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Equal support for all schools

Equal support for all schools Sir - I'm not surprised Mark Lehain is ‘quietly confident' of getting approval for his Free School - it's the new Education Secretary's pet idea. But how can he say

The scars of unemployment

Sir - I am writing as one of the 78 extra people who have signed on to job seekers allowance in the last month.

Free schools empowerment

Sir - In the short time that we have been running a public campaign for a new state secondary school we have received expressions of support from parents representing over 400 school aged children, with more coming in every day.

Allowances need cutting

Sir - The comment made by Cllr Richard Stay about having to make ‘cuts’ in Central Bedfordshire Council’s services in your article last week – ‘Cuts on the cards to plug £1.5m cash gap’ – does not paint the full picture.

Kindness lives on in the world

Kindness lives on in the world Sir - The age of chivalry is not dead.I was a WAAF driver and I became an amputee in 1944 as I was a survivor of a London air raid. For some time I have been walking, or

Bereaved family’s life sentence

Bereaved family's life sentence

Traffic warden to the rescue

Traffic warden to the rescue Sir - On Wednesday, July 21, I had to visit a shop in Greyfriars, Bedford. Having found a parking space I looked for the payment meter, and discovered it about 100 yards

The public should not pay for this

Sir - I wholly concur with Cllr Rigby's condemnation of the ‘Joke Shop' (BoS May 31) - the items range from the infantile to the sick by way of the banal. However, that is not the point. The

New era without the need for EEDA

Sir – I’m no fan of politicians, of whatever hue, but the new coalition has already scored one massive brownie point in my eyes… by slashing the funding of, and, most likely, sealing






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