Letters
Tynedale: Location, location
IT is great that production companies are seeking out locations in Northumberland to film their drama series...or is it?
Last updated 8 May 2013
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Tynedale: Cronyism
ELSPETH Christie, from Kirkhaugh, near Alston, wrote last week to complain about the prioritisation of resources by Northumberland County Council to the highly populated urban areas like Ashington.
Last updated 8 May 2013
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Tynedale: A69 safety
THE recent and tragic deaths on the A69 have brought in to sharp focus the need for the upgrade of this busy road to a dual carriageway between Hexham and Carlisle.
Last updated 8 May 2013
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Tynedale: Gardens scheme
WITH this rain and sun our gardens have all suddenly sprung into life and people at last want to be out and about, buying plants and looking at gardens.
Last updated 8 May 2013
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Bad roads
I AM ‘lucky’ enough to live on what is probably one of the worst affected roads in the county. Indeed, the county will shortly be receiving the bill for my insurance deductible, after my car went into a massive (and already reported several times) pothole on an icy road.
Last updated 1 May 2013
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Party’s pledges
LIKE Mike Parker (Courant Letters, March 29), I too was amazed when I read the latest leaflet from the Conservative Party. So much so that I looked for an acknowledgement to the Brothers Grimm. They also told a good fairy story.
Last updated 1 May 2013
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Spot checks
WITH reference to wobbly kerbstones, dirty streets and blocked gullies, it has my long-standing view that the rot set in when the council did away with designated staff to look after a designated part of the town and also the highways.
Last updated 1 May 2013
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Housing benefit
NOW that the current Government’s plan has introduces a benefit cut to all social housing tenants with a spare bedroom, I would like to know how many Members of Parliament are claiming public money in the guise of expenses for second homes with more bedrooms than they require.
Last updated 1 May 2013
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Welfare cuts
I ASKED what religious leaders thought about the Con-Dem Coalition Government’s planned cuts to the welfare system through the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill – that legislation applies to a wide range of benefits and tax credits including income support, child benefit, working tax credits and child tax credits (Courant Letters, March 8).
Last updated 1 May 2013
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Gauleiters
AFTER long years of economic suffering caused by politicians and just as the economy is showing signs of real recovery, along come some buffoons in local government to destroy the already devastated high street.
Last updated 1 May 2013
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Making sacrifices
ACCORDING to the Sunday Times Rich List, the Duke wishes to refurbish his home, and meet the cost from the Prudhoe town development revenues.
Last updated 1 May 2013
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Sadistic and cruel
DURING the past year I have been taking my daughter to the toddlers’ play area behind Prudhoe Golf Club, in West Wylam. However, it is increasingly becoming dangerous to do so.
Last updated 1 May 2013
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Duke is pressed to identify Prudhoe’s supermarket bidder
I NOTICE that Prudhoe got a mention in the Sunday Times Rich List, where it states: “Now the dust has settled on a planning battle, Northumberland is going ahead with a £28m development of Prudhoe town centre near his Alnwick seat”.
Last updated 1 May 2013
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Daffodil Appeal
MARIE Curie Nurses are thanking everyone in Hexham for helping to make the charity’s Great Daffodil Appeal a roaring success this year.
Last updated 24 April 2013
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Election fevers
ELECTION fever is upon us again – but please let not truth be a casualty of the battle. I refer to Dr Anne Pickering’s letter (Courant, April 12).
Last updated 24 April 2013
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Double bill
HAS ‘cash strapped’ Northumberland County Council suddenly come into money?
Last updated 24 April 2013
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Methodist family
EVERYONE in the Methodist ‘family’ regrets the loss of another chapel following the recent closure at Wall.
Last updated 24 April 2013
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By George
I WAS surprised and somewhat disappointed by the unwarranted criticism, by the anonymous complainant, of the Prudhoe Youth Charity Shop, run by George McCreedy MBE.
Last updated 24 April 2013
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Local labour on local building sites would boost local economy
HELEN Compson’s interview with Trevor Newman (Courant, April 12) raised some interesting points about the current state of the construction industry.
Last updated 24 April 2013
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Tennis open
TOWARDS the end of last year, one of your readers from the Tyne Valley expressed in your letters column his dismay at the lack of public tennis courts in Hexham.
Last updated 24 April 2013
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