Simple solution for the NHS shortage of beds
THE Chancellor has shown that in an emergency situation vast amounts of money can be found.
Is not the NHS moving into an emergency situation with ambulances held up by the lack of beds?
Bring back convalescence homes which are cheaper to build than new hospitals and require less highly-qualified staff.
Move the recovering patients from hospitals, thus freeing beds and ambulances.
Of course a fair amount of fullyqualified staff would need to be in charge but, for goodness sake, pay them all properly.
Robert Sullivan
Rumney, Cardiff
Help needed to find relatives of soldier
HELLO, my name is Vanja Justinussen Kovacs and I live in the Faroe Islands.
We are searching for a man who probably is not alive today but we would like to find his relatives. We believe he is our grandfather. He was here in the Faroe Islands during the Second World War.
We believe he left the islands in 1943 and he was 29 years old at that moment. So he was born around 1914.
His name is William Williams, or William James William. His R.A. is 870383 (Royal Artillery). This a picture of him. We have many.
My email is Vanjajk@icloud.com Vanja Justinussen Kovacs Vollavegur 2 625 Glyvrar Føroyar (Faroe Islands)
Politicians can‘t sit on loyalty fence
ALL political parties in this country go through a leadership crisis from time to time.
We currently have one with the Conservatives, with Labour not far away.
So to all those MPs who plead “uncertainty” can I paraphrase a text from the Bible – He that is not against me is with me.
You can’t have it both ways, MPs, you are either with your leader or not, you can’t be on both sides of the divide.
Stand up and be counted.
Ron Boyce Cardiff
Waiting for buses that don’t turn up
SO we are facing a cost-of-living crisis that sees costs rising continually.
As well as that, we are told there is a climate emergency and the authorities are trying to get the general public on to public transport.
Therefore on May 30, having to go to Cardiff city centre, I went out to catch the 11.07 bus.
What then happened saw me miss a 12.20pm appointment in the city centre.
11.07 bus cancelled due to sickness.
11.27 regulated due to late running.
11.47 didn’t leave city centre. They were the reasons given for a service not running for an hour and me having to walk half a mile for a connection into the city centre.
On Thursday, June 9, the 8.22am bus didn’t turn up. Still waiting for the reason from Cardiff Bus.
If you are stood at a bus stop in Cardiff waiting for a delayed bus, the number to call between 9am and 5pm is 029 2066 6444.
Money is going into Cardiff Bus but services aren’t running for people to use.
Neil Fletcher
Cardiff
Gray saw what we’d already concluded
SUE GRAY threw the book at Boris Johnson and concluded what the country already knows, that he is a serial rule-breaker and liar.
And in all those years since attaining power, his ministers and MPs have defended him week in, week out, knowing full well he lies.
Rishi Sunak and the Tories voted against a windfall tax on energy suppliers, but suddenly a magic money tree is found to take the heat off Mr Johnson, and his failures.
This is a person who has never once replied to a letter sent by many Senedd Members, asking him to intervene and finally end the inhumane pension injustice still being inflicted on the former Allied Steel and Wire (ASW) steelworkers and others, the deliberate robbing of their promised pensions.
Former ASW steelworkers don’t want a magic money tree to help them, they just want the pensions they paid for 100% and rightfully deserve.
John Benson
Dinas Powys
MPs not entitled to speak about pay
THE average wage for an RMT worker is £33,000 when you include more than 10,000 cleaners.
Focusing on a group of highearning train drivers is misleading. Meanwhile MPs enjoy £84,144, plus a subsidised canteen, plus expenses. Members of the House of Lords are not salaried. They can opt to receive a £305-per-day attendance allowance, plus travel expenses and subsidised restaurant facilities.
These are the people who have no right to speak about working people’s pay.
These foreign train companies make millions in profits that go into foreign pockets, thanks to the Tories selling off the railways.
Andrew Nutt
Bargoed
Bring back convalescence homes which are cheaper to build than new hospitals...
Robert Sullivan
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