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Cllr Bristow story was personal

I WAS disgusted to see your very personal attack on Councillor Paul Bristow for his daring to stand as a parliamentary candidate in Middlesbrough - a marginal seat currently held by the Labour Party.Read

Recycling gaps down to councils

THERE is a huge gap between the best and worst recycling boroughs in London.Read

Milliband had a dodgy dossier

THE Foreign Secretary, David Milliband, turned up in Hammersmith to attack the record of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, but he appeared to have been given a dodgy dossier beforehand.Read

Bickering MPs will achieve nothing

AS WESTMINSTER commentators become more and more convinced that no party will have an overall majority after the general election, it may be worth looking at recent events in Scotland, where voters had decided that parties must work together.Read

Building bridges with city's drivers

IT IS rare for an issue to arise which bridges the political divide, but the full or partial closure of five Thames crossings right across the capital is one of those issues.Read

Boris's budget is a worrying sign

BORIS Johnson's budget was recently passed at City Hall - despite being opposed by all the Green, Labour and Liberal Democrat assembly members.Read

Can you help track down my family

I AM researching my family by the name of Smith and would very much like to make contact with my London side of the family.Read

Councillor Phibbs is not in the loop

GOING by Councillor Harry Phibbs' letter in your last edition. it's apparent he is not being kept in the loop by his Conservative colleagues on the council.Read

Help charity hit the heights

I AM writing on behalf of the Meningitis Trust to encourage all of your readers to take part in a truly memorable experience this year by scaling the heights of the UK's highest mountains in either 24 or 36 hours.Read

End detention of children now

I AM writing to ask you, your readers and our MP to back the OutCry! campaign, a partnership between The Children's Society and Bail for Immigration Detainees, which is demanding an end to the immigration detention of children.Read

Fare way to drive down budget

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

Hope replaced fear on estate

YOUR article 'Living in an estate of fear' (January 29) about Fulham Court, highlights the effects of the council's past neglect, cuts and underinvestment, which have turned out to be a false economy.Read

Mr Fulham title is already taken

SADLY, I did not know Alec Cottrell, whose death you reported last week.Read

People in glass committee rooms

I WAS interested to see that Councillor Stephen Cowan, the Labour opposition leader on Hammersmith and Fulham Council, has complained that the council leader, Councillor Stephen Greenhalgh, missed the last value for money scrutiny committee.Read

Mayor needs to explain fare rises

THE fare-paying Londoner will be only too aware this week of the huge fare rises which Mayor Boris Johnson has now inflicted on the travelling public, especially those who prefer to use the bus network to get around.Read

QPR would be champs - QED

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

Rises comparable to those of Labour

THE Labour Party is scarcely in a position to complain about the recent increase in bus and Tube fares.Read

Tell us where to spend the money

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

Time to energise building jobs

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

Time to get fell in, you 'orrible lot

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