Shame on the council for funding festive fireworks

As chairman Mary Douglas said people are having to tighten their belts. If Salisbury City Council waste our money on fireworks just because the Christmas lights are turned on, shame on them.

There are far better things to spend “our” money on with a useful benefit to the residents of Salisbury. Having no fireworks will not change the minds of people who want to go shopping for Christmas.

There are a lot of people who are fed up with Salisbury’s ‘any excuse to let off fireworks’. They should be limited to November 5 only. They cause distress to wildlife and people’s pets, and some elderly people too. That’s quite apart from the filthy smoke polluting the atmosphere.

Extra money would be better spent on our rotten pavements and potholed roads. If you were blind and had been on a coach holiday through France into Austria, when you came home you would know you were back as soon as you left Dover - bumpity bump, rattle, bump - right up to your front door. Get real and stop this stupid waste of our money.

MR K G MOULE
Salisbury

I ORIGINALLY supported the county’s decision to not pay for the fireworks for the opening of Christmas shopping in Salisbury - and now I am saddened to read the city council is funding this.

I think at this time of real hardship for many Salisbury citizens, businesses and the young unemployed, it is an outrage to waste this amount of money. People will Christmas shop no matter how many fireworks we let off and, to be brutal, there are far too many fireworks going off from now until New Year’s Day. Really what is the point?

The Christmas shopping fireworks are very loud, let off too late in the evening and achieve nothing when £10,000 would achieve much more being spent in different directions, such as helping the young of this city set up that information shop opposite the bus stop which was proposed a few weeks ago, and help other very needy projects.

D ROGERS
Salisbury