Staff ‘too ashamed to look at their colleagues’

2:44pm Thursday 14th August 2008

Letter to the chief executive Bury Council, August 9, 2008. I’m not one of the 40 per cent who got a pay rise, or the 28 per cent who kept their existing salary.

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High earners not included in ‘equal pay’ harmonisation

2:43pm Thursday 14th August 2008

I WAS appalled to read your article in the newspaper last Thursday, August 7, concerning the salaries of Bury Council workers.

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Out of sight, out of mind approach to tobacco

2:42pm Thursday 14th August 2008

I’d like to ask your readers to support Cancer Research UK’s new Out of Sight, Out of Mind campaign, which aims to make sure that children and young people have the right to be protected from the marketing and promotion of a product that kills — tobacco.

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How would you feel if it was your family?

11:01am Thursday 24th July 2008

I AM writing concerning the proposed closure of care homes by the new Conservative-led council.

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Market lighting is a waste of energy

11:02am Thursday 24th July 2008

IN these days of expensive electricity and energy conservation, I would like to ask the council how it justifies allowing Bury Market to squander these resources?

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Learn from the past

11:06am Thursday 24th July 2008

DESPERATE situations call for desperate measures.

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Congestion charge figures do add up

11:00am Thursday 24th July 2008

IN response to the letter in the Guide on July 10 from Peter Fuller of Prestwich.

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Parking penalty notice petty and defies belief

2:23pm Thursday 10th July 2008

ON Wednesday, June 25, I visited the Croma restaurant with my daughter who lives in Hollins.

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Card accounts vital to the future of post offices

2:22pm Thursday 10th July 2008

Whilst attention is understandably presently focused on the latest post office closures, a further threat to the existence of our local post offices is just a few weeks away.

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Charity should begin at home to improve Pados’ grounds

2:21pm Thursday 10th July 2008

Fred Plant of Pados agrees I made a valid point about the overgrown state of the gardens adjoining their headquarters (Guide letters, July 3).

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