| Different worlds... | | 2:56pm Wednesday 14th May 2008 | | I don't know what world Lynda Waltho lives in, but its one I don't recognise. She should be very ashamed she belongs to a Government that has hurt the poorest so hard, where a pensioner on £89 a week pays the same council tax as a millionaire living in similar property. | | Reader comment (1) |
| Where the cash? | | 2:54pm Wednesday 14th May 2008 | | IN response to Steve Miller's letter on the subject of future global warming. I do not doubt that he knows something about the subject. Can he therefore tell us what the various bodies involved cost in grants, fees and salaries, I do know that the IPCC is funded by the UN. For all the enviro-freaks out there it was published this week that global warming has stopped and will not start for another ten years. If Mr Miller has any doubts about this statement phone Dr. R. Wood of the Met Office or the Leibniz Institute of Marine Studies. One more question, will all the scientific research grants be withdrawn for the next ten years or will the science community still be going on jolly's to Bali every year. |
| Help make milestone special | | 2:47pm Wednesday 14th May 2008 | | I AM writing to let your readers know that Christian Aid celebrates its 60th birthday this year. |
| Questions to answer | | 2:44pm Wednesday 14th May 2008 | | FURTHER to recent correspondence concerning Global Warming, NASA data concerning surface temperatures is available from the GISS website - The Goddard Institute for Space Science, which interestingly was recently forced to recalculate some published data due to an error. Whether the resultant change was significant depends on your view of the argument. A recent report well worth reading is "Nature, not Human Activity Rules the Climate", published by the Heartland Institute, and available from a Google search. This raises some interesting and uncomfortable points for those convinced that only greenhouse gases from man made activity are changing the environment. Changes may well be occuring, but the mechanisms may equally be predominately natural. Further, we now have a report only this week that any warming effects will be reversed for the next ten years by natural processes, before supposedly resuming their upward trend. Logically we all want to minimise the harmful effects on the environment of our activities, but unless we really understand what is happening, and what the mechanisms are, how can we be sure that what we are proposing to do is, in fact, the best course of action? |
| Constant criticism of lovely Lynda so unjust | | 2:42pm Wednesday 14th May 2008 | | I AM writing to complain about the very personal attacks made by some of our readers on our MP Lynda Waltho. The most recent was from Anthea Hall who criticises her for informing us of her hard work on our behalf. Last week she was even criticised for smiling sweetly! |
| This government can never regain trust | | 2:23pm Wednesday 14th May 2008 | | I MUST admit at being surprised at the local election results for Dudley MBC. Due to Government policies our Conservative controlled council have had to close libraries, schools and day centres in the name of efficiency savings, yet these so called unpopular moves that caused so much controversy and outrage, did nothing to stop the Tories increasing their representatives on the Council by four members. |
| Congrats to cream team | | 3:50pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | YOUR news item about Val Cramptons special cream' that helps to camouflage certain skin conditions was very interesting. |
| Fiasco over yellow lines | | 3:37pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | LESS than four weeks ago much needed double yellow lines were put along Hagley Road between Rosemary Road and Tescos. Many residents on the estate behind the Rose & Crown really welcomed this, as coming out of Huntlands Road was becoming very dangerous because of parked cars. |
| MP cannot do right for some | | 3:32pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | WHO'D be an MP? I can't understand why people like Lynda Waltho would want to continue in post when all they ever seem to get is criticism, especially from small-minded people, very often the usual suspects through the letters page. | | Reader comment (1) |
| Destruction of tree sums country up | | 3:29pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | THERE has been a lovely tree for as long as I can remember, all my life in fact, it has been a haven for birds nesting, squirrels building their drags, also night owls and a delight to see. |
| The last vestiges of national pride | | 3:27pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | AFTER reading an article published in two national newspapers concerning the Regionalisation planned by Brussels EU administration who have produced a map identifying the manner in how the British Isles will be split into regions, I felt I must comment. |
| Roof with no point... | | 3:21pm Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | THE really, really sad thing about the blot on the landscape that is the new Aldi building in Wollaston, is that the ridiculous "space age" roof seems to serve no useful function within the building itself. |
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