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Your letters, April 8
Your opinions, April 8
Thank you - and can I have a job?
Last month Guardian editor Chris Maguire was invited to give a talk to pupils at Duke Street Primary School, in Chorley. Here's a selection of their letters.
Dear editor, thank you for coming to our school and for telling us about your job and how many reporters you have. We had lots of fun.
Do you have fun doing your job?
Can I have a job please?
Jessica
Dear editor, thank you for coming to talk to us.
I really enjoyed your visit. I thought that you were brilliant.
Ashleigh (who always put her hand up)
Dear editor, thank you very much for coming in and teaching us lots of things about newspaper reports.
You were really funny.
Thankyou from reporter Courtney
Garden grab is too close
Dear editor, I would like to respond to the letter about me by Paul Topping (Guardian March 18).
Thankfully it did not involve too many of my hyper-critical brain cells to produce an answer, and neither did I need to phone a friend, ie that in its previous existence, Olive Close was indeed a field.
It is patently clear that Mr Topping needs to read again my earlier letter (Guardian March 11) and my two previously published articles, with a greater depth and a less selective criticism of myself and others.
I was asking your readers to come and see for themselves the reality of living next to, or alongside, one of the many 'garden-grabbing' developments in the Whittle and Clayton-le-Woods areas.
The residents of Olive Close have objected to the Moss Lane 'garden-grabbing' development for various reasons, but of primary concern has always been car driver/pedestrian safety on Moss Lane, due to the number of houses to be constructed on a small piece of land formerly occupied by one dwelling, and located on a dangerous blind bend.
Perhaps Mr Topping would care to remember that when the Redrow estate was built, the number of houses that could be constructed on a small piece of land had rather more legal constraints than of today.
Perhaps he could ask the question of whoever, as to why the planning permission for the garden-grabbing development at Moss Lane never went before a committee in order that a nominated local spokesperson had the opportunity to voice concerns and objections.
Maybe Mr Topping wishes to live in an 'Ivory Tower', but the Olive Close and Moss Lane residents would have had far less concerns if only three or four houses had been constructed on the Moss Lane site instead of the current nine.
I dare him to stand in either my back garden, or one of my neighbours, and see how hyper-critical he would become at the sight of huge walls of brick being constructed, within 13 metres of the back of the house.
Patricia Ashcroft
Whittle-le-Woods
Vote in an empty shop
Dear editor, can someone please tell me why the schools are still being used for the local elections when we now have online and postal voting?
Does our children's education have to be disrupted by these?
The elections, if they have to be in public buildings, should use one of the many empty shops so that those in town can just pop in and vote.
We do have government buildings such as the town hall/library etc.
Come on Chorley Council, please think again.
Sophie Timmins
Chorley
Thanks for the support
Dear editor, thank you so much to the Chorley and Leyland Guardian for your coverage abouty Legacy Rainbow House.
Your appeal has done really well and the money is coming in.
We have got wages now for next two months, after which time we should be okay as the fees will start to come in for all services.
However it has brought up some very disturbing things. Last year I did 142 talks, most of which said that we were their chosen charity for the year.
However due to the coverage and the crisis appeal, one organisation which has raised money on behalf of us, is now saying that they are NOT giving the money to us, because they don't know if we are closing down!
This is wrong. We had to do the appeal. We were in crisis but now the local community is really getting behind us. Standing orders are coming in every day, donations, legacies and events.
We will be launching an positive appeal in the not too distant future to let people know just how amazing we are doing and that all their efforts and support have paid off,
We have a way to go yet but I am certain it will come around. People really are doing their best for us.
Joe Mawdsley
Legacy Rainbow House
Issue is to save lives
Dear editor, I am responding to the letter headlined 'Revenue is the issue' (Guardian April 1).
Challenging the attitudes of young drivers about the risks associated with getting behind the wheel is one of the highest profile campaigns run by the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety.
Our 'Wasted Lives Education Programme' is dedicated to getting youngsters to understand the very real consequences of taking risks behind the wheel.
It is one of the key components is the award-winning 'Missing Matthew' film which gives them a real-life insight into the tragedies which can occur.
The Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety was set up in 2001 to contribute towards Government targets for reducing road casualties.
Using a number of measures - none of which are directly funded by speeding ticket fines - we are helping to reduce the annual number of deaths on the county's roads.
One of our main functions is to operate safety cameras. Throughout Lancashire we manage 290 fixed camera sites, 70 mobile cameras and 155 new sites of community concern through mobile enforcement.
Statistics prove that speeds and road casualties are reduced at camera sites. In Lancashire there has been almost a 25 per cent reduction in collisions resulting in death or serious injury and speeds at camera sites have reduced by 16 per cent.
Fixed cameras are only located at sites where there have been four or more deaths or serious injuries per 1km stretch of road in the previous 36 months.
Where mobile enforcement is carried out, it is at the request of the public seeking intervention to prevent accidents from happening.
Motorway cameras are not operated by the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety, but by the Highways Agency.
Linda Sanderson
Communications manager
Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety
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