Newark Advertiser reader letter: Wrong time for stones spending

I would like to follow up on my letter about the siting of the Kiddey Stones at Castle House, and move away from my personal view and look at the financial implications.

Putting my opinion to one side regarding what the sculptures represent, financially I believe this is mismanagement of public funds by politicians in the present financial climate.

My wife and I spend our holiday time travelling to different parts of the UK, and we have noticed in the last couple of years the number of homeless people sleeping on the streets, and also begging.

In our extensive lifetime we have never witnessed so many people in such a desperate situation. To be spending money on this kind of project in the present climate to us is obscene, ring fenced or not.

One of the opinions expressed to me for the project, was the sculptures have been sat in Newark Cemetery for a long period and should be on show.

Again, I say there is a time and a place and this is neither.

Another concern for me (and I may be corrected on this) is in the discussion on centralising local councils to make them more efficient financially, this kind of project spending would not go down well if this policy was looked at again.

I am 100% against getting rid of locally-represented councils. — Mike Frettsome, via email.