Letters
 | Economic pitfalls | | 9:49am Saturday 10th May 2008 | |
IT doesn't seem to dawn on Gordon
Brown that people expect the
ruling party to run a productive
national economy - and they
expect to benefit from it. |
| Schoolteachers | | 9:49am Saturday 10th May 2008 | | MY teachers never had training
days off. We were well taught, even
as evacuees, for three years. |
| School uniform | | 9:50am Saturday 10th May 2008 | | AM I the only parent in Newton
Aycliffe with a child/children who
attends Woodham Comprehensive
who is utterly flabbergasted at the
price and expense that the
introduction of their new uniform is
going to put people like us under. | | Reader comment (1) |
| Election aftermath | | 12:19pm Friday 9th May 2008 | | I HAVE no problem with Mark
Anderson's critique of Government
policies (HAS, May 7) wherein he
asserts his view that a number of
national and international policies
are proving unpopular with the
electorate. | | Reader comments (2) |
| Fuel prices | | 12:19pm Friday 9th May 2008 | | BERNIE Walsh (HAS, May 5) has,
I'm afraid, succumbed to the
media brainwash that
accompanied BP and Shell's recent
profits announcements. |
| Phones 4U | | 12:19pm Friday 9th May 2008 | | AT Phones 4u, we were disappointed
to hear of the dissatisfaction felt by
John Smith of Shildon (HAS, May 5)
regarding the service he received
from us, and as with all customers,
we took his comments seriously. |
| Election aftermath | | 10:07am Thursday 8th May 2008 | | RESIDENTS of Bearpark, Brasside,
Framwellgate Moor, Pity Me and
Witton Gilbert did themselves a
disservice in last Thursday's
Durham unitary council elections. | | Reader comments (14) |
| Foreign words | | 10:09am Thursday 8th May 2008 | | I WAS fascinated by Chris Lloyd's
reference to the origin of the word
purdah in his column, "Drawing a
veil over politics" (Echo, May 3). |
| Birds of prey | | 10:15am Thursday 8th May 2008 | | IN his letter regarding the Royal
Society for the Protection of Birds
(RSPB) and birds of prey (HAS, May
1), Alistair Mitchell says managed
grouse moors have more nesting
waders than the RSPB moorland
reserve in Cumbria. |
| World economy | | 10:12am Thursday 8th May 2008 | | FIVE recent news items leave you in
despair about world economics. |
| Elections aftermath | | 1:39pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | AS a result of Labour's annihilation
in the recent elections, their leaders
promise to start listening to people
and to re-engage. Here are a few tips
for them:
■ Restore the 10p tax band with
immediate effect as it is hurting the
less well-off;
■ Halt the post office closures with
immediate effect as it is punishing
communities;
■ Allow a referendum on the
European Union Lisbon
Constitution/Treaty;
■ Get a hold on uncontrolled
immigration as it is stretching
schools, hospitals and the country's
infrastructure to the limit;
■ Withdraw from the conflicts in
Iraq and Afghanistan and invest the
saved money in the UK economy at
this time of recession;
■ Allow the elderly to travel on
buses at convenient times to them;
■ Scrap the Olympics in London,
and stop the sale of school playing
fields, which is now at an all-time
high, and put the saved money into
school and junior sporting clubs to
produce stars and facilities of the
future. | | Reader comment (1) |
| Poll thanks | | 1:36pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | WE would like to thank the people
of the West Auckland Division of
Durham County Council - made up
of parts of Bishop Auckland,
Etherley Dene, Etherley Moor and
Etherley Grange, Rose Hill, Escomb,
Witton Park, Greenfields,
Woodhouses and also St Helen
Auckland and West Auckland - who
voted for us in last Thursday's
elections. |
| Teachers | | 1:35pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | TOM Cooper (HAS, May 3) says that
teachers should not be the moral
guardians of the nation, but how
they act within school influences
the values a pupil learns just as
much as those instilled by parents. | | Reader comment (1) |
| Benefits plea | | 1:34pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | I'M 64 and have worked all my life
until a medical problem meant I
could no longer do so, but I think it's
time for the Government to look at
incapacity/pension benefits and see
how they relate to today's living
costs as opposed to when they were
set. |
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