The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
The need for warm hubs was created by the cold-hearted
There’s a heartwarming (and feetwarming and every other part of your body warming) story in this week’s Peterborough Telegraph which takes us inside one of the city’s warm hubs.
Our new Local Democracy Reporter Joanna Taylor went to St Mark’s Church in Lincoln Road to talk to people who use one of the city’s 18 warm hubs where they find food, support, company… and warmth.
The hubs, which are funded by the council council have become one of the symbols of UK 2023.
First we had food banks and now warm hubs – eating and heating for those who can’t afford it –not bad going for the fifth biggest economy in the world.
According to Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report, published a few months ago there are a staggering 2.85 million people in the UK who are millionaires albeit in dollars rather than pounds.
You might need to read that last sentence again… I did.
Most of them live in London and the Southeast. Not many of them live in Dogsthorpe or Welland nor Orton Goldhay and Millfield.
The food banks and warm hubs are wonderful initiatives but it is simply disgusting in this day and age that they need to exist.
They shame us all, but mostly those cold-hearted politicians and their ideology that has brought this about.
I’M WITH STUPID
The only good thing about criminals is that most of them are pretty thick. Some poor kid had his bike nicked in Paston by three thugs who took the precaution of wearing balaclavas presumably to avoid capture. So far so bad for the thuggy trio but then one let slip the name of one of his partners in crime.
It reminds me of that famous Dad's Army scene where a German officer demands to know Private Pike's name, prompting Captain Mainwaring to warn: "Don't tell him, Pike!"
IT’S AN UNFAIR COP
I’m always reassured rather than worried when the police kick out cops for misconduct. This week we report on a detective whose misconduct was so serious it led to criminal charges. Also among his disciplinary misdemeanours was a claim he changed into his police uniform to jump a queue at Tesco. Given the effort that must have taken, it must have been one heck of a queue!