bin once a month.
Our issue is with the amount of times these go out and the size of them.
The green bin goes out too many times and there is no need for small food waste bin as all can go in garden waste bin together.
The small grey bin is not big enough for some or most households. It’s ideal for a single person or couple, but not for families. I think once again our politicians are misguided by council officers and Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority.
I want to know who thought the brown bin was a great idea. It goes out once a month, but is full in two weeks, so after speaking to a local councillor, I wasn’t impressed at all. Now I ask the leader of the council to take on the challenge to come and do our recycling and show us how it is done because we are struggling as a family.
We don’t want extra bins, we request larger bins or change how the bins go out each week.
We don’t have room for extra bins. William Gallagher, Reddish WHY are people moaning and writing letters about one ward closure?
I will take Councillor Syd Lloyd’s letter first and include MP Mary Robinson. Both are Conservatives for the council and the government.
Councillor Lloyd is peeved it has been leaked by social media. Mrs Robinson, we all know the government’s policy on the NHS.
Yes privatise it all, sell it off, let the rich get richer and to hell with north and midlands.
These two people are trying to con you!
My wife and I have had the misfortune to both be in Stepping Hill for various reasons and all we found was help and kindness from the volunteers right up to the consultants. They were brilliant so the pair of you stop sniping and resign because overall this government wants us all to pay.
Let me take up Peter Fenlon’s letter. Sir, please go to Specsavers.
Yes they are a private company, yet in September last year they picked up that there was something wrong with my eyes.
They arranged a visit to another private consultation. The story ends with success. Now I can drive without glasses after 40 years.
The last thing I hope I can say is this. The poorer are getting worse off and I have to say the richer are getting richer because of the Conservatives. M D Cawley Offerton
THE CAR IS NOT ALL IT SEEMS
I SEE that Britain has won the Tour de France yet again. It is becoming a habit and it’s a fair bet that out cyclists will secure medals in Rio.
The upsurge in British cycling is very evident in places like central London where it is encouraged and cars are discouraged, but here in Stockport the car culture dominates like never before.
Perhaps a deteriorating environment might change Stockport’s priorities.
At the start of the year, atmospheric CO2 climbed to record levels. Several days ago, the highest temperature ever recorded on earth was recorded at a weather station in Kuwait (54c)
On the same day at Basra in Iraq the temperature at 53.9c became the second highest ever recorded on the planet.
One climate expert has said that he thinks the very existence of people in large parts of the Middle East and North Africa is in jeopardy.
Perhaps the car is not all it seems. John Tyres Marple
GPS HEARING IT ALL WRONG
I AM writing in response to the letter in last week’s edition of the Stockport Express, ‘Specsavers test shocker’.
I am a senior audiologist in the audiology department at Stepping Hill Hospital, and I am, frankly, amazed at how misinformed some of our local GPs are.
Specsavers provide services, alongside us, under the ‘any qualified provider’ (AQP) scheme which the Greater Manchester Commissioning Group agreed should be implemented over two years ago.
A condition of the scheme is that a patient is given an appointment within 16 working days of the referral being received and that applies to us as well as it does to Specsavers.
For adult hearing aid assessment and fitting under AQP the 18 week pathway does not apply.
In any case our hearing aid patients have not waited as long as 18 weeks to have hearing aids fitted for some time now.
When digital hearing aids were first introduced to Stockport in 2004 we did have an overwhelming waiting list, wholly due to the fact all existing hearing aid users had to be refitted with digital aids as well as new patients coming in for the first time.
That situation has been resolved for nearly 10 years, and we are all working extremely hard to meet the targets set currently.
I hope this can set the record straight. Anybody who wishes to get their hearing assessed and hearing aids fitted at Stepping Hill Hospital audiology department will not wait any longer to be seen than anywhere else. Kim Burrows Reddish