Please Vote Now on Western Isles Fares

[Guernsey Donkey]

Stornoway gazette are running the poll for another week under the heading "Should Cal Mac ferry charges for camper vans be increased?" you can vote by going to www.stornowaygazett.co.uk click on "Tourists flock to islands in midst of recessionn heading" on home page.


I expect there will be another chapter on this when the Stornoway Gazette comes out to-day. 06.08.09

Watch this space.

 

[Boxerman]

"Margaret McSporran, senior development manager with HIE, said:"

Margaret McSporran? seriously?

 

[jogguk]

Please vote NO on online poll not to have ferry fares increased for campervans to the Western Isles.

Go to home page of Stornoway Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More and on the right hand side you will find:

"Island businesses feeling benefit of RET" open this page and the voting is half way down the righthand side. Thanks

Dis anyone notice this one paragraph?

Bill Lawson, chairman of Co Chomunn na Hearadh, said:

"We are certainly seeing more visitors, and particularly camper vans, which has had a significant effect on sales in our shop"

His eyes have been opened Anyone know who this guy is how much clout does he have?.... cool dude go to his shop

John

 

[Deleted member 5816]

Perhaps if he read the Stornaway Gazette he would be more informed about rubbish and where it comes from at least most motorcaravanners bin there rubbish they call us binfillers I wonder what they call cinema patrons on the isles

Alf

This was in the Stornaway Gazette
16/10/08



Pick up your rubbish
Published Date: 16 October 2008

We went to the cinema on Friday night with our five children to see Wall-E ... had a great time, lovely cinema, lovely audience full of families with their children laughing and eating sweeties.... as you do.

The film finished and we gathered up our stuff and rubbish and made our way out. How bad was it when my six year old was shocked by the sheer volume of rubbish left on the floor and seats. It was apalling!

Is it us that are weird and particular that we teach our children to pick up after themselves? Or do people live in such pigsties at home that just dropping their wrappers and bottles and rubbish is the

norm? Or is it just another example of the 'not my problem' attitude that prevails


Why should someone else have to pick up your mess? There is a bin at the top of the stairs by the door that you have to pass by to get out! Is it really too much to expect that you use it? You'd all be complaining if the cinema banned the bringing in of sweeties as they have everywhere else.



M. Smith
30 Sheshader
Point

 

[Channa]

Perhaps if he read the Stornaway Gazette he would be more informed about rubbish and where it comes from at least most motorcaravanners bin there rubbish they call us binfillers I wonder what they call cinema patrons on the isles

Alf

This was in the Stornaway Gazette
16/10/08



Pick up your rubbish
Published Date: 16 October 2008

We went to the cinema on Friday night with our five children to see Wall-E ... had a great time, lovely cinema, lovely audience full of families with their children laughing and eating sweeties.... as you do.

The film finished and we gathered up our stuff and rubbish and made our way out. How bad was it when my six year old was shocked by the sheer volume of rubbish left on the floor and seats. It was apalling!

Is it us that are weird and particular that we teach our children to pick up after themselves? Or do people live in such pigsties at home that just dropping their wrappers and bottles and rubbish is the

norm? Or is it just another example of the 'not my problem' attitude that prevails


Why should someone else have to pick up your mess? There is a bin at the top of the stairs by the door that you have to pass by to get out! Is it really too much to expect that you use it? You'd all be complaining if the cinema banned the bringing in of sweeties as they have everywhere else.



M. Smith
30 Sheshader
Point

What I find interesting is a letter like this makes the local newspaper, moreover suggests why people like to visit and a reflection on the society there.

If Mr Smith lived here, his scribing would be competing with knifings,drug dealing and public order offences, assuming a murder wasnt gaining centre stage.

I remember years back that a local rag in Carrbridge reported on the front page youths that had put a shop window through.( it wouldnt even have made the Doncaster Free Press)

Of course Mr Smith is to be concerned about littering. But when littering is making the news in compared to the crap I have going off around me I
really have a yearning that Stornoway might be a nice place to live.

Channa