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Use the "Add your comment" form at the end of each letter to have your say on the subject.| Whose money is it, anyway? | | 9:28am Thursday 17th July 2008 | | SIR - Mr Thornber, leader of HCC, never seems to tire of defending the accusations of extravagance by his administration. He certainly has had lots of practice. |
| Misled over PO till availability | | 9:27am Thursday 17th July 2008 | | SIR - A few months ago I attended the public meeting in the Guildhall regarding the transfer of the main post office to the WH Smith store. |
| I see no ‘slackers’ at the county | | 9:26am Thursday 17th July 2008 | | SIR - In your article on county councillors' expenses (Chronicle, July 3), you quoted the opinion of Mrs Christine Melsom that a register of attendance at full council and committee would quickly identify "the hard workers and the slackers". In fact it would do no such thing. |
| Aldi more welcome in current climate? | | 9:25am Thursday 17th July 2008 | | SIR - Could it be that the delay in starting the Waitrose store in Weeke (Chronicle, July 10) is because they have been hit by the credit crunch and are shelving the project, like so many builders are doing at present? | | Reader comment (1) |
| Not all for social housing Mr Tod | | 3:47pm Wednesday 9th July 2008 | | SIR - I read Martin Tod's letter about the police headquarters (Chronicle letters, July 3) with great interest and agree with all that he said. |
| What about the North Walls gully? | | 3:47pm Wednesday 9th July 2008 | | SIR - There has been correspondence in the Hampshire Chronicle recently about the county council failing to empty a gully. |
| Packaging waste is growing problem | | 3:46pm Wednesday 9th July 2008 | | SIR - I wonder how many other householders were astounded to read in Winchester City Council's latest edition of Perspectives that "the council's alternate bin collection has proved to be a great hit with residents"? |
| A message already understood | | 3:45pm Wednesday 9th July 2008 | | SIR - Recent correspondence in your columns suggested that the council implements processes that are excessively complex, at our expense. |
| Please leave memorial intact | | 3:43pm Wednesday 9th July 2008 | | SIR - Next to little Olivia Gallienne's memorial bench, in St John's churchyard, Alresford, there is a small plot for a few plants. |
| Uncollected sacks attract maggots | | 3:57pm Wednesday 25th June 2008 | | SIR - On Friday night, June 20, we came home from a night out to be greeted with the disgusting sight of maggots all over our front garden, over the two wheelie bins and the front door mat. |
| Council’s unbending stance over rents ‘disappointing’ | | 3:55pm Wednesday 25th June 2008 | | SIR - With reference to your story regarding traders quitting Winchester city centre (Chronicle, June 19), there does continue to be a disappointing dichotomy between landlords' rental expectations and market realities. |
| Spend cash on ground, not in air | | 3:53pm Wednesday 25th June 2008 | | SIR - Hampshire Police say there are 81 vacancies they cannot fill due to lack of money (Chronicle, June 19). |
| Alarming report on hospital admissions | | 3:52pm Wednesday 25th June 2008 | | SIR - Your report, June 19, that the RHCH was running at 94 per cent occupancy throughout last winter (max recommended 85 per cent) alarms me as a retired ENT surgeon. |
| How can this rent rise be justified? | | 3:51pm Wednesday 25th June 2008 | | SIR - I trust the landlords who own the shop that Sussex Stationers traded from are duly pleased with themselves, being that another worthwhile retailer has had to quit Winchester due to ludicrous rents. |
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