Thanks to all Alec's friends

THANK you from the family of Alec Spence.Read

Championing light cause

THE leaflet encouraging recruitment to the Harrow Neighbourhood Champions mentions that reporting non-working street lights is a suitable task for volunteers.Read

Excuses are all rubbish

HAVING just read a very poor excuse from Susan Hall as to why our rubbish hasn't been collected for the last few weeks, I would like to ask her why our newspaper was delivered every day during the snow.Read

Happy days in our road

A LETTER in a recent Harrow Observer involved childhood memories of the man with a barrel organ outside Bridge School.Read

Library posers for council

IN THE Harrow Observer of January 14, Philip Loveland-Cooper, head of corporate estate at Harrow Council, is reported as saying that the former library is being demolished and that the site will be used as a base for the road improvement works which are due to start in Station Road next month.Read

Sad Grove Park is to go

ON DECEMBER 31 you published the statutory notice for the closure of Grove Park Special School, which has provided a high standard of education for pupils who have physical disabilities since 1968.Read

We did our best in snow

I WOULD like to lay to rest some of the misunderstandings and - in some cases politically driven - distortions about Harrow Council and its gritting operation.Read

We need grit, not Hall's PR

MANY of your readers must be getting heartily sick of hearing and seeing Councillor Susan Hall on national radio and television blaming everybody but herself for the failure of the council to grit our side roads and pavements.Read

A fine example

IT WAS with reHOef that I saw Sunday's much anticipated anti-mosque demonstration turn from feared civil disorder to the equivalent of a noisy row in a car park.Read

Good calculations

I FEEL very proud of being a part of the administration which has so successfully turned the council from a low level of performance inherited in 2006 - almost bankrupt and performing inadequately - to a situation now where its financial reserves have quadrupled, and has been judged as 'performing well' by the Audit Commission. Read

Pause for thought

AT THIS time of year we think of Jesus Christ, who was born in poverty but devoted his HOfe to the service of others.Read

Well managed

WE ARE relieved that the demonstration against Harrow Central Mosque went off without any incident. Read

An unhappy compromise

GOOD news for once - the Metropolitan Police have stated that they want to modernise the Peel Centre in Colindale and release the land containing the running track and several playing fields.Read

Caring about their plight

IT IS hard to open a newspaper without reading about some kind of violent attack.Read

Eid event an inspiration

I WISH to extend my sincere thanks on behalf of the Harrow Muslim Council for a very successful conclusion of the Eid-ul-Adha event held at Harrow High School on December 5.Read

On a promise for £80million

THE photo of a dated cheque that appeared in your paper (Scandal school to be rebuilt, page 2, Wembley Observer, December 3) may have given readers the impression that Brent has received £80million to rebuild four schools.Read

Public way to show respect

OUR resolve for peace, dignity and unity will be tested this Sunday.Read

United stand against hatred

AS LEADERS of the Jewish community in Harrow, we are writing to express our support for our Muslim friends and neighbours, especially those at Harrow Central Mosque, who are under attack from those whoseRead

Anyone got a film projector

I TAUGHT English and was in charge of the school library at Nower Hill High School from 1971 to 1979.Read

Don't be lonely at Christmas

CHRISTMAS may be one of the most difficult times of the year for people with ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) to cope with their awful illness.Read

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