The Northern Echo | Letters

Downsizing

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:32:16 +0000

DAVID HALPERN, who is the director of the Government’s socalled behavioural nudge unit which advises Downing Street on how to make people change the way they behave, must be aware that it will be impossible to force elderly people to downsize from property that they own.

Justice

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:33:44 +0000

I SOMETIMES watch the Traffic Cops series on television and am amazed at the patience displayed by the officers and even more so by the paltry sentences given by courts.

Skills

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:33:19 +0000

WITH a decline in employment forecast for the construction industry this year, as outlined in the findings of our recent Construction Skills Network report, there is a real danger that we will not have the skills needed to complete major projects in the longer term.

Airport

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:32:56 +0000

NEWCASTLE Airport is a wellrespected facility having announced a further £3.5m investment (Echo, Feb 13).

Darlington FC

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:32:36 +0000

YESTERDAY’S Northern Echo reported that the Darlington players have not been paid for the last three months.

Poor idea

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:34:22 +0000

ANYONE who thinks that the Government’s health reforms are a good idea should spare a thought for the poor in the US.

Swamp thing

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:31:36 +0000

I THINK a plan to redevelop the Durham city centre bus depot into a housing estate is badly thought out (Echo, Feb 10).

Abu Qatada

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:30:58 +0000

LABOUR has been very quiet about the release on bail of the terror suspect, Abu Qatada.

Tom Kilgour

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:30:19 +0000

I WAS surprised that the obituary of George Horse, the former North-East TV newsman, (Echo, Feb 10) made no mention of his BBC colleague Tom Kilgour.

LIVERPOOL FC

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:54:37 +0000

KENNY DALGLISH has, to my mind, gone from hero to zero with his denial on TV that he saw the incident involving his own player Luis Suarez refuse to shake the hand of Manchester United's Patrice Evra on Saturday.

Unemployment

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:54:06 +0000

DOES David Cameron want to increase the unemployment rate? Because that is exactly what will happen if he goes ahead with plans to tighten the rules of the working tax credit system in April.

Suicides

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:53:32 +0000

YET another inmate in our overcrowded prison system has committed suicide. This minor tragedy is judged sufficiently newsworthy as to merit a small paragraph on page nine of The Northern Echo (Sat, Feb 11). Suicide in jail is not front page news.

Home deliveries

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:52:41 +0000

AS I struggle to find a parking space in the supermarket car park I'm aware of the retailing revolution that's taken place during my lifetime.

Dickens

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:03:33 +0000

CHARLES DICKENS’ fans celebrated the bicentenary of the author’s birth on February 7 and what better time to draw parallels with today’s era of greedy bankers on high wages while the poor and disabled have to beg for handouts?

Every little helps

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:03:10 +0000

I HAVE received my new pension details for 2012 and it includes 25p a week extra when I reach 80, in May.