Reader’s letter: Do not waste money on folly

With regard to the Kiddey Stones relocation article in the Advertiser, I have read and read this article a number of times and even checked the calendar to see if it is April 1.

£81,240 to effectively move them from point one to point two? What are these people in power, funded by struggling taxpayers, doing to even consider paying that amount of money of something that is not far off a folly?

Newark is falling apart. Every week another business folds due to difficult expensive costs that do not leave much money for profit.

Business costs have surged under the council and limited parking makes it unworthwhile to come to Newark to shop.

This is a town not a city for goodness sake. With almost weekly cost of living increases, the majority are struggling to survive.

We the public are now looking and will probably demand a decrease in local taxation.

If the stones have been ‘buried’ for 40 years, leave them there, but do not commit council tax-funded money on them.

I am sorry to be so negative but rising costs hit pensioners like my wife and I extremely hard.

Judging by the article you have already made up your minds.

Maybe a petition to stop this folly should be organised.

In these more than trying times, unnecessary, almost corrupt decisions should be shelved. — BRIAN CLARK, Balderton.