Bridge lights blaze away through night

The lights on the Stanier (Sainsbury’s) Bridge at Green Park have always blazed away between the hours of 5pm and 9.30am, day in day out, winter and summer. They are incredibly bright, dazzlingly so if you live close, as I do.

If being constructed now, the lights would not be allowed because of the bat populations, but the council tells me they are perfectly legal. Direct appeals to Sainsbury’s go unanswered.

Sainsbury’s has clearly never heard of timer clocks, or light detection switches, so they come on in bright sunshine on our long summer days, apparently oblivious to any energy crisis or looming power shortages.

As other countries turn down their heating and turn off monument lights, and we are encouraged to save energy, can we hope that Sainsbury’s will finally do the right thing?

Judith Anderson

Bath

This evening I have listened to a number of tributes to our beloved Queen but none, yet none, have mentioned her steadfast Christian faith.

Her Majesty has experienced many national and family problems during her reign which would have broken the most resilient, but filled with the strength of the Holy Spirit and the prayers of her people she has been able to keep her promise to serve her people and the peoples of the Commonwealth until her death. She faithfully kept her promise.

“... but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” – Isaiah Chapter 40, v 31.

Armorel Carlyon (Mrs)

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