Bin service just isn't cricket
Recently, one of the dog waste bins by the river at Garstang needed replacing.
Two employees arrived in a Transit van which they drove on to the footpath to the picnic area, a distance of about 25 metres from the car park. Then they removed a bin meant for ordinary waste and replaced it with a dog waste bin barely two paces from the picnic table!
Visitors to Garstang who fancied a picnic down by the river would not have appreciated it.
This matter was taken in hand and along came TWO Transit vans to replace the wrongly positioned dog waste bin with an ordinary one.
Both these vans then drove to the far end of the cricket field to deal with the bin that should have been replaced originally. Regrettably they appear to have forgotten their spirit level.
I assume the men who finally completed this bin-changing saga are also responsible for emptying them. They should be told not to drive over the far end of the cricket field.
I have no idea if this is allowed in Poulton-le-Fylde where Wyre Council has its headquarters, but in Garstang we do not like our amenities treated in such a manner. Perhaps they could invest in a wheelbarrow.

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Don't wait for fatality before taking action
As a Squires Wood resident since the estate was built, I feel that I cannot let the comments of A Seddon of Fulwood (Letters July 8) pass without reply.
I would suspect from reading his comments that A Seddon is not a resident of Squires Wood.
If he was, he would appreciate that, at peak hours, even turning left on to Anderton's Way from Squires Wood in order to use the roundabout at the M6 exit, amounts to a game of motorised "chicken" due to the number of cars and lorries speeding along
towards the motorway.
As for his request for accident statistics, I would simply ask whether he expects to see proof that someone has actually been killed at this junction before he considers a mini roundabout to be justified.
People should look at the bigger political picture here. If the expense involved in providing a mini roundabout is considered to be justified for the junction of St Paul's Road and St George's Road, where there is a 30mph limit, no motorway to feed and an apparently unsuitable junction layout; how can one not be justified for the junction at Squires Wood?

Mr G Wood, Fulwood, via email

No risk to number of jets manufactured
Having recently seen your report (July 8) of comments by Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox and me, I am surprised by its tone and alarmist headline: "Tories may slash jets order amid job fears".
Nothing that was said or quoted in the article justified this headline.
My words, as correctly reported, simply pointed out that selling on some of the United Kingdom's 232 Typhoons to Saudi Arabia might result in a process of "musical
Typhoons rather than musical chairs".
This means that, if some of our jets have been sold on to another country, and a future strategic defence review decides that the remaining number is adequate for our needs, then there would be no reduction at all in the overall total to be manufactured - and thus, no risk posed to any British jobs.

Julian Lewis MP, Shadow Defence Minister

Baptism first act of lifelong church faith
I refer to the letter of July 11 headlined "Babies should have first gift of faith".
I intend no offence to the lady in question who was refused baptism for her child because she could not give proof or assurance to the priest that her partner was a Catholic.
But how could the child be expected to grow up in the faith when the mother herself was not a Catholic?
I do believe this baptism would have been a sham.
Roman Catholic children cannot always find a place in the school of their faith, because it has been taken by children of other denominations.
"Grandmother" goes on to say that many children from Catholic homes give up their faith when they reach adult age.
I say faith has to be worked at and can only be attained through prayer and by going to mass.

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