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Can’t there be justice without intrusion?

4:45pm Friday 24th May 2013

Not all rapes are reported. And of the minority who do report a deeply invasive, unforgettable, physically painful and traumatic sexual atrocity, not all of these are prosecuted in court.

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River ‘discoloured and foul smelling’

4:44pm Friday 24th May 2013

There was a massive foul discharge into the Thames from Little Marlow sewage works on Sunday.

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Surely we can have a better system?

4:43pm Friday 24th May 2013

I would like to say how much I agree with Julia Panchen’s letter in the BFP regarding NHS administration.

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The toilets in Baghdad are safer

4:42pm Friday 24th May 2013

The council has closed the public toilets in Paul’s Row. The reason is it has been taken over by the yobs and drunks in the town.

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It is a disrespect for my past efforts

4:40pm Friday 24th May 2013

Ref: Kate Ashbrook’s open spaces letter BFP letters May 10.

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Hospice Aid UK says thanks for support

4:37pm Friday 24th May 2013

On Saturday, April 27 2013 Hospice Aid UK, who support hospices in Buckinghamshire, made a street collection in Gerrards Cross, raising a total of £344.09.

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There’s much more than ‘not speeding’

4:35pm Friday 24th May 2013

I read the letter from Claire of Chesham about her speed awareness course with some sadness, as it shows just how successfully the government has dumbed down the skill of driving into the simple, but highly misleading idea of ‘not speeding’ – and made a small fortune in the process. There is so much more to good driving than just ‘not speeding’!

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UKIP’s Euro policy does not make sense

4:31pm Friday 24th May 2013

Even if the other parties have themselves to blame, it is a sad day for British politics when so many votes are cast for such a shallow and superficial party as UKIP. Of course I read about the appearance of Nigel Farage parading his opposition to HS2 in your columns, but this does rather smack of a politician jumping onto any convenient bandwagon that comes along.

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I still remain an independent

4:29pm Friday 24th May 2013

To clear up any misunderstanding: I wish to make it clear that I still remain an ‘Independent’ County Cllr for the West Wycombe electoral division. I have not joined the UKIPs. I am not a member of any political party.

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I marvel at the crime chief’s expectations

4:23pm Friday 24th May 2013

LAST month I wrote to Thames Valley Police Commissioner Anthony Stansfeld to complain at the two per cent increase in my council tax to fund TVP.

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Educators haven’t learnt from history

12:52pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

It is a little puzzling that Bev Flanagan (letters, May 3) claims that the new University Technical College catering for students aged 14 to 19 “is an entirely new concept in education”. Education history does not seem to be one of her subjects.

Improve your driving awareness & safety

12:51pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

When was the last time you were educated about driving? For me it was 26 years ago and apart from helping my daughter to learn the Highway Code so she could pass her theory test, my knowledge hadn’t been properly updated. Then I went along to the AA-run DriveTech Speed Awareness Course feeling that with all this experience I knew quite a lot. I also went knowing that if I attended I wouldn’t have to take three points on my driving licence for speeding 35mph in a 30mph zone. I thought that it would be a waste of money at £95 and resented giving up a Sunday afternoon on the Bank Holiday Weekend.

Nurses should nurse not fill in IT forms

12:50pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

I am sure you have been made aware of the massive efforts Steve Cohen, your predecessor, made to ‘Save Wycombe Hospital’ and I signed many of his petitions.

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Quieter asphalt could lower costs

12:47pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

A new road surface breakthrough using recycled tyres could create a more environmentally acceptable and quieter ambience – if, that is, an impressive Scottish trial is rolled out in England – including in Buckinghamshire.

Start the day

12:45pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

I want to see how many local children can walk to school on Friday, May 24. This is part of Walk to School week which starts on May 20 as part of Living Streets – which runs the national walk to school campaign.

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Train police in crime to save their jobs

12:45pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

I have been finding it difficult to sleep this week with May night-time temperatures, as a result of global warming, soaring to over 5 degrees centigrade.

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Thanks, I’ll try to make it better

12:44pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

A big thank you to all residents of Booker, Cressex and Castlefield Division who voted for me for the County Council elections on May 2, 2013, thereby securing another four year term.

Thanks, I will still work for you

12:42pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

I would like to thank all the voters in Gerrards Cross, Hedgerley and Beaconsfield South who voted for me as your Independent candidate at the Bucks County Council elections on May 2.

