Addressing points in pro-nuclear 'rant'
JOHN Hole uses my points of objection to misleading headlines about the nuclear demo in Bridgwater as an excuse for a pro-nuclear rant.He has four points which I’d like to address separately.1 The economy.My point was about the headline and how it did not reflect the substance of the article, which suggested that most jobs would go to workers imported from outside.However, to address John Hole’s point: lots of dosh into Somerset? Well, maybe for the rich but what about the poor? I don’t actually…

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Author: Central Somerset Gazette

Playing fields debate is better face-to-face
I CAN’T be the only reader who is fed up with the continued “letter tennis” between Mendip District Council and the Friends of Tor Leisure regarding the future of the Tor Leisure playing fields.I’m probably not the only person who is confused as to why someone living in Portishead has so much to say on something that is a local issue, but that’s a different issue for a different day.What is clear to me is that both parties seem to have the future of the playing fields and locals’…

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Author: Central Somerset Gazette

I agree that fence is over-reaction – mum
AS the mother of two of the young boys that play in the woods at Folliott Road I have to agree with Patrick on his article last week regarding the new fence in Leg of Mutton Road.It is a complete over-reaction to anything that went on in the woods.I went down there on many occasions without giving them any warning to make sure they were behaving and every time they were just building jumps or building things at the little stream that runs down off the hill, and camps to hide in while playing…

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Author: Central Somerset Gazette

Why 'demonise' the Friends?
I WAS disappointed to see that Councillor Hugh Sharp (October 17) has now apparently sought to demonise the Friends of Tor Leisure as something other than just that (friends).Surely Mr Sharp and Councillor Barron, and the Glastonbury Town Council, have the same objectives as the Friends. We all want to see the whole of Tor Leisure fields retained for sports and recreational use for the community for generations to come.He suggests that the application to have the fields given Village Green (VG)…

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Author: Central Somerset Gazette