Did we have food waste collections?

10:20am Thursday 21st August 2008

SIR – I was wondering if my old friend MP Mike Foster could answer these questions for me?

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Teachers should do the marking

10:10am Thursday 21st August 2008

SIR – During my schooldays the teacher who taught a subject was responsible for the marking of examination papers.

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Tough training to be a sick bay tiffie

10:00am Thursday 21st August 2008

SIR – We were normally referred to as sick bay tiffies, an abbreviation of artificers.

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Water rates can’t keep increasing

9:50am Thursday 21st August 2008

SIR – For years the water company has been charging well over inflation. It was claimed they needed the money for new pipes.

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Association looks for new members

9:40am Thursday 21st August 2008

SIR – Did you ever serve onboard any of the light fleet carriers, HMS Bulwark, HMS Albion or HMS Centaur?

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Why swap bridge plan for bus lane?

9:30am Thursday 21st August 2008

SIR – Mr Hobbs, county transport supremo, says we won’t be getting the needed north roadbridge because the Government won’t pay for it.

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It feels good to be a little Englander

9:20am Thursday 21st August 2008

SIR – While being quite proud to be a Little Englander/Eurosceptic/ anti-Europe fanatic, as labelled by Councillor David Candler and Terry James, Drakes Broughton, I would be devastated to be labelled a New Labour politically brainwashed Europhile.

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Flood defences are necessary despite the public's concerns

9:14am Thursday 21st August 2008

SIR – I note with interest the letters by Gary Clarke and John Whitehead (August 13) who comment upon the decision concerning the flood defences to protect Hylton Road.

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What is the point of our councillors?

9:00am Thursday 21st August 2008

SIR – A Worcester News headline (August 1) said: “Advice costs council one million pounds.”

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Stop unemployment and the sick culture

8:50am Thursday 21st August 2008

SIR – Referring to George Cowley’s letter (August 11), will he still be able to write letters to newspapers if he has not got a telephone?

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The park has never looked so beautiful

8:40am Thursday 21st August 2008

SIR – I regularly walk through Cripplegate Park and don’t think I have ever seen the flowerbeds and lawns looking so beautiful.

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Thanks for making golden day perfect

8:30am Thursday 21st August 2008

SIR – I wonder if you would be kind enough to allow us the opportunity to thank all of our friends and relations so very much for all the kindness and support they have shown us in celebration of our golden wedding.

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We should look at our councillors' pay

8:20am Thursday 21st August 2008

SIR – Looking at councillors’ pay makes a clear case that we in Worcestershire are more than over-governed.

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Why do we have to pay the price for packaging?

8:16am Thursday 21st August 2008

SIR – Reading “Where will they put incinerator to burn waste” (Worcester News, August 15) made me feel as if I live amongst the living dead.

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Thank you so much for saving my bag

9:40am Wednesday 20th August 2008

SIR – Thank you so much to the person who handed my bag in to the Guildhall after I’d left it on a bench on the High Street on Thursday, August 14, and also to the great staff in Fat Face who reassured me and contacted the police.

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Weather is blamed for lack of visitors

9:30am Wednesday 20th August 2008

SIR – So the good people at Wychavon leisure have rolled out the old chestnut that its blaming the elements for lack of numbers at the Droitwich lido this year.

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Time to let school teachers take over

9:20am Wednesday 20th August 2008

SIR – When we established the three-tier system, it was agreed by all interested parties that for sound educational reasons, no middle school should exceed 600 pupils.

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We pay huge sums to get nothing back

9:10am Wednesday 20th August 2008

SIR – Terry James (August 13) is correct in one way that other countries in Europe have benefitted from membership of the EU but he totally ignores the reason, which is that we have financed their growth by paying in huge sums of money into the EU coffers and have got the least amount back despite the fact we pay in after Germany, the largest amount per head.

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City is being ruined by filth and decay

9:00am Wednesday 20th August 2008

SIR – On Thursday, August 7 , I went on a day trip with my two grandsons to Worcester.

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It’s clear why funding has not been secured

8:58am Wednesday 20th August 2008

SIR – At last we now know why our MP has done nothing to help secure better funding for Worcester.

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