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Heal the boundary divisions in county

12:41pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

Now the dust has settled on the county council elections I feel I must put pen to paper regarding the boundaries of the different divisions within the county.

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Success of policing decides premiums

12:46pm Monday 13th May 2013

The remarks made by Superintendent Houalla concerning motorists who mistakenly leave valuables in their car, or forget to lock it, must be the most crass and ridiculous comment I have ever heard.

A statue of Queen Victoria and Disraeli?

12:44pm Monday 13th May 2013

I read with great interest Ivor’s letter. I am a sculptor living in Wycombe and his words echoed almost exactly my feelings.

Decades of hard work to save the common

12:42pm Monday 13th May 2013

Last month, on reaching the age of 93, Alfred Leach, pictured, retired as secretary of the Wheeler End Commoners, after 45 years in post. He has done a tireless job, ensuring that the common has remained unspoiled, open and free for all to enjoy.

We need a modern efficient incinerator

12:41pm Monday 13th May 2013

Sorry to have to come back to John Laker’s letter (BFP letters, May 3) again, but he did strike a chord with me and his suggestion of having a waste incinerator. For years now I have been in favour of such a method of waste disposal and here’s why: In Europe they have many of these and they’re well proven technology. The waste is first of all sorted by humans for even the slightest items that can be recycled before the remainder of the waste is incinerated. The method used is more commonly the fluidised bed or grate so that every single item of combustible material is burned completely with air scrubbers cleaning off the exhausts before evacuating them into the open air. It is a highly efficient form of energy production generating lots of power as John says and the cherry on the cake is, less waste for our landfills.

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Three Tory councillors were at the meeting

12:40pm Monday 13th May 2013

I assume that the letter you published last week from Mr Hayes of Prestwood is the same Mr Hayes who chairs Great Missenden and Prestwood Conservatives? If yes, I can assure Mr Hayes that he would have been most welcome to attend the fantastic Nigel Farage public meeting that I chaired in the village on the 11th April. Had he done so he would have been able to catch up with no less than three local Conservative councillors who were in an audience he describes as ‘UKIP supporters.’ Mr Hayes clearly has some work to do to prevent any further defections from his pro HS2 party.

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The loss of votes will make them see sense

12:38pm Monday 13th May 2013

It really is a pity Steve Hayes (BFP letters May 3 ‘A great disservice to campaigners’) hasn’t checked his facts before writing about a subject upon which he appears to have little knowledge.

Last Thursday was just the beginning

12:36pm Monday 13th May 2013

We would like to say a very heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported UKIP at the local elections.

Buck the trend of party politics

12:35pm Monday 13th May 2013

Thank you to the kind people of the West Wycombe electoral division.

I thank you all – and my wife Joanna too

12:33pm Monday 13th May 2013

Dear residents of the newly created Ridgeway West Division.

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Help charity to help people like you

2:04pm Friday 3rd May 2013

As vice president of the British Red Cross I have seen first hand the extraordinary work the charity does both internationally and right here, in communities throughout the UK.

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Do not compare BCC to a FTSE 100 firm

2:03pm Friday 3rd May 2013

By focusing on Nigel Farage’s opposition to HS2, the Free Press missed a key aspect of his speech in Great Missenden, namely the need to control expenditure by local councils.

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A great disservice to campaigners

2:01pm Friday 3rd May 2013

Supposedly independent Stop-HS2 councillor, Seb Berry, did himself and the cause he claims to support no favours by chairing a public meeting of UKIP supporters, who themselves expressed concern that they may be vulnerable to accusations of racism.

Tell us where are the hydropower systems?

1:59pm Friday 3rd May 2013

In last week’s newspaper you reported on developer David DeChambeau’s proposal to place two massive 4.5 metre (14ft 9ins) diameter Archimedean screws on Marlow Weir, a few feet from the windows of the Compleat Angler’s restaurant. The screws are projected to generate a small amount of very expensive electricity. David DeChambeau is the managing director of Southeast Power Engineering (SEPEL). You quote him as saying, “Everywhere I have put in a hydropower system I’ve dramatically improved the environment for fish – and humans of course. But for fish specifically.”

Who wants to sit in the dark?

1:54pm Friday 3rd May 2013

My last words on the ‘Archimedes screw’ electricity generators that may be located in the Thames at Marlow.

