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Letters - January 22
Perfect for museum
Paul Summer's letter "Woolies Site is ideal" (The Gazette, January 15) raises an
interesting suggestion for the creation of a Museum of Entertainment in Blackpool.
This site is even more fascinating when we remember that prior to Lewis's this was the location of the Palace Theatre. Before that it was the Alhambra Theatre and even earlier in the late 1870s the Prince of Wales Theatre was built on the site.
If the Victoria and Albert Museum cannot be enticed to Blackpool we should not be daunted by the lack of a partner for a new museum.
We already have in Blackpool sufficient stocks of theatrical archives to celebrate the entertainment heritage of this unique town.
The Woolworths site would be a splendid position, but we should also be looking at the soon to be redundant library on Queen Street and the increasing number of empty shops in the town centre.
Linda Tolson
Address supplied
Join the team at charity shop
Are you on the lookout for a new challenge for 2009 that will enable you to increase your skills, meet new people from all walks of life, work as part of an enthusiastic team and have some fun as well?
If you can spare some regular time then the local Scope charity store in Blackpool, wants to hear from you.
Shop volunteers for the disability charity play an important role in helping raise funds for its vital work with disabled people.
Scope's shop on Abingdon Street needs reliable and keen new
volunteers of all ages and abilities, no matter how much or how little time you can offer.
The roles depend on interests and expertise and can include preparing stock, assisting customers,
operating the till, creating displays, helping collect donations or
running a department in the shop, such as books or new product lines.
Further information on Scope's shops and volunteer opportunities is available on Scope's website. Log on to www.scope.org.uk
Sally Hutchinson
Area Manager for Scope
Battery ban good
Congratulations and a big thank you to Sainsbury's who on February 5 will
become the first of the big four supermarkets to stop
selling eggs from battery caged hens.
Battery cages are bad for the welfare of laying hens.
Instead of walking around pecking and dust bathing – performing their natural
behaviour – they are confined to a small cage unable to even stretch their wings.
Several hens share a cage, each with less space than an A4 sheet of paper!
As consumers we can all help the hens by buying only free range and organic eggs and the more of us that do, more supermarkets and shops will follow Sainsburys' compassionate example.
Cruelly produced eggs will then become a thing of the past, before 2012, the year that will legally mark their end.
Josephine Harwood
Moor Park Avenue
Bispham
Toughen up our borders
The Immigration and Borders bill published last week is a
desperate attempt by a desperate Government to look tough on
immigration.
The reality is that they have presided over an "open-door" policy for the past ten years, which has put a great strain on our transport, NHS and schools.
This bill also creates a two-tier system of immigration whereby Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders, who share language and culture, are forced to prove their commitment to Britain, yet Romanians, Bulgarians and the rest of the European Union can come and go they please.
This ridiculous and ill
conceived bill simply proves what we have been saying for a long time, which is that we can't control our own borders while we remain part of the EU
Paul Nuttall
Chairman of the UK Independence Party
Thank you for ambulance call
On behalf of my husband and myself, I would like to thank the unknown Samaritan who rang for an ambulance when my
father-in-law had a fall near Moor Park Swimming Baths. Apart from a possible broken nose, all other injuries were
superficial and dad was allowed home in the early evening.
Mrs. S.M. Guise
Tarragon Drive
Blackpool
Publicise late night shops
In response to the report
on stores in trouble (The Gazette, January 19), has the council ever thought about advertising the late night shopping in the
Houndshill on Thursday nights?
I work in a large call centre with over 150 staff and none of them are aware of the late shopping night in town. It was only after I contacted three Houndshill based retailers I discovered the late night shopping was
continuing. We go on about
saving our high streets but how can we if none of us are aware of the opening times?
Natalia Melling
Bennetts Lane, Blackpool
Zebra crossing needs railings
Was it Lancashire or Wyre
Council who decided to give
Poulton a new zebra crossing?
Either way, why don't they now put railings up between Poulton Cabs and the Teanlowe Centre so
people have to cross at the
crossing instead of walking out in front of the traffic?
P.M. Lahiff
Carcroft Avenue,Blackpool
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