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12 • Visit us @ www.ChampNews.com C The Champion • Wednesday 11 April 2012
LETTERS to the Editor
Council claim to promote wellbeing doesn’t
apply to pensioners who wish to play bowls
IamwritingtothankTheChampion
newspaper and especially, David
Raven for your support for Waterloo
Excelsior Ladies Bowling club in our
endeavour to be allowed to carry on
bowling in Coronation Park.
Unfortunately, Sefton Council have
advised a payment of £1100 will be
charged for the use of the green and
facilities in 2012 and will rise in future
years.
As we are all pensioners, this fee is
quite beyond our means.
In their information booklet for
council taxpayers, Sefton Council
state: “We aim to promote
independence, health and well–being
for all Sefton residents.”
But obviously this does not apply to
pensioners who wish to play bowls,
even though they show a picture of
bowlers in the booklet.
We like to think our club is more than
just a bowling club. We have fresh air,
friendship and exercise and a social
club, all combined.
We have been in existence for over
77 years and we will continue but not
in any of the local parks.
After over 100 years, bowling will
cease in Coronation Park. This is
shameful!
PICTURE of the week
Social club night
a great success
At Fairfield Sheltered Accommodation
(Adactus Housing) we have started a Tenants
Social Club.
Our first venture was a Charity Race Night
which was a great success.
We would like to thank the Local Businesses
who were very kind enough to Sponsor the
Races.
They are The Barber Shop on Liverpool Road
Crosby, Optisavers on Liverpool Road Crosby,
Yusef’s Newsagents,The Flower Box, ‘The
Local’ Store, and Wing–Wah Chinese
Takeaway, all of Endbutt Lane inCrosby.
Thanks again to all of you for your wonderful
generousity.
The money raised will go towards enhancing
the social life of the club members
We have been welcomed into a
private club for which we are very
grateful, so we will continue and hope
to build a good relationship with the
private club.
There are all kinds of leisure centres
in Sefton and clubs geared to younger
people but nothing for bowlers.
With all the recent cuts the future
does not look too bright for parks,
gardens and open spaces
Once again, thank you to The
Champion, keep up the good work.
Mrs S Rix,
Waterloo.
Burscough Bridge railway station was briefly reunited with the bygone era of steam when this London, Midland and Scottish loco–
motive, built circ 1942, called on its return journey between York and Southport last week. Picture by Martyn Snape. Code: 1049806.
Help police catch
cannabis dealers
Re: the article by Jack Mcilroy Reid,
concerning the police clampdown on cannabis
and how they are relying on the public to
inform them of possible cannabis
factories/dealing.
Iwouldliketohighlightthattherewasone
important thing omitted from this article and
this was a telephone number on which people
can call to inform the police.
Might I suggest they ring Merseyside Police on
0151 709 6010 to report any activity in their
area.
It is in everyone’s interest to report these
incidents and help the police to do their job.
These dealers are affecting the lives of hard
working, decent honest people and they need
to be reported.
It’s your vote,
don’t lose it
20mph signs have been
put up wrong way round
Iwaspleasedtoseethatnew
speed limit signs had been put
up on the entrance to the
Moorhey Road estate, at the
end of Old Hall Road, Maghull.
A20mphlimitisagoodideain
an area containing two primary
schools and where children still
play in the street.
And so I found it difficult to
believe what I saw when these
signs were unveiled.
They seem to me to be the
wrong way round!
Drivers are now expected to
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slow down to 20 mph just off
Northway, but are then
encouraged to accelerate to 30
mph again going ON to the
estate, going past St George’s
Primary School.
Iwonderifthisistheonly
estate in the country that has 20
mph signs as you LEAVE?
Also, the 20 limit up Hall Lane
is raised to 30 again just as you
get to Maricourt School.
Does this make any sense?
Michael Follin, By email
Nice tax cuts for
the super rich
Don’t you just feel sorry for the poor old Tories
having to jump through intellectual hoops to
justify reducing the top rate of tax for their
super rich mates?
And the reason given was that it brought in
very little revenue because the rich either
through creative accounting and legal loop
holes or perhaps other not so legal methods
refused to pay it.
This should be applied across the board. So
with, say, benefit fraudsters perhaps we should
increase benefits by ten times because it must
be really difficult for them to have to go around
inventing ten different personalities who don’t
live at their house.
Or with, say, people who fiddle their
electricity meter because obviously they are
refusing to pay the right bill we should
therefore make electricity free for them.
Another pearl of wisdom from the budget
must have been how angry the Tories were
with those corrupt filthy rich bankers that
caused the meltdown in 2008 and who needed
bailing out by the taxpayer.
So they’ve thought we’ll make them pay their
fair share by increasing taxes on poor
defenceless pensioners!
Mark Holt,
Waterloo
Barbarians
have taken over
Three cheers for Mick Jugrim’s letter
(Champion, March 21) not only for its truth,
but also for the fact that it was published at all.
We’ve descended into the pits in this country
where social behaviour is concerned and now
have a sub human class breeding head lice at
an alarming rate.
This hooded head lice infests our own part of
England’s green and unpleasant land and its
foul presence blights our lives daily. The head
lice’s trail is easy to spot: just follow the
wrecked trees, empty lager cans, fast food
containers, pools of urine, and mounds of
excrement dumped by their status symbol staff
and rottweiler dogs.
The barbarians have taken over.
Name and address supplied,
Hugh McGarry, By email
Aintree
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