Praise for unit

I JUST wanted to put down in words how grateful we are to the wonderful team of midwives and support staff at the Ludlow Maternity Unit. We live in Tenbury and have been fortunate enough to be blessed with a healthy baby boy born on Christmas Eve. All our antenatal and postnatal care has been coordinated through the Ludlow unit and I can honestly say the care we have received from first contact to final discharge has been outstanding.

We have felt fully supported throughout this pregnancy and postnatal period by a fantastic team of genuinely caring staff and midwives who at all times have treated us with the highest standards of expertise and professionalism. At a time when we hear constantly that the NHS is failing the patient, I feel it is vitally important that we highlight excellence in the NHS within our local area. This local unit is even more important as we live such a long way from a main hospital, it therefore provides an extremely valuable service that should be maintained at all cost in order to continue to provide local maternity care to families in this rural area. Thank you Ludlow.

ROWENNA DUCE

13 Cralves Mead

Tenbury

 

There’s no dog poo fairy here

THE article about the council’s concern over dog fouling in our local playing fields and parks (Ludlow Advertiser, January 16) is a good way to remind folk that they need to clear up after their dogs and that there is no such thing as the dog poo fairy.

However, I do feel that the council could help improve the state of affairs.

It could provide a dispenser with dog poo bags at the entrance to these green areas, along with notices to remind people of the penalties for not clearing up after their animals.

If you look online at the examples being shown by several other councils (to name a few, Kirklees, Stafford and Telford and Wrekin) they provide ‘dog glove’ dispensers and poop bags are available free of charge in a wide range of outlets in the towns.

JOANNA BURKE

Kyre

Tenbury Wells

 

Awash with cash

ON your front page (Tenbury Wells Advertiser, Thursday, January 9) there was news of a campaign for volunteers to help at Berrington Hall, a National Trust property.

Is this the same National Trust recently listed as being the second biggest landowner in the country with 630,000 acres?

It was recently revealed as having in its employ, more than 50 per cent of all executives on salaries of £100,000 plus, in organisations of similar national charity status.

There seems to be no end to its purchase of estates and homes, which are always declared as being architecturally unique and of inestimable value to the nation. Why then, are some people supposed to work there for nothing? Sell a few acres, stop buying so many supposedly unique properties.

Pay your executives less or employ fewer of them. What’s good for the goose and all that.

RON HILL

Leominster