Letter to The Flintshire Chronicle - Why don't the thieves do us all a favour?

As criminal gangs are regularly stealing everything from power cables to metal railings in order to cash in on increasing scrap metal prices, why don't they go for something that would benefit almost everyone?

I refer of course to on and off-shore wind turbines. Those of us who live along the North Wales coast would rejoice if we looked out one morning and they had all gone, returning one of the world's most spectacular seascapes to the way nature intended.

The other bonus is that we tax payers and electricity users would no longer have to keep subsidising these inefficient white elephants.

And politicians would be happy as it would get them out of the green hole they have found themselves in.

Brian Christley

Letters to the Editor

I'm a keen reader of the letters page whether it be local or national. For years I read Private Eye. If you like such stuff the Henry Root books are worth  a go. Henry used to send highly entertaining "piddle take" letters to the great and the good with a crisp twenty pound note attached. The books are his highly entertaining letters with the reply from whoever usually someone in the public eye. Some realised the letters for what they were others were hooked, line and sinkered.

As someone pointed out in the comments the other day letters pages all end up for recycling. I've previously copied a Gareth Williams letter from the Chronicle. Here's another from a favourite local writer of mine Brian Christley who also gets letters posted nationally in such papers as the Telegraph. Wind turbine fans might need to look away now. Any writer who takes offence at letters copied can have them removed if they send me a bonafide email.