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Stories for 19 March 2001

Birkenhead News

Why can't we have a pier like this?

I WRITE in response to the letter from the Francis family regarding a pier for New Brighton (Readers' Mail, February 14).  more...

Tory cuts are a good idea

PART of the smoke screen surrounding Chancellor Brown's budget this month was an attempt to fool the public with Labour posters about 'Tory cuts'.  more...

Stop the rude cyclists

MY husband and I were walking along the front at Harrison Drive a few days ago ­ the tide was in and the wind blowing so we decided to walk along the cycle path away from the waves.  more...

Shops too greedy!

HAS anyone noticed just how full to bursting the charity shops of Birkenhead are?   more...

Get on the hospital bus

I DON'T know why there is such a fuss about parking at Arrowe Park Hospital when the new bus service from Sainsbury's car park is prompt, clean, efficient and has a driver and smart helper riding shotgun. They are cheerful, helpful and good humoured and there is plenty of space for both wheelchair and buggy users.  more...

Worthwhile use of lottery cash

MR F McCoy of Bebington asks what, now that the Millennium is past, will happen to lottery money previously set aside for millennium projects (Readers' Mail, February 28). It is a good point.  more...

Priced out!

I NEVER thought it would happen ­ my daughter has given up smoking! I warned her she would be priced out and so she has been.  more...

Spin cannot hide facts

IT should come as no surprise to anyone to read that Ben Chapman MP seeks to praise his comrades on Wirral council for continuing 'the downward tread in council tax rises' ­ a spin-doctored oxymoron if ever there was one.  more...

Help me trace group

CAN anyone help me with a small task I have set myself ­ namely tracing a group whom I believe played in the Seventies.  more...

  
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