Wirral News letters: May 11

May 11 2011 by Our Correspondent, Birkenhead News

Asda driving people away from town

DO Asda realise what they will do to Birkenhead trading?

They had a perfectly good building where the bingo and Wilkinsons are.

Since the new Asda started being built, car parking has been vastly reduced and there has been major disruption on the roads.

People prefer to go to places where they can park for free (parking fees going up in Birkenhead doesn’t help).

They are driving business away and it’s going to take a lot of work to get the customers back.

J BARNES

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Fears over NHS

IT was with a great deal of dismay that I read in the Wirral News (May 4) that the Wirral Primary Care Trust has being given the green light for One to One midwives to offer their services to the borough’s mums-to-be.

I am struggling to comprehend how Andrew Lansley’s bill to open up the NHS to "any willing provider" can be incorporated without yet being passed through Parliament.

For anyone who has not yet heard of the bill it appears to be an attempt to open up the NHS to private companies without any safeguards for quality or control.

The doctors (BMA) have said no and the nurses have voted no confidence in Andrew Lansley and the worst case scenario is that years down the line we will end up with American style healthcare and yet this bill still hasn’t been scrapped.

I would urge anyone who cares about their beloved NHS to write to the MP and express their concerns.

JAYNE GREEN

Wallasey

Living with ME

I READ with some sadness and empathy your article of last week in which someone so young as Sophie Lee outlined her suffering with the condition known as ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

The symptoms she so graphically outlined are real and not imaginary as some people would like to think. I can testify, being a sufferer for a number of years.

I am a lot older than Sophie and thankfully do have the benefit of family support and financial security.

I do know of many people however who have a life of frustration, loneliness and for some, real poverty.

They are unable to work and what little financial and/or support worker benefits they may have had has been taken away from them in the recent changes in the benefits system.

GEOFF BELL

Heswall

Neighbour woes

FROM the time in the 80s when the council decided to put a cul-de-sac at the back of my house, the kids and adults who moved in have used our rear wall as a goal.

Nearly every day a ball bounces off the rear living window. So you try to be a good neighbour and you throw the balls back but after a while it becomes more of an annoyance so you stop throwing the balls back.

Then they just climb over the wall into our garden trampling on flowers and snapping trees.

When you confront them all you get is abuse, so you go to the council office and all they do is give you incident forms and say bring any balls down to their office.

The parents come round and you tell them that, so you get some more verbal abuse. Then you get beer cans, bricks, stones and old shoes thrown over the wall.

I can’t even sit in my own garden because I’m scared of getting hit with a ball.

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via e-mail

Let us decide

LAST week the coalition government generously granted the electorate a referendum on how we elect our MPs.

However, the AV vote was merely an expensive side show to the referendum that the Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Conservatives have all promised us and then conveniently reneged upon, knowing that they would lose.Š

The people who rule our everyday lives are the unelected EU commissioners who are now responsible for most of our laws, not our elected representatives in Westminster.

Until we are granted this vital referendum for our future it will remain an affront to democracy.

PHILIP GRIFFITHS

North West Chairman, UK Independence Party