YOUR LETTERS - 9th FEBRUARY 2018


WEEK ENDING 9th FEB 2018

Riverdance 10th anniversary

So it was 10 years since roll-on-roll-off ferry MS Riverdance was shipwrecked at Cleveleys? Big deal. It was 56 years ago that we all climbed about the SS Happy Wanderer with none other than the Carry On crew! If only the Riverdance had been under the command of Captain Crowther (hilariously portrayed by the late Sid James) I am confident that it would not have got into the silly trouble that it did. And if they had, at least they would have had Kenneth Connor’s hilarious ship’s doctor on board to help out with any casualties. Although I imagine that these days with all the ridiculous ‘political correctness’ a doctor who pushed his face into an unconscious woman’s bosom would be stuck off from general practice. Well you PC brigade have got the Riverdance disaster on your consciences.

Barry
Bispham

Switch Me Off

Another series of ‘Take Me Out’ has begun on ITV with the “hilarious” Paddy McGuinness overseeing a team of vacuous women who alternately swoon over a ‘hunk’ and then mercilessly mock a no-hoper based entirely on either his looks or some disgusting habit the research team have forced him to admit to in some pre-prepared VT, in-between which Paddy makes a series of terrible innuendos that an 8-year old could have written. Well I for one will not be watching. Let the finger see the off-switch.

Ms S. Back
Cleveleys

Britney Spears

I just heard that Britney Spears is doing a show in Blackpool this year at the Tower Headlands festival. What is wrong with Thornton Little Theatre? So many international recording artists seem to snub our wonderful little venue, and yet our ticket prices averaging around £7.50 are a lot more affordable than most concert venues meaning they could potentially sell more of them (up to our 197 seated capacity of course). Plus the last time I went to the Manchester Arena I paid over £4 for a watery pint of Fosters lager – what a rip-off! Whereas at Thornton Little Theatre we offer plastic cups of Nottage Hill for just £2.50 - a bargain! Come on Britney, switch venues, you know it makes sense.

J. Timbercake
Thornton

Pot holes

Fylde Council may have announced that they will be filling in the potholes in our roads, but this comes at the same time as the news that our council tax will be rising next year at double the normal rate of inflation! What a rip off! A more sensible, money-saving approach would be to just leave the roads alone until all the potholes join up. Then the roads would be level, just a bit lower.

Norman Spaystick
Pothole-Le-Filled

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