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A big ‘thank-you’ from the Hearing Dogs

1:52pm Friday 3rd May 2013

We would like to say a big thank-you to everybody who came along on Saturday, April 20, to the Hearing Dogs’ Spring Open Day at our beautiful centre in Saunderton, near Princes Risborough.

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Home care visits are getting shorter

1:45pm Friday 3rd May 2013

As some council budgets become more and more stretched, we are seeing a worrying increase in extremely short home care visits to disabled and older people, often lasting just 15 minutes.

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The community is not yet aware of the UTC

1:43pm Friday 3rd May 2013

EVERYONE knows that Buckinghamshire has a set of fantastic upper and grammar schools, and we are all rightly proud of this county’s education system.

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Stop fighting

1:43pm Friday 19th April 2013

Oh dear, oh dear, what is wrong with politicians? Why do they have to contradict whatever the other party is saying or doing just on party lines?

Don’t blame Beeching

1:41pm Friday 19th April 2013

Elsa Woodward (‘Beeching did us a great disservice’ Marlow Free Press, March 29) is wrong to claim that Dr Beeching was responsible for closing the railway between High Wycombe and Maidenhead. In fact his infamous report of March 1963 specifically said the line, including that from Bourne End to Marlow, should be kept open. In reality the section between High Wycombe and Bourne End was closed in 1970 by BR in a completely separate round of “economies” which included a proposal to close Marylebone and reduce the service through High Wycombe to little more than a branch line terminating at Bicester with its trains operating to and from Paddington. A proposal that, thankfully, was overturned by Chris Green when he took charge of the newly-formed Network SouthEast sector of BR. Had this proposal, which got as far as the issuing of formal closure procedures, been carried out today’s resurgent Chiltern Railways service would have been impossible.

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A fascinating subject

1:40pm Friday 19th April 2013

While expecting my local newspaper to cover local news and events I am surprised that, after the death of Margaret Thatcher, the only coverage by the BFP concerned the comments made by sycophantic Conservative members of parliament.

Some good, some bad

1:39pm Friday 19th April 2013

And so our first lady Prime Minister is returned to the earth, one of whom many pages will be written some in praise others may be not. She was a towering figure, one of drive and vision, but as one who lived through her tenure of office and that of the previous and past tenants of Number 10, I have one or two observations which seem not to be aired; the 80s were a turbulent time, democratic power had to be wrested from the block vote monopolies and be given back to the ordinary people but in what manner, was a sledgehammer the right weapon?

Good luck BFP

1:36pm Friday 19th April 2013

Re: BFP being shortlisted for ‘Weekly newspaper’ award at the Regional Press Awards.

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Memorial service

1:35pm Friday 19th April 2013

Re: A special Service to remember those killed at the HMS Collingwood Shore Base 70 years ago.

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Italian Festival

1:34pm Friday 19th April 2013

Through your Letters page I would like to express our sincere thanks to the Marlow (West Street) branch of Sainsbury’s.

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Reduce our addiction to power tools

1:31pm Friday 19th April 2013

Following on from recent discussion and comment in the MFP over a scheme to generate electricity by harnessing the latent energy present in the River Thames, I would like to make a few additions to this debate.

Extreme weather

1:20pm Friday 19th April 2013

You report on page 13 of your April 5 issue that Bucks New Uni intends to reduce its carbon emissions by 50 per cent by 2020. On p95 in the same issue, JR Lee raises a query about global warming.

Move the cricket club

1:16pm Friday 19th April 2013

Finally, a request... and a potential solution to parking problems in Beaconsfield Old Town.

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Using Frogmoor’s amenities well

6:27pm Monday 15th April 2013

THIS note is not concerned with hot news about the latest potholes, or the fight against HS2, or even the problems of global warming, but about Ivor’s favourite hate, the feral pigeons of Frogmoor.

I'd like to see Noddy outside the Town Hall

6:26pm Monday 15th April 2013

I read the article on Kari Dorme with nostalgia. Go for it, girl!

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Prostate cancer check

6:25pm Monday 15th April 2013

The media have been advising us that ‘Cancer survivors have been abandoned by the NHS’.

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NHS is brilliant

6:24pm Monday 15th April 2013

I cannot speak too highly of the wonderful way in which I have been treated by the NHS here in Bucks over the past year or so.

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