http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/letters/ Latest from the online edition en-gb Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:22:56 +0000 Copyright (C) 2010 Clyde and Forth Press Ltd http://www.clydeandforthmedia.co.uk/feeds/ 54 http://www.clydeandforthmedia.co.uk/furniture/rc_logo_500x75.png http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/letters/ The northbound bus lay-by on the A327 near Whitley Wood Road is 3.1m wide, which is fine. But the one near the Elm Road junction is only 1.8m wide. This causes the bus to jut out sometimes, so the southbound traffic has to stop behind the bus. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/26/48107-letter-bringing-a-bus-load-of-troubles-/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/26/48107-letter-bringing-a-bus-load-of-troubles-/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:30:00 +0100 Opinion So the Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for mental health plans to cull east Berkshire’s 68 acute adult inpatient beds and to transfer most or all of the remaining 50 to west Berkshire’s purpose built, seven-year-old and beleaguered Prospect Park psychiatric hospital – claiming it will create “a centre of excellence”. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/26/48106-letter--join-the-fight-for-health-cuts-/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/26/48106-letter--join-the-fight-for-health-cuts-/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:30:00 +0100 Opinion The article on page 3 of The Chronicle’s sister paper, The Reading Midweek on August 18 about the proposed Vodafone antenna at Brock Barracks did not make any sense at all. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/26/48105-letter-dishing-out-homework/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/26/48105-letter-dishing-out-homework/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:30:00 +0100 Opinion At its most fundamental, ‘Big Society’ is, potentially at least, a reasonable concept and one with budding community cohesion merits. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/26/48103-letter-be-wary-before-we-clamber-into-trojan-horse-/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/26/48103-letter-be-wary-before-we-clamber-into-trojan-horse-/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:30:00 +0100 Opinion NOW in his recent column, Maurice O'Brien ('Some are more entitled to justice than others', Reading Chronicle, July 29) has got it right. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/06/47813-letter-time-to-stop-police-injustice/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/06/47813-letter-time-to-stop-police-injustice/ Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:15:00 +0100 Opinion I feel compelled to write to say 'very well said' to Anthony Crispin on his letter ('Leave Auntie alone', Chronicle, July 29). http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/06/47812-letter-if-only-maurice-obrien-were-on-television/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/06/47812-letter-if-only-maurice-obrien-were-on-television/ Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:30:00 +0100 Opinion (RE: 'No money' to expand primary, Chronicle, July 22) £1.6m of in year cuts to Reading Borough Council's budget were announced recently by the Conservative and Lib Dem Government. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/06/47814-letter-a-cut-with-farreaching-effects/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/06/47814-letter-a-cut-with-farreaching-effects/ Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:00:00 +0100 Opinion Spin doctors just keep on spinning, but Rob Wilson's spinning is just out of this world, his criticism of Reading Local Education Authority (Westminster Diary, Chronicle, July 29) flying in the face of so many facts. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/06/47816-letter-look-at-the-facts-before-you-spin/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/06/47816-letter-look-at-the-facts-before-you-spin/ Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:30:00 +0100 Opinion I'm hoping that your readers will be able to help me with some family history research. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/06/47815-letter-help-me-step-back-in-time/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/08/06/47815-letter-help-me-step-back-in-time/ Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:30:00 +0100 Opinion Maurice O'Brien, in his typically acerbic column (Reading Chronicle, July 15), was right to lambast Jonathan Ross, who treats interviewees like trampolines to bounce jokes off, and Alan Hansen, laziness personified as a football pundit. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/29/47675-letter-leave-auntie-alone-maurice/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/29/47675-letter-leave-auntie-alone-maurice/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:30:00 +0100 Opinion IT IS a personal tragedy for all the employees of our local PCT and Strategic Health Authority that both are set to be scrapped by 2013 (Chronicle, July 15) but good news for local taxpayers. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/22/47542-letter-personal-tragedy-but-a-public-gain/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/22/47542-letter-personal-tragedy-but-a-public-gain/ Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:30:00 +0100 Opinion I'D LIKE to say a big thank you to Sidmouth Ward at the Royal Berkshire Hospital for looking after me recently. