MERCURY MAILBOX: Banks should have a statue
I have never been interested in sports, but, to me, Gordon Banks is Leicester's most famous footballer – along with Gary Lineker, of course.Last week, I discovered Stoke City have erected a superb...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Behaviour disgusting
I can't be the only person disgusted by the gruesome behaviour of Jules O'Dwyer with her dog Matisse.For a dog trainer, it is beyond belief she allows the dog to lick her face and stick its tongue in...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Award is well deserved
I would like to congratulate Hannah Brine, who was named one of the five recipients of the inaugural BBC Music Day Unsung Hero Award for launching the community choir Victoria Park Singers in Hackney,...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Make drivers' fines heavier
I am writing this with the mindset of a pedestrian and cyclist and occasional motorist.Within the past 10 to 12 years I have been run into as all of these, (fortunately not injuriously to person) by...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: How to make road safer
The crossing outside Haymarket Shopping Centre is listed as one of the most dangerous in the UK.May I suggest that another set of traffic lights are installed above the existing ones?At the moment, if...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Problems at Tigers
So Tigers were humbled for the second time this season by Bath at the Rec.As I feared, their excellent achievement in reaching the play-offs for the 11th successive season was always going to result in...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Love crossed barrier of war
I much enjoyed Catherine Turnell's article in Thursday's Mercury about Ashby and its Napoleonic War prisoners.As a descendant of Mary Ann Kirkland's brother, I can add information on the wartime...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Stick to green
In my letter printed on April 23 I said Leicester Tigers won't win until they go back to their green strip.I was right: look at the awful match at Bath in those dreadful red clothes.Georgina Murmann,...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Fire service concerns
I find myself very concerned about the takeover of Leicestershire Fire and Rescue service by (surprise, surprise) Sir Peter Soulsby and Nick Rushton.A decision, it seems, which had already been...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: It's clear MPs do not get it
I recently sent a message to my MP to inquire if he would be accepting the 10 per cent plus proposed salary increase decided by the independent body, IPSA.I asked this in view of the current economic...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Do not sack City players
I write with regard to the three young Leicester City footballers accused of racist behaviour in Thailand.Personally, I think that to sack them all would be far too severe for an act of sheer stupidity...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Trade deal destructive
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a most destructive trade deal that is being negotiated behind closed doors.While we do need and should support trade agreements, this one is...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Plant could keep out cats
Further to the letter from Keith Taylor, of Cosby (Mercury, June 6), about deterring cats from using his garden as a toilet.I have found that by planting in your borders or in pots around the garden a...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Demob happy
Bringing back National Service would not work.Back in the 1950s there was a reason for National Service.Me and my friend Derek helped to keep the Russians at bay.Now, if the sergeant shouted at a squad...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: My treatment was the best
In the last week in February, when I got up to feed the dog in the late afternoon, I felt dizzy and unstable, thinking this could be a result from a new set of tablets I was taking.I contacted the...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: What about the workers?
Nicky Morgan says she will donate her pay rise to charity ("Morgan: I'd give more to charity", Mercury, June 5).Is her piety going to stretch to putting her voice to paying the Whitehall cleaners the...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Thank you
I would like to thank the very kind and honest person who found my wallet in the Beaumont Leys shopping centre on Monday, June 1, and handed it in to customer services at Tesco.I would also like to...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Defending the Human Rights Act
Mr Stephen Warden ("Bid to protect our way of life", Mailbox, June 3), correctly assumes that my letter of May 27 was intended to deter readers from accepting the government's proposal to replace the...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Still haunted by cruel act
Regarding the incident of two ducks in Syston on May 14, I am pleased to read the views of other readers who witnessed this cruel act by a man who so heartlessly ran over these two lovely birds.I am...
View ArticleMERCURY MAILBOX: Time to ban these cyclists
When is the mayor going to take the blinkers off and see the problem with cyclists racing through Gallowtree Gate, Humberstone Gate and High Street?Again on Saturday, when busy with shoppers, an...
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