| Topic: | My letter to the editor (didnt think anyone else would do it) | |
| Posted by: | Sara Nathan | |
| Date/Time: | 29/01/13 20:23:00 |
| Dear Letters' Editor, I have lived in Acton, West London for a quarter of a century. I don't recognise my London village community from the bigoted description given by Jane Kelly of the Salisbury Review in your newspaper. The place I live in is diverse, yes, and it is also a community that looks after each other. The shopkeepers I meet talk to their customers and offer good service over long hours. We have vibrant community associations, school PTAs, churches and mosques. Acton hosted many Jubilee street parties this year as well as a Christmas Fair and our summer carnival. I love living somewhere I can source all of Ottolenghi's myriad ingredients just a step away, where the vicar forms a band of homeless men to play at local events, where we have local websites, an "I Love Acton" facebook page supported by thousands and a local community garden which rings with carols in winter and cream teas in summer. Where has the contributing editor to the Salisbury Review been living? Within her own blinkers? Certainly not on my patch. Yours faithfully Sara Nathan OBE chair emeritus, Churchfield Community Association. |