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Russ Cryer 22.09.06
Only Rip van Winkle himself could have failed to notice the upheaval being created in Culcheth by
the renovation of the old CPS supermarket now that Sainsbury's have aquired it.
From the comments I am receiving from the good people of Culcheth and surrounding areas not only have they
been affected by it but they are also gravely concerned at the loss of a much loved and respected local business.
However what they my not be aware of is the dramatic effect that this work is having on the rest of the CPS Centre.
...in particular the shop keepers in "The Mall" above CPS.
Unfortunately we are now advised that the new store is not due to open until mid October.
The upheaval so far has had a dramatic effect on the number of visitors to the Mall and this has in turn
seriously effected sales for many of the Mall shops.
Could I ask you to use the pages of your magazines to tell people that it is business as usual in the CPS centre,
and to stress the need for them to continue to support us.
Otherwise the altenative will be the loss of another much loved and respected local asset.
Yours sincerely
Russ Cryer
Pillow Talk
Incompetent bin policy
Helen Jones MP 22.09.06
Dear Sirs,
I refer to the letter in September's Culcheth Life from Mr Allan Witter concerning my attitude to the current council
policy on wheelie bin collection and recycling.
The point I am making about the flat bin policy is that it is not being implemented sensibly.
My bin was not collected recently because a plastic bag had been caught by the lid and was dangling half-in half-out
of the bin and not, as Mr Witter suggests, because it was over laden.
A representative of the borough council told me that refuse collectors had not been given the authority to use
their common sense (his words) and so in cases such as this, despite the fact that the bin was not full and the
lid was not raised, it would remain unemptied.
That is just plain daft as it simply creates problems which had previously not existed with our refuse collection
service. In addition there a large number of households experiencing real difficulties in areas of the town where
the green and blue bins have not been provided and which have no easy access to recycling facilities. Given the
incompetent way the policy is being managed by councillors and council officers the environmental chaos of fortnightly
collections, which the council are considering, should not be underestimated.
I assume Mr Witter agrees that recycling is important and that greater efforts need to be made to encourage people
to recycle more and more of their waste. Unfortunately he makes claims in his letter about my family and
our recycling habits which are simply not true and based on nothing more than wishful thinking on his part.
My family do fully use the green and blue bins for garden and newspaper waste.
In addition we have three other compost/recycling bins at our home and we also use the recycling facilities in
Culcheth village. He tells me to 'get my act together'. Perhaps it is Mr Witter who should do just that.
It might prevent him from making inaccurate comments about other people and their families in the future.
Helen Jones MP
House of Commons
Westminster
WHEELIE BIN LADEN
Allan Whitter 12.09.06
Dear Sirs,
With regards to your article in the August Culcheth Life I am afraid that I have no sympathy at all for Helen Jones
and her over laden wheelie bin.
For the past ten years or so my wheelie bin has comfortably taken the waste produced by my family of four.
I have never been unable to close the lid (Christmas time an exception as we miss a collection).
Recently, with the introduction of the blue and green bins, the amount of rubbish for the standard black bin has
reduced to the extent that the bin is about half full each week.
I can only assume that our MP (household of three) is not as 'green' as she should be and is not using the recycling
facilities as much as she should do, or not at all! Let's face it, with garden waste, newsprint, plastic bottles,
glass bottles, aluminium cans and old clothing re-cycling facilities in the village, there is not a lot left
to fill a standard 240litre wheelie bin.
So come on Mrs Jones, get your act together. The council are only enforcing the rules that have existed since
the introduction of these bins and have my full support .
Yours faithfully
Allan Witter
Negative solution!
Albany Taylor 12.04.06
WHILE I can sympathise with Croft residents about excessive vehicle speed
through their village (Culcheth Life, March) I cannot agree with the negative solution by providing
chicanes.
These and associated "sleeping policemen" seem to be regarded as the panacea
for all ills in respect of speeding vehicles but they do not necessarily
force the erring motorist to observe speed limits. Indeed those who commonly
disregard regulation are more likely to see them as a challenge and react
adversely.
Meanwhile the majority of motorists who drive considerately are penalised
by having to stop at each chicane to allow oncoming vehicles to pass. The
motorist then accelerates together with those held up behind thus causing an
increase in noise and emissions so polluting the immediate vicinity. There are
enough virtual chicanes on our roads in the form of parked cars without
deliberately creating more.
A more simple solution and less costly to implement and maintain would be to
introduce a "20s Plenty" speed limit within Croft and to enforce it by speed
cameras and prosecution of transgressors.
This would result in a more gentle and less intrusive flow of traffic
through the village with an environmentally friendly spin-off.
Albany Taylor
Thanks for
the party
May Gilmour 10.04.06
I would like to make mention of the party which took place at Culcheth Age Concern on March 31.
It was a very enjoyable night, made even better by the delicious meal we had, made by the Bibby family of "The Harrow".
I have to give special thanks to the children from the Palms School of Dancing, who provided the entertainment.
They were a credit to teachers and their parents. Thank you all.
We, the elderly, are quick to condemn the kids of the village but they are not all vandals. All of these children
played their parts well and made the night very enjoyable too. I am sure all the senior citizens had a very nice night.
Yours sincerely
May Gilmour
Where were the notices?
Simon Lovell 1.02.06
I wish to respond to the Editor's Comment in January's Culcheth Life.
I would have been delighted to attend the "CAT walk" had I known it was taking place.
Where were the notices, where were the shop-front adverts, would it have been too much trouble to place posters
in CPS and the Co-op?
I think this was deliberately kept lowkey so that the public did not attend so that the police and councillors
would not have to answer questions about the disgraceful way in which Culcheth is policed.
ASBO's dont work!
Chris Welch 1.09.05
WE now learn that the police dispersal of youths using so called Dispersal Orders is illegal.
The ASBO obsessed officials at the Local Authority and elsewhere seem to have calmed down their ASBOmania because
they have finally realised what almost everyone else apart from the "we know better" brigade down at the Council
Chamber has been saying all along - namely that they don't work and were never going to.
Not that anyone in either Central or Local Government is every likely to admit to it.
Meanwhile the police are engaged in a short initiative to crack down on under age drinking while the Government is
engaged in another much longer lasting initiative to bring in 24-hour drinking.
May I ask why anybody with an ounce of common sense should pay any attention whatsoever to anything our so-called
authorities say when it seems clearly obvious that between them all they couldn't manage a "rather lively party
in a fermenting establishment"?
Culcheth Bazaar
E.M Holland 3.09.05
I was wondering if any of your readers know what "The Culcheth Bazaar" was - an event or a shop, or....?
I have a white china mug, size 3.375" diameter by 3.5" high, with the inscription "From the Culcheth Bazaar"
in gold lettering on the opposite side of the mug to the handle, and with a gold band on the top rim of the
mug and gold highlights on the handle.
All I know about the mug is that my mother received it from her aunt, Mrs Mary Ellen Wareing, of Lions Den,
possibly in the 1920s.
I took the mug to the history of Culcheth event at the library, but no one I met there had heard of the
"Culcheth Bazaar."
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