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Put up a plaque to explain sculpture The sculptor Michael Fairfax was employed at great expense by the developers of Newbury’s Market Street to erect the Two Rivers bronze sculpture on the side of the car park of the new development. The Michael Fairfax Two Rivers bronze sculpture This represents …

Traffic disruption at showground events I am writing to express my profound dissatisfaction with the severe lack of organisation and foresight demonstrated during the events held at Newbury Showground on April 13, 2024. The simultaneous scheduling of the All About Dogs and Newbury Garden Show events resulted in extreme traffic …

Labour may see a split as an opportunity to renationalise the Royal Mail, convinced that the state would make a better fist of reviving it. But shorn of the cross-subsidies that a highly profitable parcels operation provides, mounting losses from letter deliveries risk being immediately thrust onto the taxpayer. It’s …

NHS heroes SIR – When will the wonderful, hard-working people who keep the NHS functioning on a daily basis get the recognition they deserve? The description of the NHS as an “enemy” of British patients (Comment, April 10) must be so demoralising for those who work tirelessly under dreadful pressures. …

Royal Mail has been playing the blame game for quite some time now. When the beleaguered company’s former chief executive Simon Thompson appeared in front of the business, energy and industrial strategy committee in March 2023, he pointed the finger at rogue workers carrying tracking devices, which he later admitted …

SIR – I received an NHS letter postmarked February 9 at 12.30pm on February 16. My X-ray appointment was for 3pm. Thankfully I was able to attend. Had the appointment been sooner, it would have been another one missed. Catherine Pepinster (Comment, April 4) is right that Royal Mail holds …

The Type 23 does have the Magazine Torpedo Launch System, which enabled me to lob a torpedo straight into the water next to the ship. That’s a lot, lot better than nothing (as many warships have) and I found it a comfort. But I’m a big fan of ASROC and …

If you’ve ever rummaged through a box of old postcards at an antiques fair, you might have noticed not only the quaint images from the 1890s or 1900s, but the extraordinary messages on the back: “Dear Cissie, Elsie and I will come for tea today. Will arrive about 4.30. Yours, …

The Phantom Faeces Flinger of Sandleford One of the people who walks their dog from Warren Road to Sandleford goes to the trouble of picking up their dog’s poo in a bag, but then flings it into the bushes on their way home, leaving the hedge and fence festooned with …

Do the big chiefs who run Royal Mail realise increasing the cost of stamps is only contributing to lower demand for letters to be written and … Source link