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Shouting about noise and John Lewis list - you views
Confusion over noise nuisance
The other day we were awoken in the very early hours approx 4am by music and people talking and laughing very loudly. When I looked out of the window I saw some of our neighbours having what seemed a party in their garden.
As they are normally not a nuisance we decided to ignore it. On going to bed the next night we had hardly settled down when they started again, so I decided to contact the police.
The following is the reason for my letter, not that we have had noisy neighbours: on contacting the Keighley police I explained the situation and was told to my amazement that the police have no powers to intervene in this type of situation and was told to ring the council.
I was given two numbers 01274 434366 and 01274 431000 and I am sure you would not be surprised to hear that both were turned over to an answering services - well it was after 10pm. This morning I have contacted both numbers. The one recommended by the police, 01274 431000, told me again by voice mail if I was enquiring about gritting I should visit the council website or hang on for an operator.
I did and was informed I should ring the other number, 01274 434366, as it was nothing to do with them. I was informed the department was Environmental Health and Dog Wardens but all operators were busy a voice mail asked me to leave a message.
I wonder, is this situation well known to the public or have I missed something? What if there is an emergency or if a family have some one who is very ill or even dying? who the hell do they contact out of hours.
NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED
PS The neighbours continued to be noisy so we contacted Environmental Health only to be told we have to monitor it for a month and they are going to send us a log book to record the disturbance. What a world we live in.
Free prescription call
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They usually need multiple prescriptions to ease distressing side effects of cancer treatment like nausea, fatigue, and severe mouth ulcers, and often spend hundreds of pounds each year paying for prescriptions.
One in ten cancer patients under 55 paying for their prescriptions are struggling to afford them.
Macmillan is calling for free prescriptions across the whole of the UK so no ill person is penalised in this way.
If you are between 18 and 60, a cancer patient paying for prescriptions, living in England or Northern Ireland and would like to help Macmillan's campaign please visit the Macmillan website at http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Get_Involved/Campaigns/Campaigns.aspx. where you can take part in an online survey or contact your local MP.
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Regional Director
Macmillan Cancer Support
Sinister sting-in-the-tail
Your editorial on the success' of the anti-smoking law contained a real sting-in-the-tail that cannot be left unchallenged.
The anti-smoking law can only claim some success because of that aspect of British Culture which results in 99.9 per cent of our citizens respecting the law, even when it is a bad or unfair law. So, quite clearly it is a success' based upon Government bullying, browbeating and finally compulsion.
It is most disappointing that your editorial made no attempt to even consider the mass of evidence now accumulating as to the severe economic
consequences of the ban upon businesses and jobs. An argument for another day.
The sting-in-the-tail relates to the last paragraph of your editorial; and it has to be said that it is almost sinister in tone. Sinister because it seems to advocate that now we should have more laws controlling and restricting even further our drinking habits, our eating habits, and to quote you "a raft of other health issues".
Informing, advising, persuading, cajoling are all legitimate tactics but coercion is most definitely not.
It is time for the fanatical Health Holier- Than-Thou brigade to be given a lesson in civil and human rights and for the right to choose to be the guiding principle.
PHIL HARRISON
Western Avenue, Keighley
Help plan raod changes
I and the other two Keighley Town Councillors, Cllr Laurence Brocklesby, and Cllr Paul Heseltine from the Spring Gardens and Utley Ward are endeavouring to propose to the Keighley Town Council measures that could be forwarded to Bradford District Council regarding improvements to the road infrastructure within our ward.
However this is not a three man job, but entails all of the residents within our ward to submit ideas and thoughts which we can develop.
It is not only for the safety of all users of the roads within the ward, but also how any ideas could benefit Keighley as a whole.
The British Government has ordered Bradford to make land available to build thousands of houses within the Keighley region.
These houses plus the building of ASDA, schools, industrial and commercial undertakings, will obviously impact on all ratepayers within Keighley and also the Beechcliffe, Spring Gardens and Utley district.
