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Police dog did us all a favour

REGARDING the story about Alec Davidson in last week’s Advertiser (‘Cop dog savaged my son says mum’), I was absolutely astounded at the mother’s attitude.Read

Hamilton has walked into a commercial nightmare

I RARELY visit Hamilton town centre these days, but on our first good day this year I decided to walk from the top of the town (Cadzow Bridge) to the bottom (Hamilton Retail Park).Read

Jamie ignores the failings in our own pig industry

WHILE TV chef Jamie Oliver is busy denouncing substandard foreign pig farms and urging consumers instead to buy British, Animal Aid conducted an eight-month investigation into some of the leading pig farm operators in this country.Read

Handing over our freedom

“BRITISH jobs for British workers” is one of those silly soundbites so beloved of New Labour that sound good at the time but are really so vacuous that they disappear quickly from memory. This particular soundbite, however, has come back to haunt Gordon Brown.Read

Growing so weary of waiting for village garden project to blossom

I WAS very interested in the article in last week’s Advertiser about the garden in King Street being upgraded provided £3000 can be raised.Read

It’s vital to protect our historic market town

IT seems likely that the planning application by Sainsbury’s for an edge-of-town superstore may shortly be approved by South Lanarkshire Council after consideration of the Reporter's verdict on the Local Plan.Read

Who merits a stroke award?

FOR the past two years I have been delighted to accept an invitation to The Stroke Association’s ‘Life After Stroke’ awards.Read

Well done the Accies

THE atmosphere at New Douglas Park, home of Accies, on Saturday was, to put it mildly, electrifying.Read

Supplying some gas safety facts

HAVING read the article in last week’s Advertiser about Hamilton parents claiming St Peter’s Primary pupils’ lives were being put at risk through the use of gas heaters in a school’s classrooms, we felt the need to set the record straight.Read

Cancer patients shouldn’t face freeze

I AM writing to support Macmillan Cancer Support’s campaign to freeze out fuel poverty for cancer patients.Read

Hospital staff’s daily struggle over waiting time targets

I WRITE in relation to the article in the Advertiser’s January 8, 2008, issue regarding MSP Michael McMahon’s complaints about the timescale patients have to wait for a bed after they have been admitted to hospital.Read

Improve this area

I WANT to thank the Advertiser for raising the issue of South Lanarkshire Crematorium’s remembrance garden. It is in an absolutely awful state, and has been since the crematorium opened.Read

Disrespecting the dead in this way is simply inexcusable

I READ the article on South Lanarkshire Crematorium in last week’s Advertiser with great interest. I have to agree that the interment area within the memorial garden is an affront, a disgrace and completely disrespectful to those whose ashes had to be interred there because the crematorium do/did not scatter ashes.Read

Action urgently needed

THE article in the Advertiser last week concerning the disgraceful state of South Lanarkshire Crematorium was great. To my mind, it’s a mess there.Read

If that pair had had their way the A&E would have died

IT is very much regretted that the mother-in-law of MSP Michael McMahon took ill recently and had the need of a hospital within the NHS at Monklands – and it is hoped that the good lady is on the mend.Read

Insistent that council were right to sack staff over perv e-mails

I WOULD like to thank the Advertiser for publishing my letter a couple of weeks ago in which I said South Lanarkshire Council were right to sack staff caught sending smutty e-mails, and for publishing a reply to it from Unison rep Stephen Smellie.Read

Furious with driver who caused damage

I AM writing this letter to the person with no conscience who reversed their vehicle out of my street, managing to hit my car from the wheel arch all the way to the middle of the back door.Read

Dim view of Larkhall Christmas lights

MY wife and I are extremely disappointed with the standard of the festive lights in Larkhall.Read

Comfort comes at a cost

WITH the cold winter weather, many Advertiser readers might feel in need of some warming comfort foods.Read

Grateful for help this vital work receives

I WOULD like to thank all the many volunteers and supporters in Lanarkshire who have contributed to the work of Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland in 2008.Read

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