Your Letters: December 4

November 22 marked four years since the previous government’s consultation on pavement parking in England closed. 

Cars parked on, and sometimes hogging the whole pavement, will be a familiar sight to many.

Pavement parking is dangerous especially for families with young children, people with sight loss and disabled people. 

A recent poll found that 87 per cent of parents have had to walk in the road because of a vehicle blocking the pavement. It damages pavement surfaces too. 

Living Streets has been campaigning on this issue for over 50 years and it's high time we saw an end to the problem. We hope readers will join Living Streets and supporters like me, in urging the new government to deal with the troubling legacy of pavement parking once and for all. Everyone will be the better for it.

Patrick McCarthy, Cannock

KEEP AN EYE ON THE VULNERABLE

Winter chill seems to be upon us, if the Met Office are right in their forecasts. Is this a sign we've all been dreading? Especially with the withdrawal of the winter heating allowance (WHA). 

I appreciate that it's very easy to blame the government for the risk they are putting people to in having to make choices in what could be the not too distant future, but the indecent haste they introduced their alterations to WHA certainly seems to indicate that the decision was made some time before the election. And then to try to justify their actions by citing a 'black hole' they'd discovered in the previous administration's economic activities was balderdash and poppycock. 

Now for the point behind my epistle, can you please keep an eye out on some of the vulnerable out there – not just pensioners – and make sure they're not being pushed into the decision of heat or eat. It's not being a nosey so-and-so. It's called caring for our fellow humans. 

Michael Gough, Wombourne

PM 'LEADING US TO A WORLD WAR'

Starmer is leading us towards World War 3. I'm sure no-one voted for him to perform this action. Was all-out war with Russia part of Starmer's manifesto? I call upon the Labour MP for Telford to instigate a motion of no confidence in the Starmer government, before we are all too dead to care.

Matt Gillies, Telford

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