Youth club hit back after businessman said its base was like a rubbish-strewn junkyard (From Cotswold Journal)

Youth club hit back after businessman said its base was like a rubbish-strewn junkyard

10:11am Thursday 4th February 2010

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Accusations the Moreton-in-Marsh Youth Club was rubbish strewn and untidy were firmly refuted 20 years ago.

Youth club committee member Carlin Anderson rejected the main thrust of Moreton businessman Michael Cowley’s criticisms of the club, which aired in the Journal of the previous week.

“I can understand why people are saying that it looks run down,” she said, “but it is in the process of being redecorated.

“There is a main hall and two smaller rooms, one of which is used as a coffee bar.

“Both of these have been painted and posters have been put up. There is also a pool table in one of them as well as a colour television and new furniture.”

Mr Cowley, in his strongly worded letter to the Journal of 1990, likened the approach to the club to a “junkyard” and he had little better to say about the inside of the club’s building.

In response to these accusations, Carlin Anderson said matters were in hand. “To decorate, the coffee bar has been ripped out and youth club members are raising money to get themselves a new non-alcoholic bar with cola and lemonade on tap,” she said.

“In the main hall there is an old artificial ceiling of polystyrene tiles which have broken over the years but new tiles are actually on order and we’re waiting for the county council to come and fit them.

“Anyone walking into the place would think it was a mess at the moment but it is just like doing a house up, you have to practically rip it apart to start with.”

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