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12 • Visit us @ www.ChampNews.com CMBA The Champion • Wednesday 1 May 2013
Shops are clean
but square is dirty
I am not an animal lover but I would never
harm one.
So, the precint owner of Maghull’s Central
Square thinks that the animal sanctuary
collecting makes the square look tatty?
Take a look around, the square is dirty and
not a bit an encouraging a place to shop.
The shops are clean and the staff are
excellent but outside is dirty and untidy and
there is chewing gum all over the place.
Take yourselves to Kirkby and
Skelmersdale to see the spotless shopping
precincts.
Even when Central Square is as clean as
those, I cannot see why the charity should be
moved.
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April
showers
’APRIL showers
bring forth May
flowers’ .... as we
welcome a new
month today have
we seen the last of
April showers?
Picture by Martyn
Snape.
Code: 1058372.
Case for Scottish independence is nonsense
since we are all mixed up together in the UK
Mr Erickson–Rohrer’s recent letter in the
Champion about next year’s referendum in
Scotland on the question of independence
raises some important issues about who we are
as a nation.
I believe that the case for Scottish
independence is a nonsense simply because
there were times in the UK’s social history
when the population of these islands moved to
where the jobs were.
Consequently, large numbers of Scots and
their descendants no longer live in Scotland,
witness the host of Scottish family names you
will find in any English telephone directory.
So, while England is currently home to 85% of
LETTERS to the Editor
Dock entrance ramp bridge
would be safer for pedestrians
Re: your article about the fatal accident in
Seaforth (Champion, April 24).
Councillor Cummins is wrong to support the
outdated accident league table system of
allocating funding to improve road safety.
Road safety should always be about
prevention rather than cure.
The Seaforth Dock entrance has had no drop
kerb on the west side for years now and many
people, including the Dock Police, had voiced
concern in the past.
With the Liverpool 2 dock expansion at one
end and Liverpool Waters at the other, Sefton
Council and Liverpool Council need to be
working with Peel now to create a safe
commuter route for pedestrians and cyclists as
PICTURE of the week
the UK’s population, that does not mean they
are all English. For example, while I live in
England, some of my ancestors are Scots and so
I consider myself a Brit.
Moreover, if any Englishman dares to shake
his family tree hard enough, a Celt of some
description is likely to fall out.
So to suggest that the 8% of the UK
population living in Scotland are the only Scots
is an insult to Scottish fecundity!
With that said, it was the people in Scotland
(Scots or not!) who voted to have this
referendum and so it should be left to the
voters in Scotland to debate the issue among
themselves without interference, bullying or
part of the redevelopment. Joining the coastal
path at Waterloo with the Pierhead via Regents
Road with a ramp bridge at the dock entrance
is a proposal that has so far met with little
interest from the councils – even though much
of the route is already in place and with Peel’s
help it need not cost very much.
As it took Sefton five years to restore a
ten–metre section of cycle lane dug up by
utilities on the Formby By–pass, it could take
more deaths at Seaforth and along Derby Road
before they act.
Dan Kenyon,
By email
www.champnews.com/pixonline
bribes from London. Certainly, it is difficult for
me to imagine the Union without Scotland and
it will be a very different Scotland without the
Union.
But even if Scotland votes to leave the UK, the
Union would logically still exist, as one
community of people of different nationalities
rather than a group of nations.
And the Union Flag would still fly, just as it
did after Irish independence, testament to the
fact that, whether Alex Salmond likes it or not,
we English, Welsh, Irish and Scots, we British,
are all mixed up together.
David Green, Southport
Not for state
to redefine
marriage
Your report of marriage campaigners in
Waterloo, reported David Cameron as saying:
“I think we should be promoting marriage
rather than looking at any other way of
weakening it” (Champion, April 24).
To remove any confusion people may have
about same sex marriage, the dictionary states
that ‘a traditional marriage takes place when a
woman and a man in a loving relationship
consummate their relationship in the
time–honoured natural biological way.’
The Christian Bible describes it poetically by
saying: ‘They become one flesh’ (Mt19:5).
The consummation of this union between
man and woman usually leads to the next
generation of children. This union is unique.
Naturalists from Darwin to Dawkins would
agree.
It is not in the gift of church or state to
redefine marriage.
The church or state is only there to witness the
parties promise to be faithful and stay together
for life.
We all experience a feeling of happiness when
we see and man and woman in a loving
relationship. This is the basis of all the great
love songs and stories.
The government, in the name of equality, is
proposing to set up a new institution which
could be called ‘New Model Marriage’ or
‘Civil Partnership.’
This new legal institution could be controlled
by equality legislation.
This would give further legal rights to
male–to–male and female–to–female unions.
AJ Leek,
By email
Greens utterly
reject bio–fuels
I just don’t know where your contributor Jim
Sharpe (One Man and His Dog) gets some of
his ideas from about the Green movement.
He is utterly and completely wrong in what
he wrote in the Champion of March 27 about
Greens and bio–fuels.
The whole Green movement utterly
rejected bio–fuels from the outset for the
very reasons that he gives but also because,
just like petrol and diesel, they all produce
CO2 when burned.
Yes, Mr Sharpe, global warming IS real!
Electric power will eventually have to be
generated by solar, wind or tidal generators
and new research is heading towards
making the batteries we now have obsolete.
Mr Sharpe should subscribe to Scientific
American, New Scientist or similar
publications to see just what is really going
on in the fields of climatology and power
generation.
RE Dawson, Southport.
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