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Tories’ votes closed the post offices too
9:40am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
SIR – I really don’t wish to prolong the subject of post office closures, however in reply to Peter Luff’s letter (Letters, November 24), may I just remind him that it was his Conservative Party along with Labour and the Liberal Democrats who gave a ‘yes’ vote for the break-up of the Royal Mail, resulting in the subsequent closure of our post offices.
Comments (0)Thanks to paper, I found great singer
9:40am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
SIR – I read in the Worcester News an article displayed in the What’s On section about a singer appearing at the Mayflower pub on Sunday, November 23.
Didn’t John do so well at dancing?
9:40am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
SIR – John Sergeant wasn’t knocked out of Strictly Come Dancing. He sportingly resigned.
Road chaos could have been avoided
9:30am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Sir – P Pegler’s letter of November 13 referring to the dual role of Worcester’s highway chief John Hobbs is timely in raising this issue. However, there is a more fundamental issue relating to the roads of the county and the city of Worcester.
Burden upon ordinary councillors increases
9:22am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
SIR – Although I differ in political persuasion to county councillors John Buckley and Rob Peachey, I could not agree more when they condemn the erosion of local democracy.
Island is a disaster
9:50am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
SIR – Powick island is a disaster! (Worcester News, November 24). No vehicles stop at the box junction so travelling from Lower Wick to Malvern is a risky business. An accident will surely happen soon. Traffic lights are the only solution.
Council supplying mortgages is silly
11:20am Monday 1st December 2008
SIR – I have read a very silly remark on the letters page by Mick Francis about housing policies and the council supplying mortgages to first-time buyers – why?
What about our pensioners here?
11:20am Monday 1st December 2008
SIR – Even though the UK politicians continuously fail to look after our own vulnerable pensioners, I am astounded that Britain is to spend £825 million over the next three years in aid to India.
£40m each day seems a bargain
11:20am Monday 1st December 2008
SIR – I would like to issue a public apology to all the many people I’ve told that the UK’s contribution to the EU is £40 million per day – this is completely wrong.
What about public relations, Tesco?
11:20am Monday 1st December 2008
SIR – I see that corporate greed once again threatens our status quo.
Time to deal with world as it really is
11:10am Monday 1st December 2008
SIR – Isn’t it time for an moratorium on political and economic twaddle talking while we face facts about the global meltdown going on around us?
BNP does not remember fallen
11:00am Monday 1st December 2008
SIR – Lee Hancock (November 19) must be having a laugh.
Being an MP has excellent benefits
10:50am Monday 1st December 2008
SIR – David Barlow asks that we who are against the EU need to explain why the three main party hierarchies are broadly in favour of the EU and why we should not accept that they know better than us.
It’s all secondhand except for the food
10:40am Monday 1st December 2008
SIR – In reply to Mr Margrett (November 12), my furniture, clothes, records, books, TV set, LP player and radio are all secondhand.
Over-development and road gridlock could ruin the city
10:40am Monday 1st December 2008
SIR – The decisions that John Hobbs, county transport supremo makes are crucial for Worcester’s future.
Be thankful that we’ve got Brown
10:30am Monday 1st December 2008
SIR – I really don’t think that George Osborne has got a clue of what is happening to the economy.
Photo should not have been on front
10:10am Monday 1st December 2008
SIR – Poor Nick Humphries. He is forced to spend three days recovering in hospital after being “mown down by a taxi” (Worcester News, November 17).
Spending plans get a mixed reaction
10:00am Monday 1st December 2008
SIR – Open Europe, which is an independent thinktank launched an open transparency initiative earlier this year, gave MEPs the opportunity to show the public that their expenses and staff allowances are being spent fairly and transparently.
Do we have same trust in the banks?
9:50am Monday 1st December 2008
SIR – Having little if any confidence in politicians, the debacle over the Post Office card account exposes yet another game of politics. The main player in this instance being Peter Mandelson, whose longstanding wish is for the Post Office to be privatised.
Could someone explain where the buses went
9:40am Monday 1st December 2008
SIR – I know I keep going on about the number 30 bus from Dines Green to the city but I assure you this is not without good reason. To anyone with an ounce of common sense, the fact that First had changed the 33 to the new 30 route, travelling only between Dines Green and Worcester bus station, could work out that this should greatly improve the service over this shorter distance, allowing for congestion and roadworks – of which at the present there are none along its route.
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