THERE are plenty of things we can’t do much about, but we can still do some simple things to make the town look better.

One of those is keeping the place tidy. 

All businesses should be made to clean up their own shop and office fronts and make sure there are no trees growing out of the gutters and that smokers are not littering their doorways with cig stumps. Then we should use CCTV to fine people who throw litter on the floor.

And thirdly, we could use the receipts from the fines to put in the pot for more road sweepers. By that I mean actual human cleaners – not more new-fangled machinery.

Our street cleaners are the most under-valued workforce in our community.

There are now so very few doing the rounds away from the town centre, which is a shame.
We got to know our regular street cleaner in the 70s and it is a shame they have cut them back over the years. Not only did they clean the streets but they kept an eye out on the locality and were community servants.

Even the ones in the town centre have their work cut out every day because we have become such a messy fast food society. We should be taking on more street cleaners, not cutting back on them.

And let’s have more civic pride and a tidy town.

Mike Crawford, Dentons Green