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It's sadder than ever

9:17am Friday 5th February 2010

RE: The planning approval granted in principle last week to Sainsbury’s to take over the site occupied by Waitrose in West Street, Marlow.

ON January 21 at Hazlemere Park Parade, I was walking to meet my husband in the Co-Op when I came over all unnecessary. As I was leaning against the wall, walking stick in hand, a lot of people passed me, some looked at me, others ignored me.

Met Office isn't the only weather service

9:03am Friday 5th February 2010

RE: Anthony Weeden’s letter of January 22 – “Met’s forecasting was just a bad joke”.

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This is not the right path to saving money

9:04am Friday 5th February 2010

THE Ramblers are dismayed by the threat to cut Buckinghamshire County Council’s budget for the maintenance of public paths by £68,000 (‘Overgrown country paths warning over Buckinghamshire County Council cuts’, Bucks Free Press website, January 28).

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One-way system is damaging our trade

9:07am Friday 5th February 2010

RE: The criticism of town councillors Bill Bendyshe-Brown and Carl Etholen by their chairman Alan Turner after they changed their minds and opposed the one-way traffic system in Princes Risborough. At a meeting last week, Cllr Turner pointed out that the council had previously undergone two years of consultation before going ahead with the move and accused Cllr Bendyshe-Brown of not working as a ‘team member’. Cllr Bendyshe-Brown responds below:

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Your support for Haiti has been so generous

9:14am Friday 5th February 2010

FOLLOWING the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) launched its appeal in the UK to provide emergency aid to the three million people who have been affected by the disaster.

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Will they wait until another child is hurt?

8:57am Friday 5th February 2010

I WAS interested by the comments about the great spread of potholes following the recent inclement weather.

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Tell me why you did not grit our roads

8:59am Friday 5th February 2010

OPEN letter to the customer services department at Buckinghamshire County Council.

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Conference was like expensive Xmas party

9:01am Friday 5th February 2010

AS predicted in my earlier letter, the Copenhagen Global Warming Conference was little more than a very expensive Xmas party at the taxpayers’ expense. In addition, Gordon Brown, who is always very generous with taxpayers’ money, donated £1.5billion to the European climate fund as an extra Xmas present.

Are other snowy areas as potty?

10:28am Friday 29th January 2010

WHILE driving with my 16-year-old daughter, in an erratic fashion as I attempted to avoid potholes in Hazlemere, she asked me a very pertinent question.