Council is to be applauded

In the banking sector we have seen the dangerous extent to which unchecked so-called development can lead and the damaging effects of increasing indebtedness in families struggling to make ends meet, keep a roof over their heads and counter pester-power.

The Courier last week also highlighted the council’s work in identifying tourism as an area for economic regeneration. Let us celebrate and capitalize on those aspects of Leamington in particular and Warwickshire generally which are unique and unreplicable elsewhere in what we might come to see as McBritain. In one important sense the area’s future may be profitably and organically linked to its past. The BBC has already recognised its attractiveness in this respect and located locally several series, hugely popular both here and abroad (Upstairs, Downstairs, Keeping Up Appearances etc etc). There is scope for much imaginative entrepreneurship in the wake of these successes. In conjunction with the area’s strong connection with automotive engineering there is, so to speak, much mileage in vintage.

Keep up the good work! - Sian Miles, Woodbine Street, Leamington.