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I Post IE-mail Cloisters Your Views, Suite 1, Third floor, [email protected] Mill Lane House, Mill Lane, by Tom CT9 1JU IFax ...... 01843 578170 your v i ew s Beckett tur n”, April 26). Build a bypass This is so obvious to all except I WAS stunned to read about the the politically correct of the city ONE of the strangest sights I have traffic chaos at Westgate Towers council, who glory in the ever seen from my vantage point (“Worries over pollution and road dysfunctional eyesores that include here in the cloisters of Times gridlock”, April 26). You don’t know the new Marlowe Theatre and Towers was on Sunday night when the half of it. Starbucks coffee shop next to the ten men in frocks took over the As a result of the changes in the Cathedral Gate. stage at ’s Marlowe city, traffic is now being affected on The new eyesore will be the T h e a t re . the A28 road to Margate. Beaney Institute library extension. A bosom of panto dames (I I have been a cabbie for ten The only reason the council presume that is the appropriate years with Canterbury Cars and removed the PC curry kiosk was collective noun) gathered to pay have never seen anything like it. I because of public pressure from tribute to the late Dave Lee, who am lucky because as a taxi driver I sane citizens. often slipped into a skirt to raise a can use the bus and taxi lane. But Ian Dickinson, Hackington laugh. other drivers aren’t so lucky. These Road, Canterbury Producer Paul Hendy had been changes have just made a bad hard at work behind the scenes situation worse. Sign language changing the lyrics from There Is Motorists don’t see the signs and STUNNED: Taxi driver David Ayris disputes council claims that the Westgate Towers traffic ban will work Nothing Like A Dame to There Is DURING Deaf Awareness Week I don’t see any sign of enforcement. Head pub (“Call for music ban to that 20 + 3 = 23, and not 16 as Education Project is the founding of Nothing Like Our Dave. (this week), we are highlighting the I had one passenger get out of end neighbour’s night-noise implied in the article. Chaucer University as an online Some of the words may have problems deaf patients have when the cab and run to catch his train at misery”, April 26) I felt compelled to There seem to have been a Open Technical University been lost on the night so I bring you dealing with the health service. Canterbury West because we e-mail. problem as this latest mission flew developing as a modern Mechanics edited highlights: We want to improve access and w e re n ’t moving an inch. I am the landlord of the White over Times Towers! The fifth Institute. “We got lipstick on our lips ensure only appropriately qualified If it was me, I’d reopen the Hart Pub in Worthgate Place, and paragraph of the story begins: “The See the Introduction section of We got glitter in our hair sign-language interpreters are used towers to normal traffic. If they since I took over from the previous rocket left Earth on St George’s The Chaucer Education Project We got blusher and nail polish for deaf patients. really wanted to solve Canterbury’s incumbent just over 15 months ago Day”while the sixth paragraph website at www.tcep.talktalk.net/ but these boobs are false, I swear Our research shows 41 per cent traffic problems they should build a I, too, have to deal with neighbours’ states: “the spacecraft launched on introduction/ for further details. We ’ve got eyelashes and heels of people who use British Sign A28 bypass, but that will complaints over noise issues. April 16 and landed on the moon on The research and development but could still do with a shave Language have left a health never happen. We have been The previous landlord apparently April 20.” website at www.tcep.org.uk has a What ain’t we got? We ain’t got appointment feeling confused waiting 35 years for the A2 slip did nothing to work with residents It was the ascent stage of the contact form. Potential students Dave.” about their medical condition. roads at –and the slip but I have spent the past 15 months lunar module Orion that lifted off and teachers are especially invited Sixty-eight per cent said they road at has made trying to repair the damage and from the moon on St George’s Day to comment on their experience of “We got varnish on our nails asked for an interpreter to be virtually no difference. Pin Hill at changing the whole aspect of the (April 23), as stated in my press accessing and using these We got fancy frilly cloaks booked for a GP appointment, but 4pm still grinds to a standstill. pub. release. The list of manned moon prototype resources. I welcome We got big bras and black did not get one. To sign our petition David Ayris, cab driver While I accept the previous landings included in the article re a d e r s ’feedback. stockings, but I swear to you we’re tenants of the Maiden’s Head quite omitted Apollo 