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Gates should be returned

I READ with interest Richard Down’s article about The Sailors’ Home Gates, (November 3). It is excellent news and a brilliant opportunity to gain the return of John Cunningham’s “international masterpiece”, although time is of the essence. Read

Defined by their race

WHILE I would wish to join the chorus of praise for Lewis Hamilton becoming the youngest Formula One world champion and the probability of Barack Obama becoming the next President of the United States, I wonder if they should still be defined so much by their race. Read

MPs must live in real world

WHEN most people are struggling to pay ever-rising household bills, particularly energy, fuel and mortgages, I find it incredible that a group of rebel MPs, including three from Merseyside, wish to add to the cost of living. Read

Not worth the salary

THE huge public outcry over the lewd messages left on elderly actor Andrew Sachs’s telephone answer machine by so-called entertainers Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand appears to be really about something else. Read

Red light to crossing cuts

I WRITE in response to the article, “Anger at ‘secret’ plans to cut 18 crossing patrols” (Daily Post, Wednesday, October 29, 2008). Read

What now for festival site?

WITH the sad news that David McLean homes is going into receivership, and the loss of maybe 350 jobs, where does that leave the future development of the Garden Festival site? Read

Brown interest is too high

GORDON BROWN and Alistair Darling are telling the banks that they expect them to offer continued funding to businesses at similar terms and rates as earlier this year. Read

Scheme never made sense

THE suggestion that Labour MPs are hoping to meddle in the commercial affairs of both Royal Bank of Scotland and Liverpool Football Club shows that, when the chips are down, it’s back to the bad old ways from the bad old days. Read

Poor standard of art on show

WHAT a shame that the judges of the John Moores 2008 exhibition chose such a dreadful and dreary collection of work (I can’t call it “art”) in this special year for our city. Read

City debate was just dull

ON THE night of the debate on Liverpool and its people, featured in the Policy Exchange report, I sat in the audience in Liverpool Cathedral half expecting at any moment that eggs and rotten fruit would be whizzing over my head on their way to Tim Leunig. Read

Leunig gets it wrong again

LAST Thursday, in the Anglican Cathedral, Tim Leunig laid out his objectionable thesis with precision and clarity. Read

Ruining vibrant school system

AS SOMEONE who grew up in Norris Green, who attended De la Salle School, and who has taught in each of the schools in the area, I am at a loss to understand the logic behind the schools reorganisation which has been proposed where the only co-educational comprehensive school is to close and the two single-sex Catholic schools are to stay open as “Faith Academies”. Read

Pay people, not bankers

SURELY the easiest way to sort out the credit crunch banking crisis was to simply pay off the outstanding loans directly to all those US homeowners who were failing to keep up commitments in repaying their mortgages to the Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac banks? Read

Socialism has been a failure

IN HIS prolonged diatribe against capitalism (Daily Post, Letters October 14) Mr Durkin was unable to suggest an alternative. Not once did he use the “S-word,” although he did make references such as “legislation is the only way ordinary citizens can defend themselves,” etc. Read

Keep our school open

I'M WRITING this letter about the decision to try to close Croxteth Community Comprehensive School. The reason given for closure is falling pupil numbers and poor exam results. This letter is a message stating why this school shouldn't close. Read

Icelandic battle rages on

ISN’T it amazing what strange information is thrown up by a crisis. Who ever would have guessed that more than 100 councils and police authorities for some strange reason had £20bn of their (ie, our) money tied up in Icelandic banks? Read

Police call-outs will be affected

I WRITE in response to the article “Row over police shake-up plan in Wirral” (Liverpool Daily Post, October 10). Read

High taxes are killing pubs

INDUSTRY experts predict that a pint of beer will cost in the region of £6.50 within the next four years – thanks to Gordon Brown’s alcohol taxes. Read

Fan’s apology for lost dream

AS A “mad” Red of a certain age, I read with sympathy Ron Noon’s letter (October 3) where he spoke of the great work done by Liverpool Unites being undone by young Evertonians chanting “murderers” at Liverpool fans and invoking once again, after nearly a quarter of a century, the tragic events of the Heysel Stadium. Read

Mandy return beggars belief

IN THE film, The Madness of King George, George declares: “I am the King of England”. “No, sir,” his physician replies, “You are the patient”. Read

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