| No consultation | | 11:43am Thursday 8th May 2008 | | The announcement that all the Post Offices originally listed will close has confirmed what many of us thought all along - the public consultation about PO closures was no more than a PR charade. Post Office Services Ltd has totally ignored its own criteria for population percentages and travel distances. The government was determined to go ahead with these cuts regardless of the consequences for the people of Gloucestershire and the communities that they live in. Government seems to have completely lost the concept of public service. |
| Something to build on | | 11:38am Thursday 8th May 2008 | | Having read yet a another misled letter regarding Abbey garage I would suggest people really should talk to the man behind the redevelopment of the site and get there facts straight. Laurence Bilton is a genuine man and very approachable and when you speak to him you will see how passionate he is about the site
As an owner of one of the buildings at the rear of Abbey Garage I have always been made aware of what will be done on the site. |
| Correct screening | | 11:34am Thursday 1st May 2008 | | In response to the article "Politician says diabetics at risk" (page 9, Evesham Journal April 24 2008), we would like to reassure readers that diabetic patients in Broadway, Evesham, Pershore and surrounding areas have been offered digital photographic screening for diabetic retinopathy funded by the PCT for over 6 years. |
| Proper funding | | 11:33am Thursday 1st May 2008 | | There is £46 billion in the National Insurance Fund (NIF), money that citizens have paid for the whole of their working lives. |
| We get the service we deserve? | | 11:32am Thursday 1st May 2008 | | AM I the only person who despairs of the everyday inefficiency of this country? It seems to apply to every segment of society. How many hours do we all spend hanging on the other end of a phone only to be diverted and asked to repeat our sorry tale to another incompetent. Documents are lost exposing our details to all and sundry. Nobody cares about service any more and we all accept it. Why? | | Reader comment (1) |
| Work vital for our economy | | 11:32am Thursday 1st May 2008 | | Thank you for reporting the problems that growers in the Vale are likely to face at harvest time because of the reduction in the number of seasonal agricultural workers coming from abroad (Concern about seasonal workers rule change, Evesham Journal, April 24, 2008). | | Reader comments (2) |
| A site for sore eyes on islands? | | 11:30am Thursday 1st May 2008 | | I am sure I cannot be the only resident in Wychavon to be thoroughly ashamed of the roundabouts in Evesham. |
| Rough and smooth | | 11:30am Thursday 1st May 2008 | | Now the alterations appear to be complete in Pershore. I thought I should add my opinion. |
| What is there to celebrate? | | 10:34am Wednesday 30th April 2008 | | Well, the temporary traffic lights have finally gone, the dignitaries have been trotted out and balloons have been tied up ..... I have to ask, what is there to celebrate? Were the dozen or so people who required medical assistance, and in some cases operations, after seriously injuring themselves during the roadworks celebrating? Were those traders who have managed to survive the most financially crippling 18 months of poor trade joyful? Were the people of Pershore who's opinions have been blatantly ignored and over-ruled thankful? |
| A little common sense | | 10:31am Wednesday 30th April 2008 | | At the 'exhibition' at the Town Hall in December we queried, amongst other things, the removal of the turning point for buses half way down Broad Street. We were assured that a 'computer program' had ascertained that the buses could turn at the top of Broad Street in one sweep. Most people know, of course, that like calculators, computers will produce facts based on the information that is input. |
| What a shambles | | 10:29am Wednesday 30th April 2008 | | Now the alterations appear to be complete in Pershore. I thought I should write to add my opinion. |
| Profit and losses in the Vale | | 11:23am Friday 25th April 2008 | | I was walking through a shopping arcade in Evesham and counted five empty shops, one after the other. This got me thinking - Why? |
| Living by the grace of God | | 11:23am Friday 25th April 2008 | | George Cowley wrote in The Journal (April 17) that ''good-living atheists end up in heaven, where as bad-living Christians do not''. |
| We’ll be paying | | 11:23am Friday 25th April 2008 | | JACQUI Smith, this new Labour Government's Home Secretary, has promised extra funding to the police, to enable them to cope with the problems of the mass immigration policy of this inexcusably incompetent Labour party. | | Reader comment (1) |
| Green about solar? | | 11:22am Friday 25th April 2008 | | Solar Gain? We are one of 300 households in the UK who in the past year installed a micro generation system using photovoltaic solar panels (Carbon cutting couple go solar, Evesham Journal February 22, 2007). |
| That’s entertainment... | | 11:22am Friday 25th April 2008 | | SOME while ago now, you kindly published a letter in which I expressed my disappointment at the then low quality TV programmes. I especially made a point of the mediocre comedy shows with their so called comedians - post the Two Ronnies and Morecombe and Wise period that is! |
| Well done to our group of pioneers | | 10:26am Friday 18th April 2008 | | Home-Start Cotswolds (North) would like to congratulate our pioneer group of volunteers who have recently completed our exciting training course, which ran for one day per week over ten weeks in term time. The committed and caring volunteers were the first to take part in this training course to provide Home-Start support in the North Cotswolds. These seven volunteers will shortly be giving up three hours per week to offer informal support and friendship to families with at least one child under the age of five years in the North Cotswolds, mostly during home visits. |
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