Your help and ideas will of course improve and upgrade our ward but I must emphasise that ratepayers must play a part in the process.
Remember Keighley ratepayers pay high rates to Bradford, plus a large supplement to Keighley Town Council. Have your say and put in your pennyworth, or don't complain if you say nothing and nothing is done! Contact me at 015325 608427
Cllr David Samuels
Justify John Lewis list vote
We are all aware of how poorly regarded politicians often are by residents in Keighley and Ilkley.
I was therefore surprised that local Labour MP Ann Cryer decided to vote against much-needed reforms of the expenses system in Parliament.
I believe that at a time when MPs are rightly under fire over this issue, it is essential our local representatives set the right example.
David Cameron and his Conservative Shadow Cabinet voted for the abolition of the John Lewis list which allows MPs to use public money to buy new kitchens, televisions and stereos for their second homes.
Like many of her constituents, I would like to know why Mrs Cryer voted to keep it.
I look forward to reading her public justification for this decision on these pages in the days ahead.
Kris Hopkins
Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for
Keighley and Ilkley
Bio-dome is a worthy idea
Thank you for publishing my letter in the KN. Having read your letters page many people have congratulated me by saying it puts the Worth' back into Keighley.
But how does one fund such an altruistic and worthwhile idea when at first glance the project appears unprofitable? Lottery grants, CBMDC support - I don't think so. Someone who will put their money where their mouth is! Or simply J Public. The KWVR happened because of the last point and look what an asset that has turned out to be.
But how does an area like this pay its way? Perhaps after paying an initial admission to the time-line etc. the punters eventually finish up in a retail/cafe/toilet area where the original admission ticket is scrutinised to a winning number for that day. The prize on offer might be a voucher to spend in the retail area.
Also next door to the Biodome Area build a state of the art indoor play childrens area linked to the cafe. Once upon a time Keighley's parks were not only the lungs of the town they were places where children and adults alike could learn about the real University of life'. Nowadays one's knowledge of life comes from the media largely. Does it?
Yes, indoor play areas may be contrived, artificial situations but they do require youngsters to develop skills under strict supervision. Parks still have a role to play in modern society but would you as a responsible parent allow your child to go to one to play today with all that we are told that goes on in modern society?
I note that even 100 years ago there happened to be obscene amounts of money about to be donated and some of this money even came to Keighley.
It's a pity that the recent headline you ran in that such money could have been used for the good of the community at large and continue the vision that Carnegie had.
JF ACKROYD
Worth Cottage, Haworth
7:49am Thursday 10th July 2008
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CommentPosted by: Little Green Man, Mars on 6:16pm Thu 10 Jul 08
Kris,
Why was there a vote on the matter at all?
[italic]"The reforms to the system had been drawn up by the Members' Estimate Committee following public uproar over a series of controversies in recent months - sparked by the Derek Conway scandal.
The [bold]Tory MP[/bold] was found to have paid his son almost £50,000 from taxpayer funded allowances to act as a parliamentary researcher, despite there being no evidence that he had carried out any work. He was stripped of the party whip and ordered to repay some of the money.
Other examples of MPs who have made controversial expenses claims include Caroline Spelman, [bold]the Tory chairman[/bold] , who is under investigation for employing her nanny Tina Haynes as a secretary.
Last month it was found that husband and wife [bold]Conservative MPs[/bold] Sir Nicholas and Ann Winterton broke rules by claiming £66,000 rent on a flat they owned."[/italic]
Kris,
Why was there a vote on the matter at all?
"The reforms to the system had been drawn up by the Members' Estimate Committee following public uproar over a series of controversies in recent months - sparked by the Derek Conway scandal.
The Tory MP was found to have paid his son almost £50,000 from taxpayer funded allowances to act as a parliamentary researcher, despite there being no evidence that he had carried out any work. He was stripped of the party whip and ordered to repay some of the money.
