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Letters

• Will the party make a fuss

  LABOUR Party in Newport is set to switch off 9,000 street lamps between 10pm and 6am to save £200,000, I wonder if the local Labour Party in Islwyn will make a song and dance to their Labour neighbours as they did when Plaid did a similar issue. read more

• Chemical works remembered

  UNLESS the name has been sanitised, Kemp Park, to which the knife robber fled (Argus, July 31) is The Chem, so named because at the back was a chemical works. They used to boil bones here and when you drove past you made sure that your windows were shut.  read more

• Republic not a dictatorship

  WHY does Linda Joseph think that a republic must be a dictatorship? read more

• Health crisis under Labour

  I REFER to your report on July 27, “Health Crisis” – job cuts and longer waiting- times. read more

• Embrace spirit of Olympics

  I TOTALLY agree with your Editorial column on July 28 when you said we should all enjoy the spirit of the Olympics in Wales, as well as England, and wish all our Welsh participants well in their respective games. read more

• Where is taste and identity?

  DID I read that Newport council is actually considering granting permission for a 14-storey block of flats on the riverside? I mean, seriously? read more

• Soccer players are so childish

  I REALLY can’t understand the thought process behind the Welsh soccer players and their failure to sing the National Anthem. Not only does it show the Welsh to be a very narrow-minded race, which I am sure they are not, but shows a considerable lack of maturity. read more

• Truth on donor debacle

  WELL, it seems that the gauntlet I threw down to the Welsh Assembly’s presiding officer, Rosemary Butler, to publicly debate the proposed forthcoming bill on the presumed consent of organ donation has not been picked up by her. read more

• Ring road may just save city

  ONCE again Newport’s roads are exposed for what they are – antiquated and inadequate! The M4 Brynglas tunnel closures causing the city to shudder to a standstill and the inevitable stream of accidents on the SDR prove that we are decades behind the rest of the civilised world. We have endured years of delay, inconvenience and danger from ill-conceived road planning and construction. And now we have another consultation! We are being consulted about the best options for problems that should have been addressed decades ago. Everyone is aware that the best option available – the southern M4 route – is going to be dismissed out of hand because it’s too expensive to consider, despite our pretending to consider it. The only way to cure the agony of Newport’s daily toil is to decommission the existing M4 and together with the SDR, construct an A48 standard ring road around Newport with a new motorway passing to the south that will not interfere with the city. It needs political backbone to do something before the problem becomes obsolete because traffic and the wealth associated with it goes elsewhere, leaving south-east Wales the backwater the rest of the country already thinks it is. There is little point to being self-governing if nobody wants to come here. read more

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