Letters - September 26, 2016
Nuclear is hugely expensive – a 30 billion subsidy will be handed to the French in addition to what we customers pay. It’s dangerous with cancer clusters, nuclear accidents like Fukushima, and still no safe way to store nuclear waste.
We are burdening future generations with an environmental and social disaster that cannot be compensated for with the expensive electricity the plant will produce.
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Hide AdInstead of putting Britain’s consumers in hock for a lifetime to EDF, politicians should be more imaginative and invest in renewables, including tidal power with a view to improving reliability and reducing costs.
Energy provision in the UK is based on the false premise that private sector competition between members of a cartel underwrites efficiency. What is needed is a decentralised, publicly-owned, realistic energy approach putting consumers not shareholders centre stage.
Royston Jones
Beryl Avenue
Anchorsholme
ALLOTMENTS
No break-ins on my allotment plot
I had an allotment plot on Lawson Road for 20 years (Gazette, September 19). I only ever experienced one break-in, that turned out to be a vagrant seeking shelter.
One or two other plots suffered vandalism and theft. I took the precaution of concealing some mouse traps on my door. I never found any fingers, but no break ins.
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Kevin Gooder
Clinton Avenue
Blackpool
CULTURE
We all need more libraries, not fewer
One of the greatest abilities of the human race is to communicate through writing and reading.
Today, in the name of austerity, libraries are being closed or staffed by volunteers.
However willing they are, they are not qualified librarians.
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Hide AdFor several decades now, I have argued for more and extended, libraries, incorporating modern technology. Libraries with children’s corners.
Reading is a first step on the road to life and culture, education and work.
Let us have more libraries and, yes, adult education centres.
The money is there.
Better books, not bombs.
Brian Ormondroyd
address supplied
POLITICS
Has George only just started thinking?
It has been announced that George Osborne is to set up a “think-tank” for the Northern Powerhouse.
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Alan Disberry
via email
politics
Corbyn addresses our real concerns
The BBC has often been criticised for being too sympathetic to the Left. I think there is plenty of evidence to the contrary.
All that the right-wing media has wanted to do is downgrade and besmirch Jeremy Corbyn, who is more popular than ever. Now former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has stuck the knife in.
I contend Mr Corbyn will win the leadership contest by a massive majority vote. Why? He is addressing the real concerns of millions of British people. The 99 per cent of people who are not the wealthiest; workers on low wages; the unemployed; the homeless, the dispossessed and the young.
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Hide AdThe BBC does tend to support, and give credence to, the one per cent of wealthy entrepreneurs and the wealthy products that it has created itself, only now looking at their huge salaries.
Andrew Marr was patronising to Jeremy Corbyn in a recent TV interview, however he (Corbyn) calmly deflected everything Marr could throw at him with the demeanour of a gentleman.
Peter Asquith-Cowen
via email
CRIME
My heart goes out to Jane’s family
The article in Friday’s Gazette (September 16) re Jane Clough’s family and what they are still going through after her murder. So sad it should be allowed by this man.
I have written to you because Jane treated me at the Victoria Hospital A & E one Sunday night and what a lovely girl, I will always remember that smile.
Mr Armstrong
Cherry Tree Court
Marton
CHARITY
Thanks to all who helped the lifeboats
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Hide AdOn behalf of Blackpool Lifeboat Station we would like to say a big thank you to management, staff and customers of Asda, Cherry Tree Road, Marton who helped raise £500.17 at a recent collection in the store.
Christine Parry
Secretary
RNLI