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Business centre in Arnold ‘makes no sense’
Sir,
Why is Arnold AGAIN benefitting from public money with the creation of an enterprise centre in the town?
It makes no sense!
There are better transport links elsewhere to other towns in the borough. Both Carlton and Netherfield have a direct train link to the city and onwards to East Midlands Airport and London so surely it would make more sense to set the enterprise centre up near one of the two stations.
With tram plans also being discussed to run near Carlton and Netherfield it would also be more beneficial to have one there. I have not seen any mention of any plans to run it to Arnold.
But as always – Arnold, Arnold, Arnold.
Alan Fagg
via email
Thanks to pub for putting Gedling on the map
Well done to Beccy Webster and the team at Gedling Inn who have put Gedling on the map with their Forest offer
It has been a joy to see our village all over the national news and television.
It has made me so proud.
One of my relatives who used to live here and now lives abroad also saw it and it made them homesick.
It has been great for Gedling!
We should now all support this pub in recognition for their efforts.
K Walker,
Gedling
Glad bus plug nightmare will soon be over
Sir,
I would like to thank Cllrs Sam Smith and Mike Adams for a successful campaign that has achieved it’s aim – to get the bus plug removed on Burton Road.
It has been a nightmare for motorists for many years.
So many councillors just kick the can down the road and blame a lack of funding or grief with Nottinghamshire County Council for any lack of progress when you approach them with a problem.
Smith and Adams are proof that you can get things done if you put in the effort.
Other councillors take note!
Name and address
withheld by request
We are getting mugged by big water companies
Sir,
There are some embedded in the country’s infrastructure who are bleeding us all dry whilst polluting rivers and seas on a national scale.
They are the bosses of the privatised water companies.
Severn Trent’s CEO Liv Garfield got £3.2 million last year. North West Water’s CEO Steve Mogford took £3.2 million.
The CEOs of water companies saw their take increase by 20pc last year
But what about us customers?
They get pay rises – we get bill rises!
It’s time the government took back control from this lot who provide a budget service to generate huge profits that would be better put into the pubklic purse than in the pocket of a select few.
Rita Tarkowski ,
Carlton
Farage could be on for an own goal
Sir,
Many people in my local pub clearly think Reform leader Nigel Farage is the best thing since sliced bread – it is all they ever talk about.
However there is another point of view that says that he has messed up big time.
He clearly wants a right wing government in the UK.
But his actions in helping to create and becoming a leading player in Reform UK have ensured that the right will get exactly the opposite.
He has managed to split the right wing vote in this country down the middle, which simply must rank as one of the biggest political own goals of all time.
Hardly a political mastermind is he!
Anthony Price,
Arnold
