Letters to the editor - Ealing Gazette

Days of mutual respect are gone

Having attended QPR’s final home game of the season on Sunday as a Stoke City supporter I stayed behind after the game to witness the celebrations of the jubilant home fans. As well as a Stoke City fan I am also a football fan and enjoy to see both sides of the spectrum.Read

Burglaries and anti-social behavior continues

Where are the police? All we see in the Pitshanger Lane area are traffic wardens riding around on their little scooters hunting for motorist prey on.Read

Why didn't he resign in protest?

What a joke that Sir Mervyn King continues to hold on to his job and credibility after the biggest bank crash in history.Read

Letters: Answers needed over Ealing's missed bin collections

Residents this week across Ealing, suffered, as a huge share of homes failed to get their waste collected on the day it should have been.Read

Letters: Remploy workers will be forced to live on benefits

Angie Bray MP’s response to the closure of the Remploy factory in Acton (Gazette, March 16, p4) simply repeats the government’s justification of the decision to close the factories and make redundant over 1,500 severely disabled workers.Read

How can council claim it has frozen council tax

Ealing Council asked people to help in recycling and have now turned one of the categories, namely garden waste, as a separateRead

Trying to trace Sonje from Ealing

I recently came across a letter sent to me in 1962 from a woman named Sonje, who was married to a John Matthews.The letter was dated June 4, 1962. At that time, she and her husband lived at 140 Coldershaw Road, Ealing, London W13.Read

Letters: Unanswered questions over Ealing Hospital's future

I would like to thank West London Citizens for holding the emergency assembly on the NHS changes at the Cardinal Wiseman School on 22 February. This was an interesting and well-attended event, which had a panel with the Vice Chair of the new Ealing Commissioning Consortium and the Leader of council amongst others.Read

Letters: Council want children to walk faster

Ealing Council has just implemented new parking measures on Drayton Green Road in West Ealing. On this road there is a school, Drayton Green Primary School and a nursery school, Cybertots on the Green.Read

Letters: Labour council will stand firm against HS2

It was great to see so many people come out to the meeting against HS2 this weekend in Perivale. Read

Letters: Join the march for social care reform

The social care system is in deep crisis, and this will continue to worsen unless the Government acts now. We need Ealing’s help to get this message to the country’s decision makers.Read

Letters: Setting the record straight about Labour respite care proposals

I am writing in response to the letter published on the 27/1/12 by Mr Avella on respite care. Read

Letter: Open letter from Ealing Labour's GLA candidate

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Letters: It's time to fight to save the pool

EALING Council leader Julian Bell has failed to listen or to respond to the residents of Acton when it comes to the closure of their beloved swimming pool.Read

Letters: Noise has been a problem for years

I MUST congratulate you on your front page article in the Greenford Gazette on September 23, 'Council is still not stirred by shaking'.Read

Letters: We are loving the Ealing Gazette

THANKS Ealing Gazette! We have noticed that the Gazette has much improved lately.Read

Letters: Busy roads raise risk of asthma

NEW scientific research indicates that children exposed to higher levels of traffic-related air pollution at school and home may be at increased risk of developing asthma.Read

Letters: Do something great for children

I WOULD like to make a special appeal to running enthusiasts who would like to take part in the Bupa Great South Run, the world's leading 10-mile flat road run, featuring Portsmouth's historic naval dockyard, on Sunday, October 30.Read

Letters: Have your say on mobility needs

I WAS recently asked by charities Leonard Cheshire Disability and Mencap to chair an independent review into how the personal mobility needs of people living in state-funded residential care are met.Read

Letters: Please give us a pint of your best

WITH the summer holidays upon us and everyone enjoying spending more time outdoors at festivals and events, NHS Blood and Transplant is reminding people in west London of the importance of taking the time to donate blood.Read

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