Letter of the week: Plastic flowers are not the problem
I could not believe the comments of councillor Shaun Ford about the plastic flowers at the cemetery.
I tend to my family members’ graves every week but with this summer being so hot I reverted to silk flowers (note, silk, not plastic) for a few weeks because the heat was destroying the real ones after a couple of days. They also looked fresh all the time.
As my late mum loved her flowers, I do not like to leave her vases empty.
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What really gets my back up is, with all this dry weather, why wasn’t it a good time for the cemetery to have a good tidy and clear up?
Instead of picking fault with the graves’ flower situation, why not discuss the state of the whole of the cemetery because it is an absolute disgrace to the town.
Attacking the flowers is not addressing the real problem, which is the mess, and the dog walkers who do not clean up after their pets and do not keep them on their leads.
Get the things which really want doing sorted out.
Mrs Sylvia Smith
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