Can I opt out of paying for the school buses?
I must express my despair about the whole recycling issue.We moved into our house in November and have taken over a garden which had been neglected. We knew we were going to struggle with having to...
View ArticleWe will be forced to give up the green bin service
WE will give up the green waste bin if they decide to charge for the service, and we will go back to using the local tip on Alexander Road.If people decide to give up using the green waste bin service,...
View ArticleCan Cllrs claim for their green bins on expenses?
It’S all well and good to charge a waste green bin collection charge of £25 per year, but this it would appear only covers some 30,000 households, many of whom I would suggest are OAPs. Does this mean...
View ArticleOnly those who use bin scheme should pay for it
Following publication of your story last week about our plans to introduce a small charge for the collection of green waste, it has been suggested that instead of introducing a separate bill for this...
View ArticleWill SKDC buy back my green bin if I opt out?
If I decide not to pay the proposed £25 for green bin collections, will the council be prepared to buy back my green bin, which I had to pay for?There must be some form of payback for the council, as...
View ArticleSKDC has made Grantham a grid-locked ghost town
Congratulations SKDC: yet again another ill-thought-out decision to grab more money from the taxpayer. I refer to the proposal to charge £25 a year (for now) to collect the green bins. Who in God’s...
View ArticleYou can’t charge some double and not others
I am absolutely incensed about SKDC’s plans to introduce a £25 charge for emptying green bins.I applaud them for trying to keep council tax charges down, but I think this is grossly unfair.Their...
View ArticleJournal shouldn’t print nasty Thatcher letters
I am shocked that you permitted the publication of such scurrilous comments in last week’s Journal about Grantham’s famous daughter, comparing her acts when in power to the acts of mass murderers, and...
View ArticleYour new columnist was right on Thatcher issue
AFTER reading the quite frankly bizarre letters by Anth Hindmarch and John Andrews on the subject of Margaret Thatcher in your letters column last week, I was all set to give them a...
View ArticleTwo car crash at Colsterworth
FIRE crews were called following a two car crash near Colsterworth on Friday evening.An Audi A3 collided with a Vauxhall Passat just before 7pm.Fire crews from Grantham and Corbgy Glen were called to...
View ArticleGreen bin users held to ransom over £25
WHEN South Kesteven District Council started the green bin scheme, I thought well done, this is just what we need, and I was more than happy to pay £10 for my bin.I was led to understand that green...
View ArticleI suggest a boycott on green bin scheme
Just a few questions about the £25 bin collection charge:How are the charges going to be levied? Send out bills to everyone and then give the collectors a list of properties who have paid?Charge...
View ArticleI will not pay £25 for green waste service
The green bin charge is appalling.Surely the collection of garden waste is put to good use, as in turned into compost to sell, so bringing in a revenue? Or maybe that is not the case. Perhaps it is all...
View ArticlePlease don’t double-charge me for bins
We paid for two green bins last year, love the service and don’t agree with paying £50 to have them emptied.Because of the amount we recycle, compost at home and put in the green bin, our black bin...
View Article£25 to empty green bin? Think again...
HAVING read about green bin charges in last week’s Journal, I am appalled that this should happen.In the first place we had to purchase our own green bins. We were given a code number and a letter...
View Article£25 charge is hiking our taxes by stealth
How delighted I was to read Linda Neal’s forecast that our SKDC portion of council tax was to stay the same as last year. How deflated I was to read on into The Journal only to discover that her...
View ArticleThose who pay £25 must be rewarded
In return for a payment of £25 per annum for green waste collection, would the SKDC consider a proposal to deliver five free bags of compost to each green bin supplier? This would seem to be a fair...
View ArticleWhat happened to the ‘one-off fee’?
I have the following concerns about SKDC’s proposal to introduce an annual charge for the green waste service:1. Exisiting customers paid SKDC what was supposed to be a ‘one-off fee’ to join the green...
View ArticleWhy punish us for being good recycling citizens?
The current cost of landfill for domestic waste is £64 per tonne. The average cost for disposing of green waste is £28 per tonne. Green waste collections save Council Tax payers £36 per tonne. A green...
View ArticleFirefighters called to Albion Place
THREE fire engines were called out to a fire at a flat in Ablion Place, Grantham, on Wednesday.The fire was reported just after 4pm and caused severe damage to a table and lamp and light damage to a...
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