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Letters to editor, September 2
Read the latest views and opinions from our loyal Guardian readers.
Remember Tory NHS?
Dear editor, I am writing following David Cameron's recent visit to Chorley hospital (Guardian, August 26).
I find it difficult to stomach the claim that the Tories are the party of the NHS.
Mr Cameron may forget that people have long memories and can recall only too well the days when people had to wait two to three years for heart surgery, and three years or more for a hip replacement with medical staff massively over-stretched and under-paid.
With massive investment in our NHS people now wait a matter of months for heart surgery, hip or knee operations.
Those suspected of cancer are seen within two weeks and we have seen a huge increase in the number of doctors and nurses.
David Cameron's visit was an attempt to quash the agenda of senior Tories about their plans for the NHS, sparked off by the comments of one Daniel Hannon MEP, who, when talking about the NHS said he 'wouldn't wish it on anyone'.
I am afraid Mr Hannon's comments exposes two faces of the Conservative Party – the one that really exists compared to the one Mr Cameron wants us to see.
Lynne Atherton
Brown Street
Chorley
Citizen's right to criticise
Dear editor, I would like to correct Peter Goldsworthy's insinuation that I was using my role as clerk to Heskin Parish Council to criticise Chorley Borough Council's use of planners from Manchester to deal with local issues (Guardian, August 26).
I was not and I take exception to the suggestion.
I was making my criticism as an individual, as a citizen. It seems to me that Mr Goldsworthy doesn't like it when anyone highlights his council's activities to public scrutiny.
Alan Whittaker
Heskin
Facts were at the meeting
Dear editor, I refer to the article (Guardian, August 26) about Chorley Council being criticised for employing agency staff from Manchester to clear a planning backlog.
Could I respectfully suggest that, to the future, one of the pre-requisites of printing comments from individuals regarding the subject matter of a meeting is that the contributor was actually PRESENT at the meeting?
Had he taken the trouble to attend, Mr Whittaker would have been fully appraised of the facts.
Alan Platt
Ambleside Avenue
Euxton
Thanks for flowers
Dear editor, ring a ring of roses, Chorley full of posies.
Everywhere, there is such a wonderful display of flowers, a joy to see.
Well done to all of you who grow them, plant them and care for them.
Gwen Kebbell
Belvedere Drive
Chorley
Who keeps flying over?
Dear editor, I refer to the mystery of the of the low-flying plane over Duxbury (Guardian, August 19).
It has been a regular visitor over Withnell and my back garden too - memorable for its registration which resembles the 'pop' manufacturer Ben Shaw.
I don't know what it's up too, but it does fly low, circling around as though on a photographic shoot, or is the pilot a speculator looking for a land-grab?
I believe the aircraft may be landing and taking-off from a nearby strip somewhere towards Abbey Village – from which direction one can hear aircraft taxiing into the night and close enough for it to be very low indeed as it approaches the A674 at Bury Lane.
It did occur to me that this was someone doing what are called 'circuits and bumps' eg: practising their take-offs and landings – or is it just a new pilot, showing off his or her skills?
Name and address supplied
Hidden signs across UK
Dear editor, a little while ago I sent in a letter about the signage problems in Lancashire and around Chorley/Leyland in particular.
I feel it only fair that I should write and notify everyone that it is not just a problem for Lancashire.
We have just had a short break in Somerset and it has to be said that they also have this problem with foliage making signs impossible to read until you are actually next to them.
They also have traffic lights hidden by trees as well which caused me to run a red light.
It would seem we have lazy councils across the country and if nothing is done soon then it's inevitable someone is going to die in a traffic accident caused by the lack of trimming to hedges and trees everywhere.
Paul Davies
Ex-pat
Cornwall
Better when lights failed
Dear editor, strange, isn't it, that when the lights failed in the town centre, on more than one occasion recently, all the traffic slowed down and politely navigated the junctions without any problems.
Perhaps the lights at Hartwood should be switched off occasionally, just to see how the traffic flows without them. It may even save enough on electricity to eliminate the need for advertising.
As to advertising boards on the Hartwood roundabout, (Guardian, August 26) they can't be serious.
Never mind the saying, 'you can't see the wood for the trees'. In Chorley it's 'you can't see the words for the lampposts!'
Graham Archer
St Michael's Close
Chorley
Thanks, sweepers
Dear editor, can I just say, with this doom and gloom, recession and all, well done to Chorley Council for brightening up the town.
I was having my lunch outside Booths the other day, when a yellow council van pulled up, amber lights flashing and two men set up a watering system and watered all the baskets, flower beds and picked off the dead flowers, and then returned to their vehicle and went off on another mission.
I only thought then, how good a job they have done to brighten up our town. That's what we need, cheering up and plenty of colour.
As I was finishing off my lunch, another council worker came round the corner, pushing his dustbin cart and it was then I thought of the unsung hero. It's these fellows who keep our pavements and streets clean.
It's a credit to them all, who push those carts around all day, cleaning up and tidying our mess away, so lets salute them.
Well done lads, and never think that our town's folk take you for granted, because we don't.
So let's hear it for Chorley Council and next time you see one of those street cleaners, let's make his day and say, 'well done buddy'.
Andy Roberts
Adlington
Keys found
Dear editor, If you could let readers know that a set of front and back door keys found outside my property on Tuesday, August 25, have been handed in to Leyland Police station it would be appreciated.
Andy Farrell
Moss Lane,
Leyland
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