Hamilton Advertiser - Letters - Readers Letters http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/ View recent readers' letters to the Hamilton Advertiser newspaper or write to us with your own opinions on the news and our stories. en-gb Trinity Mirror 2012 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:24:44 GMT Hamilton Advertiser no View recent readers' letters to the Hamilton Advertiser newspaper or write to us with your own opinions on the news and our stories. readers letters, letters to the Hamilton Advertiser, write to the Hamilton Advertiser, Hamilton Advertiser newspaper Police dog did us all a favour http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/02/19/police-dog-did-us-all-a-favour-51525-22958048/ 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.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/02/19/police-dog-did-us-all-a-favour-51525-22958048/ Readers Letters false Hamilton has walked into a commercial nightmare http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/02/19/hamilton-has-walked-into-a-commercial-nightmare-51525-22958054/ 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).

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/02/19/hamilton-has-walked-into-a-commercial-nightmare-51525-22958054/ Readers Letters false Jamie ignores the failings in our own pig industry http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/02/05/jamie-ignores-the-failings-in-our-own-pig-industry-51525-22856508/ 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.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/02/05/jamie-ignores-the-failings-in-our-own-pig-industry-51525-22856508/ Readers Letters false Handing over our freedom http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/02/05/handing-over-our-freedom-51525-22856509/ “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.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/02/05/handing-over-our-freedom-51525-22856509/ Readers Letters false Growing so weary of waiting for village garden project to blossom http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/02/05/growing-so-weary-of-waiting-for-village-garden-project-to-blossom-51525-22856512/ 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.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/02/05/growing-so-weary-of-waiting-for-village-garden-project-to-blossom-51525-22856512/ Readers Letters false It’s vital to protect our historic market town http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/02/05/it-s-vital-to-protect-our-historic-market-town-51525-22856513/ 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.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/02/05/it-s-vital-to-protect-our-historic-market-town-51525-22856513/ Readers Letters false Who merits a stroke award? http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/22/who-merits-a-stroke-award-51525-22749058/ FOR the past two years I have been delighted to accept an invitation to The Stroke Association’s ‘Life After Stroke’ awards.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/22/who-merits-a-stroke-award-51525-22749058/ Readers Letters false Well done the Accies http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/22/well-done-the-accies-51525-22749062/ THE atmosphere at New Douglas Park, home of Accies, on Saturday was, to put it mildly, electrifying.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/22/well-done-the-accies-51525-22749062/ Readers Letters false Supplying some gas safety facts http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/22/supplying-some-gas-safety-facts-51525-22749064/ 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.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/22/supplying-some-gas-safety-facts-51525-22749064/ Readers Letters false Cancer patients shouldn’t face freeze http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/22/cancer-patients-shouldn-t-face-freeze-51525-22749200/ I AM writing to support Macmillan Cancer Support’s campaign to freeze out fuel poverty for cancer patients.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/22/cancer-patients-shouldn-t-face-freeze-51525-22749200/ Readers Letters false Hospital staff’s daily struggle over waiting time targets http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/22/hospital-staff-s-daily-struggle-over-waiting-time-targets-51525-22749201/ 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.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/22/hospital-staff-s-daily-struggle-over-waiting-time-targets-51525-22749201/ Readers Letters false Improve this area http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/15/improve-this-area-51525-22694162/ 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.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/15/improve-this-area-51525-22694162/ Readers Letters false Disrespecting the dead in this way is simply inexcusable http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/15/disrespecting-the-dead-in-this-way-is-simply-inexcusable-51525-22694164/ 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.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/15/disrespecting-the-dead-in-this-way-is-simply-inexcusable-51525-22694164/ Readers Letters false Action urgently needed http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/15/action-urgently-needed-51525-22694171/ 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.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/15/action-urgently-needed-51525-22694171/ Readers Letters false If that pair had had their way the A&E would have died http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/15/if-that-pair-had-had-their-way-the-a-e-would-have-died-51525-22694175/ 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.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2009/01/15/if-that-pair-had-had-their-way-the-a-e-would-have-died-51525-22694175/ Readers Letters false Insistent that council were right to sack staff over perv e-mails http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2008/12/24/insistent-that-council-were-right-to-sack-staff-over-perv-e-mails-51525-22541670/ 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.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2008/12/24/insistent-that-council-were-right-to-sack-staff-over-perv-e-mails-51525-22541670/ Readers Letters false Furious with driver who caused damage http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2008/12/18/furious-with-driver-who-caused-damage-51525-22500617/ 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.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2008/12/18/furious-with-driver-who-caused-damage-51525-22500617/ Readers Letters false Dim view of Larkhall Christmas lights http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2008/12/18/dim-view-of-larkhall-christmas-lights-51525-22500618/ MY wife and I are extremely disappointed with the standard of the festive lights in Larkhall.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2008/12/18/dim-view-of-larkhall-christmas-lights-51525-22500618/ Readers Letters false Comfort comes at a cost http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2008/12/18/comfort-comes-at-a-cost-51525-22500619/ WITH the cold winter weather, many Advertiser readers might feel in need of some warming comfort foods.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2008/12/18/comfort-comes-at-a-cost-51525-22500619/ Readers Letters false Grateful for help this vital work receives http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2008/12/18/grateful-for-help-this-vital-work-receives-51525-22500620/ 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.

]]> Hamilton Advertiser Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/comment/letters/readers-letters/2008/12/18/grateful-for-help-this-vital-work-receives-51525-22500620/ Readers Letters false