Parklife noise is heard from miles around

Viewpoints, MEN, Mitchell Henry House, Hollinwood Avenue, Oldham, OL9 8EF viewpoints@men-news.co.uk

I LIVE about three miles from Heaton Park and I have no need to attend the earbashing at Parklife as I can hear it even with all the windows closed.

My daughter – who lives six miles away – has just posted online that she is listening to it to.

I feel really sorry for the residents who live nearby as to them it must be No Life. David Hughes, via email Metrolink. I beg to differ. Did we not reject a congestion charge to pay for this red herring and hasn’t the government given Manchester council a few billion pounds in assistance for this project?

By the way, here in Tameside, we have a contingent of travellers encamped on the tram stop car park on Lord Sheldon Way with all their washing on display on the fencing.

Wonder why they haven’t got parking tickets yet? Amused observer, Audenshaw the result of an unholy coupling of a Tory steamroller and Labour gravy train, has no mandate of legitimacy with the public at large, has the vaguest of portfolios, and is a recipe for profligacy whose only beneficiaries will be the fat cat hierarchies of the NHS and transport sectors, who are already grossly overpaid.

This superfluous new tier of local government should be opposed at every turn by a cross-party democratisation movement such as, not all that long ago, the one which successfully overturned the iniquitous congestion charge. Dave Culshaw, Hindley, Wigan Monday, I went by bus into Manchester to watch the Whit Walks near Manchester Cathedral.

After staying until the procession had passed, I decided to call into the cathedral before the walk back to Shudehill bus station.

It was then that I noticed that both zips on my shoulder bag were open and my purse was missing.

This, I assume, probably happened while I was engrossed watching the procession. This means that membership cards and store loyalty cards I had in my purse, are now all missing.

Consequently, I was left in a state of nervous anxiety. M, Manchester

Don’t be surprised if you see more of these spite-strikes in public services in the coming months.

The union bosses are furious about our impertinence in exercising our democratic rights, and they mean to make us pay for it. Ronald Fleming, Manchester