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FROM being a lifeline to the elderly to a necessity to young families struggling to make ends meet (with multiple jobs in the gig economy or on zero hours contracts) bus provision is an issue which should be a priority for candidates in the current election. Many organisations from Age Concern, through the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) to the Regional TUC are calling for urgent action to address the present disastrous situation caused by privatisation and deregulation - passenger numbers have plummeted, prices risen (55% over inflation) and routes shrunk - one pensioner told me that from having four busses an hour there is only one now - not much fun if you have gone shopping in central Keighley, missed your bus and have to wait another hour on a freezing January afternoon! All due to bus companies being able to dictate prices, routes and timetables - while trousering profits underpinned by public subsidy - our taxes!
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From Sandy MacPherson,Ilkley Dear Editor: I was almost apoplectic with outrage at your front page headline and story about CCTV last week. Good Tory voters in Ilkley didn t vote for such unwarranted big brother intrusions nor for squandering money on such schemes. They voted to send MPs like Robbie Moore to Parliament to halve the amount of money raised in London to wasteful Councils like Bradford - to prevent such spendthrift behaviour. After all Bradford Council has already allocated 4 million for Ilkley Grammar school to replace perfectly good buildings and they have dissipated even more funds in keeping open a library here when they haven t bothered to do the same in the rest of the district. We are sturdy independent types who want to buy their own books, thank you very much! And we don t require nosey busybodies from Bradford spying on us good folk in Ilkley going about our business. Strange times indeed.