Your Say

I’d like to correct some of the outrageous comments from Charmaine Morgan in her column in last week’s Journal.

Can I be the only one who is becoming mildly irritated by the incessant, hysterical “Nimbyism” expressed every week in the Journal, by residents of the Manthorpe estate?

From previous Journal reports it looks like the A52 east-west bypass is soon to begin. However, don’t expect too much relief from it, as you sit waiting in the frequent tailback on the Inner Relief Road.

What is the matter with the folk of Grantham who are so anti-Margaret Thatcher! That person, not only famous for standing up for and protecting the sovereign rights of the Falklanders, also put Great Britain firmly back on the map!

What price did the UK pay for Grantham’s famous daughter’s policies to get cheap imports?

Can someone please tell me which optician our councillors go to? I would love to have a pair of rose-tinted glasses that they wear.

I am writing in response to the coverage in the Journal (January 16) of the implementation of St Anne’s crossing on Harrowby Road.

When faced with a public outcry and a 13,000 signature petition against closing our ambulance station, why does a large expanding area like Grantham keep getting pushed aside with previous assurances ignored?

I am very pleased to support Ray Wootten’s suggestion that the new link road should be named Lady Thatcher Way, but do not feel that this goes anywhere near a proper recognition of our famous daughter!

On behalf of the residents of Gonerby Hill Foot/Cliffe Road area, I would like to draw people’s attention to the sub-standard work being carried out by the county council’s highways team.

As previously mentioned in your newspaper, I welcomed the news that Lincolnshire Police were trialling the use of Dispersal Powers under the new Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.

I was extremely pleased when I read in the Journal that Mr Walsingham had been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) by Her Majesty in the New Year’s Honours.

In response to the article from Marietta King, I would like to take the opportunity to remind all your readers that the delivery of the Grantham Southern Relief Road has been, and still is, an acknowledged long-standing priority for South Kesteven District Council and Lincolnshire County Council and a long held ambition of many local people (both ‘The People of Grantham’ and many other users of the A1 and the A52!).

Having read last week’s column by Marietta King, I could almost hear your regular correspondents breathing a collective sigh of relief, and reaching for their pens.

Thank you for the Terry Shelbourne caricature in this week’s Journal, you captured Stuart beautifully.

As a truck driver I find it laughable that these signs have been placed near to the bridge!