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Older generation’s sacrifices must be remembered all year round

Dear Editor, We have just had Remembrance Sunday, where we all rightly remember the fallen during two world wars. Now here’s where I get very non politically correct.Read

Scapegoats are not the answer

Dear Editor, I have been quite clear in that I wish to see a detailed inquiry into what happened at Milennium Point. I welcome the role of the HSE in doing this. However, I am of the view that attempting to find a scapegoat is counter productive.Read

Unhealthy scepticism when you ignore experts

Dear Editor, There appears to be a growing and worrying trend in public opinion and especially amongst those who influence public opinion, to comment on and even assert things about topics they know nothing whatsoever about.Read

Recruitment on merit, not ‘claptrap’

Dear Editor, It was with disgust and outrage that I read Male Pale and Stale. It is this sort of misguided claptrap that is responsible for exacerbating sexist opinions in the population.Read

Council cutbacks yet capital project plans

Dear Editor, It was interesting to read the articles on Broad St and the proposal to run a super bus on a loop around the town.Read

Bereaved mother reflects public's true feelings about Afghan conflict

Dear Editor, Our Prime Minister is now a national embarrassment and he is dragging this nation down with all his own failings.Read

Birmingham Airport runway extension still a regional priority

Dear Editor, Your readers are no doubt concerned to read your reports last week about the status of the Birmingham Airport Runway Extension.Read

Public inquiry needed after council’s buck-pass at open air concert

Dear Editor, I have sat and listened with incredulity to officials of Birmingham City Council on television, denying responsibility for the nightmare at the open air concert last Saturday that ended with more than 50 injured.Read

Birmingham Airport runway extension would reduce carbon emissions

Dear Editor, the business case for the runaway extension at Birmingham International Airport is described as ‘‘marginal at best’’ (Post, November 12).Read

Airport extension is a key priority

Following a rash of media interest in the funding of the runway extension at Birmingham International Airport, I have today received a letter from the Chief Executive, Paul Kehoe, updating me on their current position.Read

Akbars’ critique much enjoyed

Dear Editor, I particularly enjoyed Richard McComb’s critique on Akbars’, the Bradford ‘balti pretenders’.Read

If MPs don’t like expenses crackdown, they should find another job

Dear Editor, The systematic fiddling of allowances by MPs at the taxpayers’ expense has to stop.Read

Digby Jones wrong in his comments about Jacqui Smith

I believe that your readers would wish to know that Lord Jones is mistaken in his comments about Jacqui Smith. I speak as the former Vice Principal of Worcester Sixth Form College and Headteacher of Haybridge High School. Read

Digby Jones: Sorry for my comments about Jacqui Smith

I apologise to Jacqui Smith for my description of her time as a teacher in Hagley. Read

Appeal for information on a brothers of great grandfather

Dear Editor, As part of my family tree research, I am trying to find out more information about one of the brothers of my great grandfather. Read

We should be marching in the streets over loss of 'rights' to EU

Dear Editor, Why aren’t we marching in the streets and demonstrating after an unelected Prime Minister has signed away most of our rights of self expression to a corrupt European Union which has not had its accounts properly scrutinised for 15 years?Read

Little cheer under pubcos’ iron rule

Dear Editor, Your recent comment is entirely wrong to claim the pubco system has only become an issue during the recession. Read

Airport's praise for 'firm and objective' Birmingham Post

Dear Editor, As the Birmingham Post moves to its next incarnation, the airport team has been reflecting on the tremendous contribution made by the paper and its people over the years. Read

I’ll miss my daily dose of city intrigue

Dear Editor, As we bid ‘farewell old friend’ to the Birmingham Post as we know it and hold our breath for the weekly edition, for those who have been long and loyal readers there will be a daily gap in our lives and I wonder what we will miss most?Read

Help needed for bio of Austin racing driver

Dear Editor, The photograph shows a young Bert Hadley, later an Austin works racing mechanic and driver, with his Austin 7 “Swallow” in the early 1930s.Read