February is over and Spring weather is nearly upon us. We hope you will find lots of uplifting articles in this edition to further rejuvenate you. Donal McKenna writing from Cheshire feels that NewsFour does just that for him.

We are very grateful to local residents for their views on energy conservation and global warming. Just doing little things is a help or so I’m told. I only wash clothes at 30ºC now which makes me feel righteous.However, I’m flying off to Arizona at the end of March to visit my eldest daughter and her family, who are temporarily living in Phoenix, and then on to see my son in North Carolina. This undoubtedly negates all the good I am doing with the washing. I’ll try to stay closer to home for the rest of the year to make up for it.

The election will be upon us in no time and we are grateful to local politicians for their ads. If one of them could so something about the no. 2 and 3 bus (or lack of them) they would have my vote. Your views about what is needed in the area would be much appreciated so that we can get our message across before voting begins. Mr Kavanagh has put some tongue-in-cheek questions to our politicos.

Please keep in touch with your letters, poems and whatever else you want to send us. Look forward to hearing from you.

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