| Does age dull driving skills? | | 4:22pm Monday 14th April 2008 | | I WOULD like to ask the question - Are people too old to drive?'
This is after suffering from a type of road rage from a very elderly gentleman whilst driving home. |
| Representing those who voted for me | | 4:22pm Monday 14th April 2008 | | IN response to recent comments made regarding myself I would like to say I became a councillor to help the people I represent, and over the last eleven years I've done just that. |
| Cop capers among chevrons! | | 9:44am Monday 7th April 2008 | | THE other Wednesday I was driving up towards Walkwood from the direction of MacDonald's and the approach road to Tesco's. |
| Heart Research want you to walk | | 9:43am Monday 7th April 2008 | | HERE at Heart Research UK we are on the lookout for walkers from Worcestershire who are up for a challenge. We would like to hear from teams, couples and individuals who want to take on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge on the Saturday, June 21. |
| Concentration could wander | | 9:43am Monday 7th April 2008 | | SO - we do indeed have our two new speed cameras at the southern end of Studley, up and running beautifully, I'm sure. |
| Freedom to express views | | 9:42am Monday 7th April 2008 | | I WAS delighted to read the response to my previous letter from none other than a reverend of the church, he gives my remarks a credence that I'm pretty sure he wishes he hadn't. |
| Cheap booze sets poor example | | 9:42am Monday 7th April 2008 | | I FEEL I really must make public my protestation against the obvious 'pushing' of alcohol in one of the biggest supermarkets in Redditch. |
| Surgery struggle? | | 9:41am Monday 7th April 2008 | | I NOTE in your recent editorial about the new proposed medical centre you state it will provide car parking for the surgeries concerned and other facilities. |
| Wrong place | | 9:41am Monday 7th April 2008 | | WHEN I saw the picture of Karen Lumley outside Carpark No 7 (Your view March 12) I thought for a moment that she might have been protesting at its partial closure - no such luck. |
| Charities helped | | 9:40am Monday 7th April 2008 | | I WISH to thank all those Warwickshire Freemasons who give so generously of their money to enable us once again to make substantial donations to local charities. |
| Matter of faith | | 9:39am Monday 7th April 2008 | | EVERY week there seems to be letters published about religion. |
| Good return | | 9:39am Monday 7th April 2008 | | RECORD results were referred to in Jacqui Smith's Letter from Westminster (Advertiser March 19) and she also made other comments concerning our schools. |
| Wartime base reunion planned | | 3:41pm Tuesday 1st April 2008 | | THE RAF St Eval Friends Reunited Association would like to contact all ex RAF St Eval personnel to invite them our next reunion at the Trebarwith Hotel, Newquay In October 2008. |
| Let’s be proud of our own hospital | | 3:41pm Tuesday 1st April 2008 | | WE regularly read and hear horror stories relating to individuals' experiences within our hospitals but rarely do we hear from those persons like myself who have good experiences. |
| Who made the payment decision | | 3:40pm Tuesday 1st April 2008 | | REGARDING the article about charges for attending Where Next in the March 26 edition, my son also attends Where Next to work. |
| Christianity can be life-changing | | 3:38pm Tuesday 1st April 2008 | | YOUR correspondent in Your view March 26 appears unable to distinguish for reasons best known to himself, between Christianity and religion. |
| Family just seeks a decent home | | 3:38pm Tuesday 1st April 2008 | | I MUST congratulate AT (Brockhill) on their letter of March 12 in response to Council a disgrace' on February 27. |
| Gratitude at freedom of speech | | 3:37pm Tuesday 1st April 2008 | | IN response to Mr Kirwan's letter last week where he belittles Scripture, rubbishes Jesus and presumes to tell us that early Christians were a bunch of dimwitted storytellers, may I point out that whether he likes it or not we still live in this country under a Christian constitution which - for hundreds of years - has given us democracy and freedom of speech
This is why people can write what they like about Jesus and the Bible without fear of reprisal. |
