Second best not good enough for Sea Scouts

Your report last week (Sea Scouts consider alternative HQ sites) correctly stated that the proposed re-location to Myton Fields was met with significant protest from nearby residents but what it did not report was that there was considerable support from other residents for this site to be chosen. After you published a letter from me in May supporting the proposal a number of readers contacted me by telephone and in person expressing their agreement and others wrote letters of support to you that were published in subsequent weeks.

Your other report in last week’s issue (Sea Scouts get Royal Navy approval) illustrates what a first class job the local group does and I’m sure all Warwick residents will congratulate their leaders and executive teams, and the parents who backed them, on their success.

For their part residents should surely now, through the council, ensure that the Scouts get the preferred site for their headquarters, by the river and central in the town, so that the group’s success can be extended to those who are on the waiting list as soon as possible and can continue for the benefit of future generations of boys and girls. In the present climate of cuts to youth services second best is not good enough for this brilliant voluntary organisation. - Geoff S. Harris, Mercia Way, Warwick.