An interesting selection of letters this month. Nigel Bond from St Albans taking Sean Goff to task over some comments about coverage of non-Uk skating in British magazines. That’s a debate which is still going on to this day. Nigel’s in favour of coverage: “I rely on mags to fill me in on what’s going on all over the world and England, and yes I buy R.a.D every month and if it has foreign skaters in it I don’t mind, especially when the tricks they are doing are the tricks we learn to push our standards up.”
Grant Smith from Porthleven is also following up on an earlier letter, this time a fuss about slagging off skaters or bikers. The Dundee Factory gets a mention: this was the year when Dundee first began to make its impact on the southern media. I can’t work out which version of the Factory this would have been, but it’s another example of something which has more than stood the test of time and is going strong more than 15 years later.

Three letters about skate harassment are examples of another theme which won’t go away. These are from J Snipe in Kings Norton, Bazza in Warrington and Tristan Haigh from Henley. But there’s also a photograph of the flattened site of the legendary Warrington Rollerink, courtesy of Matt Lees.
George Bagnall from Cannock appeals for help persuading the council to do something for Staffordshire. Fifteen years later that’s an area where dreams certainly came true.
Finally, John Harle set us straight about the mini-ramp complex being added to the big ramp at Fairfield in Sydney, another early reference to Australia setting an example to the world in the provision of public skateboard facilities.