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Work is not enough

I FULLY support the concerns of the Mayor of Pwllheli and Cllr Mike Parry over safety at, and for better support of, Pwllheli Marina by Gwynedd Council (Your headline of June 4.) Read

Digital dilemmas

I WOULD like to say that the village of Waunfawr or any villages that get their TV channel through a relay transmitter will not get S4C when the switchover begins in October 2009. Read

Please don't let the pupils of Ysgol Pendalar down

IT SADDENS me to think that Gwynedd Council can even consider assessing jobs at Pendalar School. Shouldn’t these children have a right to an education? Without classroom assistants and other council workers this unfortunately wouldn’t be possible. Read

Plaid Cymru MPs cannot escape blame in expenses row

LAST Friday in Waunfawr, Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones tried to distance his Party from the expenses row in Westminster. Read

Thanks for supporting Ysgol Gymuned Penisarwaun ahead of the Urdd

CAN I thank the people of Penisarwaun and the Caernarfon area for their outstanding support over the past few weeks as Ysgol Gymuned Penisarwaun raised money to send our pupils to the National Urdd Eisteddfod in Cardiff. Read

Congratulations to Gwynedd Council for improvements

IN these days of understandable cynicism towards the political establishment, let me say a word of congratulation to Cyngor Gwynedd and the Welsh Assembly for two recent achievements. Read

Grubby MPs should take a leaf out of Wigley's book

THESE last few weeks must have resulted in a mountain of letters to you with regard to the very grave events concerning members of the Houses of Parliament and their misdeeds. Read

Link between poverty and failure needs to be broken

THE recent Estyn annual report presented some worrying statistics highlighting the desperate need for the link between educational underachievement and poverty to be broken. Read

When will Y Felinheli's pavement be repaired?

IT IS rather disgusting on the part of the Gwynedd Highways inspectorate in the way they to allow the subcontractors that carry out reinstatement work to do such a poor job, such firms as Scottish Power. Read

Gwynedd schools closure programme is up and running again

Having read "Catchment areas revealed in big schools shake up" with the sub-heading below "South Meirionnydd is first to face review" (March 5) and the column factfile beside it, I deduce the Plaid Cymru coalition controlling Gwynedd Council is still intent on pursuing its schools closure plan which caused so much outrage. Read

Dafydd Iwan fails to understand my concerns about Syr Hugh

DAFYDD Iwan speechless, well I guess there is a first time for everything! Read

Snowdon climbers need a shelter at the summit

I wonder if you may be able to help me. I am trying to raise the awareness for the need of a climbers’ shelter on the top of Snowdon. I do not know whether you, as a newspaper, agree with this proposal, and would dearly like to know of your stand point on the subject. Read

Caernarfon is being taken from the people bit by bit

At a recent Council meeting on the 10th of March, regarding the Precinct Order on Victoria Dock, we Caernarfon people are yet again left with the short end of a stick. Read

Thanks for the chance to exhibit my paintings

I am in a wheelchair, don't really teach any more and have few ways of building my self-esteem, so it was wonderful to show my paintings at Caernarfon library and be involved in the process of creating beauty. How exciting! Read

The great Caernarfon debate: New Maes or old?

It's the question that is currently dividing us Cofis. Which is better, the old Maes or the new? Read

Llais Gwynedd councillor seems very outdated

CLLR Aeron Jones seems out of date in his assessment of who councillors are accountable to. Read

Llais Gwynedd should be courteous in debate

I VENTURED to express my concern at the irreverent behaviour of most of the Llais Gwynedd councillors and their unrealistic proposals. Read

Can drivers stop parking on yellow lines at Porthmadog Spar

AS a car owner, can I ask why my fellow motorists insist on parking on the yellow lines, therefore blocking the pavement outside my local Spar shop at Porthmadog? Read

Betws Garmon church is back on top form

GOOD news. Betws Garmon church is now warm and dry, complete with new organ and an organist who is dedicated. Read

What have you done to the Llanberis of my birth?

NOT so long ago I had the occasion to visit the village of my birth, Llanberis. Read

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