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I WRITE in response to your article on the business forum which has been organised by MPs Jim Paice and Malcolm Moss. Where have they (and the supporters of this initiative) been for the last two years? I had a direct mailed invite and consigned it to the... Full Letter »
I WANT to thank Annie Shackleton for highlighting in her letter last week the lack of courtesy shown by some councillors at the full council meeting (Councillors Should Behave Themselves At Meetings – March 3). However, councillors talking while Mr Stimps... Full Letter »
RECENTLY, as I cycled through Ely I saw five black bags blowing around. Firstly, the men who leave them have stopped taking care to tuck them safely into letterboxes as they used to, or knotting them into twists that don t blow easily. Perhaps they are... Full Letter »
I REFER to your article MP calling for re-think on Wicken Fen Vision and provision of land for food production , published on March 4. We welcome the fact that someone who has been so involved in the development of the Conservative Party s strategy for... Full Letter »
I AM not shocked that there are homeless in Ely as this country has always had homeless people. In my young days in the 1930s there were hundreds of them, some were looking for work as we were then in a deep depression and far worse than today. Tramps, as... Full Letter »
I WOULD like to use this opportunity to talk about the swift action taken by the local policing team and East Cambs District Council to move a group of homeless people (front page story, Thursday, March 4). Understandably, local residents felt alarmed a... Full Letter »
DOES Elaine Mayhew (No Shops To Struggle, Letters, February 25) seriously think that McDonalds, BHS and Debenhams would improve the quality of shopping in Ely? I think it is she who needs to get with the times. Most people who choose to live in Ely do so... Full Letter »
I DON T want to appear ungrateful or ungenerous because I am truly grateful to James Paice, MP, for his seeming generosity in shifting his position somewhat on Wicken Vision. The fact that Mr Paice believes that food production in our Fens is important i... Full Letter »
AS a trader on the Saturday market I attended the ECDC meeting on February 23 where the planned market cuts were the main item on the agenda. The council chamber was full to capacity, such is the strength of local feeling on this issue. This was an oppor... Full Letter »
DO any readers have memories of Cambridge Road Camp where I lived as a small boy around 1951? It was sited where the Ely Golf Club is now. My father, Charles Long, worked as a lorry driver for Darby s Sand and Gravel out of Sutton. He drove all over the p... Full Letter »
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