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Letters

• Flush out dividends

  WHEN we get our annual bill from Wessex Water, it is accompanied by a useful information booklet. Wessex Water is deservedly well regarded. read more

• Better local services

  OPPOSITION Conservative councillors' complaints against Lib Dem efficiency and genuine efforts to make life better for local people smacks of sour grapes. read more

• Surprise on repairs

  I WAS surprised to read in the Gazette that Chippenham war memorial is in need of repair. read more

• Dance still in town

  COUN Peter Roberts' comments that Wootton Bassett has lost community groups to other towns because of lack of accommodation. read more

• Take Dyson lesson

  IT was obvious that Hygrade in Chippenham had to relocate. The company required a larger area to build the largest meat processing factory in Europe, with access to the motorway system. read more

• Wrongful blame

  IT is appalling that a district councillor, who should know better, has blamed the residents at Showell for the closure of Hygrade. read more

• Workers not served

  AS an ex-employee of Hygrade Foods, I am upset about the letter from Shane McCarthy in your edition of March 2. read more

• Lettings for ghetto

  I WOULD like to refer to your article on page one of the Gazette and Herald, March 9 issue, entitled Watchdogs seize noisy neighbour's stereo and TV. read more

• Rejection is sweet

  I AM writing to thank you for the Gazette's interest in our campaign to stop the Honyestreet development. read more

• Take practical view

  I ENTIRELY agree with the comments written in the column by our MP for Devizes and Marlborough concerning the water shortage in south and south-eastern England, which could be overcome by using the grid system from our national canal system. read more

• School did paddle

  LAST week's Gazette and Herald carried an item about this year's Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race. read more

• Childcare on council

  ON 13 August, 2005 The Daily Telegraph reported that a millionaire female MP was criticised for suggesting that more women should become councillors and use their generous allowances to pay for cleaners or childcare. read more

• Support on parking

  I HAVE been surprised at the amount of verbal support received over parking problems. read more

• WCC sees sense on traffic and Brittox updating

  THERE seems to have been an outbreak of helpfulness in Trowbridge. read more

• An extraordinary privilege

  I WOULD like to thank the 800 people who came to hear the deputy secretary general of the United Nations, Mark Malloch Brown, last Thursday speaking on the subject Big Issues in a Small World. read more

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