ALL we have ever wanted is a swimming pool in our town.
No fuss, no fancy water slides or highly orchestrated designs for saunas, solariums, sky-high diving boards or anything else beginning with 's'.
Just a basic swimming pool to serve the people of Middlewich.
Not much to ask for really, considering the number of years we've been patiently waiting.
But I have to admit to being totally sucked in by the pretentious and over-the-top proposals thrust into the spotlight earlier this year by developers MID Point Sports Limited, who gave such high hopes to the town, what with their state-of-the-art super duper £28million sports complex proposals.
It was set to be a complex to rival all others, one to be proud of and one to produce sporting stars of the future from. With hindsight I suppose it always did sound too good to be true. Indeed, when the developers announced in April that they were adding a luxury 80-bedroom hotel to the plans, even the most naive of folk must have raised an eyebrow or two in suspicion.
Yet they kept insisting that it would go ahead, that despite their original location falling through they were just weeks away from securing a new site in Middlewich - yes, in Middlewich.
Week after week directors Michael Davy and Marjory Issatt spoke to the Guardian to reassure residents that this would definitely happen.
So it was bitterly disappointing in the extreme to read your front page story last week, stating that these so-called entrepreneurs had opted to give the multi-million-pound complex to our posh neighbours in Holmes Chapel instead.
Well thanks a lot Michael and Marjory.
You managed to build up our hopes and shatter our dreams more than any England footie team has ever done.
And to have the cheek to ask us now to support your new bid is not only laughable, it's downright outrageous. Perhaps standing up and apologising to the thousands of people that you've let down in the town might be more appropriate.
And to all you readers out there, I urge you to contact those marvellous people at Congleton Borough Council who gave MID Point serious consideration in the first place and stop any such proposterous proposals from being dreamed up for the town again.
A DUPED RESIDENT
Middlewich
