Citizenship is an occasion

I MOVED to the UK from Bangladesh in 1965 to work in the financial sector; first living in London, then Tring in Hertfordshire. Read

Ignoring our wishes on lines

A MEETING of the West Harrow Residents' Group last Friday evening that I attended revealed some interesting opinions from the residents about the new double yellow lines that have suddenly appeared around street corners all across West Harrow ward.Read

No cash for a playground

SO HARROW residents have a zero per cent council tax rise - good news - well, maybe. But I can't help wondering what we're going to lose as a result.Read

Phone recycle breaks record

I WORK in the Scope shop in Harrow and would like to say a massive thank-you to everyone who helped us break the world record for recycling mobile phones back in January.Read

Steering clear of jargon

YOUR readers may have seen that Harrow Council has been praised nationally for steering clear of jargon and local government gobbledegook.Read

We care about the NHS

ANOTHER week, another untruthful statement from Labour to be corrected.Read

Awful that rape is norm

I WAS horrified to read Tara Brady's report 'Policing communities where sexual violence against girls is the norm' a week before International Women's Day on March 8.Read

Flat-packs hack me off

DOES anyone else get as hacked off as I do these days when you want to buy a piece of furniture and it comes flat-packed?Read

I'd love to see football team scrapbook

THIS is the very successful senior Harrow Weald Football team, which competed in the Harrow and Wembley league for many years.Read

No need for a supermarket

I READ with interest your article in the Harrow Observer of September 23, 2009 about Tesco and its campaign to flood the country with small shops which are of little use to most people.Read

Plea to fight this appeal

THE residents in our part of Harrow, who joined thousands of others in signing a petition last year, have been appalled to learn of the appeal by Dandara against the decision of Harrow Council to refuse planning permission for a disproportionate and incongruous development on the site of 51 College Road. Read

Utter cheek of the Tories

I CANNOT believe the utter cheek of the Conservatives for presuming they don't need to put the ground work in before a general election campaign.Read

Just admit it's a good budget

YOUR article on Harrow Council's budget meeting (February 25) shows residents just how desperate the Labour and Liberal Democrat groups are getting in their attacks on the most detailed and prudent budget this council has ever produced.Read

Still waiting for a response

I HAVE been following with interest the debate about neighbourhood champions for Harrow as I already report problems to the council.Read

The residents aren't laughing

I AM replying to the letter concerning Neighbourhood Champions from Councillor Jeremy Zeid (Keep Harrow under control, Harrow Observer, February 25).Read

These claims are untrue

I WAS shocked and disappointed to hear Labour councillors using the recent council meeting to repeat the untruthful claims in some of their literature that Conservatives would cut Sure Start and Children's Centres. This is quite simply not true.Read

Will people use smart kits?

RE: 'COUNCIL'S smart way to foil thieves,' Harrow Observer, February 25.Read

An unhealthy proposition

RECENTLY, more than 75 councils, including Harrow, expressed concern that the government's proposals in its Personal Care at Home Bill are unclear and unfunded. Further, these proposals are likely to lead to significant negative effects on existing local services, including possible cuts, as well as forcing up council tax.Read

Champion? I don't think so

NEIGHBOURHOOD Watch Champion? Champion of what?Read

Keep Harrow under control

I NEARLY sprayed my coffee after Bill Stephenson's proclamation that Labour would have spent the £100,000 earmarked for the Neighbourhood Champions scheme on, wait for it, 'cleaning up graffiti' and, oh yes, 'fixing potholes'.Read

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