Other examples of MPs who have made controversial expenses claims include Caroline Spelman, the Tory chairman , who is under investigation for employing her nanny Tina Haynes as a secretary.
Last month it was found that husband and wife Conservative MPs Sir Nicholas and Ann Winterton broke rules by claiming £66,000 rent on a flat they owned."
Posted by: Little Green Man, Mars on 6:17pm Thu 10 Jul 08
The above taken from the Daily Telegraph July 4th by the way...
The above taken from the Daily Telegraph July 4th by the way...
Posted by: David Samuels, Keighley on 6:28pm Sun 13 Jul 08
Cllr David Samuels
1 Highcroft Gardens
Keighley
BD21 4UZ
Tel/Fax 01535 608427
Mobil 07795673833
Email: david.samuels@homeca
ll.co.uk
I really hate doing this, but I’m having to eat humble pie! I’ve always believed that if one is wrong then apologise without any prodding, including to people you really don’t care for. So here goes!
For the past two years I have criticised Keighley Town Council Events Committee for spending money on a music extravagance in the grounds of Keighley’s Cliffe Castle.
Today, Sunday 13th July I attended the Music Festival and listened to the youthful joy that filled the Aire Valley.
Of the people of all ages who I questioned, not one said anything derogatory regarding the event. Even the staffs inside Cliffe Castle itself had wanted to attend and were just waiting to close up shop just to be in the throng of youngsters who were enjoying themselves!
Obviously I shall have to raise my hat to the organizers of the event for organising the day, yes I do it though clenched teeth, but I must give praise where it is merited. It doesn’t mean that I’ve been wrong about Keighley Town Council’s past policies, but this time they were right and I was wrong. ( I do so detest being in the wrong!)
Cllr David Samuels (Spring Gardens and Utley Ward. Including Beechcliffe)
Cllr David Samuels
1 Highcroft Gardens
Keighley
BD21 4UZ
Tel/Fax 01535 608427
Mobil 07795673833
Email: david.samuels@homeca
ll.co.uk
I really hate doing this, but I’m having to eat humble pie! I’ve always believed that if one is wrong then apologise without any prodding, including to people you really don’t care for. So here goes!
For the past two years I have criticised Keighley Town Council Events Committee for spending money on a music extravagance in the grounds of Keighley’s Cliffe Castle.
Today, Sunday 13th July I attended the Music Festival and listened to the youthful joy that filled the Aire Valley.
Of the people of all ages who I questioned, not one said anything derogatory regarding the event. Even the staffs inside Cliffe Castle itself had wanted to attend and were just waiting to close up shop just to be in the throng of youngsters who were enjoying themselves!
Obviously I shall have to raise my hat to the organizers of the event for organising the day, yes I do it though clenched teeth, but I must give praise where it is merited. It doesn’t mean that I’ve been wrong about Keighley Town Council’s past policies, but this time they were right and I was wrong. ( I do so detest being in the wrong!)
Cllr David Samuels (Spring Gardens and Utley Ward. Including Beechcliffe)
Posted by: Brontelady, Bronte Country on 12:34pm Tue 15 Jul 08
I wonder if someone can please tell me when Wheathead Lane was designated a "Motorway" it is the norm on this Lane to see vehicles travelling both up and down at in excess of 50/60 mph. Living as we do on a junction we see many near misses, and life is punctuated by screaming brakes, the smell of burning rubber as the vehicle is being got ready to take the junction at breakneck speed.
Many people have trouble driving into their drives as then they have to back out....if backing into a drive this itself causes problems.
The whole of the Lane from top to bottom needs some sort of speed restrictions on it...ie 20 mph speed warnings or speed humps.
Can our local PCSO's come and sit in a car quietly and observe just what is happening.
