Council status should revert to one of being a provider
Longfield Road, Todmorden.
CONCERN over care services shows that council’s should be restored to the status of providers and not diminished into mere commissioners of services from private firms.
I remember all too well the unreliability of some firms contracted for maintenance on Longfield estate when I was town councillor for the area.
It was necessary for council officers to supervise them and check on completion; and if there was a slackness in this, only the poor voluntary councillor could seek satisfaction.
More happily: F. Clarke can be assured that Punch doesn’t always signify violence.
Even if the bus conductor’s ticket punch and the cobbler’s tool use force, it is controlled and non-violent.
The drink from a punch bowl is convivial and the term also signifies a short-legged draught horse!
The Concise Oxford Dictionary applies it to a grotesque puppet, Punchinello, in a “Punch and Judy Show”; and a comic paper of quality was entitled Punch last century.
FRANK McMANUS
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