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We need better specialist care, but who will provide it?

Having first class facilities in areas with high indices of deprivation is not contested. What is a matter of concern is who will provide the new specialist services. Read

Why we need high-speed Gateway plan more than ever

I would like to respond to the leader column in Monday’s paper commenting on the Gateway project at New Street and the House of Commons Transport Select Committee’s concerns over long term rail capacity at the station. Read

Taking holidays during the season is not playing the game

Dear Editor, What is going on at Edgbaston? George Dobell’s illuminating story on the latest difficulties at the club following on from last year’s car parking dispute, is another case of bad management. Read

Isn't it surprising how much you can do with £600m...

Dear Editor, So £600m is not enough to replace the much criticised New Street station. Read

Who do we protest to? Our lapdog MPs or our EU bosses?

Dear Editor, I was interested to read about the comments of Lorely Burt, the MP for Solihull in your paper recently. Read

Our puppet government is strung up by EU directives

Dear Editor, I note that attention is being drawn away from the EU involvement in Post Office Services by letters to your paper. Read

Our health service should be much better than this

The Blair/Brown Government has continually boasted of the public taxes (they call it the investment) they have shovelled into the NHS and of its improvement in their hands. Read

Is anyone really interested in Labour's version of democracy?

Dear Editor, How cynical and yet ever so typical of this Labour Government in their announcement that they are considering changing the laws in order to get through what they want! Read

Our council: No ambition, no drive and definitely no demands

Dear Editor, It was with interest that I read Rhona Ganguly’s article in respect of a motion (Labour Councillors demand wheelie bin to up recycling, Birmingham Post, 9th July) debated at the full meeting of Birmingham City Council. Read

Art and architecture spoiled by cigarettes and charges

Dear Editor, The £53m West Bromwich Art Gallery really must clean up. Read

Our £2bn plan to protect first class post offices

Dear Editor, Like many others I am campaigning vigorously against the Labour government’s plans to close up to 2,500 post offices nationwide – which may include up to 26 more branches in Birmingham. Read

Time is right for new civic forum to direct our region

Dear Editor, Jon Walker (July 4th) may be right about devolution being a can of worms, but that’s only because the process is unfinished. Read

Remove the Nat West obstacle to city’s progressive attitude

Remove the Nat West obstacle to city’s progressive attitudeDear Editor, I have been reading with interest the various articles and letters published in The Birmingham Post in recent weeks with regard to the proposal by British Land to build a new 35 storey building where currently the Nat West Tower is situated on Colmore Row. Read

My Ofsted school is worth more than your cliches

Dear Editor, I refer to the final section of your Editorial in Tuesday’s Post, where it is claimed that at GCSE ‘…anything below A*-C grades is regarded as worthless by employers.’ Read

The dangers of listening to the culturally illiterate

Dear Editor, With regard to the Birmingham Library: Who appointed these culturally-illiterate critics of style? Read

Nat West site has a history of harmony with surroundings

Dear Editor, The National Westminster Bank commissioned the design of their bank in Colmore Row in 1970, to meet the requirements for new banking facilities and accommodation for their local and regional staff together with additional office space which could be used for further expansion or be let for commercial offices. Read

Taxpayers having to dig deep to pay for mess Brown created

Dear Editor, So what price is Gordon Brown willing to have us pay to convince us that he is the right man and Labour the right party to lead us? Minimum £1 billion. Read

Poor and mediocre design slipping through the net

Dear Editor, I am responding to Paul Dale's article about the impact of World Heritage Site status on the Jewellery Quarter and in particular Barbara Shackley's comments on behalf of the Victorian Society. Read

There is no reason at all for appalling late deliveries

Dear Editor, The Post Office was formerly considered as a public service, much as the National Health Service. It was under the control of a minister, the Postmaster General, and was the envy of the world for efficiency and service. Post Office Ltd is now run as a private company where efficiency is equalled to profit. Read

City needs a new arts festival to be proud of

Dear Editor, I had a wonderful evening in Manchester on Friday, watching the legendary Leonard Cohen at the city's Opera House. Read

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