| Meningitis support is readily available | | 3:32pm Tuesday 1st April 2008 | | THE Meningitis Research Foundation is working in the West Midlands to help individuals and families whose lives have been affected by meningitis and septicaemia, the blood poisoning form of the disease. |
| Help needed now for the autistic | | 3:31pm Tuesday 1st April 2008 | | AS the parent of an adult with autism, I am very worried about what will happen to them as I grow older. |
| Where Next will ‘trainees’ find payment fee? | | 3:30pm Tuesday 1st April 2008 | | AS regards the article about people with learning difficulties being required to pay for their working with Where Next I find this, as with others, a disgrace how they - or should I say trainees' - are treated. |
| Loss of parking is major problem | | 3:30pm Tuesday 1st April 2008 | | CAN my wife and I add our support to Maurice Clarke's letter regarding the demolition of Car Park 7 and its replacement by a joint health centre. |
| Letter from Westminster | | 10:53am Tuesday 1st April 2008 | | THE government is setting out its plans for health checks for individuals this week. |
| Losing car park will bring chaos | | 10:04am Tuesday 25th March 2008 | | I WAS sorry to see that the prospective Conservative candidate, Karen Lumley, had brought along the Shadow Minister for Health to lend their support to a plan that would see the demolition of a town centre car park, (No 7), in order to make way for a proposed privately-owned medical centre in Church Road, Redditch. |
| Choir helps with singing at funerals | | 9:55am Tuesday 25th March 2008 | | I WAS pleased to see the article in last week's Advertiser about the wonderful new music system being installed in Redditch Crematorium. |
| Scriptures are urban myths | | 9:55am Tuesday 25th March 2008 | | IN response to J Merrick's comments on the relevant scriptures', I find J Merrick's certainties regarding the existence of Jesus let alone the nature of Jesus rather astonishing. |
| Boots ready for the Spring Walk | | 9:54am Tuesday 25th March 2008 | | I WOULD like to invite readers to take part in the Help the Aged Big Spring Walk which takes place between April 25 and 27. |
| Service we have grown to rely on | | 9:53am Tuesday 25th March 2008 | | WE were really impressed with the recent double page advertisment for a to b taxis' in the Advertiser. |
| Debate needed on binge drinking | | 9:53am Tuesday 25th March 2008 | | WITH the issue of binge drinking still high on the news agenda, it would be refreshing to see some discussion of why young people drink and what can be done about it. |
| Grab the steering wheel, ladies... | | 9:52am Tuesday 25th March 2008 | | I AM the community fundraiser in Worcester for Marie Curie Cancer Care and I am looking for any ladies out there who want to participate in our Ladies Driving Challenge. |
| Don’t keep on blaming youth | | 9:51am Tuesday 25th March 2008 | | WHILE reading through the Advertiser last week I couldn't help but notice yet another letter from Mrs Morley regarding the Morton Stanley skate park. |
| This award is a green fraud | | 9:51am Tuesday 25th March 2008 | | THE Worcestershire County Council was this month awarded a prize for its efforts in tackling climate change. Bravo green heroes!' you might declare from your armchair, as bus service cuts mean you can't go out after 7pm or on a Sunday. |
| Pull back the curtain... | | 11:58am Monday 17th March 2008 | | YOUR two reviewers, along with their counterparts nationwide, are fulsome in their praise for the two films - There Will be Blood' and No Country for Old Men'. |
| Can’t wait to spend remainder! | | 12:06pm Monday 17th March 2008 | | REDDITCH Borough Council are to be commended for their extreme generosity in allowing me to retain 37pence of my 2008 Pension increase of £5.12 awarded by the Government. |
| Amazed at all the rubbish | | 12:05pm Monday 17th March 2008 | | I RECENTLY called at Tesco's in Redditch to withdraw some money from their cash point on a Sunday evening after the store had closed and was amazed by the amount of rubbish that was around the cashpoint area and especially along the edge of the car park. |
| Council award is green fraud | | 12:04pm Monday 17th March 2008 | | WORCESTERSHIRE County Council was this month awarded a prize for its efforts in tackling climate change. "Bravo green heroes!" you might declare from your armchair, as bus service cuts mean you can't go out after 7pm or on a Sunday. |
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