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HAVE YOUR SAY
Letters
Dear Editor
Pancake Day 2008
First a very big thank you to Phonebox Magazine for the excellent coverage given last month to Olney’s ‘big day’ on Shrove Tuesday. Also for your support in encouraging new runners. This year we had an excellent turn out of 21.
Secondly, through you, a big thank you to all those in the town who helped in any way to make the day such a success. It isn’t easy to organise an outdoor event on a Tuesday in February, but with the co-operation of so many people and businesses it becomes possible.
Finally, a short response to the letter last month from Edward Ellis and his kind remarks about this year’s race. With reference to the caption ‘Running Since 1444’ I am sure most of us take this with a ‘pinch of salt’ we mustn’t forget it is a fun day for all and is it really doing any harm? Besides, can anyone prove it one way or the other? It is one of those lovely slightly eccentric English traditions which luckily for Olney is a great talking point and gives us useful publicity.
Tony Evans, Chair of Pancake Race Committee
Dear Editor
My husband and I read with absolute HORROR the letter from Jo Davies in March’s Phonebox Magazine that she has it on good authority that there will be a Tesco store on Market Square in place of Turner's Ironmongers! Please say it isn't true!!
If it is indeed true, then I'm sure a vast majority of Olney residents are going to be up in arms. There is absolutely NO requirement for such a store in our Market Square.
We moved to Olney nine years ago, and have seen the charm and soul of the town slowly slip away. We were enchanted by the town when we first drove though it, and resolved that by hook or by crook, we would come to live here. We have now seen our lovely green field built on in Aspreys, a bloody awful wind farm going up in Emberton, the most dreadfully designed high school built on our horizon (but let's not go into that!), and now we're going to have a Tesco on our Market Square. Olney is in danger of becoming like every other town – humdrum and boring.
If there are any petitions against this proposal, we would like to be one of the first to sign it please!
Yours sincerely
Alison & Haydn Langley, Aspreys, Olney
Dear Sir
I wish to make a very strong protest against the opening of a Tesco Express on the Market Square in Olney. I may not live in Olney but shop there once or twice weekly; the parking is already dreadful and this shop will only add to the problem.
Olney is such a delightful individual town with individual shops hoping to make a reasonable living and a supermarket such as this will upset the whole balance of the town and is certainly NOT necessary. Tesco is all consuming and will inevitably take trade away from many shops.
Yours sincerely Ann Smith, Carlton
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