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Letter regarding Scottish Cycle Museum

SIR – I would like to appeal to your readers to see if they could help with a new display at the Scottish Cycle Museum at Drumlanrig Castle which opens on March 26.Read

Big thank you to hospital staff

SIR – I was recently in Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary for an operation. I was in ward six.Read

Letter re bus services

SIR – The council and SWestrans bus service appear to be having a laugh with their GoSmart proposal. It’s just a stunt. A few points need to be addressed.Read

Letter regarding bus travel in Dumfries

SIR – I have just read the article on Go Smart Dumfries and in theory it sounds great. I use the bus to go back and forward to work, but before I get my pat on the back for being green, perhaps a kick in the teeth for being a mug would be more appropriate. Why? Because our family car sits at home all day (husband has works van).Read

Dumfries is becoming a ghost town

SIR – Walking around the town centre of Dumfries is a wonderful site.Read

Letter regarding speed bumps and potholes

SIR – One would imagine that a council that has littered our streets with speed bumps, changed our broad streets into narrow lanes, set up sheep pens at all street corners and placed traffic lights every hundred yards, will do nothing about the hundreds of potholes that have appeared on the region’s roads.Read

People’s Project should not have to pay out

SIR – I read with interest the front page of Wednesday’s Standard where the People’s Project is willing to donate £10,000 towards the construction of a flood prevention wall on the Whitesands.Read

Council should be praised

SIR – May I take this opportunity to thank the local council workers for their extremely hard work during the recent horrendous weather conditions which we have had to endure for the last few weeks.Read

Letter regarding the closure of Thornhill hospital

SIR – I am addressing this letter to my many friends, neighbours and fellow members of the Upper and Mid Nithsdale community to confirm we very definitely have a meeting with the NHS hierarchy in Thornhill Parish Church to discuss the future of Thornhill Hospital, on Monday, January 11 at 7pm prompt.Read

Council must take responsibility

SIR – Only the thickest skinned politician could fail to hear the anger of ratepayers throughout the region who have recently suffered the latest failure by the council to grit our roads and footpaths to the standards that we used to take for granted.Read

Things in Dumfries haven’t changed

SIR – When I joined the army in 1966 I effectively left Dumfries but like any true Doonhamer I never forgot the town and I was thrilled whenever I heard about in the news, on the television or wherever.Read

Don’t blame the council too much

SIR – The weather of the last fortnight may have been exceptional, but it has taught us all a lesson – the council cannot possibly be held accountable for four snow-falls in 10 days and a cycle of freeze and thaw more common on the Scottish Munros.Read

SNP Councillor responds to criticism

SIR – Further to your article on Internet Slurs (Standard, December 2) I would like to offer a correction to Councillor Nicholson’s statement that I work from the SNP’s Dumfries office and the insinuation that I was in any way involved in anonymous blogging.Read

Liberal Democrats are serious contenders

Sir — Every thinking voter knows that the Liberal Democrats pose the main threat to Conservative David Mundell at the next election.Read

Letter re NHS plans in Dumfries and Galloway

SIR – I refer to Mr Burns article entitled ‘NHS Boss Defends Controversial Plans’ and cannot help but compare the NHS hierarchy in Dumfries to the ill-fated Stuart regime who tried to rule Scotland and England by divine right – and look at what happened to them!Read

Letter from Problem Child regarding Dumfries floods

SIR – “Did this have to happen?”Read

Letter from Douglas A Cox regarding NHS

SIR – You printed a long report (Dumfries and Galloway Standard, November 27) headed ‘NHS boss defends controversial plans’, in which NHS chief executive John Burns is quoted as saying “Option C is offering a more locally based health service that can provide more rehabilitation closer to home as well as more treatments closer to home”.Read

Mr Norman Thorburn letter re hospital concerns

SIR – Some time ago you published a letter from me headed ‘Hospital Concerns’ which produced more positive reaction than any previous letter of mine. This letter was deploring the prospect of many single-bedded rooms.Read

Dismay at social work attack

Sir — I was very disappointed to read the letter last week attacking the concept of personalisation which many disabled people have campaigned for over many years.Read

Why posties are striking

SIR – Seventy six per cent of CWU members voted for strike action. We need to understand why.Read

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