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July 30, 2008
What a load of rubbish!
I am an early starter so I probably see the streets of Uxbridge town centre at their worse first thing in the morning.
They are usually littered with rubbish from the night before and the bins are overflowing and smelly, quite frankly it's not a pretty sight.
This week someone had actually dumped a fridge on gthe pavement close to the entrance of the Tube station - clearly in the dead of night.
However, by the time most people start their working day the streets are near spotless thanks to an army of early morning street cleaners.
Ok so they get paid for doing the job but it's a pretty thankless task clearing up bottles of stale beer and rotting food day after day.
So why do people have to create such havoc on our streets with their rubbish and how are we ever going to educate them to have a little more respect for our towns.
It's an on going batle and one that appears to be getting worse rather than better in Uxbridge and towns up and down the country....
On another subject, and I am delighted to see that the borough has been awarded 10 Green Fags for the quality of its parks and other areas of recreational spaces, which ranks Hillingdon second best London borough. You can read the full story in this week's Gazette.
We should be proud of these facilities and make good use of them something I discussed when I met up with council leader Ray Puddifoot last week.
Our new reporter Dan Coombs is being dispatched this week to savour the delights of some of the parks as part of a special feature we will be running on the borough success story.
However, he has been warned that only one ice cream is allowed on his expenses and certainly not one that comes with a flake and chocolate sauce.....
Posted by aseal at July 30, 2008 7:21 AM