Wirral News Letters: June 15

Jun 15 2011 Birkenhead News

Piercing problem

I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with Pippa Sutton (Your Views June 8) who was disgusted that parents put their baby through the pain of having its ears pierced, and it should not have been done.

I’m a mum myself of a seven-year-old and she asked to have her ears pierced.

After a lot of thought and discussion with her I allowed her to have them pierced and she is still very happy with them.

I would never have dreamt of allowing pain like that to happen to her while she was tiny.

The place where I had my daughter’s ears done said they would not pierce a child’s ears under the age of three months. I also had to sign a consent form.

I think three months of age is still far too young to have that sort of thing done.

I really believe all shops that do ear piercing should change their minimum age from three months to five years.

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Shame on them

I STRONGLY agree with Pippa Sutton (Your Views, June 8)

Children this small do NOT need their ears pierced, it should at least be banned until an age were the child can fully understand and at the very least voice a desire to have it done or not!

The parents should be ashamed of themselves.

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It’s ‘child abuse’

I AM absolutely appalled by the letter about the tiny baby having their ears pierced in a shop in Birkenhead.

This amounts to child abuse and it is difficult to believe that anybody would do this to a baby.

Surely there should be common decency in these ear piercing shops – the staff should use common sense and there should be some legal age limit for ear piercings (or any body piercings).Š

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Fans miss out

I AM A coach at Wirral Athletic Club with approximately 30-40 young endurance/other athletes.

This London Olympics ticket fiasco has left me and plenty of others, really disillusioned with our sport.

I have already registered my disgust at the exhorbitant prices, even for the early rounds. All these privileged people with no other interest in athletics, will be hobnobbing with the “rich and famous” whilst thousands of true, genuine grass roots athletes will have to be content with viewing the competition on TV.

It is, in my opinion, a farce and leaves me wondering why I give up so much time, voluntarily, to coach athletics in the hope of producing the future stars.

Then I remember why. It's because those at grass roots matter.

We are at competitions all year round in all weathers and the vast majority of those present are competitors, family, coaches and officials – no one else. They only turn up at major competitions.

I know of a large group of athletes from one family, kids, mum and dad, who applied for Olympic tickets and didn't get any – and these people put a lot into the sport.

I know this will fall on deaf ears, but whatever.

G Patterson

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What a let-down

MY WIFE and I entertained my cousin and his wife who visited us while on holiday from Canada. My cousin’s wife is an amateur genealogist and it was she who discovered that her husband had family from Birkenhead that he never knew of.

We took them from Seacombe to Liverpool on the ferry crossing and then on a tour of the city. Everywhere we went, the people of Liverpool were friendly and courteous to our guests.

There is no doubt that my cousin and his wife were most impressed with Liverpool’s people and its places of interest. Equally they were also impressed with Wirral and were amazed at its cleanliness and green belts.

I wish I could say the same about their impressions of the family who sat on the table next to us when we later took them for a meal in West Kirby.

There were two adult couples with a young girl, and almost every other sentence uttered by the adults (male and female) contained the F-word. One of the men was more representative of the Neanderthal species.

Fortunately the "yobboes" finished their meals before we did, leaving us and others in the pub to finish ours in peace.

I felt sorry for the poor child who had to listen to them. What chance has she got with such people? What an example from supposed adults.

A Duffy

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