Letters

"THE zealots seem quite happy to have the ordinary citizen throw out their gas boilers"

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"?

SIR – Have the verderers of the Forest completely lost their marbles?

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?

"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)

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).