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Back in January
Hayle Eye reported that the 'Hayle Safe'
scheme was going to be brought to an end as funding ran
out. As usual Hayle Eye was criticised by civic leaders
who claimed to know better. The same civic leaders who
also dismissed Hayle Eye reports that planning hold-ups
would mean that the Hayle Skate Park, would miss its
June opening deadline. |
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Well as with the
much delayed Skate Park it seems Hayle Eye was right
after all. It has been officially announced that 'Hayle
Safe' will end at the end of the month as no more
funding to provide the service will be available.
The controversial
scheme was set up two years ago following the reversal
of a decision by the County Council to provide a fire
station at Hayle.
After promising to provide a fire appliance and
associated facilities, councillors went back on their
decision and a second- rate, cost-cutting substitute
'initiative' was launched instead.
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A rare sight in Hayle |
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Instead of providing
a fire station and appliance for Hayle, the largest town
in Cornwall with no such facility, penny pinching
councillors opted for a strategy of providing safely
checks and fire alarms instead. Strangely and despite
the opposition of many people in the town the 'Hayle
Safe' alternative was accepted with open arms and
launched amid a civic celebration, banner and balloon
waving. |
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Never have the
victims of such an injustice had so much cause to
celebrate since the turkeys partied at the announcement
of Christmas!
The only hint of
sanity was the arrival on the scene of 'Cock Robin', a
reliant robin decked out as a Hayle fire engine, which
brought a bit of realism back into proceedings. |
'Cock Robin' |
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Now even the crumbs
from the Cornwall County table are being whisked away
and Hayle finds itself in the back in the scandalous
position it was in two years ago without its own fire
station and no prospect of one being provided in the
foreseeable future and not even the patronising
'initiative' of a 'fire free zone' to fall back upon. |
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