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Road crossing

10:21am Thursday 4th February 2010

How right councillor Gordon Mathews is.

Rallied round

10:24am Thursday 4th February 2010

Recently, a fall in my garden resulted in a broken arm. That, plus the bitter weather and age made life rather difficult.

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Channel bore

10:23am Thursday 4th February 2010

Bored with the afternoon cookery and quiz shows, I tried Channel 81 - Parliament "Live" - a misnomer, if ever there was one!

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Carers care....

10:23am Thursday 4th February 2010

I noticed G Gill’s letter that was critical of the care provided by Helping Hands.

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The letter from Ric Pirson 'This is just not on, sports' in the Journal, Thursday, January 28, 2010 about the 'Porche Lanes' on the by-pass was most applicable. On the previous day, Wednesday, when travelling from Twyford end of the by-pass I was overtaken by (what looked like a 'boy racer') a Black Mini Cooper. Again, this morning, Saturday, on the same stretch of road, just before lunch, a small white Peugeot van flew past. Both in the hatched section. Hence one must not assume that this lane is the soul preserve of the Porche idiots, it is now open to boy racers in Mini's and White Van Man. In both instances we were travelling quite nicely at 50mph in a long line of traffic. Where are our 'boy's in blue' when needed? Not I hope giving some poor motorist a ticket for blowing his nose whilst stopped at the traffic lights as reported this last week on the news, and he was fined £60 plus three points on his licence. Diabolical I say!

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Parallel build

10:25am Thursday 4th February 2010

It’s not hard to imagine the chaos if the bridge in Evesham is closed.

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Plain facts on chocolate era

10:20am Thursday 4th February 2010

I would like to respond with a few facts to Helen Donovan’s letter in last week’s Journal about the takeover of “British” company Cadbury, by the American food company Kraft.

Chocs away?

11:02am Thursday 28th January 2010

Re the Cadbury takeover by the American company Kraft, and funded by the Royal Bank of Scotland, I never worked at Cadbury, but as as a “Brummie” with a manufacturing background (ex Lucas), have always felt immense pride at the hard work, care and forward thinking of the Cadbury forefathers (who must be all spinning in their graves today), and admired the way in which Cadbury has flourished over the years and looked after its workforce and community. Cadbury is everything that Kraft is not.

Fit in benefit

11:03am Thursday 28th January 2010

The recent snow caused much inconvenience but it also had unexpected benefits!

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Care dilemma

11:04am Thursday 28th January 2010

I was disgusted to read an article in the Journal, January 14, about 86 year old Ms Smith from Wickhamford, being left without her carer for three days during the bitter cold. Helping Hands should change their name as they are certainly not helping when they are needed the most. If it had not been for her caring milkman how would she have managed? The milkman could get to her so why couldn’t a carer? Maybe they could not drive right up to the door but they could have parked her car put on her boots and walked. It was done by others who really cared about clients who needed help. I hope the milkman got paid by Helping Hands, he deserves it.