Birmingham Post - Blogs & Comment - Letters To The Editor

Backing for new Director of Children's Services

Birmingham Post — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Sir, Congratulations to Peter Duxbury who has been appointed as Director of Children’s Services.

Support small entrepreneurs, not retail giants

Birmingham Post — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, The myth that supermarkets coming to an area are some kind of silver bullet for regeneration, as suggested in your article (Januray 26), should be dispelled.

Reaching out in times of need

Birmingham Post — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, The beginning of 2012 has brought with it a worrying time for young people. The alarming rise of youth unemployment means that more than one in four young people in Birmingham is struggling to find a job.

Losing famous music venue will be seen as a cultural desecration

Birmingham Post — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, In the early hours of Sunday morning the doors of the Central Methodist Hall closed behind what will probably be the last group of party goers to enjoy a night out in this fantastic building.

Cost of phoning government departments is also too costly

Birmingham Post — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, In today’s Birmingham Post (January 26), you report the campaign of MP Bob Ainsworth urging ministers to intervene to stop GPs using expensive 084 or 085 numbers for patient calls, so that patients do not pay more than the cost of a local call to contact their GP and /or NHS services.

Perverse to let our heritage go

Birmingham Post — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, Further to your recent coverage of the plight of Island House in Eastside and Terry Grimley’s letter on the subject, I would also like to register my utter exasperation at the prospect of losing a precious piece of older architecture in an area that has few examples of anything more than twenty years old.

Exodus of culture and sport to other cities

Birmingham Post — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, Last weekend I attended the annual Holiday Exhibition, which until recently took place at the NEC in Solihull. This year it has moved to Event City, near the Trafford Park centre on the outskirts of Greater Manchester.

At forefront of collaboration and innovation

Birmingham Post — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, I read with interest your article on the science university initiative. (Post, January 19).

Region will reap the HS2 reward

Birmingham Post — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, As a regular traveller from Birmingham to London both for business and pleasure I can vouch for the fact that services are busy.

Bishop has every right to speak his mind

Birmingham Post — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, I applaud our Bishop Urquhart for his work to “bring a lasting change to the quality of life of our most disadvantaged communities.”

A city stuck in a cycle of self-hatred

Birmingham Post — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, While reading Alan Clawley’s obituary of John Madin and of the on-going demolition of Madin’s work, I was struck by how Birmingham seems stuck in a never ending cycle of self-hatred and destruction.

Campus plan is far from 'vandalism'

Birmingham Post — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, Birmingham City University is investing a total of £180 million in new facilities across the city to support courses that are providing our talented students with the skills wanted by local employers.

Strong screen industry is vital for city

Birmingham Post — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, This week BBC Birmingham staff are striking in the hope of preserving BBC Birmingham from further cuts. The director general of the BBC, Mark Thompson, has stated that “the BBC is committed to Birmingham”.

We have lost a community centre - and paid the price

Birmingham Post — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, I read with interest your article on the Harborne Clock Tower. (Post, January 12). Like many Harborne residents I am thankful that this saga is over.

HS2 station could destroy landmarks

Birmingham Post — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, Birmingham is once again at risk of defaulting to stereotype due to the excitement surrounding the arrival of HS2.

Taxing land owners is not communism

Birmingham Post — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, McCarthyism in Staffordshire appears to be alive and well. So I should say at the outset that I am not now, and nor have I ever been, a communist. (Post letters, January 12)

'Communist' argument over taxing rich landowners

Birmingham Post — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Sir, John Clancy’s article “Monopoly on farmland suits only the über-rich” was a disgrace (Post, January 5).

MP works flat out for his constituency

Birmingham Post — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, The Birmingham Post’s reporter was absolutely right to award our hard working MP Andrew Mitchell with his prize. Charlie Haynes (birminghampost.net comments, Post January 5) is simply wrong to suggest “they never see him in Sutton Coldfield”.

Valuable public space destroyed for a quick buck

Birmingham Post — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, I enjoyed Richard McComb’s piece on the recent Bull Ring development (Post, January 29).

We’re about to do it again... demolish our own heritage

Birmingham Post — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Dear Editor, First the good news – the ambitious proposals to revive the Grand Hotel – and then the bad.