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Council hopeful quits Lib Dems over High Speed 2

10:30am Saturday 30th March 2013

Your correspondents (letters March 15) highlight the impact of the HS2 issue on this year’s (May 2) county council elections.

Big thank you to kind stranger

3:00pm Friday 29th March 2013

Not all of us are simpletons

10:00am Friday 29th March 2013

I have just read Graham Smith’s letter in the BFP (March 15) where he labels local councillors ‘simpletons’.

United to fight epilepsy

12:00am Wednesday 27th March 2013

Congratulations to everyone in Beaconsfield involved in opening the Epilepsy Society’s new research centre in South Bucks.

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Don’t go parking mad... part two

12:00am Monday 25th March 2013

Some more hints and tips for simpletons (local councillors).

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This is a major win for those opposing the HS2 scheme

12:00am Monday 25th March 2013

Re: Open letter to Buckinghamshire residents regarding the legal challenge to HS2

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There is nothing tangible to show for expenditure

12:00am Monday 25th March 2013

The letter of March 15 from Mr Will Bailey, which comments on my letter of February 22, is representative of an existing mindset and where there are apparent difficulties in absorbing the costing liabilities of the HS2 project.

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High Speed in Bucks will require two tunnels

12:00am Monday 25th March 2013

This image that was used on Page 14 of the March 15 edition of the BFP, to illustrate the HS2 correspondence, is seriously misleading.

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Can we please have a more realistic reaction?

12:00am Monday 25th March 2013

Now the StopHS2Alliance folks have had nine out of ten of their Judicial Review applications thrown out, can we please have a more realistic reaction to the HS2 project. With the national Cross-Party support for HS2, they are going to build the railway, aren’t they?

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I can’t withdraw from this climate contest

12:00am Sunday 24th March 2013

I UNDERSTAND C A Wharton’s exasperation at the relentlessness of the Weeden-Alexander dingdong on climate change. His outburst (“Bickering over climate change wastes space”, March 8) comes after a six-week spell that saw four lengthy letters from Mr Weeden and two comparatively short ones from me. Mr Wharton’s exasperation is matched by mine at the unevenness of the playing field!

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A parent’s perspective: The future looks bright

12:00am Saturday 23rd March 2013

Re: A Marlow Free Press story last week outlined how Little Marlow CE School requires special measures.

I have seen no evidence of a Day of Judgement

12:51pm Friday 22nd March 2013

Is it not perhaps time to draw to a close the battle about gay marriage waged in your columns between the Rev Peter Simpson and various other correspondents, including myself?

PM must get message

12:00am Thursday 21st March 2013

JOHN Fletcher is absolutely right (March 8). The Conservative Party has been ramming HS2 down the throats of its formerly loyal supporters throughout the Chilterns for nearly three years. Enough is enough. UKIP is the only national political party to have opposed HS2 right from the start. This year’s council elections provide local people with an opportunity to send the clearest possible anti HS2 message to Mr Cameron. It’s vital he gets the message there are no longer any ‘safe’ Tory seats along the HS2 route. Only the election of UKIP county councillors on 2nd May will deliver that message loud and clear.

Politicians should see project’s opportunities

12:00am Wednesday 20th March 2013

IS James Boyle not paying any attention to the details of the HS2 [“HS2 costs are ignored” - February 22]?

It’s better to fight HS2 from inside rather than quit

12:00am Tuesday 19th March 2013

JOHN Fletcher (Letters; BFP March 8 2013, headline “All major parties need a kicking over HS2”) can’t have it both ways. In a democracy, unless any or all of the major parties put up candidates at elections, there’ll otherwise be no opportunity for voters to deliver their verdict.

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Smokers leave such a mess outside hospital

12:00am Monday 18th March 2013

I WAS absolutely appalled at the amount of cigarette ends littering the entrance to the John Radcliffe Hospital yesterday morning [March 4]!

It’s a public service to run climate letters

12:00am Sunday 17th March 2013

THERE is reason to sympathise with the correspondents who complain about the perpetual bickering in your columns over catastrophic man-made climate warming. Religious belief is generally not a suitable topic for debate in a local newspaper.

Debate wastes space

12:00am Sunday 17th March 2013

RE: ‘Bickering over climate change wastes space’ – last week’s letters page.

