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'Something urgent needs to be done'

9:00am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Sir, Councillor Louise Chapman must be very naive to believe that. . . ‘If (young people) appear to be under the influence of alcohol, then they should be banned from the centre’. This is the perfect pantomine scenario: ‘You’re drunk!’, ‘Oh, no, I’m not’, ‘Oh, yes you are!’ The whole point of breathalysing is that an objective measure is taken of the state of the young person; if he/she is over the known limit, he/she is not allowed in. I’m sure that councillor Chapman and I would agree entirely on the undesirability of breathalysing young people, but in the state of our ‘broken society’, when young teenagers stagger around the streets throwing up in the gutter every Friday night, something urgent needs to be done.

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'Heavy blow'

9:00am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Sir, Councillor Bill Service, leader of Didcot Town Council, wrote to you last week about an error of fact in your article the previous week.

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Sort priorities

9:00am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Sir, In the run-up to local elections in 2009, a leaflet on ‘How Conservative Councils are helping in the recession’ boasted of Tory councils’ local ‘partnerships’ with Citizens Advice Bureaux up and down the country.

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No surprise

9:00am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Sir, The fact the Conservatives wish to dispense with the CAB should be of no surprise (Herald, March 3).

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Flood peril

9:00am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Sir, Well, here we are again, I had naively hoped that Persimmon homes had foundered in the recent financial crisis. Wrong and, worse, the Government and the Vale are helping them — to the tune of £30,000. Will the Vale, from our exceedingly expensive council tax (second highest in the Vale again — for what?) offer £30,000 to allow us to contest this absurd development. I don’t think so.

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Grateful

9:00am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Sir, As parents of an 11-year-old daughter Katy, who we believe was the last child to be operated on at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, on Wednesday, March 3, prior to the temporary cessation of procedures at the paediatric cardiac centre, we would like to say how deeply indebted we are yet again to the highly professional team. Katy was born with a congenital heart condition called tetraology of fallots.

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Town council's action is a 'disgrace'

9:00am Wednesday 10th March 2010

Sir, The high-handed action by Didcot Town Council in making the CAB homeless apparently without consultation or due warning is an absolute disgrace as well as being deeply discourteous.

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Great concern

9:00am Wednesday 10th March 2010

Sir, It was with great concern and disappointment that I read your front-page article, No room for CAB in new civic hall (Didcot Herald, March 3).

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'Cuckoo'

9:00am Wednesday 10th March 2010

Sir, The article on the front page of last week’s Didcot Herald was not entirely correct. It stated the CAB had been housed in the Civic Hall since it was built. This is not so.