Letter: The miners’ strike was never about money but about keeping British miners in work. Mrs Thatcher’s government started importing cheap coal from Poland.
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Letter: Where is local policing?
Letter: I want to ask West Mercia Police, where is the local policing in Shrewsbury? What about the so-called Policing Pledge we see so widely advertised on television?
Letter: MMR jab and privacy
Letter: People berate Tony Blair for refusing to divulge whether or not his children had been given the MMR vaccine, but Mr Blair’s children have a right of patient confidentiality.
Letter: Knowledge is a dangerous thing
Letter: The Human Rights Act was a good idea but it has become an absolute disaster as far as decent, honest people are concerned.
Letter: How to settle our debts
Letter: Many people ask why we donate £50 million to the relief of Haiti when we cannot even look after those at home.
Letter: No change for hospital parking
Letter: I tried to change a £10 note to pay for parking at the Princess Royal Hospital. An assistant told me: “We are not changing your £10. I am sick to death of people coming in here for change.”
Letter: Just wait for the summer
Letter: So, a quarter of the British people, according to a recent poll, believe there is no global warming, regardless of the cause. I wonder by how much that fraction will fall if we have a hot summer.
Letter: Fresh look at charity?
Letter: I am beginning to think the whole business of charity needs to be examined.
Letter: Streets not safe for the police?
Letter: Over a thousand police officers claim on Facebook that Britain’s streets are not safe to patrol alone.
Letter: What are the true jobless figures?
Letter: I keep hearing that the recession is over and that unemployment has dropped, but what are the true unemployment figures? What about the invisible unemployed numbers such as myself.
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