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Forget gender, just pick best candidate

Dear Editor, Who is the best candidate for the boardroom? (Post, November 17).Read

Hospital care second to none

Dear Editor,I have just been discharged from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.Read

City's Armistice Day service marred by loud traffic noise

Dear Editor, I have just attended this year’s Armistice Day service at the Hall of Memory in Birmingham.Read

Savvy buyers don't care about colour

Dear Editor, The bitter disputes over claims by companies for exclusive rights to shades of colours for their trade marks or packaging is becoming a farce. (BirminghamPost.net November 14)Read

High speed line must head to Heathrow for an integrated policy

Dear Editor, Of course we must have our high speed rail service. Birmingham is the UK’s centre for manufacturing, and we are told that fast daily London travel is essential for our future industrial expansion.Read

No strategic thinking on libraries

An open letter from John Dolan, former Head of Libraries at Birmingham City Council, to Coun Mike Whitby, Leader of Birmingham City Council, and Coun Martin Mullaney, Cabinet Member for Leisure Sport and CultureRead

Comment on Building Schools for the Future was unnecessary

Dear Editor, I would like to bring to your attention my concerns about incorrect reporting in the Birmingham Post on November 10.Read

Giving voice to something of an enigma

Dear Editor, I absolutely loved Richard McComb’s interview with Alison Krauss. I’m a huge fan of hers and your interview with her has to be one of my favourite interviews with her, ever. (Post November 3)Read

Chicago and Birmingham can learn from each other

Dear Editor, Unexpectedly I totally agree with Councillor Whitby. He is correct to develop the relationship between Birmingham and Chicago. As Alun Thorne’s piece in last week’s Post points out, there are numerous areas where two great cities can learn from one another. Can I suggest a couple of items to add to the agenda?Read

We need a debate about local powers, not MP numbers

Dear Editor, Local community identity must be a key issue in looking at the way we wish to be seen and democratically represented,Read

Labour suggested clearing the Central Library first

Dear Editor, The article in the Birmingham Post (13 October 2011) contains one inaccuracy, and one unfulfilled promise.Read

Jewellery Quarter is the city's natural creative hub

Dear Editor, So the city visions a creative quarter sometime in the 2020s in Eastside (Birmingham Post, October 27).Read

Birmingham has vanished from our screens

Dear Editor, The Birmingham City Plan has been published and it is a disgrace.Read

No question of authorship

Dear Editor, Professor Dobson (Post October 27 ) argues that the film Anonymous is merely a B movie. Sadly it is much more than this, and certainly not true that director Roland Emmerich has underlined the Oxfordian case.Read

City bed tax will only stifle tourism

Dear Editor, What next, a tax on fresh air? The tourism trade is fighting hard to try to reduce VAT to five per cent on all bed-nights, restaurants and tourism sites, this due to a decrease in profitability from room rack rates.Read

An elected mayor would be a gimmick

Dear Editor, I do not usually agree with the politics of Phil Davis (Post October 27) but I fully agree with his comments about the directly elected Mayor and regional coordination.Read

Energy firms have obligation to keep prices reasonable

Dear Editor, Given the irresponsible track record of energy companies, which charge extortionate prices while ensuring record profits for themselves, the fact that Britons are facing a “postcode lottery” when it comes to fuel prices is, sadly, unsurprising.Read

How effective can our elected city mayor be?

Dear Editor, Your editorial about the lack of real powers likely to be available to an elected Birmingham mayor is timely.Read

New blight on our landscape will not just stop with wind farms

Dear Editor, Anyone with any intelligence will have realised that the proposed new wind farms are going to need an army of pylons marching across some of our loveliest countryside to bring power generated from remote and wild locations to the main centres of population.Read

Bickering over Europe does not help us

Dear Editor, The Tories bicker over Europe while the economy founders.Read