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My happy memories of Bangor give me hope of trade in the future

A WALK down Bangor High Street today has left me feeling short on Christmas Cheer. Read

Be thankful if you have public toilets

EVAN W Jones, Talybont, Bangor, is very lucky to have public conveniences open in whatever state. Read

Thank you for supporting Llangefni carol event

THROUGH your paper and on behalf of the FUW’s Anglesey Branch, I would like to convey our sincere appreciation to everyone who contributed towards the success of the Carol singing evening last Monday in Llangefni Town Square. Read

Llangefni rail link development is great news

THE news that Network Rail has been commissioned by the Welsh Assembly Government to carry out a feasibility study on reopening the railway line between Llangefni and Bangor is excellent news ("Reopening is back on track" – Mail Dec 9). Read

Garth Community Centre is plugging Bangor's culture gap

BANGOR now lacks both live theatre and cinema facilities for the first time in a century. Read

Clarification on recycling batteries on Anglesey

CATRIN Lewis of Soroptimist International, Anglesey, wrote a letter to the Holyhead & Anglesey Mail which wrongly stated that batteries should be put into a paper bag and then placed into the red recycling box. Read

Help me trace a picture of my Llandygai relative

I WONDER if you could put the following request in your newspaper please for family history research on behalf of my 93-year-old aunt and make an old lady happy.Read

Housing debt help for people on Anglesey

I WOULD like to alert your readers who may be having trouble with housing debt to a new service being offered by the Consumer Credit Counselling Service in Holyhead and Anglesey.Read

Shut Oriel Kyffin Williams and spend the cash fairly

LOOKING at the news on S4C last Tuesday, I heard it mentioned that Anglesey County Council will soon be looking into the shambolic over-funding of Oriel Kyffin Williams at Llangefni and very likely will severely have to cut back on the astronomical amount of money allocated annually to cover running expenses. Read

Do you remember Cornelius Cardew's music on Anglesey?

I AM researching the work of the composer Cornelius Cardew, particularly his work with an ensemble called the "Scratch Orchestra" during the late 1960s/1970s. Read

Caernarfon Commonwealth day was a great success

I AM sending a word of congratulations to Ms Kathryn Owen as town clerk of the Royal Borough of Caernarfon for the splendid organisations you did with the Commonwealth Baton Relay through the town on Monday, November 9. Read

Anglesey Council has had its day - it's time for change

THE recent remarks of David Bowles, appointed by the Welsh Assembly Government in an attempt to secure political efficiency from our county councillors, can only have rubbed salt into the wounds of Anglesey ratepayers.Read

Help us commemorate Llewelyn ap Gruffydd's death

NOW that November 11 has past and commemorating those who lost their lives for Britain I would like remind everyone of commemoration date yet to come.Read

Closure of Gwynedd schools will lead to better education

CYNGOR Gwynedd will decide which primary schools reorganisation models to propose for formal consultation in a full council meeting on December 10 for an area in the south of the county. Read

Wylfa announcement is great news for Anglesey

THE recent announcement that Wylfa is one of the UK Government’s 10 preferred sites for building new nuclear power stations is excellent news, both globally and locally.Read

We will miss the warmth of Holyhead

WE wish to thank all our friends in Holyhead for their generous support over the past 15 years. Read

AM tried to distance himself from Assembly's Anglesey debate

ANY Anglesey ratepayer who, like me, took the trouble to download the Assembly Minister, Dr. Brian Gibbons’ recent statement of the Assembly on Anglesey Council would have been incensed that our own AM, Ieuan Wyn Jones remained rooted in his seat having obviously instructed Dr. Dai Lloyd AM to respond, without any understanding of the further serious deterioration of certain councillors’ behaviour following the appointment of the Recovery Board.Read

Nuclear power station on Anglesey means raised terror threat

WITHIN the last few weeks we have seen world-wide three examples of employees using their positions of authority to turn on colleagues with disastrous consequences – in France where a nuclear scientist was arrested for cooperating with Al Qaeda, in Afghanistan where a member of the Taliban had infiltrated the police force killing six of his British trainers and in the USA where, earlier this month, 13 fellow soldiers were killed by a Major with possible Al Qaeda connections.Read

Many thanks for a fitting Remembrance Sunday at Holyhead

MYSELF and many Holyheaders would like to thank the officers and committee of Holyhead Royal British Legion. Read

Bangor University should think about the musem

ALAN Dyer’s letter "What is to be done for the museum?" October 28, really does illustrate the university’s fundamental flaw in its strategy for the arts.Read

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