Your Say

I would like to write to the Gazette as I attended a talk in Alnwick on Thursday evening, held by the history society.

I understand that the Government has plans to relax the planning laws to enable takeaway shop owners to convert their restaurants into homes.

I am writing in response to Mr Knapp’s letter about moving the Alnwick Music Festival away from the town centre.

Mr David Knapp’s letter on Alnwick Music Festival was spot on, (Northumberland Gazette, February 7).

The Home Secretary laid down a much-needed challenge to big tech companies at the NSPCC’s headquarters in London.

I was hugely reassured to read that our local MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan feels that ‘Secretaries of State are confident of no significant issues should we have to leave (the EU) without a full deal’ (Northumberland Gazette, January 31).

In Northumberland, the average council taxpayer has seen no increase in the single person’s discount, which has been frozen at 25 per cent since 1993.

Having read the letter from Geoff Hoskin (Northumberland Gazette, January 24) about the public losing control of vital services, I wanted to write and say how much I agree with him.

Lou and Graham Cross and Maddie and Steve Fletcher would like to thank all their friends, families and supporters for their generous help in raising the incredible sum of £3,248.40 (pre-Gift Aid, which will increase this amount) for Bowel Cancer UK’s Decembeard Campaign.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that one in four of us will be aged over 65 by 2037.

I read with interest the article regarding the music festival plans for Alnwick, (Northumberland Gazette, January 24).

I write with reference to your Orf disease report (Northumberland Gazette, January 17).

It may be of some interest to the more recent members of the community that the natives of the town are Alnwickites and not Alnwicktonians, as described by a recent visitor (Northumberland Gazette, January 24).

Over the past two years, I have been to many meetings with Highways England as dualling of the A1 route affects us. Final plans are soon to be lodged.

I appreciated Mr Ainsley’s letter and I would agree that the inherited resources of Northumberland Estates could and should be making a bigger contribution to the wellbeing and prosperity of the community in the ancestral Percy lands (Northumberland Gazette, January 17).

Well happy 2019, let’s hope things improve.

Thank you on behalf of Alexa’s Animals dog rescue for your donations at Bamburgh on January 1.

This January, at more than 11,000 events across the country, hundreds of thousands of people will gather to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day (January 27).

As we look forward to another year of delivering our Speak Out Stay Safe sessions, we’ve been reflecting on all the amazing work our volunteers have done over the last 18 months.