Hunt

3:34pm today

I'VE written a book: Suez; the Hidden Truths, which details those turbulent years of the Suez Emergency of the early 1950s, when thousands of troops, many National Servicemen. were posted to defend the canal zone, often facing appalling conditions.

Hunter

3:30pm today

IF the government's decision to build thousands of hopelessly ineffective wind turbines on land with thousands more offshore, along with the massive standby capacity that will be needed (an absurdity dreamt up by some latter-day Jonathan Swift) doesn't bring a smile to the faces of Putin, Medvedev and a few multimillionaire Russian Oligarchs then nothing will. At the very least a round of applause is due for Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth from Gazprom.

Clements

3:25pm today

CAN the council tell us how much it cost to have the recycled aluminium cans sent to Warrington, steel cans to Port Talbot, glass to south Yorkshire, textiles to Devizes, garden waste to Brinkworth, paper to London and sorted the good quality paper sent to Scandinavia. Plastic bottles to Preston sorted and some sent to China. Can they give the cost of transport and what about the pollution.

Letter from Wayne Acathan & Rebecca Garrod

3:19pm today

I SEE after sales care is a priority at A E Smith funeral directors. Exactly what problem do people have with these tributes at people's graves?

Letter from Garry Towns

3:18pm today

I NOTICED that local MP Anne Snelgrove (Swindon South), defied public anger and voted to carry on squandering taxpayers' cash on furniture and home improvements.

Letter from Des Morgan

3:17pm today

THE debate on what to do with the Mechanics' Institute has occupied the letters page of the Swindon Advertiser for nigh on 10 years. Of two things we can be sure, the first is that it will never be run by the community for the community' as envisaged by The New Mechanics Trust.I make this bold assertion based on a simple expedient which is ownership - the owner Mr Singh wants to develop the site, not turn it into a community centre. Incidentally, the Central community already has a perfectly good community building.

Letter from Steve Thompson

12:47pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

REGARDING your front page presentation about the smoking ban, I think you have been misled by a few politically motivated landlords.

Letter from Joyce Bishop

12:46pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

I FEEL I must write about the wonderful evening I, and many parents, friends etc attended at New College for the leavers award ceremony.

Letter from Ivy Hemmings

12:44pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

WHEN Mary Bishop decided to become a teacher it was a great asset to education in Swindon. Her promotion to headteacher was well deserved, the dedication she showed to her pupils was second to none.

Letter from Paul Harmer

12:43pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

WHILE I agree wholeheartedly with Michelle Tompkins' review of the excellent Jimmy Carr, just what was going on at the Oasis last night (June 30).

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