Now, this instalment of the blog has only a passing reference to crematoria. Is this a dead issue? Not at all! It’s just that I’ve reached a critical stage in my campaign to get the induction loop facilities at the local Crematorium in good order. The council has received a quality report on what is wrong with them and what we need.
They have a deadline of 1 July 2013 to declare what it is going to do. If it doesn’t comply, then I go nuclear! That means using the Equality Act, 2010.
I know that the Hearing Link office would very much like to hear from readers with accounts of what the crematoria are like in your localities, good and bad, and what you are doing on that score. Are you presenting bouquets or brickbats to the managers?
I turn now to another local campaign. That is to bring the Old Court House near where I live into the 21st Century. Some of you may know this building and indeed I am sure that some older readers were justly convicted in The Court and sent off to a good flogging. In recent years, the owners, the City Council, have used it as a venue for lectures, shows and other entertainment.
It’s an attractive, to my mind, solid detached Victorian edifice in what the Council calls the “Cultural Quarter” of the city. It is opposite the world-famous Dome in which there is now a good quality infra-red system. Thereby hangs a tale!
When the Old Court House was converted into a visitor attraction, very little was done to make it suitable for hearing-impaired people. Novices might think this surprising in a building used for Festival functions but we battle scarred olduns know better.
In 2009 I campaigned for a reasonably efficient induction loop etc to be installed. I had only limited success then. However, this year, I girded up my loins, so to speak, and launched my celebrated Spring offensive.
We shall reveal in future blog instalment what is currently happening....
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A Burning Issue (part 5)
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