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Reader Letters for 29 May 2008

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Can you help find teacher?

May 29 2008

MANY thanks for including my request for information regarding my mother and any former school pals. Following the letter (Mailbag May 19), a couple of people have got in touch who knew my mum from all those years back on Town Avenue. Also, my old school friend Ian got in touch and he called over today with his wife Helen. It was very nice to see them again....

Rose-tinted specs over birth centre

May 29 2008

SO, according to the story “The very best for babies! Everybody praises new birth centre” (Examiner May 24) all is well and everyone is over the moon with the new birthing unit....

Mayor should have refused job

May 29 2008

I’M a person to whom principle means a lot, so I applaud Clr Calvert and her consort for sticking to their principles when it came to handing over the mayoral chains of office....

Where is ecological sense?

May 29 2008

I’M doing my bit, composting, re-using carrier bags, recycling the right items in the right bins, not over-filling either my green or grey bin and taking other items to the recycling facility at Emerald Street....

Snapshot in time was wrong

May 29 2008

REFERENCE the photo of Mr Oakley, (All Our Yesterdays May 27): the gentleman holding the “shotgun” seems, in fact, to be holding a Short Magazine Lee-Enfield, (SMLE) .303 calibre, standard British Forces issue from 1907....

Power should be given back to people not grasping politicians

May 29 2008

JULIE HENRY (Mailbag May 23) is quite right to highlight the environmental and anti-social issues concerning Network Rail’s cavalier decision to place a 15 metre high mast at Tunnel End (well within a conservation area) using the exempt provisions within the Telecommunications Act....

End dilution of our culture

May 29 2008

WHAT is our great country coming to? I was once very proud to be a citizen of the UK but how can it be right when, as reported in the national press, a chap cannot have the flag of St George displayed from his car without being accused of racism?...