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Big thank you to hospital staff

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

Letter re bus services

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Letter regarding bus travel in Dumfries

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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).

Dumfries is becoming a ghost town

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

Letter regarding speed bumps and potholes

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

People’s Project should not have to pay out

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Council should be praised

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Letter regarding the closure of Thornhill hospital

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Council must take responsibility

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Things in Dumfries haven’t changed

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Don’t blame the council too much

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

SNP Councillor responds to criticism

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Liberal Democrats are serious contenders

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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

Letter re NHS plans in Dumfries and Galloway

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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!

Letter from Problem Child regarding Dumfries floods

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

SIR – “Did this have to happen?”

Letter from Douglas A Cox regarding NHS

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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”.

Mr Norman Thorburn letter re hospital concerns

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Dismay at social work attack

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Why posties are striking

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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

Look inward for savings

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

SIR – I remember when I first came to the town of Dumfries, it was a cold, snowy winter.