How broken are borough council @RedditchMatters & local government policies, when most of the stories in the weekly paper @RedStand are about people trying to patch the massive holes in the social fabric...
Support Redditch #FoodBank this Christmas. Let's not demand & enable a more just and fairer society instead...
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Redditch Lions raise funds for @ChildrenInNeed. If only all those tax dodging corporations like @BootsUK paid their tax perhaps children wouldn't be in need...
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Bereaved father campaigns for '#RoadSafetyWeek'.
Is this really all we can do instead of making our roads & the vehicles on them safer? This tragic story also has the dead corporate hand of #RoadSafety shill @Brakecharity all over it...
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Even education isn't safe. This cash-strapped high school was saved from closing with 'emergency funding' to replace a boiler.
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Meanwhile local schools are urged to 'join the race for life' against cancer.
In case you forgot, cancer is one of the UK's 4 biggest health crises, but we're dicking about with collection tins & guilt tripping people...
I imagine being in a hospice isn't a bundle of laughs. But don't be glum - @CoopFuneralcare of all people is sponsoring this Santa fun run to raise cash...
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Pub organises music festival to raise funds for cancer and lung disease. Both exacerbated by air pollution, another of our 4 biggest health crises...
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In other news, schoolchildren donate to a homeless charity, the Salvation Army begs for xmas gifts for children, men strip for a naked calendar in aid of motor neurone disease & men cycle the TdF course to raise funds for leukaemia...
@RedStand & other papers like it are essentially little more than a weekly record of council & local government failures.
It's mind-boggling that those who vote for these people don't see anything wrong. And they'll vote for more of the same in December.
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