Money up in smoke

I AM a non-smoker, but this does not stop me from fuming when I see the Liberal Democrat-governed Richmond Council is using our council tax to fund free, plastic pocket ashtrays (non-smokers may apply too) at the same time as our the pavement repair programme is underfunded and many of our roads are riddled with potholes.Read

Name change was not a nobel thing to do

I READ in the paper that Hobkirk House Day Centre, in New Malden, has been renamed the Nobel Centre.Read

Newsagent's fine should be a burning issue

REGARDING your report (February 19) that the owner of ITR News in Sheen Lane, Mr Anujh Patel, was fined £250 for selling a 15-year-old girl a packet of cigarettes, the girl being a 'volunteer' with Richmond Council's trading standards department taking part in a 'test purchase operation'.Read

No marks to council for ignoring potholes

I DON'T know if anyone was astounded like me to see the white markings on roads being redone on Friday morning.Read

No point pouring blame on fountain roundabout

LIB Dem Councillor Don Jordan's response to my letter (February 19) is full of obscuration, in keeping with the whole Lib Dem record over the High Street.Read

Please don't widen our pleasant high street

NEW Malden High Street is not a shortcut nor a speed track for cars and lorries - it is a neighbourhood shopping centre.Read

Stop the plan to remove bus information boards

I'M REALLY unhappy to hear that some of the bus stop electronic information boards are to go.Read

There are other ways for council to save money

THE London Mayor, past and present and the government were partly blamed for the increases in council tax and cuts that have to be made following last week's council meeting.Read

Will tories be heavenly?

ALTHOUGH I thank God for the fact we are assured our hospitals will remain safe if the Conservatives are elected to government, I am extremely worried that our God and his Christian teachings may not prove so.Read

Keen not in touch with constituents

DEAR Mr Keen, your open letter to me, which has the look of being a cut and paste job from a Labour Party template, demonstrates which of us are more in touch with the constituency we wish to represent after the general election.Read

MPs put careers before residents

SO, NOW we know that not only did our Labour MP not resign her ministerial post when she was instructed to vote in favour of Heathrow expansion, but that inRead

Please help track down old friends

I HAVE been asked by a relative in Horsham, West Sussex - Marion Webb - to see if any of your readers know of some old friends who they lost contact with and would like to get back in touch.Read

Time to pave a way to solution

ON AUGUST 6, 2009, I was making my way to catch a bus at the end of my road.Read

When one-elevens landed in street

READING Barry Dix's article about the BAC 1-11 brought back memories of 1974/1975, when Gulf Air flew them up and down the Gulf.Read

Back my campaign for changes to bus route

MAY I, through your letters page, inform residents of west Whitton, specifically those in the Woodlawn, Hanworth Road and Edgar Road area, that I will be undertaking a petition to have the 110 bus route extended through to Whitton High Street, west into Nelson Road, south along Hospital Bridge Road and then on its original route from St Augustine's Church into Twickenham - the same in reverse on its Hounslow return.Read

Change would be just the ticket

MAY I, through your letters page, inform residents of west Whitton, specifically those in the Woodlawn, Hanworth Road and Edgar Road area, that I will be undertaking a petition to have the 110 bus route extended through to Whitton High Street?Read

Council leader celebrity backing condescending

COUNCILLOR Serge Lourie, in his letter of February 5, states 'the local community will get a state-of- the-art river centre' which is supported, not by local people, but by David Attenborough and Vince Cable MP. Condescending or what?Read

Councillor is wrong

LIB Dem councillor Don Jordan's letter about the so-called benefits of the narrowed (and vastly expensive) New Malden High Street are straight from Cloud Cuckoo Land.Read

Don't send us voters up river, Liberal Democrats have your say

SERGE Lourie, writing in the Informer of February 5 about the Twickenham Riverside stated 'opponents of the council scheme cannot agree among themselves on what they want'.Read

High street has gone downhill

I AGREE with Pauline Brown that the state of Hounslow's high street has been deteriorating for several years (Nurse's fury at state of high street after purse is stolen, Chronicle, February 12).Read

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