Salisbury Journal

Be fair about parking

5:10pm Thursday 2nd February 2012

majority of parking offences within the county being upheld, I am also aware of the Wiltshire Council commitment to do their best to reduce their emissions.

Happy to help fulfill Stonehenge dream

5:02pm Thursday 2nd February 2012

I READ with interest the aspirations to develop Amesbury as the town of Stonehenge.

Many thanks

5:03pm Thursday 2nd February 2012

PLEASE help me to thank family, friends and members of the Shrewton Folk Dancing Club who recently gave me a wonderful surprise party to celebrate my 90th birthday.

Finance for difficult pupils

5:04pm Thursday 2nd February 2012

I SEE that Wiltshire Council is closing the John Ivie Centre (Journal, January 26). Schools will now “shoulder responsibility” for previously excluded pupils and the £2.7million saving will be shared amongst all secondary schools including academies, which will then decide how to use the money.

Overhanging trees not a priority

5:05pm Thursday 2nd February 2012

I WAS surprised to read another letter from Colin Duller (Postbag, January 26).

Spend our money on historic car

5:07pm Thursday 2nd February 2012

IS it not time that the council thought about keeping the council tax the same as last year, as requested by the government, rather than contemplating putting up the Band D property tax by £2 to cover inflation and another £3 for the Diamond Jubilee and Olympic torch jollies?

Hospital trust governors are there to help

5:09pm Thursday 2nd February 2012

WHILE welcoming and endorsing Mr Matthews’ comments about the dedication of Salisbury District Hospital staff(Postbag, January 26), perhaps readers could be reminded that both patients and public are also represented by their locally-elected Hospital Trust governors, whose job it is to monitor the running of the hospital.

It's been a comedy of errors from the traffic planners

9:28am Thursday 26th January 2012

FOR once Salisbury’s traffic planners, best known for their tedious routine of appallingly bad jokes, have actually come up with a very good one.

We are fortunate to have dedicated staff at SDH

9:24am Thursday 26th January 2012

I COULD not agree more with the two correspondents in last week’s Journal with regards to health staff doing their best.

'Frivolous expenditure we can easily do without'

9:19am Thursday 26th January 2012

THE council has decided to increase the council tax by nearly seven per cent to fund a series of ridiculous backslapping events for 2012.