Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.
Some letters refer to past correspondence which can be found by clicking here. Join the debate by emailing letters@gedlingeye.co.uk and put ‘Letters’ in the subject line.
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Public must ‘shop’ graffiti taggers
I am a Netherfield-born and bred man living away from the town but I come back and keep an eye on how my home town is progressing.
In my opinion, tagging graffiti is becoming a problem in Netherfield.
I have just returned from Italy where tagging has been out of control for some years.
Police assets are too finely stretched to be employed in resolving this invasive practice which after a time becomes ugly rather than artistic.
I recommend that the public ‘shop’ the perpetrators; turn them in. You have a problem that you, the residents, must try to solve yourselves before you are overwhelmed by it.
D Vardon,
Now Leeds
Parents on school run create parking ‘nightmare’
I can’t stand those parents on the school run near me – they block the roads and are a nightmare.
These parents do not care where they park. Try telling them and you just get expletives.
I am sure some of these children can walk to school. Are they scared of the cold?
I live near a school and its double yellow lines do not mean a thing to people, nor do the zigzag lines which clearly state to keep clear. They take no notice.
I have written to the local schools about it, but they do nothing about it.
Why have rules of the road when they just get ignored?
Rachel Baggott,
Carlton
Mementoes from the pits
I was a miner in the Yorkshire pits for over 30 years and am now retired.
By way of a hobby I started collecting colliery checks or tokens, these are normally brass or alloy discs embossed with the colliery name and stamped with the individual miners number. They were used as a safety measure to accurately record the number of men underground at any one time, some were also used as pay checks.
I know your area, like my own, was once littered with pits.
I am appealing to any fellow ex-miners or anyone with mining connections in helping me obtain examples I don’t have from the now closed collieries of your area.
Thank you.
W.Bennett ,
5 Edinburgh Avenue,
Bolton on Dearne,
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
S63 8DS
Some good news would be nice
Can we have some good news for once Gedling Eye?
I am a regular reader of your site but am starting to despair at the amount of bad news you publish.
Would you consider a ‘good news day’ where you just wrote positive stories?
Last week all I read about was murders, crime and hating firework displays.
Crack a smile Gedling Eye team and write something positive about some of the good people we have living locally.
John Lambert,
Calverton
