Column: John Bone
IN his thoughtful letter to the Journal last week, Peter Sturgeon put his finger on several aspects of Mildenhall’s besetting litter problem.
He cited the town’s three interlaced local authorities as one obstacle to the sometimes shameful situation. What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
There are litter laws but I suspect the police feel they have quite enough to do already. More bins and regularly emptied bins would help, but who’s to pay?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if a small local army of volunteers were formed to take on the job? It is a famous truth that litter attracts more litter. A radical clean-up by good citizens could do the trick.
TEN-year-old Rosy Ramos from Mildenhall raised £165 for the hospice which cared for the grandmother she never knew. Her gran died two years before Rosy was born yet her love and attachment extends in this wonderful way. Never mind what the holy men may say, I reckon this is life after death.
ALMOST as a throwaway line when talking about his triumph in a national internet users’ contest, Newmarket pensioner Keith Paterson mentioned: “Being severely deaf means that I struggle to use the telephone so the computer is a lifeline for me.”
This is a dimension of the internet which may not have occurred to those of us with good ears. What a boon for those otherwise almost cut off from human conversation to be able to have a virtual chat and engage with the world by the web.
Nothing beats eyeball contact but this must be the next best thing.
MAINLY by economies like sharing services with a neighbouring council, Forest Heath can promise to peg their tax demands. This is a good trick if it works and leaves us with the thought that, thanks to adversity, we are all being forced to show the sort of thrift we should have practised in better times.
PETE Sayers was that sort of musician who could pick up almost anything and get a tune out of it. In the instrumental line he could play anything from a kazoo to a musical saw.
So a bell would be child’s play for the Newmarket entertainer who died eight years ago. The bell which was rescued from his old school, All Saints’ Primary, when it was being demolished in 1974 has at last been put back to proper use. Let it ring out regularly to cheer the children and in memory of a remarkable man.
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