I WAS interested to read Stephen Ward's letter (Advertiser, June 7).
He writes that, according to national averages, our council is below standard, so is the hospital and our schools and we have an appalling lack of leisure facilities.
He fails to mention Redditch's great asset -- our picturesque and well-kept cemeteries.
There's the new one with the crematorium on a hillside near the Abbey Stadium, the old one off Plymouth Road full of Victorian angels and moving verses and the unpretentious left-over from the old St Stephen's chapel in the Bordesley Abbey meadows, where the first stone goes back to 1635.
The council may fail you in life but you can rest assured that you will be lovingly tended in death.
Anne Bradford
via email
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