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Celebrating 100 years of guiding in Birmingham Jan 08 2010

Dear Editor, As we enter a new year – a new decade in fact – your readers will undoubtedly recognise Girlguiding UK as a modern and girl-led dynamic organisation, relevant to today’s girls – or will they?Read

Report wrong to suggest staff at closed pool are doing nothing Jan 08 2010

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to your article “Council set to axe jobs at sports centres” (Post,December 30).Read

Stand up against threat to Sunday trading controls Jan 08 2010

Dear Editor, Sir Winston Churchill once said: “The British Sunday is precious and well worth conserving!”.Read

Don’t let Government seize our charity cash raised for hospitals Jan 08 2010

Dear Editor, I was totally disgusted to read in the national press that, as from April, all public hospital donations will be taken control of by the government, to be included as part of overall government budget.Read

Year in, year out? Dec 30 2009

Dear Editor, I was pleased to read your very informative review of the first decade of the 21st Century (Post, Dec 23) but was puzzled to know why it was published a year prior to the end of it.Read

No mention of Cadbury Pension Fund Dec 30 2009

Dear Editor, In all the comments relating to the Kraft bid for Cadbury, no reference has been made to the Cadbury Pension Fund – which is one of the best managed and generous schemes in the UK.Read

Brown has broken his free prescriptions promise Dec 30 2009

Dear Editor, It is a disgrace that Gordon Brown has not yet acted on his promise to abolish prescription charges for people with long-term conditions.Read

Real gay village is full of safe and lively bars Dec 30 2009

Dear Editor, Paul Dale’s article on ‘drunken violence in Birmingham’s gay quarter’ (Post, Dec 23) demonstrates a fundamental ignorance of geography and fact.Read

Remember the meaning of Christmas, Richard! Dec 30 2009

Dear Editor, What a shame that Richard McComb is ‘Feeling the festive pinch’ (Post, Dec 23). It is a sad indictment of how some people view Christmas when he bemoans the fact that people in the world of public relations have not flooded the office with the usual Christmas gifts.Read

Mine of information about city firm’s search for ore in Norway Dec 23 2009

Dear Sir, Do you know you find the history of Brummies everywhere, even in cold, dark Kragerø, Norway? Kragerø, which is halfway down the coast from Oslo, is today a summer holiday resort, but once it was a busy mining place where Evans & Askin from Ladywood looked for ore for their nickel and cobalt refineries.Read

Prescription charge disgrace Dec 23 2009

Dear Sir, It is a disgrace that Gordon Brown has not yet acted on his promise to abolish prescription charges for people with long-term conditions. The recession has devastated people’s finances and many are making difficult and potentially dangerous decisions not to purchase their medicines just so they can afford daily necessities, like food and heating.Read

Alternative to cheques needed Dec 23 2009

Dear Sir, The UK Payments Council has decided to phase out the use of cheques as a valid method of payment by 2018.Read

Centenary celebrations continuing for guides Dec 23 2009

Dear Sir, As we enter a new year – a new decade in fact – your readers will undoubtedly recognise Girlguiding UK as a modern and girl-led dynamic organisation, relevant to today’s girls – or will they?Read

Full cost of new library scheme is much higher Dec 23 2009

Dear Sir, £590m: The true cost of the new library. Read

So what are the Tories’ solutions for Cadbury? Dec 23 2009

Dear Sir, I was not surprised to read in Iron Angle (Birmingham Post, December 3) that Coun Nigel Dawkins is still up to his populist tricks of claiming to be against Conservative policy when it affects his constituents, but for it when it doesn’t.Read

Battle for landmark will resume in 2013 Dec 23 2009

Dear Sir, Your editorial (Birmingham Post, November 26) asserts that there can be no plausible excuses for the length of time it took the Department of Culture Media and Sport to decide that Birmingham Central Library was not worthy of being listed.Read

W Midlands can lead way in eco market Dec 17 2009

Dear Sir, The Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is now under way and provides the world with an opportunity to tackle head-on how we limit global greenhouse gas emissions.Read

Spare a thought for families facing Christmas without a home Dec 17 2009

Dear Editor, Christmas is approaching fast and I am a little unprepared this year due to a new addition to the family.Read

Aviation needs to be part of climate talks Dec 17 2009

Dear Editor, We welcome the editorial “BIA runway plan fails to take off” (Nov 12), in that it sets out some overarching reasons why state funding to enable the runway extension is a poor use of the public purse.Read

Civic Society's leading role in city’s heritage Dec 11 2009

Dear Editor, Blue plaques are nothing new to Birmingham and indeed it is The Birmingham Civic Society – and not English Heritage – that has been responsible for their growth in Birmingham (Birmingham Post, Property News, December 3). Interestingly, all of those mentioned in your article were erected by the Society.Read

Lib Dem lapdogs just as compliant as PM Dec 11 2009

Dear Editor, It remains astonishingly sad that even now – after many years failure, drift and mission creep – when Barack Obama is staggeringly calling for an even greater Nato commitment to provide combat troops in Afghanistan, and with no real consultation with the British people, the Lib Dems in particular can offer no serious analysis of this debacle and run along apologetically beside Brown like wimps to Britain’s US lapdog.Read

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