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MIDDY
Town
Plans
On the front page of the Middy are some of
the buildings threatened with demolition by
the town planners. Burgess Hill is set to
have built a "much-needed new station."
Why? What's wrong with the station? It serves
its purpose. Reading the map on the inside
page, we can see that supposed improvements
include putting a main road through Church
Walk, and turning Station Road into a cul-de-sac.
So what improvements apart
from traffic chaos are we promised? Well there
is to be a new civic centre, food store and
library near to where Waitrose is. Excuse
me, but I thought we had that already. Then
there is a "French-style tree lined boulevard"
at Queen Elizabeth Avenue. By French-style
I suppose they must mean people will be pissing
against the trees after staggering away drunk
from the "continental style cafe culture."
Orion
Cinema
Two people let rip at the council against
their proposals in the letters page. Paul
Barnett wants to know what is wrong with our
intimate little cinema that it has to be demolished.
I agree. If you want a multiplex go to the
Marina. I heard praise from a resident of
Haywards Heath about our cinema. She goes
to the senior movie day. So popular is the
attraction that the cinema turns people away.
Can you imagine a multiplex having a special
showing for OAPs with raffle thrown in?
MSDC
leader's foolish decision?
V. Thomas of Haywards Heath says that MSDC
leader, Christine Field, admits that her decision
of merging the Princess Royal and Royal Sussex
hospitals was foolish but refused to take
responsibility; as she will again when the
best bits from our local towns are destroyed.
This is the Christine Field who received an
100% pay increase from the council in the
last year.
If you want to know how
seriously the council will take opinions for
their proposals then just look at the news
about the Small Scale Housing Development
review. There were more than 2000 objections
to the proposals. So what happens? "Despite
the shoal of objections to Mid Sussex Council,
councillors trying to meet the demands to
provide space for homes are pressing forward
with their list of preferred sites."
LEADER
Kiddie
Porn
Well I certainly would have been disappointed,
what with all the fuss in the papers, if we
didn't have our very own paedophile working
with children. And we have! His name is Keith
Hudson, and he runs the Haywards Heath Learning
Centre. He is a "self-confessed naturist"
- I'm sure people have other names for him
as well - who was convicted of possessing
child porn back in 1998. According to the
Leader, the Department of Education supported
his right to teach "after hearing medical
evidence that while his feelings towards young
boys were 'inappropriate', he had 'no interest
in girls.'" Well, that makes it alright
then!
Council
Tax
Mr Reilly of Burgess Hill has refused to pay
the inflation-busting part of his council
tax. The council is sending in the bailiffs.
Of course, deputy prime minister, John Prescott,
hasn't paid any of his council tax on one
of his multiple houses for seven years. I
bet he won't get a visit.
Award
for stating the bloody obvious
Headline of the week came from the Leader
with: "Suicide woman, 53, had history
of mental illness." No, you don't say!
CITIZEN
Hold
the front page award
One of the lead stories in the Citizen was
from when "A youngster from Burgess Hill
had his first brush with celebrity when he
joined Chris Evans for a Christmas Eve extravaganza
on BBC Radio 2." Christmas Eve! Wow!
Then, inside, we learn that you can still
purchase the fundraising calendar of Ashenground
Community Centre. It says that Ashenground
is staging a fundraising concert on February
26. If you really must go, I would check that
it is in 2006 first.
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