Daily Mail, Friday, August 30, 2019 Page 65
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020 7937 7493, with your
address and number.a heart attack at home and en
route to Cheltenham General
hospital, my heart stopped.
The paramedics restarted it
and the high-tech, high-stand-
ard, seamless treatment
continued in A&E, where
tests were run, assessments
made and stents inserted.
Saying thank you seems
inadequate. I owe you, NHS.
DOUG JENNINGS,
Mickleton, Glos.Tractor tracks
WHY be annoyed that a
tractor did not pull over to let
you pass (Letters)? Is your
business more important than
that of a farmer?
I have worked on farms, so
am aware of the impatience
shown by drivers who believe
they should not be held up
even for a minute or two by
farmers going about their vital
work of feeding the nation.
If you are in a traffic queue
behind a tractor, just relax,
allow your blood pressure to
go down and enjoy the view of
the countryside.
RICHARD COOPER,
Tring, Herts.Death of football
THE plight of football clubs
such as Bury and Bolton has
been on the cards for years.
You can’t go on exploiting
fans to make multi-million-
aires of players who have no
loyalty to any team, only to
their bank balance.
This has been highlighted by
the betting firm deal with
Derby County and Wayne
Rooney. The top eight clubs
are bleeding football dry.
Until Continental transfers
took over, the lower clubs
were the lifeblood of the elite.
Now they have becomeobsolete as the route to the
top for young players. The
leading clubs are following the
business strategy of outbid-
ding their competition to the
extent they will buy players
surplus to their requirements
merely to prevent them from
playing for the opposition.
BARRY DAVIES,
Chorley, Lancs.
HoW many luxury cars would
Manchester City and
Manchester United’s players
needed to have sold to have
saved Bury Football Club, a
few miles down the road?
GRAHAM LUDLAM,
South Wingfield, Derbys.Running Repair
WELL done the BBC for re-
scheduling daytime favourite
The Repair Shop on BBC2 at
7pm as an antidote to BBC1’s
tedious The one Show.
And congratulations to the
clever people who revitalise
fascinating items brought in
by the public.
BOB WOODLAND,
Poole, Dorset.
THE Repair Shop team are
supportive of each other and
so kind to people who bring in
damaged heirlooms.
SYLVIA ASHFIELD,
Bristol.lives
Stylish: Janet WalshHAVE you lost a relative or friend in recent
months whose life you’d like to celebrate?
Our Friday column tells the stories of
ordinary people who lived extraordinarylives. Email your 350-word tribute to: lives@
dailymail.co.uk or write to: Extraordinary
Lives, Daily Mail, 2 Derry Street, London W8
5TT. Please include a contact phone number.business. After it became
clear that family life was
being affected, we each
started new careers with a
better work-life balance.
Janet worked at Central TV
as PA to the production
and news teams before
joining Walter Smith, the
chain of Midlands butcher
shops. She was the PA to
two chairmen of PLCs.
She also assisted me with
location filming, editing
and production, often
wielding a large movie
camera. She adored her
nine grandchildren and
two step-grandchildren,
ferrying them to school,football, martial arts, Irish
dancing, hurling and
gymnastics. She loved
keep-fit, especially Zumba,
and her knitting needles
were never far away.
Janet was a gentle person,
but this hid a fierce
hurricane when roused.
After a driver almost
collided with her car as he
cut in to take her parking
place, she pursued him
into a takeaway, grabbed
him by the lapels and
berated him for his
rudeness. A true lady, she
apologised to the queue of
astonished people.
Warm and trustworthy,Janet was also the most
stylish of grannies. She had
hundreds of friends and
was the glue that held our
family together.
Diagnosed with stomach
cancer, she made the most
of her last 18 months. In St
Giles hospice, she wrote
individual messages to
each grandchild because
she wanted them to have
special words from her to
remember as they grow
up. The family was with her
when she passed away, a
blessing for us and Janet.
n JANET LESLEY WALSH,
born May 1, 1948; died
December 6, 2018, aged 70.We need an email
to moor our boat!
TAKING advantage of the good
weather, my husband Ray and I took
our friends for a short trip on our boat.
From the marina we can reach
Hampton Court moorings for lunch.
As we tied up, we noticed a man in a
high viz vest taking photos of the
moored boats.
My husband asked him what he was
doing and, pointing to some new signs,
the man replied we had to register
online with his parking company for
the right to moor or we would be fined.
We would have to email the company
each time we moored on the river.
We pointed out we do not have a
computer on board or smart phones, so
he told us we would have to find a shop
that would allow us to send an email.
Since this encounter, we have looked
into this scheme.
It turns out that the Environment
Agency has sold the running of its
mooring sites on the Thames to a
private firm.
our marina was as surprised as us
when I told them. As we are registered
with the Environment Agency to
the tune of nearly £700 a year,
why do we need to register with a
parking company? If we refuse to, willthe Environment Agency pass on our
name and address, just as the DVLA
does with parking firms? Surely this is
a breach of privacy laws.
After calling the company and pointingout we do not have the means to email
every time we moor, we were eventually
told we could phone in our details, but
only between 9am to 5pm on weekdays.
So what happens at weekends?
There has been no consultation with
river users and no information released
to the numerous marinas along
the Thames.
Mrs GILLIAN PETTY,
Shepperton, Surrey.
WHY are private parking firms given
access to drivers’ personal details?
only the police should have the power
to request this information from
the DVLA.
However, it is being sold to private
firms so you can be pursued for over-
staying in a car park. Talk about
legalised highway robbery.
ALAN WARNER, Ripley, Derbys.
I WAS shocked to receive an £85 parking
notice after having a blood test at my
local health centre. I had registered my
car details and pressed the confirm
button, but still received a fine.
How many of these unfair notices are
being sent to unwary motorists, who
feel under pressure to pay up?
CHARLIE WEBLEY, Rochester, Kent.All aboard: Ray and Gillian PettySeptember 5,- The writer
of the caption
judged the best
will win a £20
book token.
n THIS week’s
winner of the
£20 book token
is Ian Slater of
Middlesbrough,
who has EC
President
Donald Tusk
thinking as he
relaxes in a
hammock
with a book:
Lie back and don’t
think of EnglandV1