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SIR
-
While
re
ading
MK
letters
and
having
a
cuppa,
I
couldn
8217t
help
but
laugh
out
loud
when
I
re
ad
the
let
-
ter
8216B
affledegook
8217
about
the
bo
y
who
has
just
got
a
shar
ed
ow
ner-
ship
place
.
I
laughed
so
much
that
tea
shot
out
of
my
nose
at
such
a
tr
emen-
dous
speed,
spr
aying
my
entir
e
family
,
including
the
dog.
I
don
8217t
kno
w
the
cir
cumstances
of
the
said
son,
whether
or
not
he
is
physically
capable
of
picking
up
a
phone
,
but
stone
the
cr
ow
s
hav
e
we
re
ached
a
stage
,
no
wadays
that
ev
er
ything
has
to
be
done
for
our
childr
en.
And
what
is
this
woman
moaning
about?
Sh
e
will
be
the
first
to
com
-
plain
if
somebody
else
used
her
cr
edit
car
d
pr
etending
to
be
her
(these
pr
ocedur
es
ar
e
ther
e
to
pr
o-
tect
yo
u
missus).
Ho
or
ah
to
the
guy
fr
om
the
council.
Gr
eat
they
bought
him
a
place
to
liv
e,
sorted
this
and
that.
I
wonder
is
he
an
astr
onaut
or
something
and
not
in
this
solar
system
to
sor
t
his
ow
n
life
out?
Cr
ikey
,
what
is
he
going
to
do
when
faced
with
a
re
al
pr
oblem?
Oh
ye
s,
mum
and
dad
will
sort
it.
Mo
ddlecoddle-degook!Car
men
Har
dy
Wo
burn
SandsMuslim
money
target
SIR
-
It
has
been
re
por
ted
that
the
go
ve
rn
ment
is
handing
mor
e
than
163361,000
to
Mi
lton
Ke
ynes
Co
uncil
as
a
part
of
combating
Is
lamic
extr
emism
and
the
money
will
be
distr
ibute
d
ov
er
the
next
thr
ee
ye
ars
.
Na
tionally
the
go
ver
nment
is
spendi
ng
mor
e
than
16313.5
millio
n
for
this
pr
ogr
amme
.
Mi
lton
Ke
ynes
has
a
small
Mu
slim
population
which
is
concentr
ated
in
Wo
lv
er
ton
and
Bl
etchley
.
As
Is
obel
Mc
Ca
ll,
leader
of
the
council
has
rightly
said
that
ther
e
is
no
pr
oblem
of
Is
lamic
terr
or
ists
oper
ating
in
Mi
lton
Ke
ynes
.
The
money
should
not
be
handed
ov
er
to
Mu
slim
gr
oups
since
they
oper
ate
as
re
ligiously
segr
egated
or
ganisations
.
They
hav
e
their
ow
n
football
clubs
,
luncheon
club
for
old
peo
-
ple
,anti-drug
gr
oup
and
so
on.
It
is
true
that
yo
ung
Mu
slim
peo-
ple
ar
e
becoming
sufficiently
dis
-
satisfied
with
their
liv
es
in
liber
al-
democr
atic
societies
.
On
e
has
to
find
the
re
asons
for
that.
Mu
slims
in
Mi
lton
Ke
ynes
liv
e
in
segr
egated
ar
eas
ve
ry
close
to
the
Mo
sques
and
Ha
lal
meat
shops
..
Mo
sques
ar
e
becoming
br
eeding
place
for
ra
dical
Is
lam.
It
is
not
surprising
why
ther
e
ar
e
fights
betw
een
gr
oups
for
the
con
-
tr
ol
of
Mo
sques
in
Mi
lton
Ke
ynes
.
They
hav
e
no
contact
with
the
local
population.
The
local
council
pr
ov
ides
inter
-
pr
eters
for
Mu
slim
men
and
women
at
the
hospital,
police
sta
-
tion,
schools
and
so
on.
Mo
st
of
the
Mu
slim
childr
en
ar
e
under
-achiev
ers
since
they
go
to
8216bog
standar
d8217
compr
ehensiv
es
.
A
high
per
centage
of
yo
ung
Mu
slims
end
up
as
taxi
dr
iv
ers
or
re
staur
ant
ow
ners
or
wor
kers
and
their
aspir
ations
ar
e
limited.
Ther
e
is
no
need
for
taxi
driv
ers
to
take
the
test
in
En
glish
or
for
the
cooks
to
learn
Englis
h.
Br
itain
is
the
only
Eu
ro
pean
countr
y
wher
e
people
can
liv
e
for
gener
ations
without
learning
the
local
lan
-
guage
.
The
council
should
make
sur
e
that
the
money
is
giv
en
to
schools
to
pr
ov
ide
bi-lingual
teachers
,
social
wor
kers
and
yo
uth
wor
kers
and
make
sur
e
that
the
yo
ungsters
get
a
good
education
with
better
job
pr
ospect
s
and
mo
ve
out
of
the
ar
ea.
