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REGARDING the article in last week’s Herald about the closure of Deiniolen post office, may I point out that there is another post office at Clwt-y-Bont which is only three or four minutes walk from the Deiniolen PO. You failed to mention this in the article.

I know that many people from Dinorwig travel down to Clwt-y-Bont post office on a daily basis either by public transport or car, and several people, including pensioners, also walk down. The postmaster has been in this office for the last 23 years and he provides all the postal services. The post office is open every morning, including Saturdays, which is a good thing especially for people who are working in the weekdays. Read

Slate quay’s glory days

LOCAL Assembly Member Alun Ffred Jones is pressing the claim of Caernarfon’s Slate Quay, Cei Llechi, to be one of the old Welsh industrial sites to be regenerated, that is improved in view of their historical importance. Within a stone’s throw it also has the magnificent backdrop of the town’s famous castle. Let’s wish AM Jones all the luck in his efforts. Read

PLEASE may I through your column thank those who gave to the Stroke Association collection at the Tesco store in Caernarfon on April 4.

We collected £373.33. Under the Stroke Association’s 50/50 scheme, half of this amount, £186.66, will be returned to the local Môn and Arfon Stroke Club. On their behalf I would like to thank all the generous people who supported us. Read

Cowardly criticism of soldiers

IN your sister paper on April 11, a story appeared about four soldiers preparing to go off to Afghanistan on a tour of duty. One of the soldiers was Corporal Kevin Pritchard (pictured left), of Groeslon. Read

Illegal war is no cause for thanks

YOUR correspondent “Reassured Civvy”, of Mochdre, speaks of his feelings of intimidation and inadequacy when he sees people in military uniform (April 10). Is that why he writes under a pseudonym? Because his inferiority complex makes him scared to give his name and address? Read

Conspiracy theory

I DIDN’T think that things could get any worse in Caernarfon, but I hadn’t taken into consideration the coordinating brilliance of Gwynedd Council. Read

Bus stop breaks law

SOME 30 years ago Gwynedd Council highways department concluded that major work needed to be carried out on Bangor Street, Y Felinheli, in order that the road be brought to a safe standard. However, the highway engineers met with a problem. The houses on the seaward side of the street were at a lower level than the roadway. Read

EU behind PO closures

I CONTINUE to be amazed that our UK press covers the affairs of the EU as “foreign news” as though Westminster were still sovereign and what goes on in Brussels is merely trivial and boring. Read

‘Soldiers make us inadequate’

I MUST write to congratulate Dr Léwis on his marvellous letter (Uniform Folly). Read

Why should Gwynedd lose its cultural heritage?

WHY does this area always lose out? It has been reported that if funding is taken away from Bangor Museum and Art Gallery, it will probably close. Where will its contents go? Read

Education is a vital issue

WHEN Gwynedd Council dropped their bombshell last autumn, saying they proposed to axe 29 village schools, “federalise” a few others and radically alter the secondary and further education set-up in our county, it was a wake-up call to voters of all political persuasions. Read

No free parking

EASTER came early this year, and so did the traffic wardens. Pwllheli has an ailing economy at present and Gwynedd Council and its traffic wardens are certainly trying to put yet another nail in its coffin. Read

GWYNEDD Council have got it wrong. Alun Ffred Jones AM (A Week in the Assembly, March 20) concedes that Plaid Cymru leading councillors should have implemented a voluntary federalisation pilot scheme in some areas at the start.

He states: “With hindsight, perhaps this would have been the best way to proceed in the first place.” Those same leading councillors are now saying that in 12 months’ time the Assembly will publish new regulations and guidelines on federalisation that will be “more congenial to our circumstances here in Gwynedd”. Read

Taking glory

IN last week’s Herald, Rhydian James on behalf of the Bontnewydd branch of the Party of Wales sings about “excitement” on having a bypass for the Bontnewydd-Llanwnda area – wholly in the name of the POW (no-one else exists!). Read

Consultation document is confusing

RECENTLY I sat down with the intention of reading and responding to the consultation form regarding the reorganisation of schools, but failed because I found the form complex. Is this another ploy by Gwynedd? Read

Wrong place for homes

IN reply to the article “Affordable homes for Village Plea” in your last issue, and the comments made by Waunfawr Community Councillor Eurig Wyn, I would like to say that the site bought by Watkin Jones some time ago is the last place 18 new homes should be built – opposite to the school, where the road is absolutely choked with the vehicles of parents taking their children to school. Read

TRAVELLING last week on one of the local bus services, we called at one of the main schools in the town, picking up some 40 pupils. As the bus filled up with the lively and boisterous young people, I was rather taken aback, and deeply saddened, to hear nothing but English being spoken, and I failed to hear a word of Welsh during the 10 minutes I remained in the bus.

So what? one might say. But this school was not in Colwyn Bay or Llandudno; no, this school was in the middle of the Fro Gymraeg – at Porthmadog’s Eifion Wyn School. Read

UNFORTUNATELY, due to the lack of funding, Cymru Annibynnol, the Welsh Independence Party, do not have candidates for the May council elections in Tremadog, Bethel, Aberdaron, Morfa Nefyn, Nant Peris, Cwm-y-Glo, Felinheli, Nebo, Pwllheli, Llanystumdwy, Penisarwaun, Llanrug.

We could have done with CA/WIP candidates in those areas to fight for our just Welsh causes. Opposition is growing by the minute to the Party of Wales on the grounds of their craving for the creation of lords, their dilatory tactics, plus total inadequacy to fulfil everyday needs of ordinary folks. It is a damn shame that they have become a force dead keen on raising council taxes, but completely out of touch with us the ratepayers. Read

Is he a saint or a sinner?

I WAS disgusted and dismayed on hearing on the media that Lord Goldsmith, QC, is suggesting we all celebrate a “British” day. What utter cheek when his government will not allow us a St David’s Day while they even celebrate it in New York. Read

I READ with horrific shock Cllr Dafydd Iwan and Cllr Charles Wyn Jones’ letters in the March 6 edition of your interesting, down to earth newspaper.

Blimey, not long ago it was Cllr Iwan at it on behalf of PC/Party of Wales with Bontnewydd by-pass in mind, and now it’s parking facilities at Lôn Groes, Bontnewydd. Read