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Paxman should respect Burns

JEREMY Paxman recently referred to Robert Burns’ works as ‘sentimental doggerel’, useless verse is the meaning given in my dictionary.Read

WHILE agreeing with Councillor Buchanan that Killie is still breathing (now that it has the burden of a Labour council off its chest) I must argue about his respect for Klin’s John Finnie Street proposals.Read

This town is no longer in decline

INTERESTING letter from Scott Graham in last week’s Standard.Read

Landlords’ distorted view

REFERRING to the letter published on Friday, October 31, from the chairman of South Ayrshire Landlords Association and never being willing to shy away from the opportunity to have an opinion collated and forwarded to the DWP, here are a few reflections on his points.Read

Searching for Samuel McCrea

I AM seeking information about Samuel W McCrea – a secondary school pupil at Kilmarnock Academy in the early 1950s and a student of electrical engineering at the University of Glasgow in the later 1950s.Read

Another blow to housing market

I AM sure that many people will be concerned by the advent of the Home Information Packs at a time when the Scottish housing industry is crying out for help and home owners are facing the full force of the credit crunch.Read

I’ve bin thinking

ON returning from holiday recently, I caught up with The Standard of October 17, noticing, with interest, the top story concerning the iniquitous and anti-social phenomenon that is fly-tipping.Read

Wave of crime

WHEN I come home from work I pick up a Standard and enjoy reading it, but the one thing that really gets my goat is when I read the court reports – or maybe I shouldn’t!Read

Act of kindness

DURING the recent atrocious weather conditions, my wife took our little boy to Aldi for the weekly shopping expedition.Read

Landlords losing

ON August 1, 2008, a letter was published in the Ayrshire press from a private sector landlord distressed at the impact of the new Local Housing Allowance on his business.Read

Thanks

I WOULD like to take this opportunity, through your letters page, to thank the very kind person who found my wallet on Friday, September 19, on the number 1 bus to Darvel and posted it back to me with all the contents intact.Read

What happened to flood ponds?

CAN anybody from East Ayrshire Council explain why two flood prevention schemes in Galston did not have one drop of water in them from River Irvine? Holmes Corner and Molley’s Plantation schemes have failed the people of Hurlford, Crookedholm and Kilmarnock, as well as wasting millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money.Read

Soldiers are poorly served

MAY I take the chance of replying to “Vile and Bile” namely Mr McCracken Junior and Mr Meechan who in last week’s Standard described me as such.Read

Labour invested in our troops

I RETIRED from the Armed Forces in July of this year after 31 years’ loyal service to my country, and as a veteran I was disgusted to read yet another venomous letter from the bilious Mr Houston (Kilmarnock Standard, October 10).Read

Freebies for bonfire night?

LOOKING at all the wood washed down river onto the coast after last week’s floods made me wonder if the councils of the various areas had thought of rushing down to the shoreline and loading it into lorries in time for bonfire night?Read

Gargieston area is being left out

AS a resident of Gargieston in Kilmarnock, I am writing this letter in disgust over East Ayrshire Council’s severe lack of investment in facilities for our children.Read

Attack on Browne is ‘hypocritical’

UPON reading last week’s letters, I found Mr Houston’s attack on Des Browne both vile and hypocritical in the extreme.Read

Christmas parcels for the soldiers

YOUR readers may have seen an announcement in the national press that the public will not be allowed to send Christmas parcels to our troops this year if they are addressed ‘to a British soldier’.Read

Open letter to Des Browne

DEAR defenceless Mr Browne,Read

Badge presentation option still open

I READ Ms Linda Quinn’s letter (Kilmarnock Standard, September 26) regarding her disappointment that her mother had received her Women’s Land Army (WLA) badge through the post rather than having it presented to her at the presentation event I organised in August.Read

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