In its weekly voxpop, the Advertiser found out what people most want to see done by the new East Midlands Mayor and Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner for Newark.
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00:00Well, yes, I've listened to her and if she does what she says she's going to do, I will
00:14be her friend. Yes. Well, we don't do too badly, but we've still got the homeless and
00:23we've got the same problems that anybody else has really. We've got the parks and the drugs
00:28and just to generally make it a slightly better... What I don't like is all the shops closing
00:35here. If only we could get a bit more people into Newark and we want shops opening, not
00:42shutting. Yeah, it saddens me when I... Oh, there's another one that's closed, but I'm
00:49afraid this is a lot that's happened in the High Street. We want to encourage more visitors
00:54as well. If we can get more visitors in to advertise it more, let's get in. Yeah. Stop
01:00all the shops closing. The town has become a ghost centre. And also fix the roads. Potholes
01:08are distressing. I'd like to see more policemen. If you phone for a policeman, it takes them
01:16a long time to come because they come from Nottingham or Mansfield. So it's no point
01:21phoning them really. We got a super duper new police station several years ago and it
01:27doesn't seem to be being used. I would like them to build new counter homes. Not affordable
01:34housing, but new counter homes, which they will not do, but that's what I would like.
01:40Well, first of all, I'd like to say I'm delighted that both Labour candidates were elected and
01:47I think that that's going to prove a much more successful future for Newark. And I'm
01:52looking forward to what their plans are. Better transport. Yeah, better public transport.
01:59We have none at night, do we? More police on the beach. Yeah. I just want to say why
02:07do they have to be based in Nottingham or wherever? Why don't we have them? Waste of
02:13time because the money isn't there. They would take away from one and give it to the
02:19other. It's like Peter taking away from Paul. Because I didn't go and vote because I don't
02:24think we need one. Because it's, you see, when they are in office, which could only
02:35be a few years, do you know for how long they're going to be in office? Because it changes
02:41from election to election, doesn't it? And then they're going to get a huge, huge package,
02:47a huge pension, a really huge pension. And from that point of view alone, whether they
02:56deserve it or not. I think we are okay as we were.