The
money
should
be
giv
en
to
or
ganisations
that
help
to
assimi
-
late
Mu
slims
with
mainstr
eam
society
.Na
me
an
d
ad
dr
es
s
su
pp
li
edTa
keaway
torment
SIR
-
I
hav
e
been
asked
to
write
this
letter
on
behalf
of
the
Ne
therfield
Re
sidents
Association
re
gar
ding
a
re
cent
planning
appli
-
cation
that
has
been
gr
anted
for
ye
t
ANO
THER
takeaway
on
Ne
therfield.
Obj
ect
ion
s
we
re
submitted
on
this
application
by
the
re
sidents
association,
the
parish
council
and
individual
re
sidents
,
ye
t
once
again
we
hav
e
not
been
listened
to
by
the
councillors
that
make
the
deci
-
sion
s.
At
pr
esent
we
hav
e
numer
ous
takeaways
on
Ne
therfield
8211
some
may
say
we
ar
e
lucky
,
but
this
is
not
the
case
.
Co
nsider
this
,
continuous
bad
smells
,
extr
eme
noise
fr
om
the
pr
ominent
extr
actor
fans
especially
at
night,
added
tr
affic
fr
om
users
of
the
takeaways
and
out-of-hours
deliv
er
ies
,
additional
rubbish
and
ra
ts
,
and
this
is
7
days
a
we
ek
fr
om
early
morning
till
the
early
hours
of
the
next
morning.
I
will
add
that
the
major
ity
of
people
using
these
establishments
do
not
liv
e
on
Ne
therfield
and
re
si-
dents
hav
e
witnessed
users
re
gu-
larly
urinating
at
the
back
of
these
shops
.
We
ar
e
told
that
Ne
therfield
is
one
of
the
most
depri
ve
d
estates
,
with
re
sidents
having
mor
e
health
pr
oblems
than
other
ar
eas
,
in
fact
we
ar
e
told
that
our
life
expectancy
is
ten
ye
ars
shorter
than
other
ar
eas
.
Su
pposedly
because
of
this
situa
-
tion
extr
a
money
is
spent
in
the
ar
ea
by
the
council
to
pr
omote
healthy
living,
so
why
allo
w
mor
e
takeaways
on
her
e?
Pe
rh
aps
MK
C
wants
to
kill
off
the
re
sidents
that
little
bit
sooner
with
a
high
fat
and
salt
intake
so
that
they
can
bulldo
ze
the
estate
as
most
re
sidents
fear
.
We
ar
e
ve
ry
lucky
to
hav
e
a
shop-
ping
pr
ecinct,
but
ther
e
needs
to
be
a
balance
of
shops
.
In
stead
we
have
an
intensification
of
take-
aways
which
is
causin
g
proble
ms
for
the
re
sidents
.
I
have
been
told
by
Mi
lton
Ke
ynes
Co
uncil
that
because
we
have
a
shopping
pr
ecinct,
per
mis-
sion
will
be
gr
anted,
but
it
doesn
8217t
seem
to
take
in
to
account
that
Ne
ther
field
is
a
re
sidential
estate
and
ther
e
ar
e
homes
within
40
metr
es
to
the
fr
ont
and
re
ar
of
fr
om
these
establishments
.
We
ar
e
disappointed
that
coun-
cillors
Bi
nt,
Bu
tler
-E
llis
,
Exo
n,
A
Gear
y,
P
Ge
ar
y,
Ga
llo
way
,
E
He
nderson
and
Mi
les
(none
of
whom
live
in
Ne
ther
field,
or
ar
e
councillors
for
this
ar
ea)
voted
8211
it
seems
8211
unanimously
for
this
additi
onal
takeaw
ay
,
and
I
wonder
if
any
of
them
ar
e
unfor
tunate
enough
to
live
so
close
to
numer-
ous
takeaw
ays
themse
lves
.
I
don
8217t
think
so!
So
while
they
dr
ive
off
into
the
sunset
Ne
ther
field
re
sidents
ar
e
left
with
all
the
pr
oblems
that
can
come
fr
om
having
these
fast
food
outlets
.
The
re
sidents
association
has
objected
to
many
of
these
take-
aways
,
including
an
application
fr
om
one
of
these
takeaways
to
re
main
open
till
4am
which
was
gr
anted
by
the
council
8217s
licensing
depar
tment.
We
have
been
ignor
ed
on
eve
ry
one
.
I
wo
ul
d
li
ke
to
re
mind
these
councillors
who
sit
on
these
com-
mittees
that
we
will
not
go
away
and
will
continue
to
object
to
fur-
ther
applications
of
takeaways
and
will
also
be
making
a
note
of
the
political
par
ties
they
belong
to
when
elections
come
ar
ound
again.Ms
Ja
nette
Bobey
on
behalf
of
the
Netherfield
re
sidents
association
The
Hide
NetherfieldBox-ing
clever
SIR
-
Yo
ur
re
por
t
last
we
ek
on
one
of
our
MP
s
having
a
new
role
inspec
ting
toilet
s
allo
we
d
a
clever
use
of
the
ter
m
8216bog-s
tandar
d8217
,
which
is
nor
mally
a
spelling
err
or
.
