Gifford house saga is driving group wilde

IT SEEMS that Gifford House, the former council care home on Twickenham Green that closed in 2004, is on the market again after another failure in negotiations with prospective purchasers.Read

Give friends group a chance to grow

WHAT an extraordinary letter from Mr Cairns regarding Ham Lands. Your readers will know from your news reports that it is nonsense to claim I have not expressed my outrage at Surrey's vandalism loudly and publicly.Read

Parking charge report misleading

IT WAS incorrectly reported in last week's paper that the West Middlesex Hospital's car parking charges were among the most expensive in the country.Read

Restrictions needed to keep everybody moving

THE pay and display parking bays around Richmond Green operate between 11am and 5pm on bank and public holidays with a two-hour limit to allow short-term shopping/business visits.Read

Stick to facts, park rally was never political

VINCENT Cable's last-minute 'Keep park protest non-political plea' leaves me speechless on two counts.Read

We need to watch the wardens

THREE cheers to Dorrick Sturch for photographing the traffic warden parking her car in Brentford on double yellow lines and partly on the pavement, and for Jessica Thomas for the excellent report (Hounslow Chronicle, January 15).Read

Big freeze means more night flights

ONE of the more unpleasant aspects of snowy and icy weather is it seems to effectively abolish all restrictions on the hours of operation of Heathrow Airport.Read

Brabazon paved way for Concorde

THE article by Eddie Menday on the Bristol Brabazon brought back memories.Read

Did anyone see a car hit my rover?

DID anybody who lives on my estate see a vehicle hit my Rover Metro R940 CGT on Saturday night (January 9) or early Sunday morning?Read

Let's hop spirit of magpie lives on

AS REPORTED in the last issue of the Hounslow Chronicle, the property manager acting for The Wellington Pub Company has confirmed to me that The Magpie & Crown pub, Brentford, will close this week for 'a few hours' and an interim management company will take over.Read

Does organisation actually exist?

AS THE Chronicle is seeing fit to publish somewhat inflammatory correspondence from Manria Kaur ('Andrews Is No Friend Of Asians' Letters, December 18), presumably you have established that the 'organisation' she claims to represent actually exists and is credible.Read

Forced to wade through rubbish

I WAS brought up in the Hounslow East area in respectable, genteel poverty during the 1950s.Read

Fleecing motorists to balance books

REGARDING the article in last week's Chronicle, readers should not be surprised that the council is taking every opportunity to fleece the motorist.Read

In search of lost Feltham relatives

DURING the course of my family history researches I have discovered a number of links to Feltham of members of my paternal grandmother's family.Read

Best wishes to all and congratulations

I WOULD like to wish all your readers a very happy new year and thank everyone who is supporting the mayor's charity helping those families and individuals who are homeless.Read

Don't play politics with the lives of the young

YOUR coverage of the creation of the two academies at Whitton and Hampton Community College (Academies get the go-ahead, December 18) again illustrates the impossible position the Tories have got themselves in, even though they support the principle of academies.Read

Council must learn the lesson of New Malden

FOLLOWING on from Leslie Parker's letter 'Planners should be praised for layout' in relation to New Malden High Street.Read

Charging will protect park and its beauty

THAT Vince Cable, a former professional economist with brains, opposes charging for the use of Richmond Park, is disappointing. He should know that Richmond Park is an overused resource.Read

Manners lesson by special delivery

I HAD the misfortune last week of having to post a parcel at Surbiton Post Office in Victoria Road.Read

Lib Dem accusations offensive and untrue

THE Lib Dem attack unit is hurling so many bogus accusations at me, it's hard to keep up. I will try to answer them.Read

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