Harrow Observer - News - Letters to the Editor

Citizenship is an occasion

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

Ignoring our wishes on lines

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

No cash for a playground

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Phone recycle breaks record

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Steering clear of jargon

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

We care about the NHS

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

Awful that rape is norm

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Flat-packs hack me off

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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?

I'd love to see football team scrapbook

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

No need for a supermarket

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Plea to fight this appeal

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Utter cheek of the Tories

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Just admit it's a good budget

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Still waiting for a response

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

The residents aren't laughing

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

These claims are untrue

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Will people use smart kits?

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

An unhealthy proposition

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Champion? I don't think so

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

NEIGHBOURHOOD Watch Champion? Champion of what?

Keep Harrow under control

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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'.