The idea is that children and employees will pay a donation of £1 to the charity, to be allowed to wear their team's colours for the whole day.

Two of the city's most well known companies, Travelex and Accenture, have already signed up to contribute to the day.

It will raise money for The Free Kicks Foundation, a Peterborough-based charity that aims to give ill or bereaved children a special day out with the help of football clubs around the country.

We are extremely grateful to Travelex and Accenture for agreeing to allow their employees to take part in fund-raising, and hope that many more local companies and schools will want to join in the fun.

If companies or schools are interested in taking part they should contact me at steve. thorpe@ntlworld.com, or call me on 0784 5651343.

You can find out more about the work of the Free Kicks Foundation at www. myspace. com/freekicks foundation

STEVE THORPE
Free Kicks Foundation


Children's services is an emotive subjectSo there's a massive overspend on children's play centres.

Well officers and councillors of the council, you are just going to have to absorb it.

Who is responsible for this overspend? After all some £450,000 is not a paltry sum.

Somebody must have known about it, so why has it only just come to light? No doubt no one in authority had the slightest idea in authority, but that does not stop the fact that someone is responsible for it, the question is who?

Does not the buck stop with the departmental head responsible for children's play?

From a budget of £300,000, if there's a spend of £750,000, even a fool would surely notice that something was wrong.

May I remind councillors and officers that the Labour group in the early '90s tried to cut the budget for children's play, but it was shot to pieces by parents, children and me in the council chamber.

Children's play is an emotive subject. As a councillor or officer you can get away with a lot, but you have no chance when you mess with children's play, mark my words Peterborough City Council.

A mistake by an officer and the children of this city will have to suffer. I don't think so.
Roger Hughes
Mountbatten Way,
Westwood,
Peterborough


It's not the smokers who cause the trouble on a night out

THE clean air addicts have effectively shut down half the places which were once thriving venues where smokers, drinkers and revellers could go and have a good time.

The sort of person who moaned goes out once a month for a meal and complaines because someone blew smoke in their direction.