‘Is low turnout a sign of disaffected voters in Salisbury, I wonder...’

BEMUSED of Salisbury has concluded that nothing can be done about the Salisbury City Council rise in the precept. Nothing, that is, which will bind them to treat the residents with respect.

May we then conclude the low turnout reflects how hopeless people feel about voting for anything?

We are in a new age where we have lost trust in our institutions.

FRANCES HOWARD Salisbury

Lane frustration!

THERE seems to have been a proliferation in roadworks around Salisbury recently - and with it a rise in the amount of bad driving!

People in the city seem completely unable to understand a simple ‘merge in turn’ system. They’ll happily sit in a huge queue, in one lane, with a completely empty lane next to them!

That lane is supposed to be used, to spread the traffic, with people ‘merging in turn’ when the lanes become single file.

It’s not ‘pushing in’, it’s using the roads correctly - and helping traffic move more steadily. I’ve seen some really silly things, like people refusing to let others in, or even straddling both lanes to stop people passing.

It’s silly, and wrong. Please do it properly, we’ll all benefit.

FRUSTRATED DRIVER Salisbury

Volunteer thanks

TO celebrate Volunteers’ Week from June 1 to 7, here at Young Lives vs Cancer - formerly CLIC Sargent - we want to take the opportunity to say a huge thank you to all our incredible

Fact of the fortnight...

IT’S been hot recently and many of us were among the throngs throwing ice lollies into our baskets at the supermarket over the bank holiday.

But did you know, you probably wouldn’t be enjoying your refreshing lolly if it hadn’t been for an 11-yearold child called Frank Epperson and a mistake that probably earned him a telling off?

In 1905, little Frank left some soda powder and water outside in a cup, with a wooden stirrer.

The chilly San Francisco air meant when he returned to it, it was frozen solid.

He called it the Epsicle and sold it around his neighbourhood, at nearby amusement parks, and even patented the recipe.

Years later, he changed the name, to popsicle.

However, as with many a lolly, the ending wasn’t a happy one.

A broke Epperson sold his patent to the Joe Lowe Company in the 1920s, and regretted it as his invention became a huge, huge success.

volunteers who help us in Wiltshire.

We are lucky to have an amazing team of passionate volunteers who have created a real sense of community and champion the charity.

Volunteers are crucial to our work and mission to help families find the strength to face everything cancer throws at them.

We’ve been there before. We’ll face it all, together.

Volunteers make Young Live vs Cancer who we are.

The benefits of volunteering are felt by everyone from the volunteers themselves, to our staff teams and most importantly, the children and young people we support.

Whether that’s volunteers in our shops, with office, warehouse or remote teams, volunteers with our social care teams, in our Home from Homes and our fundraising volunteers.

We wouldn’t be Young Lives vs Cancer without every single one of them stepping up and joining the team.

Often, a volunteer comes to us after a personal experience of cancer in their family, but many also give their time simply because they want to make a real difference.

A famous quote states: “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

We are always looking for more volunteers.

If any readers would like to find out more, they can do so by visiting our website.

Thank you to each and every one of our volunteers and to the people of Wiltshire for continuing to support Young Lives vs Cancer.

LIZ BLUNT Senior fundraising engagement managerSouth Central (Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Dorset, South Wiltshire and Channel Islands)