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11, February 2013·1 min read

Letter: Watch out for the Spare Room Tax

As well as the changes to council tax benefit, the Spare Room Tax may hit many residents wanting to downsize but not able to due to lack of one-bedroomed properties.

8, February 2013·1 min read

Letter: The elephant in the room

One reader reviews outgoing CEO Steve Beynon's legacy

2, February 2013·3 min read

Letter: Ferry companies must accept they provide vital public transport services

One reader shares his letter to Andrew Turner with OnTheWight readers. The subject: Ferry services

22, January 2013·1 min read

Letter: How about a semi-fixed link to Lymington?

A suggestion for a partially-fixed link between the Island and the mainland is raised by reader Ron Chonner

18, January 2013·3 min read

Letter: Running out of sacrificial lambs

Patsy Lacey is pretty unhappy about how this council has performed in relation to our children

14, January 2013·3 min read

Letter: Asphalt plant: Credibility of soil investigation challenged

On The Wight reader raises further concern over data provided to the council by the asphalt plant applicant

9, January 2013·3 min read

Letter: The case for the Cowes asphalt plant

James Luke asks what value does the proposed asphalt plant bring to the Island and the people who live here?

2, January 2013·1 min read

Letter: What’s happened to the water on Ventnor Cascade? (updated)

Who turned the water off and why? asks an On The Wight reader

30, December 2012·2 min read

Letter: Time to remove the council’s Chief Executive

Mike Starke writes to Eric Pickles in response to his suggestion that council Chief Executives could be scrapped by local authorities in order to save money

24, December 2012·1 min read

Letter: Will we be left with a generation of lost minds?

Ron Chonner has written in, concerned about the young people who might fall ever-further behind in our increasingly digital world.

24, December 2012·3 min read

Letter: The problems of a disabled parking bay (updated)

Don Smith shares his story about attempts to get the disabled bay outside his house repainted.

16, December 2012·1 min read

Letter: Police tried to fine me for tyres that were perfectly legal

Josh Harris, who suffers with severe arthritis was made to stand in the cold for 45 minutes by police as they questioned him in the recent joint operation with the IWC and DWP. They then tried to fine him, saying his tyres were below the legal limit. He proved them wrong.

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