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It’s common sense, and Lord Heseltine agrees

12:00am Saturday 16th March 2013

I FULLY support the views expressed in last week’s editorial, which outlined the case for merging our county and district councils into a unitary authority. It’s sheer common sense.

Don’t go parking mad

12:00am Saturday 16th March 2013

PARKING for Simpletons (local councillors): In advance of the May elections, one or two tips to make life easier for residents in Beaconsfield and the local area – l it should be free for 30 minutes to help local shops; l fining residents for parking outside their own house is ludicrous; l work with Chiltern Railways for the benefit of residents AND commuters; l parking is a public amenity not a stealth tax!!

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Redefining marriage is an attack on our faith

11:39am Friday 15th March 2013

I RESPOND courteously to the case put for same-sex marriage (ssm) by Benjamin King (BFP March 1). His reference to Oscar Wilde and Alan Turing is not relevant to the argument, because we are not discussing the criminalisation of homosexuality, but the abolition of the Christian definition of marriage.

Why are our buses just not showing up?

11:42am Friday 15th March 2013

EXTRACTS of an open letter sent last week to Arriva.

Public witnessed true democracy at work

12:00am Thursday 14th March 2013

WE residents of Grove Road, Beaconsfield wish to thank and commend the majority of South Bucks District Council councillors who, at their planning committee meeting in Capswood on February 20th covering a proposed development in Grove Road, spoke up strongly for both themselves and their SBDC constituents to oppose the plan.

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We are now a nation of nosey parkers

12:00am Wednesday 13th March 2013

LIKE Colin Baker [Look Who’s Talking column last week], I too am irritated by private companies wanting to know details about me that they have no right to know. I recommend that he uses the Chris Huhne method – lie. If it’s not Government asking (and they tend to know everything about you anyway), then it’s not a problem.

Why can’t we just copy Folkestone?

12:00am Tuesday 12th March 2013

RE Ivor’s comments about Frogmoor and other reports over a period of time, I send you photographs of the fountain in Folkestone.

Let’s have a better flag

12:00am Tuesday 12th March 2013

IT is nice to see that Wycombe District Council/Marlow Town Council have seen fit to fly the Union Flag near Marlow Bridge on a “semi-permanent” basis, but surely one or other of them could afford to buy a new flag, instead of the tatty specimen which is currently adorning the pole.

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All major parties need a kicking over HS2

12:00am Monday 11th March 2013

AS the county council elections loom, the first political flyer has come through my door. It is from my local Conservative candidate, Sonia Brock. She stresses her opposition to HS2 and adds that she has been lobbying senior Tories against it.

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Nature holds whip hand

12:00am Sunday 10th March 2013

ERIC Alexander and his fellow ‘warmists’ overlook Ice Core evidence which holds the key to present-day global warming.

Climate change argument is pointless

12:00am Sunday 10th March 2013

I READ, yet again, that Messrs Weeden and Alexander are exchanging views regarding climate change, as reported in the Bucks Free Press (March 1).

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Stop schoolboy insults

12:00am Sunday 10th March 2013

WHETHER it is through the medium of television or the newspapers I enjoy reading contrasting views on topical subjects. This is irrespective of whether I share the views presented.

Bickering over climate change wastes space

12:00am Sunday 10th March 2013

AM I the only person who is totally fed up when I turn to the letters page each week to see the usual letters from Anthony Weeden and Eric Alexander bickering with each other over the evidence or otherwise for climate change.

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Curb driving on kerbs

12:00am Saturday 9th March 2013

STOKENCHURCH last year again was voted the best kept village, but... there is always a but!

Closure of A&Es at hospitals is shameful

11:22am Friday 8th March 2013

THE letter from Den Biscoe (February 22 – “Is Government slowly dismantling the NHS?”) highlights the intention of the present Government to privatise and dismantle the NHS.

A pension bombshell

12:00am Thursday 7th March 2013

NEW rules have been published implying that as much as £70,000 of workers’ state pensions will disappear. Workers in the private sector will be bombshelled when the Government brings in its flat rate £144 payment.

