SIR – With news that wheelie bins are to be forced upon us, could someone please explain to me how having one will "drive up recycling rates"?
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SIR – Have the verderers of the Forest completely lost their marbles?
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What sort of community have we become when there are obviously people who are so lonely that not one word passes their lips throughout an entire day?
SIR – Everyone stares in horror at the huge serpent of military lorries forming a queue to get into Ukraine's capital city.
"The reality of our response to the planetary environmental crisis"
"Other local authorities have made it a condition of buying a new home in their areas that it must be the buyer's main residence."
SIR – Our local NatWest branch in Hythe and associated ATM closed a few years ago.
Those who climb on the bandwagon for sympathy and five minutes of fame, saying “life isn’t fair”, usually just need to get a grip!
SIR – The most dangerous urban New Forest myths are: you don’t need to slow down for grazing ponies and on a straight road ponies can see you coming.
SIR – I am responding to the article concerning the home-to-school transport for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
"When in the 1980s public-owned assets were sold off for reasons of efficiency, it was all a con"
SIR – The response from Forest authorities regarding the installation of speed cameras on Roger Penny Way is as predictable as night following day.
SIR – As a pensioner I now need to find an affordable gas and electricity provider.
SIR – I wonder if your readers share my concern that this Conservative government is becoming more and more authoritarian?
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"Since motorways and fast cars, the Forest has been used as a resource – entirely for humans, as simply as an outer London suburb."
SIR – Desmond Swayne says Boris Johnson’s apology for the lockdown party was "fulsome" (A&T, 14th January)
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SIR – On a recent Friday morning as I drove through Brockenhurst I had to stop at the zebra crossing.
SIR – “Us old Forest folk”, who have been born and bred here and call the Forest home, have seen many changes, and not always for the better.
SIR – I must respond to a letter from Peter Whitefield (Goshawks are killing our doves, 24th December).
SIR – Reading the letter blaming goshawks and badgers for the demise of birds and hedgehogs, at least this is for food, unlike the killer cat.
