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A chair who shows bias is a menace

I WAS accused last week in your columns of being out of date in my insistence on the need for mayors of local authorities to be impartial in public and in council discussions.

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I prefer weekly collections

WE are all about to suffer the results of yet another ‘rubbish’ decision from West Devon Borough Council.

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Oh, for the days with a minimum of delay and fuss

I HAVE recently been a victim of the automated phone scam.

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Why Cornwall was the engine for the revolution

WHY is it that everybody has heard of James Watt, watching a kettle boiling on the hob and thereby inventing the steam engine? A complete fabrication.

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Evening was a fabulous success for breast cancer charity

I WOULD like to take the opportunity to thank all the lovely ladies who attended the Ladies Night on Wednesday August 4 at Yelverton Golf Club, and especially those who gave up their time to provide a variety of lovely stalls for the night.

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Great support for troops in?Afghanistan

ON behalf of the Royal Marines’ Association Tavistock, a great big thank you to all the people who contributed £712.

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Deepest thanks for your help

MAY I please, through your newspaper, offer my sincere thanks and gratitude to everybody who assisted my son, Ben, when he had his accident on Saturday August 21, on the road between Chillaton and Tavistock.

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There for love of their pets

MAY I, through your Letters page, express my thanks to our local PDSA at Stonehouse?
Due to a change of circumstances I find myself on housing benefit, which pays most of my rent and now enables me to get free treatment for my two dogs.

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Do we live in England or Wonderland?

SINCE your article on street lighting on the old A30 this subject and my brief appearance on BBC Spotlight some months ago, I am constantly being asked what is being done to rectify the incredibly wasteful situation where ghastly orange street lights are spewing out light on to empty fields along the stretch of this road between Sourton and Lewdown.

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Litter makes our lovely town look shabby

AS a resident of Tavistock and a dog owner, I am disgusted with the amounts of litter left in the little green at the beginning of Dolvin Road.

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Has West?Devon not moved with the times?

I really must take issue with Dick Eberlie’s comments (Letters, August 12) about the role of the mayor.

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Let’s report anti-social behaviour

EARLY on Saturday morning, August 14, I was walking my dog in Meadowlands park and came across a lady, (who was visiting/passing through Tavistock), carrying her Yorkshire Terrier puppy which had just died.

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Frustrated over BTexchange delays

I WONDER if other people in the Tavistock area have been having problems with internet connections, or should I say lack of internet connection.

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New contract a better service for all

FOLLOWING Colin Sansoms letter in the Times last week, I felt it important to point out that West Devon Borough Councils new recycling and refuse contract is designed to provide the same good service for all residents of the borough.

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Kindness shows its a great place to live

AS one of Tavistocks residents of long-standing  and longevity!  may I express, through your pages, my sincere thanks and appreciation to three anonymous gentlemen who came to my assistance last Saturday week.

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Grey, municipal planners should not have the say . . . Votes should be recorded

MARGARET Garton does not wish to be tarred with the same brush as Diana Moyse (Letters August 4), so it is heartening to see that some councillors have begun to realise that there is considerable public disillusionment over the way the core strategy process has been handled.

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How is this new recycling contract better?

WHILE I can accept that outside the urban environment this may be a more comprehensive service but for those residents in Tavistock and Okehampton it is difficult to see how the new refuse contract is better as portrayed by West Devons Connect.

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Restore town crest to the college badge

HOW refreshing it was last year when Cornwall Council decided to revert to using the Cornwall County Council logo, the Chough and the shield and the 15 bezants from the coat of arms, in place of a new design which supposedly represented growth and movement and which was widely derided.

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Many members are tired of this issue

ONCE again Cllr Moyse, chairman of the future planning and housing committee and deputy leader of the Conservative Group on West Devon chooses to involve the public in her political groups internecine warfare over the substitution of its members for the vote on the core strategy (Letters,August 5).

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Kick-off!Here we go again . . .

IT seems like only yesterday that the last football season ended and here we are again.

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