It is getting to the point where rate reductions must surely be in order, as this is no longer a residential street, we have delivery vehicle speeding up and down the road along with other heavy goods....[bold]HOW much longer should we tolerate this?[/bold]
I know I speak for many people in the area - [bold]can someone please take note and do something before it is too late.[/bold]
I wonder if someone can please tell me when Wheathead Lane was designated a "Motorway" it is the norm on this Lane to see vehicles travelling both up and down at in excess of 50/60 mph. Living as we do on a junction we see many near misses, and life is punctuated by screaming brakes, the smell of burning rubber as the vehicle is being got ready to take the junction at breakneck speed.
Many people have trouble driving into their drives as then they have to back out....if backing into a drive this itself causes problems.
The whole of the Lane from top to bottom needs some sort of speed restrictions on it...ie 20 mph speed warnings or speed humps.
Can our local PCSO's come and sit in a car quietly and observe just what is happening.
It is getting to the point where rate reductions must surely be in order, as this is no longer a residential street, we have delivery vehicle speeding up and down the road along with other heavy goods....
HOW much longer should we tolerate this?
I know I speak for many people in the area -
can someone please take note and do something before it is too late.
Posted by: peter, oxenhope on 2:26pm Tue 15 Jul 08
An example of how to be a true master in the art of understatement, by Kriss Hopkins, prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate for Keighley and Ilkley, (a fact he consistently likes to remind us of), at the next eagerley awaited general election.
That the consencus of opinion by him and his political allies of how poorly regarded they, as politicians are ,by so many of the residents of Keighley and Ilkley, proves to me beyond daubt, that this politician, just like all the rest, are still not and will never ever be listening.
Political corruption on a vast scale by the fascist labour party and the equally guilty Conservatives and Liberals with National postal vote fraud, bribery, secrecy, sex scandals, joint traitorous actions against the interests of the British people by petty beaurocrats and feckless politicians, all with a sanctimonious attitude, delivered to us on a daily basis by a massive establishment run media organisation called the press, who have their own political agenda, designed to shape our feelings, attitudes and opinions, show in fact, that mr Hopkins may be right.
Whilst we, the British people, perch on the edge of a potentially disastrous economic recession, with predicted huge job losses, higher gas and electricity bills, the cost of the food in our trolleys double to that of a few months ago, petrol and diesel prices going through the roof.
On top of all that we must suffer the fear of an imminent attack on us from some irate Muslims, listen to weekly reports of the deaths or injuries of our brave service personnel in the illegal and futile wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, add to that the current knife and gun crime, committed by children on children, the fact that you would have to be a fool to walk it home from work or even be outside after dark these days for fear of attack, rape or mugging, the descent into alcoholic oblivion by so many of our week-end revellers who want to fight or destroy everything around them, obesity at its highest level ever in the UK.
On top of all that, we dont have a single politician anywhere who has a clue on how to deal with any, or all of these problems, but they do know how to make it better for themselves, they huddle in corners in Westminster, they plan and they plot, they come up with a solution that will take away all the problems of government, they vote themselves a £40.000 pay rise, they also plan to change the rules in future, so that we no longer have the right to question their actions on pay rises, who they employ, or any other matter that is against their best interests, but so what, what can we do about it, you dont care, so yes Mr Hopkins, that is one of the very true statements I would ever believe coming from you, people tend not to trust or hold politicians, (for many and more of the above reasons), in any form of high regard.
An example of how to be a true master in the art of understatement, by Kriss Hopkins, prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate for Keighley and Ilkley, (a fact he consistently likes to remind us of), at the next eagerley awaited general election.
That the consencus of opinion by him and his political allies of how poorly regarded they, as politicians are ,by so many of the residents of Keighley and Ilkley, proves to me beyond daubt, that this politician, just like all the rest, are still not and will never ever be listening.
Political corruption on a vast scale by the fascist labour party and the equally guilty Conservatives and Liberals with National postal vote fraud, bribery, secrecy, sex scandals, joint traitorous actions against the interests of the British people by petty beaurocrats and feckless politicians, all with a sanctimonious attitude, delivered to us on a daily basis by a massive establishment run media organisation called the press, who have their own political agenda, designed to shape our feelings, attitudes and opinions, show in fact, that mr Hopkins may be right.
