'Signs of frustration on North West Relief Road' - Your letters, plus when John Cleese filmed in a Shropshire field

NW Relief Road signs frustration

I see that the North West Relief Road has been scrubbed.

This must be very frustrating for the person in the highways department who is responsible for evaluating how many road signs can be squeezed into the space available.

Chris Ellis, Oswestry

UK defence a laughing stock

Oh dear just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, our spineless Prime Minister surpasses his idiocy. 

Our poor British citizens in Cyprus have no protection from being bombed! 

Thank goodness for Greece helping by shooting a drone down set to attack the island. 

We are already a laughing stock in the world, by not being able to protect our own country being invaded by unchecked (mostly men) illegal immigrants arriving on dinghies across the Channel.

The latest embarrassment should be no surprise. 

Heaven help us all.

Carol Owens, Coven

Water probe was quite alarming

Refilling water bottles, washing dishes, washing clothes, washing our bodies. They are all everyday activities carried out by most of us that involve water. 

After watching Dirty Business on Channel 4, I can’t believe how careless some private water companies have been to discharge untreated sewage into Britain’s waterways. 

The toxin producing bacterial infections that can be caught from water contaminated with human waste can cause serious health complications.

This is especially so in children and the elderly, and most of us are paying rates for water that could potentially make any one of us sick. 

It’s only right that some of these companies have been fined millions because this large scale pollution of UK water could cause a health crisis greater than the infected blood scandal of the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. 

The best precautions to take are to boil water used for food preparation, drinking and washing dishes to kill any harmful bacteria that may be present.

It is also wide to opt for drinks machines or water jugs with built-in filters.

Vicky Bartlett,  Midlands

We need to hear Reform policies

I read with interest James Evans’ attempt to explain why he has defected to Reform UK. But having read his column twice I am none the wiser about why he made his decision as no concrete policy of Reform is mentioned. 

Senedd electors in Powys, however, will have a clearer idea of what those policies are as we start to observe some of the existing Reform-led councils in England like Kent and Warwickshire. 

Extensive cuts to public services are a key element of the Reform programme. 

Is this what Welsh electors want? 

For most people Reform seems to be merely a repository for protest votes but it’s worth looking at what they actually have in mind. 

Personally, I don’t like what I see.

Nicholas Murray, Presteigne

Justice policy from Aunt Dolly

As soon as the Government announced they wanted to recruit 2,000 more Magistrates Aunt Dolly, Uncle Norbert and I put ourselves forward. Hoping that in the future there will be some proper sentencing, Aunt Dolly is making us all some judicial black caps.

As well as putting ourselves forward we have submitted ideas to help streamline the legal system, so definitely no juries.

Before proceedings begin the guilty persons previous convictions would be read out. 

Anyone with one to three convictions will be considered guilty unless they can convince the Bench within 10 minutes they are innocent via a video link. With four to nine convictions the guilty person would have one minute to prove their innocence. Those with 10 or more convictions, throw away the key and set the dogs on them.

To try and shame the guilty onto a righteous path, while they carry out work in their community, we had thought to dress them all in a pink fairy outfit, but upon reflection we decided against it as it might increase the crime rate.

Peter Steggles, Rushbury