Easy way to help out cancer charity

WORLD Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) is urging people to send their old mobiles, MP3 players and other electrical equipment - including sat navs, digital cameras, laptops and even printer and toner cartridges - for recycling to help raise valuable funds for our cancer prevention work.Read

Epileptics: Accept no substitutions

MAY I appeal to your readers to support the National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) in making sure the government exempts all anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) from its proposals to implement cheaper generic versions of prescription drugs.Read

Enterprise team lit up our Christmas

ON BEHALF of Runnymede Alzheimer's Society (The 3B's Club), I would like to thank Ed Spitzer and his team from Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Egham for the brilliant presents that the members of our Alzheimer's Club received for Christmas.Read

Library shut? Try the real world...

KELLY Rose Bradford's piece on the opening hours of her local Surrey Library on January 7 was just what the hard-working library workers in Surrey needed to hear. No, really.Read

People do care about democracy

MY WIFE and I attended the Spelthorne Conservatives open primary, at which borough voters of all persuasion were able to choose the Conservative candidate for the general election.Read

Pubcos strangling the good old local

YOUR story on the closures of local pubs, including The Vine Inn at Chertsey and The Victoria in Woodham, was a timely reminder of the loss of important community assets across the country.Read

Advertising their own stupidity?

IN WALTON High Street and Church Street after the snow, the untreated pavements thawed near the buildings, giving an ice-free path up to about 1.2 metres wide, that's about 4ft to anyone with a senior bus pass.Read

Borough did not 'grind to a halt'

I WAS extremely frustrated and disappointed to read your front page article on the snow.Read

Orchard delivered a valuable lesson

WHEN I awoke the other day to see the snow, I thought, 'oh no, that'll be the school shut for the rest of the week'.Read

School closed? I blame the parents

THE recent snowfall has caused complications for us all. However, as a hard-working teacher, it angers me when I hear the complaints of parents who suggest that schools closed for no good reason.Read

Stanwell needs its village car park

A2DOMINION'S second application to build on Stanwell village car park was rejected by the planning committee on January 6.Read

Spelthorne: an 'excellent' service

THANKS are due to our excellent staff who have kept frontline services going over the last few days and weeks through thick and thin. They are to be congratulated on making aRead

Help the aged is low on donations

I AM asking readers to urgently visit their local Age Concern and Help the Aged charity shops and give generously, to stop them losing funds because of the cold snap.Read

Park is crying out for a dog poo bin

THE committee of Hersham Residents' Association is concerned that there is no 'poop scoop' facility for dogs at the Thrupps Lane entrance to the Riverside Park.Read

Playing politics with the planet

I HAVE read with interest the letters 'Global warming: a man made problem' and 'Global warming: don't blame plants' in your January 7 issue, in response to my letter of the previous week.Read

Rotarians' thanks for festive giving

MEMBERS of the Rotary Club of Shepperton Aurora toured the streets of Shepperton for the three weeks before Christmas, complete with Father Christmas and his sleigh, collecting buckets and sweets for children.Read

Stanwell digs the extraction limits

IT WAS gratifying to read Russell Butt's article in the News of December 21, that Surrey County Council has won a reduction in mineral extraction targets.Read

Tread softly in this sensitive subject

I AM writing with regard to an article you wrote on December 30: 'Surrey children are still too fat'.Read

Very last word on spelthorne plans

COUNCILLOR R Ainsley-Smith criticises me for not attending today's planning committee meetings, being unaware of my physical difficulty in reaching and sitting in the visitors' gallery.Read

Global warming: a man made problem

I FIND it truly depressing to read letters like that from Cllr Pinkerton which suggests that global warming is not overwhelmingly man made 'A debate that's short on facts' - letters 30 December.Read

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