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Cancer victim’s insurer was acting correctly

12:00am Wednesday 6th March 2013

RE: The Marlow Free Press story, February 15, which told how cancer victim Robert Cade lost out on thousands of pounds due to a ‘technicality’ on his insurance policy after his home was burgled. The insurers refused to pay anything after it transpired the family’s valuables were worth much more than the amount permitted by the policy.

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Raise fines for drivers who use mobile phones

12:00am Tuesday 5th March 2013

USING mobile phones whilst driving was made illegal in December 2003. Yet the number of drivers flouting this law seems to be increasing on a daily basis.

How did animals die?

12:00am Monday 4th March 2013

THE current horsemeat scandal is only the tip of the iceberg.

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Cilla thanks readers for backing charity

12:00am Sunday 3rd March 2013

AS Principal Patron of Scannappeal I would like to thank your readers who have supported our charity in the past year. I have visited different clinical departments many times since I became involved with Scannappeal. What is clear is that, regardless of what is happening within the NHS, our local hospitals have talented and dedicated clinicians working with some of the best equipment in the country. This includes the first 3D heart scanner in the UK, a green light laser to treat prostate cancer and advanced diagnostic equipment to detect the spread of breast cancer. All of this equipment, and much more, has been funded by Scannappeal and is still being used to benefit patients who live and work near you.

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He’s called me a sinner and an ostrich...

12:00am Saturday 2nd March 2013

OH DEAR, from the contents of Eric Alexander’s letter of 22nd February where he suggests I am a “big mouth”, it is clear that he has thrown his toys out of his pram once again.

It is morally right that gay couples are allowed to celebrate their commitment

10:34am Friday 1st March 2013

RE: Rev Peter Simpson’s objections to same sex marriage being legalised.

Is Government slowly dismantling the NHS?

12:00am Thursday 28th February 2013

RE the report in the BFP two weeks ago about ambulances waiting in a queue before being able to pass on their patients to medics in A&E – any thinking person would have sussed out in advance this was going to happen when services were moved. Just think of the cost involved!

Explain ‘climate gate’

12:00am Wednesday 27th February 2013

Informative as Anthony Weeden’s letter of February 15 is [“Snowy It’s nothing compared to 1963!”], it’s still the third of his lengthy efforts to appear in four weeks. Is he the fount of climate wisdom, or a big mouth sounding off?

Keep snow off car's roof

12:00am Tuesday 26th February 2013

THANKS to Anthony Weeden for his letter in the BFP (February 16) regarding the snow back in 1963. It brought back some vivid memories of the conditions and boy, we certainly coped a lot better then than we do now.

Why did council not make savings earlier?

12:00am Tuesday 26th February 2013

COUNCIL leader Cllr Martin Tett’s letter (BFP Feb 15) explaining the savings being made by Bucks County Council begs the question ‘why were these savings not made in earlier years when council taxpayers were being hit with average council tax increases of three times the rate of inflation’?

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Stop heartache caused by these young drivers

12:00am Monday 25th February 2013

HOW saddened I am that I have to write yet again about fatal crashes and bad driving. They are a news item that appear far too often.

Shame on you all!

12:00am Monday 25th February 2013

SHAME on our fellow citizens!

Rules need to change over processed meat

12:00am Sunday 24th February 2013

EU leaders have agreed to implement an emergency programme of DNA testing to help boost confidence in processed foods, but it should never have had to come to this.

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Share this Tory EU view with MP Baker

12:00am Sunday 24th February 2013

THE horsemeat scandal has revealed the depth of integrated supply chains across Europe. But it has also shown the safety and security of the British public can only be ensured through fast and effective European police cooperation. It seems at the heart of the horsemeat scandal lies a set of sophisticated international criminal networks profiting from industrial scale food crimes, and the smuggling of counterfeit and substandard goods.

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We need another car wash like we need another pothole

12:00am Saturday 23rd February 2013

SO, does the management of Tesco supermarket at Loudwater expect a grateful gathering of banner-waving shoppers in its car park giving wholehearted support to the store’s decision that most of the first parking bay at the entrance of the main parking area should be given over to car washing?

Voters need more EU information

12:00am Saturday 23rd February 2013

MR Colin Helps’ letter in last week’s BFP ( February 15 – “EU costs us jobs and vast sums of money”) proves my point: more information is needed for voters to get to know about the EU and its benefits.

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