Sir,
Last year in Tenby there was a time when:
• We had a station only distributed by the occasional train.
• A hospital soon to have no in-patients.
• A police station with very often no policeman.
• Public toilets closed.
• A cinema unable to show films.
• A swimming pool with no water in it.
• A children's play area with broken equipment.
• A large car park closed.
• Synchronised displays of public urination by yobs on the streets at closing time; also causing damage to cars and property and affront to holiday making families.
• Litter in the street at night and on public holidays, overflowing and overlapping alongside dogs' mess aplenty.
Now let's lighten up.
• There is water in the pool.
• Films are being shown.
• The car park is open.
But hold on, nothing else has changed, so why the 'rigid stance' on Welsh teas, cakes coffee mornings and music supporting, say, a church roof or a children's hospice that may just happen to be 'advertised' locally on sea-front railings? Is it not part of the charm of a seaside town and isn't part of the charm that spontaneity that goes with the fund-raising that the people of Tenby and surrounding area can be justly proud?
What concerns me is the undoubted avidity with which we could expect PCC to pursue their rigid stance with fines of up to £2,500, to help combat this evil in our communal midst. There is plenty on the community platter that PCC should be doing and isn't. This is a red herring and it smells!
Perhaps PCC could take their seemingly new-found resolve and their rigid stance and use it in more needed, necessary and more blatantly obvious areas so that all may benefit.
Ken Fryer,
St. Teresas,
Tenby.