The green belt fight continues

9:40am Thursday 9th July 2009

I have been helping residents and the Hawkwell Action Group fight against the imposition of new houses on green belt in Hawkwell West because the majority said at three well attended public meetings that they don’t want it.

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Still waiting for my MP’s reply

9:40am Thursday 9th July 2009

I am surprised to learn that David Amess regards the MPs’ expenses scandal as unimportant and that there are more important issues to be dealt with.

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Don’t use golf course as a tip

9:41am Thursday 9th July 2009

Malcolm Buckley says Basildon has been accepting waste at Pitsea tip for 100 years and now it’s somebody else’s turn.

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Mencap night was brilliant

9:41am Thursday 9th July 2009

May I apologise to everyone at the Cliffs Pavilion last Saturday for even dreaming that a show like Southend Mencap Music School and Friends in Concert would need a ‘warm-up’ man.

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Get railways back on track

9:42am Thursday 9th July 2009

Under nationalisation British Rail had to rely on meagre handouts from the Treasury and was not permitted to raise private capital so it was always a question of make do and mend.

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Why are we keeping Ronnie Biggs in jail?

9:42am Thursday 9th July 2009

In these days of mild sentences with some murderers getting life which means they will be out in a few years, what reason is there to keep a sick old man like Ronnie Biggs imprisoned?

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Creatures have a right to live

9:43am Thursday 9th July 2009

So just who in our Government decides this creature is a pest and should be destroyed. Surely its the survival or the fittest not at the whim of the Government because it might endanger the red squirrel.

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Bus station toilets are a disgrace

9:37am Thursday 9th July 2009

How I agree with the Echo reader (July 6) who commented on the filthy toilets at Southend bus station.

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Don’t concrete over our land

9:38am Thursday 9th July 2009

It is outrageous five new sites within Basildon District must be given over to the travellers in keeping with the orders of the unelected East of England Regional Assembly.

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Please return special locket

9:39am Thursday 9th July 2009

I would like to say to the person who swiped my partner’s wallet with credit and debit cards and £40 in it from Hamlet Court Road Post Office in Westcliff, on Monday lunchtime just this message.

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