Make travellers clean up after themselves

Sometimes it's really difficult to take the Borough Council seriously.

A group of so called travellers set up camp on the Highworth Rec, and in anticipation of the disgusting mess they will leave behind the council states "Our StreetSmart team is on standby to carry out a clean up of the area as soon as the group departs'.

I've got a better idea. Don't allow them to leave until they have cleared the mess they create. The travellers are not poor, they just don't care about the environment or the residents of Highworth.

Des Morgan

Caraway Drive

Swindon

Tories heading for election defeat

I wrote to Sir Robert (MP, South Swindon) on Monday, urging him to support the vote for no confidence in the arrogant, ignorant, lying, imbecile, who claims to be our PM.

Sadly, I don't know whether Sir Robert did - but I have a pretty good idea that he ignored me (well, he always does) and also the obvious will of the people. Just listen to the booing of Boris from the general public at the Jubilee Service for HM Queen!

The vote was an obvious disaster for this idiot, but he just "carries" on, (see what I did there), believing that he is our superhero, aka #TeflonMan!

So, no further challenge will be allowed to his leadership until 2023 - then just one year away from an absolutely crushing defeat for the #Toerags in the General Election, due in 2024!

Get in! Bye, bye, Sir Robert and also Justin!

Steve Cowdry

Saddleback Road

Shaw

Do more for diabetes

Diabetes is a hidden condition, but the people living with diabetes should never be put to the back of the queue because of that. One in 14 of us live with diabetes and even more care for a loved one who does.

Earlier this year, Diabetes UK ran a survey of more than 10,000 people to understand better the experiences of people living with diabetes in accessing care over the past two years during the Covid pandemic.

In the south west, 45 per cent of respondents told us they had difficulty managing their condition in 2021.

Of these 63 per cent attributed this in part to not having sufficient access to their healthcare team, and 14 per cent per cent reported having no contact with their healthcare team about their diabetes since the pandemic began in March 2020.

That’s why, this Diabetes Week (13-19 June), we’re calling on decision makers across the UK to do more to support people living with and affected by diabetes.

Let’s stand together and tell them to listen. We’re calling for a commitment that diabetes is put at the heart of national and local health plans so people living with, and at risk of, diabetes get the care they need.

Visit diabetes.org.uk today, to sign up to receive the latest updates from our campaign, Diabetes Is Serious, and find out more ways you can get involved.

Phaedra Perry

Diabetes UK South West

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