It's bin a while!

An Open Letter to Bolton Council Environmental Service Department

Good Morning. I do hope this letter find you and your Bolton Family in good health. How are the kids? (I mean apart from the ones that haven't been able to get into a primary school since you closed them all).

I was just writing to see if you would mind bringing one of those refuse trucks over to empty my wheelie bin. It's been a good two and a half weeks since anyone came to visit and Donald (the wheelie bin) has been complaining of indigestion.

I understand that many of your refuse workers are incredibly busy sitting around drinking tea and avoiding exercise, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the cat my 4 year old daughter has recently adopted, after finding it sniffing around the bin, is an impostor, (it has an incredibly long tail and seems to be wearing some sort of mouse outfit) and I am concerned all his friends may join him if the bins are not emptied quickly.

Please let me know if you would be able to do this soon. Alternatively if it would be easier for me and the other thousands of households in the area to bring our un-emptied bins into the town centre on Saturday 17th October at say, around 12pm, and wait on Victoria Square for collection the I'm sure this could be arranged.

Please get back soon

Hugs and Kisses

Kev Walsh
Tonge Moor

Schools Out Forever.

I write in regards to the recent news that primary school pupils in Bolton could be crammed into classes of 40 in the new term after Bolton Council made the extremely wise and shrewd cost saving decision to close several primary schools last year. Whilst I am not usually one to question the judgement of our wise and powerful council i do have grave concerns as to the effects this will have.

Firstly, how will the residents surrounding SS Osmund and Andrew’s Primary School in Falkirk Drive, Breightmet. be affected? They have had to suffer the pain and torment of hearing children playing for a number of years now. To increase the number of children who are likely to commit the grave and criminal act of 'playing' can only have major detrimental effects on the nearby residents who may even be forced to take drastic action, such as turning the volume up whilst watching Cash in the Attic or going for a walk.

Secondly, is it wise to use £14 million on expanding existing schools' capacities to deal with more pupils? Could this money not be better spent on more light-bulbs or putting hazardous paving stones down on St Gerorges Road? Perhaps, and this is just a wild idea i know, the £14 million could have been spent on keeping the schools that were closed last year running? Oh but of course. Everybody knows a primary school costs £14million to run each year....don't they? (Obviously someone missed a couple of zero's off the accounts that were presented at my last governors meeting just before the summer holidays. I shall have serious words regarding embezzlement).

Ah well, I'm sure the council know what they are doing. It's not as if they have made any silly decisions up until now have they?

Hugs and kisses

Les

xxx