Columns and blogs from the Lancashire Telegraph

Blog: New power of thought over energy

1:28pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

IT’S interesting that the largely quiet, rather dour, citizens of Scandinavian countries seem to be so good at getting hold of good ideas and running with them.

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Comment: Visibility the key for bikers

1:27pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

ANYONE who has ridden a motorcycle will be aware of the problem.

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Letter: Worry if Assad is toppled

1:25pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

Should we be giving arms to the Syrian ‘rebels’? Answer – no.

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Letter: After windmills, now another big stink

1:26pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

NOT content with despoiling the once-beautiful views around the Rossendale Valley, which gave him his lucrative start in life, John Whittaker, boss of the Peel empire, now wants to add the stench of rotting flesh, vegetables and worse into the mix of his ghastly turbines.

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Letter: Navy times remembered

1:24pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

How many readers in East Lancashire would like to turn the clock back, especially if is to when they were in the Royal Navy and serving on the ‘warship’ Hitler tried to sink – HMS Collingwood at Fareham?

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Letter: Trying to deny voters a say

1:24pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

Next month, MPs will vote on a Conservative proposal to set in stone an ‘in or out’ referendum on our membership of the EU.

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Letter: Harder to attract chain stores

1:23pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

AS a Clitheroe resident, I don’t have any qualms about more chain stores coming into the town.

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Letter: Enough brownfield available

1:22pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

RE: ‘Warning on Blackburn green belt building proposal’ – there are more than enough brownfield sites to go round within the existing urban boundaries of Blackburn without ripping through the surrounding countryside, which to most people living here is one of the saving graces of Blackburn.

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Letter: Empty shops soon fill up

1:23pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

YOU report claims that more support is needed for Ribble Valley retailers.

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Letter: Plan to close payment offices is stupid

1:22pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

THE idea by Pendle Council to possibly close over-the-counter payment offices is unbelievably stupid!

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Blog: Take time to stop and talk

5:00pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

IT’S over and I think it went well. What am I talking about? My annual, get-together garden party.

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Comment: Don't wreck heritage

4:58pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

THERE’S no question that Britain needs to minimise reliance on other countries for its energy needs.

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Letters: Watershed outdated

4:51pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

AS Britain’s Got Talent closes, Lancashire head-teacher Amanda Hulme warns her national association’s annual conference that children are losing their innocence with items like the performance of a song with explicit lyrics.

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Letters: Community can save pub

4:50pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

IF the people in Lammack, Blackburn, are serious about saving the Hare and Hounds pub they could register it as a community asset which gives them six months to raise the money to buy the place themselves.

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Letters: NHS treated us so well

4:48pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

HAVING read recent negative comments re the NHS, I would like to add my comments. On 1 June, my husband appeared to be suffering a stroke. I immediately dialled 111 where the operative asked a series of relevant questions and immediately referred me to the Primary Trust GP out of hours service. The GP on duty made an assessment and asked us to go to A & E (this was 10pm on a Friday). Once in A & E we were taken to triage and fast – tracked through. A stroke consultant was brought in via the Telestroke network and my husband was admitted to Ward B2 where he received excellent care. On discharge we have had ongoing support from the Community Stroke team who are coming in each day.

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Letters: Benefits cap crippling

4:49pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

With reference to the claim by East Lancashire MPs that the pension axe will cost us dear.

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Letter: E-cigs must be regulated

4:46pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

REGULATION is necessary because as the e-cig industry grows more people use and are exposed to them.

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Letters: Liberalism is taking over

4:47pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

ANY attempts to give young people an understanding of the major ‘faiths’ represented in our areas can only be applauded. (LT, June 15).

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Letter: Be tolerant and yet be proud of your faith

4:46pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

CS Lewis said ‘It is since Christians … largely ceased to think about the other world that they have become so ineffective in this’.

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