http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/ Herald Series /news/opinion/letters/ en-gb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:16:17 +0000 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:16:17 +0000 http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/resources/images/999280/?type=rsslogo http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/ http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/5061788._Something_urgent_needs_to_be_done_/?ref=rss 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. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000 690e00448afbb11b738bd899d1d119f7 http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/5061796._Heavy_blow_/?ref=rss 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. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000 abd75463df6949d6a5c5b53bbe44cdcf http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/5061803.Sort_priorities/?ref=rss 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. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000 64b1f734fe8815806da9c87bb6873d68 http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/5061810.No_surprise/?ref=rss Sir, The fact the Conservatives wish to dispense with the CAB should be of no surprise (Herald, March 3). Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000 3bb380963721c14bae97d07fdbf97bcf http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/5061813.Flood_peril/?ref=rss 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. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000 bbb84cffddd250ac7987e5735fb2e5a1 http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/5061819.Grateful/?ref=rss 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. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000 d240c668ca7897e695fb6e5c009242b3 http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/5047819.Town_council_s_action_is_a__disgrace_/?ref=rss 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. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000 8fb16165a54911bb9ae8c7eec4e82464 http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/5047822.Great_concern/?ref=rss 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). Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000 b3de88eeaeed868f0297142e62f36217 http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/5047825._Cuckoo_/?ref=rss 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. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000 125835f2fef994e85f7354626e8a95f7 http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/5047830.Questionable/?ref=rss Sir, I notice in the news that services such as libraries and nurseries face cuts as councils grapple with the impact of the recession. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000 9a0b2be64e562aeff837832142d6d65e