Town Council highlighted the issue of dog
fouling. Unfortunately the incident I have
recently experienced happened after their
consultation closed on 31st March so I am
writing to you in the hope that you / your
readers might be able to offer some advice.
and I were walking with our children up the
path besides Johnson's Field when our 10
year old noticed that the owner of the dog
we had just walked past had not picked up
after it had fouled. With him pointing out
there was an article in Phonebox about that,
I thought I had better set an example and
ask the gentleman whether he intended to
pick up even though he was walking away.
children, this gentleman was rude, offensive
and threatening. His concluding remark was
that I had no idea about living in the
countryside and should get real!
comment on dealing with situations like this.
along with many others, was flooded in 2007, I was
more than a little annoyed to note in a recent Lib-
Dem election flyer the claim that our local councillor
has arranged flood defences for us, implying he has
single-handedly solved the problem.
take credit for something that three years later
everyone can clearly see has not even been started
let alone finished, Cllr Potts is being somewhat
disingenuous and I suspect as a result, in this village
at least, is at risk of losing more votes than gaining.
for me? I came out of political
retirement to stand for election in Olney
and enjoyed the experience! Many
people talked about the lorry traffic in
Olney, so I have decided to try and
keep the issue 'on the agenda' and to
the attention of the various authorities!
If anyone has ideas how to do this, in a
non party political way, please contact
me at val.menzies@btinternet.com or
01234 713563.
hill to see our first wind turbines. It is great to see Olney embracing the winds of change and
entering the 21st century with this spectacular engineering. As a landmark they are far easier to
see than the church tower and I imagine are less of a blot than the original style windmills.
caused, and also the size of those alien monsters in our landscape at Petsoe End.
proposed Nun Wood Wind Farm between Lavendon, Bozeat and Harrold before more of our
lovely rural landscape, footpaths and bridleways are ruined for ever by 12 more of these
inefficient, subsidised monstrosities.