Bus fare rises will punish less well-off

IN RESPONSE to Richard Tracey's letter (You can see right through our mayor, January 28), the claim that the Mayor of London 'had no choice' falsely suggests he is powerless in deciding his own budget.Read

CPZs make life difficult for drivers

WHAT stuff and nonsense are these controlled parking zones (CPZs). Wishing to attend a funeral at St Mary's Church South Ealing, I pondered on how best to get there from my home in Hanwell, a distance of exactly one-and-a-half miles.Read

Don't be fooled by pensions advert

THE Department for Work and Pensions advertisement, More people will qualify for the Basic State Pension, in the Gazette of February 5 looks very impressive, but do not be fooled. Nobody is going to get any extra money.Read

Posters could encourage suicide

AS TRAGIC as any suicide is, writing that someone 'was killed' at a railway station only masks the fact that the person deliberately killed him or herself.Read

Public transport must be affordable

JOHN Gashion (Economising on the bus truth, letters, February 5) was particularly harsh on Bassam Mahfouz and Valerie Shawcross, whose crime was merely to point out the flaws in Boris Johnson's transport policy.Read

We are not getting value for our tax

I WRITE further to John Simms's letter about Ealing Council placing one family of seven in a seven-bedroom detached house at an absurd public cost of £12,500 per month.Read

Economising on the bus truth

IN THE Gazette of January 8, Councillor Bassam Mahfouz drew attention in a letter to the 20 per cent rise in a single journey bus fare.Read

Extend the zone and cut the traffic

LAST week I put a detailed amendment to the London mayor's draft budget which would have reversed the planned bus passenger fare increase, while giving boroughs more funding for cycling and traffic reduction.Read

Get behind your yummy mummy

I AM writing to ask all your readers to lend their support to children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent by getting behind Yummy Mummy Week 2010 (March 6 to 14).Read

Gone from town, but not good for it

WITH the closure after more than 100 years of Goldie's, Greenford's oldest and best florist, another bastion is gone from the town's shopping area.Read

Play fair over fare claims, valerie

READERS should not be swayed by claims made by Valerie Shawcross on fares.Read

Speedy, efficient service at hospital

WE WOULD like to express our thanks for the speedy and efficient treatment my wife received at Ealing Hospital's A&E department last Sunday.Read

Still paying for this family's luxury

MORE than a year ago the Conservative leader of Ealing Council publicly sacked and had three agency staff marched off council premises like common criminals.Read

Thanks from us all for defying freeze

I AM writing on behalf of my husband and me and, I believe, many other residents of our borough to say thank you so much for all the hard work given by council employees during the worst weather that we have experienced for many years.Read

And next, turning water into wine...

IN THESE tough economic times, Boris Johnson is demonstrating that he is on the side of council tax payers, especially those on low or fixed incomes, by freezing the Greater London Authority precept for the second year running.Read

Carers should not miss out on this

WE ALL know someone who is looking after an ill or disabled loved one.Read

How QPR can win champions league

IT IS said that it is a woman's privilege to change her mind.Read

Good comes out of those pounds

WE ARE calling on the people of Ealing to nominate their favourite Lottery-funded projects for The National Lottery Awards 2010.Read

For those who did national service

THIS is a recall for all national servicemen to 'get fell in again' and spend a very nostalgic weekend with hundreds of other ex-national servicemen in June.Read

Pitching together for homes for all

WE HAVE stalled building sites and freezing homes across the capital that would be helped by more focused spending.Read

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