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Devastating Service Cut complaints they receive the quicker they’ll do something to apprehend him


I wonder if your readership is aware that when Greenwich Council stated in their recent magazine that vulnerable people's services would not be cut this is totally untrue?


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and, with luck, fine him and ban him from the station.


Jason Munro For the Want of a Nail


Our son is on the autistic spectrum and we rely on respite care from an excellent organisation called Greenwich Volcare, as do 17 other local families.


They provide someone to keep our son company and entertained for 7 hours every 2 weeks, and this time is so precious - it has allowed us to spend some much needed time with our other children and with each other. Yet this service is being stopped at short notice and will now only be funded for adults. We are really upset, and so is our son. The organisation have tried to appeal and been allocated a 5 minute time slot which has been unsuccessful. How can they justify this?


I can't overestimate the distress this cut will cause our family, and I expect the Council are hoping most people won't be aware of it. Can you help?


Yours sincerely Name withheld by SEnine


PS If you could not use our surname this would protect our son's anonymity - he gets teased enough at school already!


Smoking Mad


Over the past few weeks I have been complaining, on an almost daily basis, to the British Transport Police regarding a smoker on Eltham station. He arrives between 06:30 and 06:35 and catches the 06:40am train to Charing Cross. He always stands at the bottom of the platform, near the last set of doors in the last carriage. I know of at least four other people who stand near him whilst he smokes. Although I have made a fair few complaints he continues to flagrantly flout the law. If, like me, you are angered by this selfish individual and are on the station at around the same time, could I ask that you call the British Transport Police on 0800 40 50 40? The more


Half term holidays – looking after the grandchildren to help out – youngest one needs new school shoes – Nona will get them as a half term present. Go to Eltham High Street – arrive at what was once the children’s shoe shop to find a notice saying it’s closed down. Walk down to the one and only shoe shop left in the high street (in the past there were at least 4 shops selling just shoes – adults and children). Inside there are two assistants – one busy at the counter the other rearranging shoes – we look after ourselves.


Look on the shelves – not much selection – ask if we could measure grandson’s feet – the assistant points to a foot measure hidden behind some boxes – measure feet to find he is a 12.5 – sorry they don’t do half sizes. Walk out of shop and try a few more shops selling clothes and a few children’s shoes not a wide selection – try M and S on the second floor in the corner a few boys shoes – although a selection of girls shoes. Walk on still no shoes. So what do we do? – We go to Bluewater – in the children’s shoe shop a nice young woman takes charge of grandson’s feet, takes him to the measuring machine – tries on a selection of shoes – talks to him asking how they feel etc. etc. I like it here he says and we purchase a pair of school shoes that fit his feet.


I can remember Eltham High Street as a thriving high street with a wide selection of shops, – yes it’s good to have the pound shops but why four or is it five we now also have pawn shops and how many charity shops I can’t remember. Everyone is talking about shopping locally which I will willingly do. Do they really want us to shop locally or is the aim to let the high street die and we all use our cars to shop in the out of town shopping centres?


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Library Systems In November off In November of last year Gr last year Greenwich wich


Council introduced a new computer system into the borough's library (in spite of the fact that the existing system seemed to be working perfectly well). Since that time the new system has suffered from a number of problems; the self-service system at Eltham library is persistently out of action (and when it does work is less efficient than they old system); the new system seems a lot slower and less user friendly.


All of the librarians I have talked to say that the new system is certainly no better than the old system. And 3 month's after its installation it is still not working properly. God knows what this fiasco cost.


Alan Crump


No More Supermarkets! I re d


adwiith iinterest th he artiiclle by C CarolD


I read with interest the article by Carol Doust with regard to the lack of Department Stores in Eltham High Street. Following the closure of Alders and the Co- op, there is not a single store which sells electrical/white goods.


Doust The suggestion


that Eltham needs another Supermarket is absurd, as small stores struggle already.


Eltham needs to encourage Department Stores to move back in to the High Street and reverse the current trend of supermarkets and stores such as Poundland and Poundstop.


Thank goodness we can have a moan over a cup of tea in our only great store - Marks and Spencer.


June Robinson 37


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