College site garden and rat-runs - you have your say (From Keighley News)

College site garden and rat-runs - you have your say

7:10am Thursday 11th June 2009

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Help police in anti-drugs fight

The crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers is asking the public to help police rid communities of drugs by passing on information about drug related crime as part the current National Tackling Drugs Week Around 50 per cent of information that is passed to Crimestoppers every year is about drugs offences so the public are clearly concerned about having drugs in their communities.

Drug related crime can impact on communities by creating more drug addicts and further fuel additional crimes, which can bring associated dangers to communities. Help us stamp drug crime out in your area by contacting us with information.

Nationally, between April 2008 and March 2009: l More than 50 per cent of those arrested and charged were made with the help of Crimestoppers information were for drug related offences (3,666) l More than £19 million worth of drugs has been seized with the help of Crimestoppers information l Crimestoppers received almost 38,000 pieces of actionable information about suspected drugs offences.

Crimestoppers is asking for members of the public to pass on any information they may have on drug related crimes by telephoning 0800 555111, or via an online form on crimestoppers-uk.org. Both routes are anonymous — names are not taken, calls are not traced or recorded and people do not have to go to court.

Michael Laurie

Crimestoppers' Chief Executive

Convert site into garden

When the college in Cavendish Street is demolished, the space thus created should not be built upon but converted into a garden with plants, shrubs and seating, and green lawns.

Such a garden would perfectly complement the town hall square just across the road and make the centre of Keighley more attractive.

Alec Aspinall,

Westview Way, Keighley

Rat-runs will follow right-turn bans

I simply do not understand the obsession with “obstructive right hand turns”. Could you not also claim that all the buses which turn right exiting from the bus station, plus traffic turning right from Cavendish Street on to East Parade, are also obstructive? I have yet to see any positive evidence that the ban for traffic turning right from West Lane on to Oakworth Road, along with the ban for traffic turning right from Cavendish Street on to Lawkholme Lane has been monitored and proved that these changes have increased traffic flow — where is the evidence?

Sorry but if banned from turning right at the junction of North Street on to Cavendish Street all this will do is increase the “rat-runs” — including Sureness Road, Scott Street, etc, U-turns by the current Picture House, going part way up Spring Gardens Lane to turn around to exit right to then turn left on to Cavendish Street — of course this right hand turn could also be banned? I have rarely used Parkwood Street but judging by the traffic one day last week this has been a horrible rat-run for residents for years and I do not see anything which would not increase car traffic on other potential rat-runs in many other residential areas.

This piecemeal approach seems inappropriate at the moment since nobody knows how traffic might change once Asda opens, along with the new college site, plus a whole new set of lights by the B&Q roundabout, and just who exactly decided these were needed and are these lights to operate 24 hours or part-time/peak periods, only?

For the present this seems very much like trying to re-arrange the deckchairs on the Titanic.

B E Varley

Mount View, Oakworth

Shame of Royal Mail

With reference to Bryan Harford’s letter, who has been experiencing problems with the postal service. I would like to reply to the question he asked “Has anyone else had problems?”

I posted greetings cards to my relatives which have gone missing recently. But the most annoying was when I posted a signed copy of a book, Valleys of Death, by Paul Langan, highlighting murders in and around Keighley, to my sister.

She received the package, minus the book. The package had been neatly cut open.

The Royal Mail reimbursed her with, wait for it, six first class stamps and refused to take any responsibility at all and left it to me to purchase another copy which could not be signed.

In my view they are condoning theft and we the public have to “put up with it” with no redress — disgusting.

Royal Mail should be ashamed.

J D Holmes

Ridgacre Road, Quinton, Birmingham

Wealth of information

Mr Dewhirst’s Memory Lane piece of June 4, relating to the Keighley Exhibition of 1949, led me to recall that I still have one of the original 36-page booklets describing this exhibition.

Interestingly, on the back is a breakdown of employment statistics of the time showing a total of 29,222 men, women, girls and boys in employment, while inside is a wealth of useful information (did you know that Vernier, manufacturers of precision measuring instruments, was a Keighley company?).

Keith Sunderland

Exley Avenue, Keighley

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