Your Say

Despite the fact that their ill-conceived proposals to build a large housing estate at Manthorpe were comprehensively rejected by the South Kesteven District Council’s development control committee, it nevertheless appears that Larkfleet & Co are to appeal their decision.

It was good to see the recent story in the Journal (February 17) about a group of women fighting back against the Government’s despicable changes to state retirement age.

This week, Radio Lincolnshire are holding live debates across the county about our healthcare and the upcoming Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) for our NHS services.

Yes ULHT, I know you have been well aware of the distress your actions have caused by making Grantham Hospital your whipping boy and trying to dismantle it, stealing our doctors and facilities.

Further to the article in the Journal (February 3) entitled ‘Give us power to fine drivers who hit bridges’.

I wish to comment on Mr Taylor’s letter entitled ‘Budget should not have been cut’ (Journal, January 27).

I am just wondering, in a time when we are encouraged to give to charity, why I am made to feel guilty each time I try and donate my unused items to the local charity shops.

The letter in the Journal (February 3) about having GPs do a session in A&E has a big flaw in it, that there is an acute shortage of GPs in Grantham.

Recently, looking through a bag of Grantham books I found ‘The History of Gonerby Hill Foot and its School’ written by Ruth Crook and Barbara Jefferies, to mark 100 years of the school.

I’ve written several times before about the close connection between the trashing of our precious NHS and decades of Tory misrule (although the Blair government didn’t trade under the Tory logo, Blair was, according to Thatcher, the Tories’ finest achievement).

Charmaine Morgan is correct in her opinion that the Spitalgate Heath Garden Village plan is yet another extension of Grantham’s urban sprawl and is actually described by Nick Boles as “whacking up homes on an existing town”.

There’s going to be thousands of homes going to be built in Grantham – they want stopping.

I contact you once again regarding the traffic lights at the junction of London Road, Bridge End Road and Springfield Road, is there anyone else that holds the same view as me regarding the traffic lights sequence?

The editorial in the December 30 issue of the Grantham Journal perfectly summarised the concerns readers must have had for years about long-term plans for Grantham Hospital.

Two of my sons have got asthma, the youngest is six. We need an A&E, not a walk-in centre or anything else.

I read with interest the letter from Jen McLean about Royal Mail deliveries, or lack of, this Christmas.

This year has been yet another extraordinary year for The Boys’ Brigade in England.

So, Mr David Smith advises residents in Ropsley to ‘get behind’ the existing pub and forget and disregard his plans for the original ‘Fox’s Brush’?

Once again we are treated to the spectacle of ‘the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable’ (Oscar Wilde) as the Belvoir Hunt holds its annual meet on St Peter’s Hill.

Rod Hatherill still seems to imagine that the UK’s contribution to the EU will be effortlessly diverted into the NHS, as implied by the highly dubious slogan displayed on the Brexit battlebus.