Letters - Monday November 23, 2020

Shops should think more of customers
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With regard to the articles in the paper about motorists getting parking tickets in out-of-town shopping centres, I myself was ticketed whilst parked in a shopping complex .

My crime was that I had parked a couple of inches over the white line.

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My reason for this was that a car alongside me had done the same and I had no alternative but to follow suit so that my wife could exit from her side without banging the door.

We returned to our car to find a £60 parking ticket attached to the windscreen and a lady that had parked in the lay-by immediately outside a hairdressers also got a ticket.

If shops think so little of their customers by allowing these modern day highwaymen on to their properties then they shouldn’t be surprised that shoppers will go elsewhere to spend their money.

We did.

M Tipper

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Tribute

Sad last visit from great performer Des

Good to read the article on Des O’ Connor, (Retro, November 20). However, Des performed in Blackpool as recently as July 2017 at the Opera House, not 2011.

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He appeared with Jimmy Tarbuck in a two man show and it was clear to see Des was not a well man. Part way through the show a chair was brought on stage and Des sat down due to what we were told was an ear infection affecting his balance.

He was clearly slurring his words and his wife came on stage to sing in his place whilst he sat there. All very sad.

Mike Marlow

via email

Appeal

Seek diagnosis if have concerns

Around 10,000 people are diagnosed with the pancreatic cancer every year in the UK and around 200 will be from the Lancashire and South Cumbria area.

Tragically more than half of people with will die within the first three months of diagnosis. Pancreatic cancer hasn’t stopped because of Covid-19.

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We know that during the first lockdown people were reluctant to go to their GP, that’s why during this year’s Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month we’re doing all we can to raise awareness of the symptoms and, urging anyone whose systems persist, to use the NHS. There’s no time to wait.

If more of us know the symptoms - which include tummy and back pain, indigestion, itchy skin or yellow skin or eyes, unexplained weight loss and oily floating poo - it could lead to more people being diagnosed earlier. Crucially, this could increase their chances of being eligible for life-saving surgery.

I urge your readers to find out more about the disease and if they are worried that they have the symptoms of pancreatic cancer they should speak to their GP as soon as possible.

We’d like to make sure people living with pancreatic cancer and their loved ones across the UK (NI/Wales) know that Pancreatic Cancer UK is here for them.

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Our free and confidential Support Line is run by Specialist Nurses, my colleagues and myself.

If you would like to speak to a Specialist Nurse you can call 0808 801 0707 or email [email protected]. Times for calls are: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 10am- 4pm and Wednesday 10am – 6pm.

Dianne Dobson

Pancreatic Cancer UK Specialist Nurse

Lockdown

It’s time to get back to normal

Re: lockdown. Nobody trusts the Government and we are drained of the same old rhetoric. People want to get on with their lives and it’s winter, viruses are rife anyway. Unemployment is up, poverty up, mental illness up, it’s high time we got back to normal.

Brendon Bremner Sullivan

via email

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