Wirral News Letters: Shortpoints, August 24

Aug 24 2011 by Lorna Hughes, Birkenhead News

THE pirates day in New Brighton on Sunday, August 7, was a very exciting event for all who attended.

Thanks are due to the Merseyside Pirate Muster, who organised it.

Next year will mark the 150th anniversary of the launching of the Confederate raider the Alabama by Lairds shipyard in Birkenhead, so how about some kind of event to commemorate it?

Come on, American Civil War re-enactors – see if you can organise something in New Brighton or Birkenhead in 2012.

ARTHUR READ

Wallasey

WE are all aware of the binge-drinking epidemic that is ripping through British society, but even I was horrified to read the article concerning Wirral primary school children admitting to drinking alcohol.

Sadly, although I was shocked, I was not especially surprised. To anyone who drives through Wirral’s nightlife hotspots on a Friday or Saturday night, you’d be forgiven for confusing the scenes playing out with those of Liverpool.

These shocking sights and statistics sadden me.

TOM SMITH

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PEOPLE of Wirral unite! We must oppose what these faceless jobsworths are trying to do to Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, probably the finest hospital in the North West.

Patricia Finch is of the opinion that Professor Mark Baker has not done his homework but I believe the opposite to be true.

No mention has been made of the oncology department based at Fazakerley hospital. Surely it would make more sense to improve this department than to move a proven facility with the millions of pounds it would cost the already stretched NHS, not to mention the upheaval of staff and consequent redundancies.

With regard to the change of name, surely another cunning little ploy by the same faceless jobsworths to waste NHS funds and upset people who can least afford to be upset, the patients. Oncology being a much more palliative word than cancer.

BOB FISHER

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