'Past inquiries ignored health data—Hixon must not repeat this' - your letters, plus a nostalgic snap of spring bulb planting, 1974

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Supporting image for story: 'Past inquiries ignored health data—Hixon must not repeat this' - your letters, plus a nostalgic snap of spring bulb planting, 1974 — PICTURE FROM THE PAST: Bulb planting in Albrighton in November 1974. Members of Albrighton and District Conservation Society were brightening up the village by planting hundreds of spring bulbs at two sites. More than three and a half hundredweight of bulbs were planted around Patshull Road pool.

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Concerns about new incinerator

Those concerned about adverse health effects from the proposed incinerator at Hixon should have no confidence in the proposed public hearing. If that hearing goes the same way as the public inquiries for which I was a Rule 6 Party objector in 2005 and 2011.

A 2005 inquiry was held for an incinerator at Belvedere in the London Borough of Bexley. My submission was wrongly dismissed but included unpublished ONS birth defect data released on the instruction of Rt Hon Ruth Kelly MP which showed a post-incinerator rise in Bexley’s birth defect rate after treated sewage sludge at the massive Crossness sewage works was incinerated instead of being dumped in the North Sea.

Michael Ryan, Clee Hill