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

Letters: House number worry is petty

REGARDING the article on page three of the Uxbridge Gazette of June 29 about house numbers (Please fix house number muddle), I just wanted to say that my road is a cul-de-sac of 30-odd houses. Read

Letters: I will vote Tory if they scrap HS2

SO WIMBLEDON has come and gone, August looms large and, save for the recent royal wedding, there's not been a lot to cheer about.Read

Letters: A true gentleman and a role model

I FIRST met Michael Craxton in 1969 when a student at the then new Brunel University (Devoted ex-mayor a champion of the arts, Gazette, July 6).Read

Letters: Please put your rubbish in the bins

I READ your article in the Leader, which came last evening, and I do agree with what you say.Read

Letters: Tory smoke and mirrors once more

AS A resident of Hayes, I attended two meetings regarding the fate of the historic library in Golden Crescent. The first meeting, on the Wednesday with the MP and many Hayes residents, was proof, if proof was needed, that there was a consensus by everyone present to keep the building for Hayes community use.Read

Letters: We don't want this concrete jungle

I FEEL sorry for Stephen Williamson getting the wrong mail due to his neighbours building a property in their back garden and the ensuing house number mix-up (Please fix house number muddle, Gazette, June 29).Read

Letters: Arresting argument for local policing

WHY do they not use their own crime statistics when reviewing the need for a local police station (Closure risk to police counters, Gazette, June 29)?Read

Letters: If you can't reverse get off the road

REVERSING onto a highway is not only against the Highway Code but, as such, virtually illegal (see reference above).Read

Letters: I'm delighted and moved by support

IN RESPONSE to the Gazette's coverage of local residents' concern about lease negotiations at South Ruislip Community Association, I have received a phone call from Councillor Allan Kauffman of South Ruislip (Hall is in jeopardy, Ruislip and Eastcote Gazette, June 8).Read

Letters: Reservations about reversing options

THANK you for your invitation to comment on this story (Parking causes angle wrangle, Northwood and Rickmansworth Gazette, June 29).Read

Letters: Reversing is the way forward

IT IS a shame local residents are fighting this. It makes perfect sense to back into a space (see reference above).Read

Letters: Tesco's opponents don't speak for me

I AM writing to say: 'Good luck Tesco, we do want you'.Read

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