Allotments will be run into the ground

3:48pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

The article of April 23, with reference to the leisure card, is a bolt out of the blue. I don’t know if the population of Swindon read the article, but from October, when renewal notices go out for the allotments in the town, there are going to be a lot of people with a problem.

Here are the other things Thatcher did

3:33pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

As a member of society, I offer my sincere condolences to the Thatcher family, as I would to any bereaved family.

The poor get poorer

3:00pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

A budget for aspiration! The public service workers, police, school teachers, nurses, etc have had a pay freeze for three years and now have a one per cent rise for the next three.

Show us the evidence

2:48pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

Ian Hunt is probably intelligent enough to understand the difference between weather and climate.

Royal Mail is next to go

4:28pm Wednesday 24th April 2013

Readers may not be aware of the intention to privatise and sell off the Royal Mail in September of this year, which is to be handled by American Wall Street investment bank Lazard’s, which strangely enough is where former New Labour business secretary Peter Mandelson is employed in a high position. Does anyone smell a rat or not?

Bus service is vital to the elderly residents

3:56pm Wednesday 24th April 2013

I am writing in reference to the Swindon Advertiser article of the April 15, which explained that Swindon Borough Council has not put out to tender renewal of the number 22 bus service.

Council apology is needed over school

4:12pm Wednesday 24th April 2013

So the report into Swindon council’s handling of the Croft fiasco concludes that the misleading of residents was “inadvertent.”

Gardens are the jewel in our crown

Town Gardens

5:05pm Friday 19th April 2013

AS a resident of Old Town and near enough for my 72-year-old knees to get myself and my faithful Jack Russell cross round the Town Garden, sadly now only once a day, I have to sing the praises and extol the virtues of Swindon’s lovely ‘Jewel in the Crown’ of leisure sites.

Thatcher funeral is waste of our taxes

5:01pm Friday 19th April 2013

It is beyond belief that Margaret Thatcher was given a state funeral.

A sorry state of affairs

3:19pm Thursday 18th April 2013

At a time when Swindon’s leisure and culture provision is under threat, as Swindon Council seek to make the continued delivery ‘sustainable’, it was interesting to read an article in the Guardian on April 3 about the Art Fund prize for museum of the year. Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund and chair of judges, said: “Despite funding cuts everywhere, museums and galleries in Britain seem to be thriving and I think the museum infrastructure in this country is actually in a really good place which is why funding cuts are so depressing.

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