Crewe Chronicle letters

Dec 21 2004

I HOPE the campaigners against the gas plant at Byley will now shut up and accept the decision.

They are the ones guilty of hyperbole and misinformation. They should allow ScottishPower to get on with the job.
HOLMES CHAPEL RESIDENT (name and address supplied)

I AM a member of a small community at Chorlton, near Hough.

I was informed that a farmer was taking some topsoil from a contractor. When asked where it was coming from, the contractor replied it was surplus from preparing prior to erecting a phone mast in a nearby field between the railway line and residential property at Chorlton and Casey Lane.

This being the first time that any resident had any knowledge of the installation of a mast.

A few months ago a mast was installed close to the railway line at Chorlton which I under-stand is part of the control system for the railway.

The new Vodaphone mast is sited only a few hundred yards from the existing railway mast. With the high voltage electric supply to run the trains and two masts in the same area, if there is any danger of radiation then this area at Chorlton and Bas-ford could be at high risk.

Today, I have been informed that yet another mast has been applied for near Chorlton Lane which is less than half a mile from the other two masts.

I can only say how disappointed and disgusted our community is with the local planning department, whose motto is 'Serving the Community', for the way that this project has been handled.
H RIMMER Chorlton, Crewe

POLITICIANS have shown a total disregard for facts, not only with the Burns Report but the findings of the weapons inspectors in Iraq and the complete mishandling of the foot and mouth outbreak to name but a few.

Those who rule us face a multitude of problems in this country, one of the main ones being law and order and crime, yet they are forcing a minority of decent, hardworking people into angry human beings.

The fox-hunting ban takes away livelihoods, the right to participate in something that has gone on for more than 700 years and has kept a balance of nature in the countryside.

Talk of cruelty and barbaric sport does not wash with me especially when you consider circumstances such as kosher killing which is totally legal although alien to our slaughter laws.

The countryside has put up with being dictated to long enough by politicians on huge salaries and even higher expenses while farms and small businesses are squeezed out by low prices, cheap imports and red tape.

If the shortsighted MPs and animal rights people think this ban will benefit the fox they are very much mistaken. The slogan, which was in circulation a few years ago, probably is as near the truth as the latest one. It read then, 'If I was a fox I'd vote for hunting'.

It reads now - 'Fight the prejudice, fight the ban and this unjust law'.
NIGEL BURROWS Nantwich

THE time is upon us to remind all road users to take greater heed of safety rules and precautions.

As great numbers of people are killed on our roads during this period we must all be constantly aware of responsibilities to reduce this toll.

The common factor underlying deaths on the road is excessive speed and it will continue because the punishment for such killings is derisory and has no deterrent value at all.

Our son David died on the roads on December 13, 1996.

The ache and grief deepens and is unbearable at this time of year. There are thousands of people who suffer this ache and at the end of this Christmastide there will be more.

Why should this be accepted as inevitable? Perhaps this letter will prompt consciences and save a life. I hope so.
MR B BOSTOCK Freshfields, Wistaston

ON Thursday, December 6, I took flowers to the Chapel of Remembrance at Crewe, arriving home - no handbag.

My neighbour kindly left her chores and took me in her car back to the crematorium. The handbag was where I had left it by the Book of Remembrance.

Two gentlemen appeared. They had been keeping watch over it as there was no-one around as it was lunchtime. They told me they were from Liverpool, no doubt to attend a cremation.

They wouldn't take any reward from me and were only too glad it had been claimed. I want to say whoever they were they have my heartfelt thanks and restored my faith in human kindness and made an 81-year-old lady very happy. I hope they will be dutifully rewarded one day.

M GOODWIN (address supplied)