Whilst we, the British people, perch on the edge of a potentially disastrous economic recession, with predicted huge job losses, higher gas and electricity bills, the cost of the food in our trolleys double to that of a few months ago, petrol and diesel prices going through the roof.
On top of all that we must suffer the fear of an imminent attack on us from some irate Muslims, listen to weekly reports of the deaths or injuries of our brave service personnel in the illegal and futile wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, add to that the current knife and gun crime, committed by children on children, the fact that you would have to be a fool to walk it home from work or even be outside after dark these days for fear of attack, rape or mugging, the descent into alcoholic oblivion by so many of our week-end revellers who want to fight or destroy everything around them, obesity at its highest level ever in the UK.
On top of all that, we dont have a single politician anywhere who has a clue on how to deal with any, or all of these problems, but they do know how to make it better for themselves, they huddle in corners in Westminster, they plan and they plot, they come up with a solution that will take away all the problems of government, they vote themselves a £40.000 pay rise, they also plan to change the rules in future, so that we no longer have the right to question their actions on pay rises, who they employ, or any other matter that is against their best interests, but so what, what can we do about it, you dont care, so yes Mr Hopkins, that is one of the very true statements I would ever believe coming from you, people tend not to trust or hold politicians, (for many and more of the above reasons), in any form of high regard.
Posted by: Little Green Man, Mars on 9:10pm Wed 16 Jul 08
Feel better after that Peter? :)
Feel better after that Peter? :)
Posted by: Chris, Keighley on 12:06am Thu 17 Jul 08
And as people continue to sink into financial ruin our glorious Members of Parliament continue to fill their boots from the golden trough. Peter you describe the Labour party as Fascists yet the wider audience do not understand, possibly because they still deep down believe things are not so bad. If there is one thing the Brits are bad at and that is dealing with the truth.
And as people continue to sink into financial ruin our glorious Members of Parliament continue to fill their boots from the golden trough. Peter you describe the Labour party as Fascists yet the wider audience do not understand, possibly because they still deep down believe things are not so bad. If there is one thing the Brits are bad at and that is dealing with the truth.
Posted by: David Samuels, keighlwy on 2:30pm Thu 17 Jul 08
Chris: Truth;
Unfortunately what you say about truth has validity about it. The problem I believe is that truth is a one sided bat sometimes used to stifle opposition, a bat used worldwide by a minority of people who I sincerely believe do not recognise the evil within themselves.
Truth is a hard taskmaster as it exposes a pure religious streak that many of us do not possess as true religiousness bares the soul of mankind and as such can sadly crates an hypocrisy and pomposity that are again tools used to subjugate those who are deemed to have a lower mentality or who it is deemed need ‘proper leadership’.
Obviously the majority of religious and politicians people, like us all, do practice a semblance we see as truth, it’s a hard taskmaster, its easier to turn away and let hatred take over and don’t forget like everything in the world the tiny minority enjoy the pervasions hate and its sidekicks brings. Truth and hatred has been with us since the first grain of matter formed what is now our Universe, both will be with us till the grain is dissolved, live with it, mankind has no other option!
D Samuels
[bold]bold[/bold]
Chris: Truth;
Unfortunately what you say about truth has validity about it. The problem I believe is that truth is a one sided bat sometimes used to stifle opposition, a bat used worldwide by a minority of people who I sincerely believe do not recognise the evil within themselves.
Truth is a hard taskmaster as it exposes a pure religious streak that many of us do not possess as true religiousness bares the soul of mankind and as such can sadly crates an hypocrisy and pomposity that are again tools used to subjugate those who are deemed to have a lower mentality or who it is deemed need ‘proper leadership’.
