Western Telegraph | Letters

Feckless minority

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:07:56 +0000

Dear Editor:- The Tax Payers Alliance has once again become thew only champion of the working population that has managed to maintain their ‘Work Ethics’. We now have liberal and socialist politicians in bed with wet bishops who don’t live in the real world of commerce and industry. They can always find excuses for the feckless minority of people who don’t want to work and the criminal under-class that enjoys beating the ‘system’.

Glaring omission

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:06:36 +0000

Dear Editor:- So Hywel Dda Health Board are going to send us all a DVD for a small amount of 20p per household – amazing. However, there seems to be a glaring omission as to the cost of delivering these gems to each and every household.

Not seeing eye to eye

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:03:10 +0000

Dear Editor, I am particularly grateful to AM Paul Davies for highlighting the discrepancy in opthalmic services in Hywel Dda's area. I was diagnosed with a cataract to my right eye approximately eighteen months ago. I was informed by my optician, and later by my GP,that treatment was unavailable on the NHS in Wales unless I was effectively blind in both eyes; then one eye could be done. However, if I were to pay £1850 I could have the 'simple operation next week'. I booked an appointment with the opthalmic surgeon to discuss the treatment. This discussion cost me £75 plus £30 for the 'hire' of a room at Withybush Hospital for an hour. I am still trying to decide if I should pay to go private. My frustration with Hywel Dda's policy stems from the fact that my sister, in England, had only to wait five weeks to have her cataract treated on the NHS.

Not seeing eye to eye

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:02:18 +0000

I am pleased to see your report that Preseli Pembrokeshire AM Paul Davies is campaigning for better treatment for cataract patients here in West Wales. Indeed, I am pleased to be able to see to read your newspaper once again, because that everyday pleasure, along with driving, chopping vegetables and a multitude of other activities which fully-sighted people take for granted, was denied me in the months before I had a cataract operation, because I had lost so much vision.

Nuclear assurances

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:01:07 +0000

Dear Sir, With the very real possibility of a future Scottish Parliament voting to get rid of the Trident Nuclear bases at Coulport and Faslane, the Government will be looking for a viable alternative. Milford Haven was a runner in the search for a deep-water base in 1963 when the Government was searching for a base for the Polaris Nuclear fleet. We have to be alert to the possibility that Milford Haven is once again being considered for this purpose. Some twenty odd years ago Pembrokeshire County Council declared our county to be Nuclear free. Can we be assured the Council would still be willing to maintain that declaration now?

Jabs available

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:59:57 +0000

Dear Editor:- Getting the facts straight (Jan 25th). May I through your pages point out to Eric Howells that the pro-budget supporters have not buried their heads in the sand as he puts, but are very keen to see a vaccination process being carried out. After all there is a BTB vaccination available for badgers and this year there will be vaccinations for cattle also.

Miles to be plastered

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:58:38 +0000

No one is debating the quality of care in withybush hospital, Drs and nurses do a wonderful job everywhere. It is the powers that be that want to close smaller local hospital AEcentres,making us travel further and taking longer to get maybe critical accident treatment,where time maybe of the essence !(Not to mention in this day of trying to cut global pollution,making miles more of emmisions!) The population is increasing, we need more local emergency treatment centres not less. In my case (though not critical) I broke my ankle 2 years ago,went to Cardigan hospital, where they x rayed it, but said they couldnt plaster it there! Ihad to get a pal to drive me 30 miles to Withybush to get it plastered, which seemed ridiculous to me.! M.Trott Tegryn.

Hastle bad feeling all round

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:57:49 +0000

We used to be able to park along the bridge when i wanted to visit the Halifax . Now parking is severely limited to ONE disabled area which is occupied most of the time. Yesterday, i parked just behind a car that was already in the disabled area and went to get a ministatement which only took a minute....only to be told by the traffic warden not to park in the in the loading bay....even with a disabled badge! And taking up a taxi space is a hanging offence! It's only created hastle and bad feeling all round!

Better to be safe

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:56:32 +0000

I'm absolutely disgusted that Narberth school still has no traffic speed humps on the main road outside the school entrance.

Massive scam

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:54:06 +0000

Cooler heads spotted long ago that Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) was nothing more than a massive scam to extract more taxes from the masses. Indeed, this unscrupulous exercise was aided and abetted by many a climatologist and scientist (thankfully not all) to ensure their on-going funding. But it now seems chickens are coming home to roost - Al Gore et al must have choked over their cornflakes last week when the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit revealed data showing the Earth has not warmed for the past 15 years; this data was based on 30,000 measuring stations around the planet. So I guess Al Gore will have to come up with another Inconvenient Truth such as Version Two, the Great Global Cooling.