League punishment too harsh
I see that Luton Town FC have been deducted 30 points for next season for breaking League rules on going into administration etc.
Fair enough, if you break the rules you should expect to be punished. I was just thinking though, let's say that Manchester United or Liverpool or Arsenal or Chelsea were found guilty of the same thing, do you think that the Premier League would dish out a similarly harsh punishment? Neither do I.
There is one law for the rich and one for the poor in football.
Sky TV would certainly not want any of the above four clubs to be effectively relegated due to such harsh punishment.
It would be bad business not to have these clubs in the Premier League, and since Sky call the tune on football and indeed cricket and other sports, the boring predictability of Premier League football will continue.
A last word: with other clubs having points docked for going into administration, such as Leeds, Bournemouth and Crawley, I reckon that Derek Shaw at PNE has done a good job with limited funds and attendances.
If PNE were to go into administration, I fear they would never recover from it.

Name and address supplied

Listen to experts on speed cameras
In response to the recent letter from Peter Ward, who does not countenance any criticism of speed cameras, there are two kinds of motorists in the country: those who drive around with their eyes glued to the speedometer, causing tailbacks and shunts...
And those who keep their attention where it should be, on the road ahead and the surrounding traffic, and who regulate their speed according to experience and instinct rather than arbitrary multiples of 10 miles per hour.
If the opinion of a lay driver with more than 40 years experience, 17 of them spent commuting daily into Glasgow on the congested and highly dangerous Monklands Motorway, counts for nothing, I would suggest that you search your archives and reprint letters from J Woods and Adrian Shurmer, both of them former expert police drivers, whose opinions on speed cameras and road safety are surely more valid than those of Mr Ward.

Geoffrey Connell, Bromley Road, Lytham St Annes

Getting the hump with hospital traffic
Just what we need on a road leading to a major accident and emergency hospital... yet another mini roundabout!
So, when travelling to RPH from Watling Street Road via Sharoe Green Lane this new little hump makes a total of four mini roundabouts on a very short stretch.
They give everyone the hump!
Some people may reason that because a new housing development has been created on Sharoe Green Lane, access is needed for the residents.
Every credit, but when the old hospital was there with its maternity unit, chest clinic and all the other clinics, trafffic was much worse. There were more vehicles using the junction then but no-one found it necessary to build a mini roundabout for the staff,
visitors and patients.
God help anyone in the back of an ambulance, or in fact in any form of transport if unwell while negotiating Sharoe Green Lane.
Preston is becoming a joke.
The planners need to get out of the office for a while and see what they are creating. There are far more dangerous and difficult stretches of road in the Fulwood area that would benefit from a roundabout, mini or not - the Fulwood Hall Lane/Watling Street Road junction for one.
Maybe the planning office could install a shaving socket at the end of that road for the convenience of all the men who grow beards while waiting for a gap in the traffic.

Carol, Fulwood, via email
(name and address supplied)

Act now on Mugabe
I watched in horror the news reports from Zimbabwe about President Mugabe. It rings alarm bells in my head.
Just the same sort of thing happened with Hitler and Saddam Hussein.
They operated murderous regimes while the world stood by and did nothing until the horse had bolted.
Wake up, you people in high places, and sort Mugabe out.

Name and address supplied

Play in the park was fun and wonderful
I am writing to congratulate the drama company which produced The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe at Avenham Park earlier this month.
It was fun, light-hearted and had adults and children spellbound by the story.
CS Lewis's story can teach us a lot about morality, imagination, truth, evil, character and
redemption.
Thank you children, adults and whoever else was involved in the production and organisation of the play.
We look forward to seeing more of the same.

Tony Hutton, Moor Lane, Preston

Get facts right on bird shooting
Game shooting is not the preserve of the wealthy as Fiona Pereira suggests and I often meet people from all backgrounds on a shoot day.
Animal Aid also claims that almost all game birds reared for the shooting season are bred from birds kept in battery-style metal cages. This is a gross exaggeration of the facts. Only five or six game farms - about 5% of UK producers - use such cages.
As the UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has stated unequivocally that cage laying systems are incompatible with the values of BASC and the future of game shooting and wants to see them phased out.
Game is a healthy and tasty food the market for which has increased by 50% over the last two years, proving that more people than ever are choosing healthy and wild game over more intensively reared meat alternatives.

Helen Shuker, via email

Bello offers superb food and service
Reading the recent article about the Bello Restaurant in Fishergate, Preston, owned by Mr Abdellan Diaj, please don't let the demolished buildings put readers off dining there.
We have just celebrated there with a special birthday party.
The food was wonderful, the staff could not do enough to make it so special and we all had a wonderful time.

Mrs WE Gaynor,
address supplied

Great care at RPH
I have just left Ward 16 at the Royal Preston Hospital.
I would like to say a special thank you to all the staff on
the ward for all their care and
attention.
Nothing was too much for them.
I would also like to thank Caroline and her physiotherapy team for their patience.
Also, all the best to George who will be leaving ward 16 in a few weeks to go elsewhere.

G Whelan, Preston
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