Obviously the majority of religious and politicians people, like us all, do practice a semblance we see as truth, it’s a hard taskmaster, its easier to turn away and let hatred take over and don’t forget like everything in the world the tiny minority enjoy the pervasions hate and its sidekicks brings. Truth and hatred has been with us since the first grain of matter formed what is now our Universe, both will be with us till the grain is dissolved, live with it, mankind has no other option!
D Samuels
Posted by: peter, oxenhope on 6:46pm Fri 18 Jul 08
Chris, I believe your concept of the British as a whole to be correct, the failure of our people to react in any way to the hardships thrust upon us, without our consent, by our fascist government, is regrettable, be it through ignorance, fear, stupidity, or if people just couldnt care less, is a well known joke on the Brits throughout the World.
Successive British governments have played the British people like a fish on a line, and I believe the British people deserve everything that is coming to them, anything for a quiet life, "who needs a government, I,ve got Eastenders, Corrie, Big Brother", they have voted for everything that is coming, or worse, they did not vote at all.
Labour Party "FASCISM", is now a fact of life, and for all who would look, they will see.
If the stupidity of the British people is such that they can not see it, or can somehow believe that things are not so bad, then more fool them, it still does not alter the fact that New Labour is responsible for, amongst so many other things, actions against the sovereignty of our country, the extention of state powers, to erode due process, the concept of a corporatist state, censorship of political discussion, the protection of religions engaged in political activity,(like Islam), a state which cannot guarantee the rights of the individual because it has removed the rights of due process, where truth is not recognised in law, where freedom of speech is in jeapordy, and the fundamental rights fought for by our ancestors are being trivialised and trodden underfoot daily, a government that is at the moment initialising other forms or measures of oppression, to be brought in and used against us in the future, through the back door, slowly, slowly, step by quiet step, so as not to wake up or trouble the sleeping Brit, creeping up behind you like your worst enemy, which is what I believe the New Labour party is, it is called "FASCISM".
One of the defining characteristics of "FASCISM" is its rejection of Democracy, which makes the trust we have in politicians a poor substitute for guaranteed individual rights.
And then we come to truth, I believe the explanation of truth by David Samuels to be correct in many ways, however, I also believe that if there is to be truth, there must be a truthmaker, that the truthmaker is something in the world which makes it so, it is then argued that facts are the appropriate truthmakers, and as individuals, we should look purely at the facts which will in turn alert us to the truth.
And yes Little Green man from Mars, I do feel better after all my posts, if just one person is annoyed and upset by any of my remarks, and my warnings to them are heard, then I know I have done and said the right thing.
Chris, I believe your concept of the British as a whole to be correct, the failure of our people to react in any way to the hardships thrust upon us, without our consent, by our fascist government, is regrettable, be it through ignorance, fear, stupidity, or if people just couldnt care less, is a well known joke on the Brits throughout the World.
Successive British governments have played the British people like a fish on a line, and I believe the British people deserve everything that is coming to them, anything for a quiet life, "who needs a government, I,ve got Eastenders, Corrie, Big Brother", they have voted for everything that is coming, or worse, they did not vote at all.
Labour Party "FASCISM", is now a fact of life, and for all who would look, they will see.
If the stupidity of the British people is such that they can not see it, or can somehow believe that things are not so bad, then more fool them, it still does not alter the fact that New Labour is responsible for, amongst so many other things, actions against the sovereignty of our country, the extention of state powers, to erode due process, the concept of a corporatist state, censorship of political discussion, the protection of religions engaged in political activity,(like Islam), a state which cannot guarantee the rights of the individual because it has removed the rights of due process, where truth is not recognised in law, where freedom of speech is in jeapordy, and the fundamental rights fought for by our ancestors are being trivialised and trodden underfoot daily, a government that is at the moment initialising other forms or measures of oppression, to be brought in and used against us in the future, through the back door, slowly, slowly, step by quiet step, so as not to wake up or trouble the sleeping Brit, creeping up behind you like your worst enemy, which is what I believe the New Labour party is, it is called "FASCISM".
