'All I want is to live in a safe place away from drug addicts' - Your Letters: June 30

I was a class A drug addict for 20 years. I moved to a village close to Shrewsbury to get away from the drug world. I have lived here for nearly eight years now.

I have spent over £10,000 on the property I live in, which I don't own, a housing association own the property but it was in such a state when I moved in, which is why I have spent the money I have. So I feel better within myself.

Now after nearly eight years two raving class A drug addicts have moved next door to me. I have told the housing association that this is not fair on a man who has worked hard to not be a drug addict. 

Why would you do that to a resident of one of your properties? These people are flat out doing drugs all weekend and partying.

I feel that if this problem is made aware of publicly, maybe housing associations in the West Midlands will take action in situations like this, as it is unfair that residents feel scared in their own homes, all because they don’t care who they house next to each other.

How can I feel safe in my own flat and battle to remain clean of addiction, when the housing keep putting drug addicts next door to me? I just want a quiet life after losing my whole family due to once being an addict. 

I help my neighbours whenever I can, I cut the lawn for a neighbour and we both put each others bins out.

I am trying to become a member of society again but cannot leave my own flat because of threats. 

All I want is to live in a safe place away from drug addicts and the housing association have now took this away from me.

I now have to move so I can remain safe away from drugs, which isn't fair when I have lived here for nearly eight years and the two drug addicts have been here five minutes.

Surely fairness would be to move these drug addicts on, not myself who has improved the housing association’s property in the time I have been here. I want to make this situation aware to the public.

Name and address supplied

GENERATION IS NOT QUITE SO SIMPLE

As the latest move in the ludicrous 'net zero' fantasy, Phil Thompson (27 June) now wants businesses to generate their own electricity in an effort to prop up the failings of renewables on the grid. 

Well solar panels do not work at night, or on cloudy days, wind sometimes goes AWOL for weeks at a time, this means that the businesses would have to install large amounts of very expensive batteries (but those batteries will cover mere hours of demand at best). 

That leaves reliable diesel generators as a power source.

Does he not realise that this would increase their already high energy costs?

It seems that all the solar panels and many components of wind turbines and well as batteries all come from China.

It is still building coal fired power stations and is happy to supply the naive western nations with 'green' products made using power from high sulphur brown coal.

Chris Smith, Horsehay

HUSBAND IS LET DOWN AFTER OP

Following emergency surgery at RSH my husband spent two days in ITU then two in HDU before being taken back to the normal colorectal ward. The staff in those wards all did an excellent caring job.

As my husband developed a wound infection in hospital and upon discharge back home the wound required daily dressing changes and here lies the dilemma!

The staff on the ward at the RSH arranged for a community nurse to come to our home to do the dressing changes. We were then informed by the community nurse that she was not allowed to do it because my husband was not completely housebound. So we booked daily weekday visits to our GP surgery for dressing changes, but obviously GP surgeries are not open at weekends and we were advised to go to the ‘walk in’ Urgent Treatment Centre, within A&E at the PRH.

One Saturday we checked in at A&E as required only to be told that the Urgent Treatment Centre did not do dressing changes! Someone took pity on him and the dressing was changed. 

On the Sunday we were told the same again, but my 77-year-old husband was classified as a ‘minor injury’ and had to wait nearly three hours in A&E for his 10 minute dressing change. Where is a post operation patient who needs daily wound dressing changes supposed to get this vital treatment at the weekend? Shouldn’t an essential wound dressing be dealt with by a community/district nurse or the Urgent Treatment Centre when a GP surgery is closed?

Jennifer Brown, Wellington

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