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Dunston Staiths Picture: Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service

Letters: 'Sad to see Dunston Staiths burning, I always wonder what criminals get out of burning national treasures like this'

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Letters: 'I'm glad the government is giving great attention to the pandemic and leaving the EU'

1

Letters: 'The theory of herd immunity smacks of Darwin's theory of evolution, survival of the fittest'

Letters: 'We went to Whitegates garden centre recently, they are organised with military precision'

Letters: 'I completely agree with the complaints of speeding bikers in Weardale'

Letters: 'Even before the lockdown people were having picnics in Weardale, the litter they left was disgusting'

Letters: 'Thank you to The Northern Echo for helping me through the lockdown, reading the paper has been excellent'

Letters: 'My 91-year-old parents woke up to find waste dumped in their driveway'

Letters: 'Driving through the Home Counties I could see just how well off they were another world compared to Durham'

Letters: 'Protecting beauty spots as lockdown eases might be more effective with wire fences and sentry towers'

Letters: 'I struggle to see how the Labour party could have handled this crisis better, there's always room for the looney left'

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Letters: 'It seems younger people are less aware that a gap of two metres can't be achieved on the pavement'

1

Letters: 'We have been so transfixed by Brexit we have been too late to reduce the effects of this pandemic'

4

Letters: 'The new guidelines allow us all to travel wherever we wish, so I will continue to ride my motorcycle through Weardale'

3

Letters: 'Good Morning Britain should be called The Piers Morgan show, he doesn't let anyone get a word in'

1

Letters: 'This letter is a thank you to Red Hall School, they have been dropping off food parcels three times a week'

Letters: 'Anyone who has been critically ill knows that we must preserve the NHS'

1

Letters: 'A good way to help fund the NHS without tax would be a not-for-profit lottery called NHS National Lottery'

3

Letters: 'Bikers have treated Weardale like their own personal racetrack, I have informed the police about this'

13

Letters: 'I play Icelandic music to scare people off from visiting me during lockdown'

Letters: 'The Government want schools to reopen so low-paid workers can make profits for their wealthy friends and donors'

20

Letters: 'County Durham will receive £4m less in the second set of funding from government, whilst Surrey will receive another 8m'

Letters: 'The government are following scientific advice for returning children to school, I hope it's better than the advice on care homes'

Letters: 'Corbyn and bumbling Diane Abbott would not have done any better with coronavirus outbreak'

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Letters: 'I feel like my old self after a mini-stroke - I retract negative comments I've made about Labour over recent years'

7

Letters: 'Have any of the Tory cabinet ever visited a nursery school?'

Letters: 'My deepest thanks to the man who drove from Hartlepool to Ferryhill to return my lost wallet'

Letters: 'Government has tried to hide behind its scientific advisers - must have been given bum advice'

4

Letters: 'Parents need to teach their children about wild flowers'

Letters: 'I should remind people that it was labour that founded the NHS, who, despite underfunding, is fighting today's war'

7

Letters: 'Britain has vast amounts of unnecessary, expensive military hardware and yet there is insufficient PPE'

14

Letters: 'We're in the deepest recession this country's ever been in, worse than after WW2'

1

Letters: 'I didn't know student nurses had to pay tuition fees, these should be scarped altogether'

7

Letters: 'As a nurse I hear how the government value us, but talk is cheap, real investment is needed'

Letters: 'Whitby is not built for social distancing so it is important that everyone acts responsibly'

Letters: 'Darlington's South Park hasn't been as busy as it is now, any worse and there won't be an early end to this'

4

Letters: 'The USA thinks it is the sole authority on what to do in this pandemic, despite advice from scientists'

3

Letters: 'Our councillors have no interest or understanding of our local natural heritage'

1

Letters: 'The Trussel Trust opened just two foodbanks in 2004, now there are 423 after the 2010 Tory election'

6

Letters: 'Boris's main mistake is the destruction of the united approach across the UK, sending mixed messages'

2

Letters: 'We are not ready for workers to go back to work, we don't have proper guidelines'

Letters: 'We are to blame for town centres dying - not eBay or Amazon'

6

Letters: 'People will die awaiting operations because of coronavirus lockdown'

Letters: 'China and Turkey both sent substandard PPE, are we the dustbin of the world now?'

Letters: 'I would say we'd be better off with an ape than Boris, but that would be unfair to the ape'

4

Letters: 'I am sick of this government's "four-nation" Covid-19 announcements that exclude England'

3

Letters: 'There is less pollution now but drivers are still sitting in vehicles with engines idling'

2

Letters: 'Labour did not introduce food banks and under the Tories the need for them grew rapidly'

4

Letters: 'I turned to Labour after finding out the hard way that the Conservatives ruin peoples lives'

3

Letters: 'VE Day 75: The People's Celebration was brilliant, it should be compulsory viewing for students'

Letters: 'Never since the 30s has Labour been so roundly beaten at the ballot box and this is not good for politics'

6

Letters: 'Why is it that Darlington council can't empty bins when other councils can?'

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Letters: 'Councillors refusing to join campaign to stop Darlington housing estate'

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Letters: 'I have never seen Darlington so dirty with litter'

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