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12 • Visit us @ www.ChampNews.com CMB The Champion • Wednesday 30 January 2013LETTERS to the EditorIt’s not sport toshoot pheasantsWhen walking through Moss Wood near InceBlundell off the A565 we came across a set ofmen frantically waving white large flags.Then we heard the shots – bang –a beautifulpheasant bird droped from the sky into thefield – bang – another bird went gliding downafter being shot banging into the trees notdead.This is classed as ‘sport’?What is in these people to get entertainmentfrom killing beautiful birds.They seemed so thrilled when they shot aharmless, defencless bird with their machoguns.Shame on them.Name supplied, By emailTwitcherseagullTHIS black headedgull (currently in itswhite winterplummage) clearlyhas a keen interestin the rare duckswhich visit theMartin MereWildfowl andWetlands Trust.Picture by MartynSnape.Code: 1056199.Reunion on way forTrieste ex–servicemenI AM trying to contact anyservicemen who served in theFree Territory of Trieste betweenthe years of 1945 and 1954, whenall allied troops left Trieste and atwhich time the city was handedover to the Italian authorities.An association for theseex–servicemen gives membersthe chance to contact oldcolleagues, while trips to Triestehave been organised anually andmany who served there have beenSo our MP is concerned about Crosby village.It is a pity he and the so called Better Crosbypeople didn’t think of the long termconsequences when they opposed Sainsbury’soriginal plans.Why is he proposing to meet with them now?Having seen their village recently, I bet thevast majority of Crosby people are now infavour of the original plans and I would urgeSainsbury’s to make only minor changes andreapply for planning consent. The plans shouldPICTURE of the weekable to vist their old barracks. Anannual reunion is held each yearwith the next one to be held inSouthport in March.If you are interested in findingout more please call 01283790147, email crrussellgs@aol.com or write to Colin at 5Walkfield Road, Alrewas, Burton,Staffordshire, DE13 7EN.Colin Russell,British Element Trieste ForceWrite to the Editor atClare House, 166 Lord Street, Southport PR9 0QASainsbury’s should put forwarda new plan and we should decideYounger drivers don’tknow roundabout rulesRe: Are Older DriversRoadworthy article.Perhaps, instead of thisquestion, the people in the articleshould go and sit by theroundabout by the Weld Blundellpub on Moss Lane in Lydiate andwatch the number of drivers aged20–45 years old, male andfemale, who do not know theHighway Code at roundabouts.The rule is to give way to peopledriving, and using correct signals,to traffic on your right, and forthen be put to the people of Crosby (notWaterloo, Seaforth etc where I suspect most ofthe last objectors came from) to have the finalsay.It is such a pity that the council who voted outthe previous proposals were so swayed by abody with no mandate who in retrospectshould have been called ‘A Worse Crosby.’AJL,CrosbyTell us what you think!editor@champnews.comwww.champnews.com/pixonlineEmaileditorial@champnews.comdrivers coming onto theroundabout from Southport etc,that is the side by your window.One day soon they are going tosmash into a person drivingcorrectly and kill someone.Someone should put up a signon Southport Road and MossLane saying give way to traffic onyour right.There could soon be a fatalaccident.Name and address suppliedNewsdesk01704 392 400Disrespect atthe job centreRe: Way people treated at job centre is adisgrace.I think people are treated rudely and withdisrespect.It is systemic as witnessed and experiencedby myself for just over a year.My main issue is the lack of knowledge ofthe staff at the job centre.If I ask a question they then ask someoneelse who then asks someone else.They come back with an answer, I then usethis answer and am told that I have done thewrong thing and should do it another wayand I am told what I should have done.On five separate times I have been told by ajob adviser of a job that I’m suitable for, onlyfor that job adviser to say they will tellsomeone else about it.Also, I am told a job has just beenadvertised today and I’m given a printoutonly to find out that the job is months old orhas been filled.Also, if you are late for your appointmentby one or two minutes they send you away,but if the adviser is late you do not anapology for their lateness or a reason.I suggest that people pop into a job centreand take a seat for awhile and look andlisten to what is going on.After all we all pay taxes to employ thesepeople.Name supplied,By emailWebsitewww.champnews.comCross words onthe crosswordWhy does your maverick newspaper publishcrosswords which are asymmetrical, withstrings of unchecked letters, and containingtwo–letter words?Your January 2 edition had ‘PI’, and yourJanuary 9 edition contained ‘DO’ and ‘MO.’We would need to go back to the early days ofnewspaper crosswords, way back to the 1920sin fact, to find such things in the DailyTelegraph for example.Its first puzzle on July 30, 1925 offered twelvetwo–letter words.By 1928, things had moved on apace at theireditorial offices, and by that time theTelegraph had begun publishing what werecognise as the modern crossword:symmetrical, no more than two uncheckedletters in any row or column, and moremedium–length or longer words.Does your Southport Champion newspaperuse one of those severely–limitedcomputerised systems to produce its puzzles,or do you just have a maverickcrossword–setter? Come on now, stop thesemeagre offerings and give us something we canreally get our teeth into.Then we needn’t have so many cross words.’Birker’,Full name suppliedGot an interesting story to tell?Champ Newsdesk01704 392400Group EditorMalcolm Hindle1115459