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21:30 > Friday 12th March 2010

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Price of pavement

SIR – I have been reading the correspondence and articles relating to the St Albans Shrove Tuesday pancake race and have been getting increasingly frustrated. It seems to me that everybody is missing the point. I have lived in the area for nearly 30 years... Full Letter »

Officer power

SIR – Barrie Mort asks Who s in charge? (Letters, Herts Advertiser, February 25). When it comes to planning matters – the officers. The evidence? David Edwards, the council s Principal Legal Executive (Common Law), December 28, 2006, commenting on a pla... Full Letter »

Parking plight

SIR – I would like to bring to your readers attention the significantly above inflation rises that the Liberal Democrat-led St Albans City and District Council has applied to resident parking permits in St Albans. In the district council s budget they ha... Full Letter »

Platform peril

SIR – The article by Aimee Brannen (Children trapped as train pulls out, Herts Advertiser, February 25) brought back some bad memories. On Friday, June 27, 2008 at Radlett station exactly the same thing happened to my daughter, who was with my wife and so... Full Letter »

Free parking case

SIR – There appears to be considerable concern about the health of local shopping in Harpenden. One solution, much touted by local politicians and, apparently, the local shopkeepers is for two-hour free parking, instead of the current one-hour free parkin... Full Letter »

The great God debate continues

SIR – Ms Munday asks why I pray. I didn t say in my letter that I do! Actually I do, if not for compelling reasons. I find that it helps me to view life from the viewpoint of any good God that may exist, leading me to change my inherently selfish attitud... Full Letter »

Excess signage

SIR – I wonder what message is portrayed by the array of for sale signs in front of Old Mile House Court? At first sight I doubt if prospective buyers would be attracted. In fact I suggest the opposite might apply. To see eight boards at the front of a... Full Letter »

Unssen apology

SIR – At last Anne Main has been forced to provide a written apology for her expenses claims. Not to us her constituents of course, but to the House of Commons. So I decided last week to submit a Freedom of Information request to check that she had actual... Full Letter »

Knights of the road

SIR – Through the columns of your paper I would like to say a big thank you for the kindness of two lovely gentlemen who separately stopped to help my daughter and I who had run out of petrol and broken down in a very dangerous position in the middle of t... Full Letter »

Budgetary issues

SIR – Regarding the article by Mary Brosnan (Village tax rebate bid, in Herts Advertiser, February 25) it seems that there is some confusion about what is a budget and what are accounts. A budget shows the proposed income and expenditure for a year and th... Full Letter »

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