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Stop making excuses about racism

Whether or not you think the BBC overreacted in sacking Carol Thatcher for her off-air description of a black sportsman as a golliwog, surely no reasonable person believes that such a contemptuous, dehumanising term, together with its ugly derivative, can have a place in civilised discourse about black people.Read

Richard Brunstrom on Radio Two

Has our Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom retired?Read

Let Abergele celebrate St George's Day

Oh, come on, not to celebrate the Scouts' St Georges Day parade in Abergele or any other part of Wales is so hypocritical as to be untrue.Read

Conwy school sixth form cuts without consultation

A few weeks ago, every High School was told that their funding for sixth forms was to be cut by 7.43%. Read

Broadband will be crucial for blind workers

The government's Digital Britain report, promising to make broadband available to every UK home by 2012, is an important step forward in helping blind and partially sighted people to play their full part in the British economy.Read

There is no such thing as a bad dog, only bad owners

I FEEL I must write regarding the article about the sheep attacks by two rottweilers (Weekly News, February 5).Read

Dogs' attack on sheep and right to roam not connected

IT WAS harrowing to read the article last week about the sheep savaged by two rottweilers, ending with 15 dead sheep and another four requiring treatment by a vet.Read

North Wales Police boots bill is totally justified

PEOPLE do like to grumble and nit-pick, especially when it comes to the police.Read

Save your money and leave Colwyn Bay pier alone

THE Assembly has proved that it knows how to waste money (free aspirin for millionaires?) but the prospect of millions being spent on Colwyn Bay pier should be condemned.Read

Assembly must take eaction on A55 safety

LIKE many others in North Wales I was very disappointed to read that despite pressure from politicians, police and relatives of those killed and injured on the A55, the deputy first minister has seen fit to reject calls to make the road safer.Read

Cobblestones beat flagstones hands down

ALLOW me to follow up my letter dealing with the loose flagstones on Conwy Quay with the upcoming saga of the "domestic grade" cobblestones of Lancaster Square.Read

One Show row over Thatcher remark is much ado about nothing

I FAIL to see what all the fuss is about with the recent controversy at the BBC’s The One Show. Just because in private conversation and in a jokey way Carol Thatcher called a coloured tennis player a "golliwog".Read

Does the Sustainable Energy Alliance have an npower agenda

JONATHON Lincoln of the Sustainable Energy Alliance (SEA) has publicly associated his organisation with npower.Read

Thanks to councillor for Dingle response

I JUST wanted to say a big thank you to Cllr Ken Stevens for his quick response to concerns raised about the state of The Dingle in Penmaenmawr.Read

There is a solution to schools parking problem

REGARDING your story about parking at Ysgolion Pendorlan and Glan-y-Môr (Weekly News, February 5). How can Cllr Abdul Khan make statements about people he has no knowledge of?Read

Recycling bins are a blight on North Wales' environment

STRANGE those who say they are dedicated to improving our environment seem determined to transform some of Europe’s most beautiful towns and cities into slums with their unsightly and unhealthy recycle bins. Read

Scenery is being ruined

AS regular visitors to North Wales we feel compelled to express our dismay at seeing the damage being caused to the local scenery by some recent building developments.Read

Support from one who knows you

IT is one of the ironies of our time that when people need help they tend to go to folk who don’t know them, when the person who does know them is ignored.Read

Let’s build mills on the stream

IT is now obvious to all of us that we have only a limited few years to use oil, gas and even coal.Read

SEA is not in pay of windfarm company

SAVE Our Scenery’s John Lawson-Reay is mistaken when he claims that Sustainable Energy Alliance – SEA – is a mouthpiece for npower renewables.Read

Protecting my rights

I REFER to last week’s story headed “I’m just trying to build a new life” about disabled Clive Forbes getting permission to alter his bungalow despite objections from neighbours.Read