HARDLY A DAY GOES BY without learning about still another desperate scheme to fund the emergency services in UK.  For some reason the fire and ambulance departments are constantly unable to meet budget, but the citizens are already taxed to the max.  So this leads to various, nefarious plans to raise monies in other ways.

Today’s proposal comes from Wales where the South Wales Fire Authority wants to sell off all the land around one of their fire stations.  The Whitchurch station serves an area of 65,700 population along with three major hospitals, a university and some industrial areas.  But since they feel that all you really need is the station and not all that valuable land that it sits on, the fire officials want to sell it.

Whitchurch Fire Station

The citizens are alarmed, of course.  They believe that this is the precursor to closing the station altogether.

Read about this new citizen-government conflict in the South Wales Echo HERE.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service WEBSITE.

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