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Prime example of one rule for rich and one for poor

9:14am Wednesday 3rd February 2010

“Ex-lecturers tears over benefit fraud verdict”, FP 27/1 will doubtless ring bells in the heads of fellow readers as it did mine, apropos the similar cases of fraud albeit the “legal” parliamentary version that saw countless MP’s also fiddling the system, public purse.

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Town manager better off not collecting rubbish

9:17am Wednesday 3rd February 2010

I read a report that the Falmouth town manager was going off litter picking around the area. Is that what we are paying him to do?

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I’d get a better reception in prison for the winter

9:18am Wednesday 3rd February 2010

Having had digital forced upon me for my television signal I now have an intermittent reception particularly during bad weather conditions, I wonder if paying for a television licence intermittently would be acceptable?

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I agree that changes at Killigrew are ‘crazy’

9:20am Wednesday 3rd February 2010

I totally agree with John Simmons, Falmouth Packet January 27, when he called the changes at the Killigrew roundabout crazy and misguided.

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Shop was a haven during recent severe weather

9:13am Wednesday 3rd February 2010

More snow was forecast in Cornwall for the weekend just gone, which reminded me how wonderful our village shop in Flushing was when we were all ice-bound and snow bound a few weeks ago.

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What is to blame for the collapse of The Poly?

9:40am Saturday 30th January 2010

Money is the lubricant of business, so let’s face facts, in spite of the overwhelming support as outlined in your paper of the many members of the Falmouth Polytechnic Society, with so much support why then did The Poly collapse?

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Community must help to save this valuable venue

9:40am Friday 29th January 2010

I, LIKE many others, was very shocked to find the Poly in Falmouth had closed last week.

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Roundabout modification was crazy and misguided

9:40am Thursday 28th January 2010

FOLLOWING on from previous letters about the accident waiting to happen at Killigrew Roundabout.

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Affordable housing move is good news for village

9:40am Wednesday 27th January 2010

AS a Strawbuckie, a person born and bred in Flushing, I was extremely disappointed to read in December 30 edition of your newspaper that the plans to build ten affordable homes in Flushing were being recommended for refusal by the county planners.

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Little more thought is needed over road works

9:39am Wednesday 27th January 2010

WITH the current road maintenance in Helston and subsequent road closures with diversions in place, a little forethought would not have gone amiss regarding the obvious congestion through the town centre.