One of the defining characteristics of "FASCISM" is its rejection of Democracy, which makes the trust we have in politicians a poor substitute for guaranteed individual rights.
And then we come to truth, I believe the explanation of truth by David Samuels to be correct in many ways, however, I also believe that if there is to be truth, there must be a truthmaker, that the truthmaker is something in the world which makes it so, it is then argued that facts are the appropriate truthmakers, and as individuals, we should look purely at the facts which will in turn alert us to the truth.
And yes Little Green man from Mars, I do feel better after all my posts, if just one person is annoyed and upset by any of my remarks, and my warnings to them are heard, then I know I have done and said the right thing.
Posted by: David Samuels, keighlwy on 8:58pm Fri 25 Jul 08
Cllr David Samuels
1 Highcroft Gardens
Keighley
BD21 4UZ
Tel/Fax 01535 608427
Mobil 07795673833
Email: david.samuels@homeca
ll.co.uk
25th July 2008.
On behalf of myself and of my constituents in the Spring Gardens and Utley Ward (including Beechcliffe) may I state that I am appalled at the decision by the Airedale Hospital's managers to privatise the catering service at the hospital.
Not in any way a devotee of Anne Cryer, our Member of Parliament, or for that matter party politics in general I find that the policy formulated by the managers at Airedale to be perverse in the extreme and in that context agree with our Member of Parliament.
The privatisation of such a vital service in the context of health care will undeniably make a profit for the lucky private company who secures the mouth watering catering contract. Pious words of comfort from the hospital management are, in my view, spurious to say the least. The £1.6 million involved is peanuts in the context of the vast amount within the hospital budget. One wonders how much money was earned by the management and the consultants who dreamt up this outrage. Obviously such shameful facts will be kept under wraps until some bright person will endeavour, under the Freedom of Information Act, or seeks a Judicial Review on the subject as to the trust managers justification of handing over a profitable service to an profit making enterprise.
One would have thought the scandal of high prices for parking, handled by a private concern, a lesson in public relations disaster, would have knocked heads together at Airedale. The Primary Care Trust is to treat sick people, and by such definition, a vulnerable group, not to make this group a profit centre of excellence.
Shame on all those involved in this money making scheme! Sleep well!
Cllr David Samuels (Spring Gardens and Utley Ward) (including Beechcliffe)
[bold]bold[/bold]
Cllr David Samuels
1 Highcroft Gardens
Keighley
BD21 4UZ
Tel/Fax 01535 608427
Mobil 07795673833
Email: david.samuels@homeca
ll.co.uk
25th July 2008.
On behalf of myself and of my constituents in the Spring Gardens and Utley Ward (including Beechcliffe) may I state that I am appalled at the decision by the Airedale Hospital's managers to privatise the catering service at the hospital.
Not in any way a devotee of Anne Cryer, our Member of Parliament, or for that matter party politics in general I find that the policy formulated by the managers at Airedale to be perverse in the extreme and in that context agree with our Member of Parliament.
The privatisation of such a vital service in the context of health care will undeniably make a profit for the lucky private company who secures the mouth watering catering contract. Pious words of comfort from the hospital management are, in my view, spurious to say the least. The £1.6 million involved is peanuts in the context of the vast amount within the hospital budget. One wonders how much money was earned by the management and the consultants who dreamt up this outrage. Obviously such shameful facts will be kept under wraps until some bright person will endeavour, under the Freedom of Information Act, or seeks a Judicial Review on the subject as to the trust managers justification of handing over a profitable service to an profit making enterprise.
One would have thought the scandal of high prices for parking, handled by a private concern, a lesson in public relations disaster, would have knocked heads together at Airedale. The Primary Care Trust is to treat sick people, and by such definition, a vulnerable group, not to make this group a profit centre of excellence.
Shame on all those involved in this money making scheme! Sleep well!
Cllr David Samuels (Spring Gardens and Utley Ward) (including Beechcliffe)
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