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/21/47571-letter-a-heartfelt-thank-you-to-staff/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/21/47571-letter-a-heartfelt-thank-you-to-staff/ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:30:00 +0100 Opinion The Government has provided a stunning reply to my question on the levels of salaries paid to EU officials. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/20/47573-letter-can-the-office-junior-stop-this-eu-madness/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/20/47573-letter-can-the-office-junior-stop-this-eu-madness/ Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:30:00 +0100 Opinion TWO years on from the Chatham Street roundabout closure plans - and still no compromise. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/20/47572-letter-lets-not-go-round-this-one-again/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/20/47572-letter-lets-not-go-round-this-one-again/ Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:30:00 +0100 Opinion ARE we the only ones who object to young children being allowed to stand in supermarket trolleys? http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/15/47473-letter-parents-are-off-their-trolleys/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/15/47473-letter-parents-are-off-their-trolleys/ Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:00:00 +0100 Opinion I would like to express my thanks for the many years of entertainment that Alison Powell has given me with her Keeping It In The Family column. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/15/47444-letter-we-have-felt-like-a-part-of-your-family/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/15/47444-letter-we-have-felt-like-a-part-of-your-family/ Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:00:00 +0100 Opinion You reported Theresa May's decision to scrap Labour's "policing pledge", and in particular the guarantee that police officers would spend at least 80% of their time on the beat ('Theresa throws out policing pledge', Chronicle, July 1) http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/08/47373-letter-police-will-still-be-bound-in-red-tape/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/08/47373-letter-police-will-still-be-bound-in-red-tape/ Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0100 Opinion Daisy Benson has U-turned on her commitment to social care eligibility, writes Cllr Pete Ruhemann http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/08/47362-letter-take-care-about-switching-daisy/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/08/47362-letter-take-care-about-switching-daisy/ Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0100 Opinion It is a real tragedy (and a huge false economy) for Reading Borough Council to cut the funding of Connexions by £317,000. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/08/47367-letter-make-the-right-connexions/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/08/47367-letter-make-the-right-connexions/ Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:00:00 +0100 Opinion There is fierce opposition to the proposed windfarm on the Reading University land known as Rushy Mead. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/08/47364-letter-reservoir-dogs-wind-farm-plan/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/08/47364-letter-reservoir-dogs-wind-farm-plan/ Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:00:00 +0100 Opinion I read with interest your report "Ofsted praise for borough" (Chronicle, June 24) because it illustrates the improvements made and successes achieved by schools in Reading in recent years. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/01/47256-letter-schools-report-card/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/01/47256-letter-schools-report-card/ Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0100 Opinion May I express my thanks to the unknown 'guerilla gardener' who has taken time out to beautify the West Reading Horse Trough, located on Bedford Road near Central Swimming Pool? http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/01/47259-letter-blooming-lovely-horse-trough/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/01/47259-letter-blooming-lovely-horse-trough/ Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0100 Opinion WHILE most public sector services face draconian cutbacks it is an added bonus that our mental health services have been given a £70m boost (Chronicle, June 24). http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/01/47257-letter-a-real-shock-to-the-system/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/01/47257-letter-a-real-shock-to-the-system/ Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0100 Opinion I KNOW the recession is still hurting us here, and there are loads of businesses closing down. http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/01/47258-letter-dont-scrap-the-scrapyards/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/07/01/47258-letter-dont-scrap-the-scrapyards/ Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:00:00 +0100 Opinion AS a young person, I'm feeling aggrieved by the freebies enjoyed by the elderly in this country that seem to be protected from cuts - just because the elderly vote in such large numbers! http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/06/10/46926-letter-oldies-get-the-pleasure-young-get-the-pain/ http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/roundup/articles/2010/06/10/46926-letter-oldies-get-the-pleasure-young-get-the-pain/ Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:00:00 +0100 Opinion