Bus angel proves it's not all gloom and doom

SO OFTEN today, we read in our newspapers of unsociable behaviour, theft and acts of unkindness, so I write this letter to acknowledge that all is not always gloom and doom.Read

To convenient to call this a London to Birmingham line

I THINK I should start by giving a true description of the first phase of HS2, which will be a new line from London to the West Midlands with a connection to the West Coast Main Line (WCML) near Lichfield and a branch line to Birmingham city centre.Read

Nestle is a community stalwart and moving north may not be an option

RECENTLY some friends who worked for La Senza and Best Buy in Hayes suffered the distress of losing their jobs, and it looks like Nestle staff will now have the same dilemma.Read

Why pay to park in Hayes when there is nothing there to buy?

PLEASE, please, please tell me why we have to pay to park anywhere in Hayes town to shop, when all youv'e got is pound shops, bookies, kebab shops and off licences.Read

HOAC offers kids an alternative: HS2 will rob them of that.

HAVING experienced life as a suburban teenager in north-west London, I know how little there is in the way of summer holiday entertainment.Read

Could you see your way to check our mail?

Even ‘can-do’ blind people need help from volunteersRead

Local democracy to play significant role in 2012

Open letter to James Rodger, head of planning, London Borough of HillingdonRead

Things havent't improved on the Met line

JUDGING by the comments and complaints about the Metropolitan and Piccadilly train services at Uxbridge, things haven’t improved since I was retired by London Transport 28 years ago.Read

Why early morning police sirens?

I WOULD be interested to find out how many other residents of Uxbridge town centre are disturbed and annoyed, on a nightly basis, by police sirens resonating all around the town in the early hours of the morning.Read

Overcharged on Oyster

IN RECENT weeks, much attention has been given to the Mayor of London’s fare rises for 2012, but one issue which should also receive attention is the scandal of people being overcharged when using Oyster pay as you go.Read

Disgusting dogs' mess on Worcester Road

I TAKE and collect my daughter from St Lawrence Infants School in Cowley, and the amount of dog mess in Worcester Road is disgusting (Clean up after your dogs, Uxbridge Gazette, January 4).Read

New timetable cuts my choice to three

RE: the article on the reduction of trains to Uxbridge during the rush hour (Met line service cut at peak times, Gazette, November 2).Read

Extraordinary Met Line claims

I HAVE just read the article in your November 9 edition, outlining the proposed reductions in Met Line rush hour services to Uxbridge (Met Line services cut at peak times, Gazette).Read

They call this progress?

WHAT London Underground Ltd don’t tell you is that there are about 450 seats in the 1960 units, compared with just over 300 in the new ‘S’ stock.Read

What the manager didn't say

WHAT Angela Back, the Metropolitan line manager, didn’t say about the new S-stock trains in singing their praises, is that they have a 32 per cent reduction in seating capacity, 306 versus 448, of the equivalent eight-car trains of the old A-stock trains that they are currently replacing. Read

Get off the grass, it's not your studio

FOR those who don't know, the Norman Leddy Memorial Gardens in Grange Road, Hayes, are an oasis of calm in an ever-crazy world.Read

Letters: We recall the PM's pledge on petitions

NEWS that the 100,000-name Stop HS2 petition is not eligible for Commons debate will surprise those who remember the Prime Minister's clear pre-election pledge.Read

Letters: A Tesco might not always be cheaper

I AM one of those fortunate to have the use of a car to go further afield for larger amounts of shopping or for goods not available within Harefield village (Tesco's opponents don't speak for me, Letters, July 6).Read

Letters: A vintage for down the years, please

THE Vintage Fair at Mount Vernon Hospital on July 10 raised more than £8,000 for Michael Sobell House hospice and was a great family day out. Read

Letters: Dave's community work is tireless

NO ONE deserves the award of community champion more than David Brough (Community Champion gets on with the work, Gazette, July 13).Read

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