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Why should the public have to fix our pothole problem?
It’s a sad state of affairs when the community has to do the job of politicians via Facebook.
We are all aware of the growing pothole problem across the borough – but it should be something for our MPs and councillors to sort out – not the public.
The recent Facebook group started to highlight the problem and demand action (‘Motorists fume over state of roads as Facebook group aims to raise awareness of ‘pothole pandemic’ – Gedling Eye 04/01/24) is great and all that, but these people running this probably already have jobs – and I doubt it’s having to manage road repairs. Why should their spare time be taken up doing the job of our political representatives?
Instead of relying on the public, lets see our councillors and MPs earn their cash and finally get this pothole problem sorted, instead of passing. the buck and blaming each other.
Philip Hughes,
Gedling
Allocate Arnold cash elsewhere
I’m with Susan Bailey (Happy about Bid Rejection – Letters 08/12/23) and am also fed up to the back teeth of every penny allocated to the council going to Arnold. Never have I seen such blatant favouritism by Gedling Borough Council (GBC).
It started the moment they left their Carlton Square offices and moved to Arnold.
After spending three thousand thousand on a few shops when some areas are desperate for investment you once again have the gaul to try and justify spending another 50 thousand thousand on Arnold.
Does GBC have no shame?
I’d rather they did not receive it than get it to yet again snub all the other towns and villages that have just as much right to having monies spent on their communities.
Shame on you GBC, shame on you!
Name and address witheld by request
Banking ‘no longer fit for purpose’
Why do our political representatives not treat the matter of bank branch closures with the concern it requires?
Banking is no longer fit for many purposes and business people in Arnold now stand in long queues at post offices, with cash in one envelope and cheques in another, in order to pay into accounts.
It is difficult to believe the Government’s protestation that it is committed to retaining ‘cash’, when the chancellor could easily stem (and reverse this increasing slide) with indication that bank specific taxes will be instigated if the industry doesn’t tow the line.
As thoughtless people impose a cashless society by default, it will eventually result in a loss of democracy. Banks, or worse Governments, will undoubtedly use IT to direct our card transactions.
Accounts will be closed without appeal, business of the wrong persuasion will be proscribed from card transactions, and the public will no longer have any say in events, having lost alternatives to money. The recent debacle of Nigel Farage being ‘picked upon’ by an undemocratic bank is a wonderful pointer towards our future. Absolute power corrupts and we are pointed on the way towards it.
E Reynolds,
Burton Joyce
Please keep our NHS safe
NHS is a precious jewel I awoke in the middle of the night with severe chest pain.
NHS 111 advised me to call an ambulance or go immediately to A&E.
I arrived there at 05.30, and they gave me a whole battery of tests, including an ECG and a chest X-ray.
Along the way I even got breakfast and lunch!
Fortunately it was diagnosed as a mild condition treatable with antibiotics, but I tremble to think what all this would have cost in a private hospital.
Staff and volunteers at the Queens Medical Centre were brilliant, caring and friendly.
