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Your View
Penny-pinching from elderly, sick and disabled
REGARDING the Letter from Roy Walters in the Dispatch of February 3, headed ‘Only Thing Cameron Knows About Poverty Is How To Distribute It’. I agree.
Thanks for backing pet-food appeal
ON BEHALF of Kirkby Cats Home and the Puppies animal rescue centre at Bestwood Village, I would like to thank everyone who donated to my Christmas pet-food appeal. It was very well supported.
How Hucknall will suffer if new houses are built
EVERY day on my way home from work, I pass through Gedling and along Mapperley Top. There is an old pit site with nothing built on it, along Mapperley Top, towards the Travellers Rest pub. There are fields with nothing in them but weeds and rubble.
Selfish drivers are ignoring the rules at Duke Street junction
WHAT is happening at the Duke Street exit on to High Street in Hucknall?
Name of business centre should reflect history of Beardall buildings
I READ with interest the article in the Dispatch of January 27 on the proposed business centre taking shape on Duke Street, Hucknall.
Horrified by drunken mum hurling abuse at her child
WHILE walking through Hucknall town centre the other day, I was stopped in my tracks, horrified by the sight of what I am assuming was a mother, talking to, or rather screaming obscenities at, her young infant.
Sentences should be heavier for animal abuse
HOW horrendous and upsetting for all animal lovers and caring people to see the ‘Horror On The Farm’ in the Dispatch recently.
Doctors’ surgeries and schools would become overloaded
IN REPLY to the comments of Coun Mick Murphy (Con) in last week’s Dispatch regarding the proposal by Gedling Borough Council to allow houses to be built at Top Wighay Farm (‘Summit To Thrash Out Plans To Build Thousands Of Homes’).
We need to protect our land from overbuilding
I AM writing to the Dispatch about the exclusive by Martin Hutton in the Dispatch (‘Summit To Thrash Out Plans To Build Thousands Of Homes’).
Forest owner was great ambassador
I WAS very sad to hear of the death of Nigel Doughty (owner of Nottingham Forest who was found dead at his home last weekend).
Housing plans on this scale would strangle Hucknall
IN LAST week’s Dispatch, Coun Mick Murphy (Con) urged the residents of Hucknall to ‘fight with all their might’ (‘Summit To Thrash Out Plans For Thousands Of Homes’).
Are we set for rise in council tax?
THE last instalments for last year’s council tax have been paid and we await this year’s demands.
Helping hedgehogs and other wildlife through the winter
MY name is Wendy Radford and I run the Cedar Wildlife Sanctuary in Kirkby-in-Ashfield with my partner Phil.
Only thing Cameron knows about poverty is how to distribute it
REGARDING the front-page story in the Dispatch of January 6, headed ‘Freezing To Death’, which was about pensioners in Hucknall and the rest of Ashfield dying at a faster rate than anywhere else in Nottinghamshire because they are struggling to keep warm in winter.
Government should have the bottle to stop big bonuses
DOESN’T it make you wonder why we get involved in conflicts and issues affecting other countries when here at home, we have an unelected House Of Lords voting on issues and laws being put forward by an unelected government?
Is the Rolls-Royce jobs scheme just a cynical ploy?
WITH regard to recent Dispatch front-page story, entitled ‘Just The Job’, and the plan to create 800 jobs at the Rolls-Royce site in Hucknall.
1 commentDarts donation much appreciated
WE would like to thank everyone at Hucknall Mixed Darts League for the donation of food for stray and abandoned dogs here at Babbington Rescue in Awsworth.
Bin men should return to the ways of the 1960s
I GREW up in the 1960s in rural North Nottinghamshire when the bin men came once a week, came up the path to collect the bin and always banged the bottom to make sure it was empty.
New road junction lights the way for frustrated congestion-hit motorists
THE subject of my letter is the newly-completed junction of Forest Lane with Mansfield Road at Papplewick, but in particular the engineer who programmed the controls of the traffic lights.
1 commentBoost flagging market by having three a week
THE obvious answer to save Hucknall Market is to increase it from one to two or three days a week (last week’s Dispatch: ‘Internet Shopping And Superstores A Threat To Market’).
Inner bypass will take the heart out of Hucknall
WHAT a brilliant plan! Build the inner bypass and then all roads lead to Tesco, pave the High Street to allow more taxi parking.
How many men does it take to change a lamp-post?....
HERE is a genuine question for our competent and efficient council. How many men does it take to change a light bulb? Or rather, how many hundreds of pounds can the council waste by installing a lamp-post outside my Hucknall home?
Thanks for festive support during tough economic times
ON BEHALF of the members of the Hucknall Rotary Club, I would like to thank, as ever, the people of the town for their astonishing generosity at a time when pressures on their own incomes are severe.
Fun-filled Christmas down to Linby Parish Council and pub
LINBY Parish Council has received many comments on how wonderful the village looked during the Christmas period.
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Weather for Hucknall
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: 10 C to 16 C
Wind Speed: 15 mph
Wind direction: South west
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: 3 C to 12 C
Wind Speed: 13 mph
Wind direction: West
