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10:55am Fri May 18, 2012
HAVING to step aside to make way for an impatient motorist is an experience many people walking through Newark Market Place will have gone through. We do so, of course, and are then left wondering why that vehicle is in the Market Place at all.
Should cars be banned from the Market Place?


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Thousands lined the streets of Newark on Sunday to watch dozens of local groups and organisations take part in the carnival parade.
Steaming ahead with rail campaign
— (Councillor) ROGER BLANEY, Newark and Sherwood District Council.
The letter from Richard Lamb was timely (Rail Neglect, News Views, May 10). 

On Wednesday of last week the Newark MP, Mr Patrick Mercer, had arranged for a small delegation from Newark Business Club, Newark and Sherwood District Council and Nottinghamshire County Council to meet Theresa Villiers, Minister of State for Transport, to press for improvements to the Lincoln-Newark-Nottingham rail service.

 Our proposals had been developed in conjunction with a Stakeholder Board set up by East Midlands Trains and built upon a letter of support organised by the district council and signed by the leaders and/or transport portfolio holders of every local authority served by the line.
Missing driver
— LAURA MIMMACK, 9, Elston Primary School.
I would like to tell people what a very nice person my ex-bus driver, Mr Malcolm Wright, is.

He was not only my bus driver, he was like an adopted grandfather to me and my brothers and sister.

He always had a smile every morning and if I ever went to school in a bad mood he always made me laugh before I got there.
Gilstrap history
— JIM TODD, Lamb Close, Newark.
In response to the letter from Councillor Kay Cutts (Focus On Future, News Views, April 26) my original letter was not written to either support, or not support, the use of Newark’s Gilstrap building as a register office, but simply to explore the historical background of the Gilstrap Endowment in either of its forms, one of which includes the building and one of which doesn’t.

Using the building as a register office, with the potential for weddings to then have photographs taken by arrangement in Newark Castle grounds, would make it an attractive venue as well as giving the building a positive future use.

However, in my opinion the argument over the use of the building is separate from that in which the Gilstrap Endowment, excluding the building, should have Newark Town Council as its trustees.
Natural extension
— R. G. DIXON, Nottingham Road Southwell.
With reference to the Potwell Dyke grasslands in Southwell, the title has been given to this land only in recent years.

Many local people regard it as a natural extension to the cemetery.

I agree with the preservation of wildlife and what better place than a graveyard to further this cause?
Defence details
— RAY PEARSON, Burgage Close, Southwell.
The 2012 Olympics are proving expensive and a security nightmare.

I know exactly where all the defences, security police, RAF, Navy and Army are to be placed.

I have pinpoint knowledge of all key defensive positions and counter measures.
Badger numbers
— P. JONES, Farndon (Full address supplied).
I read the article by the Newark MP, Mr Patrick Mercer, about the control of bovine TB and badger culling (Badgers In TB Firing Line, May 3).

It was the paragraph: “There is little danger that the badgers will be wiped out as only 70% of a licensed area will be targeted and only 70% of the badgers in that area will be culled,” that confused me.

I assume that the target 70% of an area will be where the badger setts are located, so that’s 100% of of the relevant area, but why target only 70% of the badgers? I suppose it is not too difficult to go out at night and count them, but why leave 30% alive?
Hearing aid
— TRISH GURNEY, Newark and Sherwood district councillor for Newark Devon, secretary of Newark and Sherwood Labour Group, Kelham Hall, Kelham.
Councillor Stuart Wallace (Move Forward, News Views, May 3) says he read my letter (Opinion Poll, News Views, April 26) “with a heavy heart.”

Unfortunately, however, he still misses the point.

I have noticed that Conservatives in a tight spot frequently resort to three strategies: blame Labour; accuse their Labour critics of attempting to make party political propaganda; keep on reciting the same platitudes.
Parcel force
— JOHN STEPHENSON, Marton Road, Newark.
The 2nd Battalion Mercian Regiment (Worcesters and Foresters) are back from their latest tour of Afghanistan and the 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment have been deployed there.

I am again asking the people of Newark and district to give generous support by sending parcels out to them.

The battalion chaplain is Padre John Duncan, who was previously chaplain to the Mercian Regiment.
 
Merge councils for greater efficiency
— H. COUNSELL, Guildhall Street, Newark.
At a time of economic difficulties most families have to save money wherever they can.

For example, we have decided not to have a foreign holiday this year and use the money saved to reduce the outstanding amount on our mortgage.

Interest rates are going to increase soon, the only uncertainties are when and by how much.
Rail neglect
— RICHARD LAMB, Hawton Road, Newark.
Newark and Sherwood District Council has been discussing its response to proposals, currently under consultation, by the county council for improving integration between bus and rail transport (Calling For Better Road And Rail Links, Advertiser, April 26).

Councillor Roger Blaney was reported as saying that there was a lack of ambition in the county council’s plan regarding rail transport.

Ambition, one might suppose, restricted by a lack of money and of control over rail services.
Building pressure
— MICHAEL J. WILSON, Queen Street, Balderton.
Following the Advertiser’s excellent coverage (April 12) and editorial comments about the state of the buildings at The Grove School, Balderton (Snubbed Again, April 26), I read with astonishment a detailed article about these buildings in The Guardian education section on May 1.

The article described the situation factually and accurately but probably caused alarm in many educational circles.

That the situation has now attracted national notoriety I hope will spur the politicians, who have it in their hands to do something soon, into action.
Turbine blow
— EILEEN WING, Brownes Road, Bingham.
The Bingham Advertiser of April 12 carried an article regarding repairs to the wind turbine on Butt Field, Bingham, that was initially installed free of charge.

It was said it may cost £6,500 to repair and that the taxpayers of Bingham may have to pay.

No one asked the taxpayers of Bingham if they wanted this monstrosity put there.
Health risk
— VIC HALL, Queen Street, Balderton.
I agree with Councillor Stuart Wallace (Move Forward, News Views, May 3) that there was a Health Bill in 2009, but its impact was nothing compared to what the Coalition Government is attempting to do in 2012.

The Health Secretary is attempting a radical NHS reform, and no-one really understanding why.

There was clearly a need for some efficiency savings, but the claim that frontline services would not be affected was deceptive and misleading.
Film fear
— MARK WRAITH, Rowan Way, Balderton.
We must hope Hollywood doesn’t turn Patrick Mercer’s Crimean War film, England’s Gold, into a musical.

Meryl Streep singing SOS from a window in Sevastopol simply wouldn’t do.
Wrong location
— M. D. HARRIS, Strawberry Hall Lane, Newark.
Councillor Kay Cutts (Focus On Future, News Views, April 26) is pre-empting any decision to be made by the Gilstrap trustees working party, which to date has met only once.

Contrary to her suggestion, the Gilstrap Centre would not offer an ideal location for the Newark Register Office.

The location is not good, it is no more central than the existing one and, although it is near carparks, in the daytime these are always fully in use.
 

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