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walking from the Post Office towards LloydsTSB bank yesterday, along the pavement, outside the Pretty Raj Indian restaurant, I espied a new inspection/junction box cover. The lovely paving stones had been ripped up to enable a new cable, I should think, to be laid there to a point back towards the Post Office. Right down the middle of the pavement! What’s wrong with that, you may ask? Well, instead of relaying the paving stones, which had been painstakingly laid by an earlier council, at goodness knows what cost to us council taxpayers, the telecom company had poured in black asphalt, which now lies like a black snake all along the middle of said stretch of paving. An absolute eyesore that drew my attention to it by its awfulness! After that, I noticed many more of these money-saving, quick-fix repairs after work had been carried out, round all sorts of companies’ covers. Workman Bridge in particular. Some bigger and uglier than others.

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Waste of paper

12:27pm Thursday 11th March 2010

Cut the paper waste. All councils are facing cuts as a result of the credit crunch and we know that many of their efforts are unpopular with the general public but I bet there is one area that would get the wholehearted support of the people in this area.

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Right the road

12:22pm Thursday 11th March 2010

I am writing regarding your article in the Cotswold Journal Thursday, March 4, 2010 “estate will be ruined by traffic”. Please let me appraise you of the facts.

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On the Port side

12:25pm Thursday 11th March 2010

Pride of Port Street! Through your newspaper, I would like to thank several traders of Port Street, Evesham, for their generous donations of cash, goods and vouchers, to enable me to run an office auction in aid of the Prince’s Trust Programme (Bromsgrove 132).

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A shortcoming of grants to arts

12:21pm Thursday 11th March 2010

May I, through your pages, express my disappointment at the decision of Evesham Town Council not to provide any funding for the Arts Festival this year.

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Stop this ‘infernal noise’

12:14pm Thursday 11th March 2010

RE Mr Michael T Parker’s polemic last week in favour of local windfarms (which way the wind blows). This must be making him even more popular with his friends and neighbours down there in sleepy Sedgeberrow.

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Production error

11:05am Thursday 4th March 2010

The BBC widely-announced cut-backs, appear to have already started!

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Short on ideas and policy

11:03am Thursday 4th March 2010

I am a volunteer advisor at Wychavon CAB and attended the Wychavon District Council meeting last Tuesday, February 23 at which the council passed a budget cutting £30,000 from our funding. This decision means that this CAB is likely to cease functioning as from May 2011 (a fact known to the council before this meeting), leaving local people without access to specialist benefit, employment, housing and debt advice as well as the other information we provide. The Council failed to answer two questions (correctly tabled) asking what measures they would take to replace the services presently offered by the CAB. I can only think this failure was because they knew that to provide even only two full-time members of staff required to deal with benefits alone, will cost them more than £30,000, let alone any staff needed for debt or housing advice!

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Which way the wind blows...

11:04am Thursday 4th March 2010

We now know from your article on February 18 that the “Advertising Standards Authority” (ASA) recently ruled that some of the claims about wind turbines made by the “Vale Villagers against Scottish Power” (VVASP) cannot be substantiated. This came as no surprise to anyone who knows anything about wind power.

She knows best!

11:05am Thursday 4th March 2010

The fourth Sunday in Lent is not Mother’s Day but Mothering Sunday. Traditionally, this was the day when girls in domestic service, often some way from home, were allowed time off to visit their homes. On the walk they picked wild flowers to present to their mothers. Somewhat different from the commercialism of today!