LET Susan Armitage be a stark warning to anyone who wants to play silly games with our emergency services. For she is starting a 15 stint behind bars for a barrage of hoax 999 calls, which included 100 fake alarms on one day alone!
She only has herself to blame for she was given a last chance when an Anti-Social Behaviour Order was slapped on her two and a half years ago. Indeed, that was a softer option than could have been handed out for Armitage had previously been given a t
hree-year rehabilitation order.
It is clear that the justice system has bent over backwards to be fair to this pest. But she has thrown their offers to accommodate her in their collective faces. The public will hope she learns her lesson. But at least they will be safer whilever she is out of circulation and police and ambulance crews are being sent on wild goose chases.
Labour must begin the bridge buildingCOUNCIL leader Jan Wilson has begun the difficult job of bridge-building between the communities involved in the struggle over plans to merge Myers Grove and Wisewood Schools She suggests both groups bury their differences and attend a public meeting to discuss ideas for the replacement school.
But too much damage has been done for this to be resolved in such a straightforward manner - and Mrs Wilson's Labour colleagues must accept they are in part responsible for any lingering bitterness.
They noticeably ignored Wisewood parents attending a town hall vote and were seen to jubilantly congratulate those from the rival school. If any bridge building is to be done, it must begin within the Labour ranks.
www.angryelton.com!AGEING pop diva Sir Elton John writes in a national newspaper that he believes the internet should be closed down. The concerned star says the worldwide web is destroying good music and ruining communication between people.
Nothing to do with illegal downloads of his back catalogue and eating into his multi-million pound profits, then?
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