17, the final manned Richard West, founder, calling for local health services to blokes Sign it properly clearly flouted the rules, the new lunar mission, which took place in The Chaucer Education Project, use only interpreters registered with We ’re just men all dressed in landlord should be given full December 1972. Apollo 18, 19 and Tudor Road, Canterbury the National Registers of d re s s e s YOU asked us to comment on how support from both the council and 20 were subsequently cancelled to Communications Processionals, Yes and don’t we all look swell the new pedestrian system at residents in his attempts to change save money. Not spice of life visit www.petitionbuzz.com/ But who do we miss? You know Westgate Towers was working. the culture at that pub. The Apollo 16 mission was petitions/deafaccess darn well!” Well, the two pictures show cars Did the neighbour not visit the commanded by John Young, who ASIAN turbans and curry fumes do Rebecca Griffin, Head of still going round the towers from St pub to establish what kind of pub it had previously been the command not go with medieval English towers Campaigns, Action on Hearing Ah, they don’t write songs like Peters. The reason is clear. I came was? Did she not ask her estate module pilot of Apollo 10, and (“Curry kiosk closed by council U- Loss (new name for RNID) that anymore... round by Rheims Way and saw just agent what the pub was like? stayed onboard orbiting the moon one small sign warning of the It is all very well for a resident to during that lunar landing. change in layout. ask for the licence to be suspended He was subsequently appointed Why is it that all the other roads while sound-proofing is installed, Chief of the Astronaut Office in have big clear sings? If it is not but at whose expense? 1974 until 1987, during which time marked properly, how can the city If you want a quiet peaceful life, he commanded the first space council expect motorists to get it don’t move to a student city and shuttle mission in April 1981. right? then next door to a pub with a Astronaut Charles Duke was Nigel Collins, Canterbury reputation for being a music venue! previously the Capsule Mat Butler, White Hart Inn, Communicator (Capcom) during the Absurd delays Canterbury Apollo 11 first moon landing, the UNTIL the recent traffic changes I only person allowed to talk to the was able to drive my aged aunt Appeal outrage crew during their mission. along London Road to her doctor’s Thomas Mattingly was the pilot I CANNOT believe Gareth Jones of command module Casper on appointments. appealed against his three-year Now, following the absurd traffic Apollo 16, orbiting the moon during sentence for causing the death of the mission to await the return of changes, it takes nearly 20 minutes Tom Brenchley (“Death crash jail to drive her less than a quarter of a the lunar module ascent stage. sentence upheld”, May 3). To commemorate the 40th mile to keep these appointments. I think he should have got 10 What next in St Dunstans? anniversary of this penultimate years. For him to have the audacity lunar mission, the Chaucer Stacking? to try to get the sentence reduced Tim Banks, Canterbury Education Project has compiled a is just terrible. And for his solicitor set of interactive teaching to say the sentence was too harsh resources, produced a prototype See for yourself is absolutely disgraceful. course unit from them and made it THE council thinks it has the I can’t imagine what the boy’s publicly available free of charge, Westgate Towers sorted, so why parents are going through. I’d be together with other resources being are cars still coming from St Peter’s going mad if he had been my son. developed for the Level Seven roundabout and all other Oliver Gosnell, Herne Engineering course Aerospace directions? The towers are now Design and Engineering. covered with big bold sign posts. Time and space Visit the Virtual Learning Why not the St Peter’s side? THANK you for publicising the Environment at www.vle.tcep.org. Nicola Hirst, Canterbury launch of The Chaucer Education uk and click on the course title. P ro j e c t ’s Apollo 16 moon landing On the next screen, login as a Support for pub mission resources to mark its 40th guest. On the third screen, enter I WAS so incensed by the anniversary (“It’s lift-off for moon enrolment key Engineering1 and comments from the frustrated landing education site”, April 19). then click Enrol Me In This Course. student living near the Maiden’s However, I would like to point out The aim of The Chaucer On the web THIS week’s cupcakes and cookies ITweet of the week top Facebook available there really is @eloise_hg tweeted: “If I go page is: something for every to Canterbury I’ll have to go occasion. To find out into town, which means ICanterbury more, search for looking in shops. Don’t know if Cakes make Canterbury Cakes. 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