My
congr
atulations
to
yo
ur
head-
line
wr
iter
for
such
a
neat
pun.
The
widely
used
ter
m
for
a
stan-
dar
d
or
unimpr
ov
ed
item
or
igi-
nates
from
motor
ra
cing,
wher
e
some
ru
les
specified
that
the
vehi-
cle
and
all
re
placement
par
ts
must
be
used
exactly
as
they
come
out
of
the
manufactur
er
8217s
cr
ates
or
car
tons
.
So
as
any
motor
-spor
t
aficionado
will
tell
you,
althou
gh
it
sounds
the
same
,
the
corr
ect
spelli
ng
in
ever
yd
ay
use
is
of
course
8216bo
x-
stan
dar
d8217
.John
Bint
Monkston
Pa
rkCab
confusion
SIR
-
Yo
ur
ar
ticle
last
we
ek
by
Je
ssica
Cu
nniffe
stated
that
one
use
of
sp
y
camer
as
was
to
watch
for
taxis
br
eaking
the
law
.
Ye
t
ever
y
day
the
law
is
br
oken
do
ze
ns
of
times
by
8216u
nlicensed
8217
cabs
oper
ating
in
the
Mi
lton
Ke
ynes
ar
ea,
which
is
licensed
by
So
uth
No
rt
hamptonshir
e
and
not
Mi
lton
Ke
ynes
taxi
licensing.
On
ly
if
the
journey
starts
or
ter-
minates
in
So
uth
No
rt
hamptonshir
e
ar
e
they
allo
we
d
to
oper
ate
in
this
ar
ea.
Pa
ssengers
must
re
alise
that
if
the
jour
ney
oper
ates
wholly
within
the
Mi
lton
Ke
ynes
licensing
ar
ea
then
these
cabs
ar
e
oper
ating
illegally
and
they
themselv
es
ar
e
not
co
v-
er
ed
by
insur
ance
in
the
event
of
an
accident.
Ha
ving
a
Mi
lton
Ke
ynes
tele-
phone
number
does
not
make
fir
ms
a
Mi
lton
Ke
ynes
cab
compa
-
ny
,
and
the
fact
that
Thames
Va
lley
Po
lice
and
Mi
lton
Ke
ynes
Co
uncil
choose
to
ignor
e
the
fact
does
not
make
it
legal.Ron
Pa
rsons
Baccar
a
Gr
ove
,B
letchley
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POLICYNetherfield
residents
ha
ve
it
be
tt
er
th
an
those
in
We
st
BletchleyINTERNET
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SIR
-
I
wo
uld
like
to
re
ply
to
the
re
sident
of
Ne
ther
field
who
feels
the
estate
8216has
been
left
behind
8217.
Yo
u
state
the
ar
ea
has
been
ther
e
25
years
but
it
was
actual
-
ly
begun
in
1972
and
completed
in
1977.
The
houses
we
re
not
temporar
y,
the
whole
estate
wo
n
ar
chitectural
design
awar
ds
because
they
we
re
metal-clad
and
in
the
70s
con
-
sider
ed
ve
ry
moder
n.
They
did
hav
e
a
bad
pr
oblem
with
the
joists
being
too
far
apar
t
causing
8216bounce
8217i
n
the
upper
ro
oms
but
this
was
sort-
ed
out
.
Yo
u
think
your
estate
has
been
forgotten,
I
will
say
once
again
that
tenants
in
We
st
Bl
etchley
which
was
built
1964/65
still
hav
e
SINGLE
GL
AZED
metal
framed
windo
ws.
These
ar
e
the
or
iginal
win-
do
ws
making
them
mor
e
than
40
years
old
and
no
matter
ho
w
these
people
complain
nothing
gets
done.
Yo
u
mentioned
all
your
flat
ro
ofs
we
re
changed
to
pitch
ro
ofs
we
ll
we
hav
e
a
school
on
this
estate
that
still
has
flat
ro
ofs
and
pays
out
a
fortune
ev
er
y
year
to
hav
e
them
re
-
waterpr
oofed
all
out
of
their
allocated
spending
money
.
So
I
am
sorr
y
if
you
ar
e
not
happ
y
with
the
house
you
hav
e
just
pur
chased
(maybe
you
should
hav
e
gone
to
another
ar
ea
to
buy)
but
their
ar
e
a
lot
of
pr
oper
ties
in
MK,
especially
the
or
iginal
ar
eas,
that
ar
e
in
far
mor
e
need
than
you
for
updat
-
ing
of
their
homes.Jo
Met
cal
f
Sen
t
by
email
4
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July
2,
2008
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