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Gwynedd Council should let local man build his home

HAVING read the report by Dion Jones entitled "It could be goodbye to rural Gwynedd" (Herald January 21) concerning the local businessman being denied planning permission to build a home on land near his business in the village, I wasn’t in the least surprised. Read

Penygroes has lost so much over the years

I WAS born in Melbourne House, County Road, Penygroes in 1922 and we later moved to Arwel, King’s Road. My younger brother Selwyn and I attended the Infants School where the headmistress was a Miss Evans and then the Elementary School under the strict rule of the headmaster, Mr WT Williams.Read

Welsh communication networks need improving

I FIND it beyond belief that the Assembly’s Finance Committee should criticise the small improvements being made to the road links from North to South in Wales. The members of this committee should get out a bit more! We are not talking motorways here – merely straightening a few corners and by-passing a few bottlenecks. Wales had to wait far too long for its one major motorway, which runs East-West, and still only crosses a part of southern Wales.Read

Welsh communication networks need improving

I FIND it beyond belief that the Assembly’s Finance Committee should criticise the small improvements being made to the road links from North to South in Wales. The members of this committee should get out a bit more! We are not talking motorways here – merely straightening a few corners and by-passing a few bottlenecks. Wales had to wait far too long for its one major motorway, which runs East-West, and still only crosses a part of southern Wales.Read

Gwynedd councillor is wrong about disputes procedure

CLLR Gwilym Euros Roberts doth protest too much. His statement claiming that the Leader of the Council should have referred his complaint about Cllr Roberts’ behaviour to the Council’s Standards Committee is totally misleading! Read

Plaid Cymru are attempting to deflect attention from the schools debate

CLLR Dyfrig Jones, Plaid Cymru, is still harping on about downing Llais Gwynedd due to Cllr Aeron Jones having voted to close schools by accident. (Cllr Alwyn Gruffydd’s letter, December 23).Read

People should be positive rather than simply oppose Ffestiniog railway

I WRITE with regard to the article “Laying down the law” on the (Herald January 14) and Councillor Humphries’ letter of the 21st concerning the perceived dangers that the Festiniog Railway will bring to Porthmadog.Read

Police are wrong about Ffestiniog railway

I AM astounded at the views reported as expressed by the North Wales police in relation to the rail crossing of Britannia Bridge.Read

Welsh Highland Railway is a great asset

IN view of the recent "bad press" that the Welsh Highland Railway received (Herald, January 14) it surely raises questions as to whether there is a certain pattern to these press releases, ie. it always happens before a new section of track is to be opened, Rhyd Ddu, Beddgelert, and now Britannia Bridge, Porthmadog.Read

A crossing for bats at Groeslon but no warning signs for humans

IT appears that the local authorities give bats more respect than people and children.Read

Support for Llan Ffestiniog pub project has been great

PENGWERN Cymunedol is a community enterprise set up in Llan Ffestiniog to buy and develop the historic Pengwern Arms Hotel which closed last February. Read

Apologies for the error

IN last week’s Herald one of our readers Gareth Jones from Criccieth wrote a letter criticising the Prime Minister Gordon Brown.Read

I am not British, I am Welsh

GEOFFREY Peters, from across the border in Cheshire, is so irate about my "shameful letter" about the Malvinas War that he can get neither my name nor my title correct. Read

At last, our fears over Porthmadog rail bridge are echoed

WITH regard to your front page article "Laying Down the Law" (Herald South Jan 14), Porthmadog Town Council can finally indulge in some relief that our consistent protestations over more than a decade that the Britannia Bridge level-crossing is a danger to the public has finally been acknowledged by at least one person in authority. Bring on the Brunstrom!Read

How can Gordon Brown pose as a friend of the middle class

ON the day that all nations should show total support for the victims of that horrendous earthquake in Haiti, Gordon Brown chooses to make a pre-election speech posing to be a friend and champion of the middle classes!Read

Laurence Llewelyn Bowen is not qualified to study historic Welsh houses

LAURENCE Llewelyn Bowen – a huge mistake to have this modernistic presenter on BBC1 Wales programme about hidden houses in Wales.Read

Snowdonia speed limit campaign part of a green conspiracy

WITH regard to the article in the Herald, (Jan 14) entitled "should it be a 50 zone" Alun Pugh is suggesting a reduction in the speed limit in the Snowdonia national park.Read

Gwynedd councillor's voting error response was a disgrace

I WAS disgusted to learn that Cllr Aeron Jones had been so dismissive regarding his grave error in voting against improvements to the one major policy he supports. Read

Snow in Bontnewydd

Why such chaos in Gwynedd because of the snow?

With regard to the current cold spell of weather, what a farcical situation we have here in north Wales, and indeed in the rest of the UK.Read

There is plenty of Welsh spoken in Pwllheli's shops

CRAIG ab Iago’s letter (Herald, January 7) begs the question as to what his attitude was when walking into his thirteen shops in Pwllheli, did he speak Welsh or English to the owners/staff, did he ask the ones who spoke English if they also speak Welsh? Read

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