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LETTER: Horsham magnets

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:00:50 GMT

During a recent trip to CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics) in Geneva, my son, a lecturer in accelerator science at Oxford University, noticed that several of the magnets that are used in an experiment that he works on were made by Lintott Engineering in Horsham around 1976. Having worked for Lintott for ten years in the 1960s and again in the mid-1970s, I found this very interesting and thought that other ex-Lintott employees, some of whom would have worked on these very magnets, would also be interested.

LETTER: Garden proceeds

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:00:37 GMT

We would like to thank everyone who supported our recent open garden. This enjoyable event raised £1,111-41p. to be divided evenly between The Bluebell Railway and The Methodist Relief and Development Fund.

LETTER: Responder work

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:00:37 GMT

I wanted to use your pages to thank the Horsham Community Responders for attending to my ten year old who ended up with broken and dislocated toes when playing.

LETTER: Generous support for collection

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:00:24 GMT

The Horsham Branch of Parkinson’s UK would like to thank all those who donated so generously to the town collection on Saturday April 20, 2013.

LETTER: Animal welfare

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:00:24 GMT

During the nationally organised RSPCA Week at the beginning of May, Sussex North Branch were collecting at Tesco Broadbridge Heath and raised £566.37.

LETTER: Bikers still face much persecution

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:59:55 GMT

I write in reply to Peta Little and Billinghurst Parish Council (County times May 30).

LETTER: Search for history of key town site

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:59:45 GMT

As reported last week, Horsham District Council’s Development North Committee refused planning permission for a luxury development on Kingslea, just off the Kings Road in Horsham.

LETTER: Handyperson scheme launch

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:59:35 GMT

Age UK Horsham District is launching a new Handyperson and Gardening Service in response to local need .

LETTER: Questions on key range of issues

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:59:29 GMT

The majority of politicians in our country are elected as named individuals and, often, on a party platform.

LETTER: Disappointment at Energy Bill vote

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:59:24 GMT

I am disappointed that Horsham MP, Francis Maude, voted in the House of Commons against including a clean energy target in the Energy Bill.

LETTER: Incredible impact for us in Sussex

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:59:23 GMT

Leading business figures including Sir Richard Branson and Martin Sorrell have stressed the overwhelming economic benefits of EU membership.

LETTER: Ill-defined policies from UKIP

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:59:18 GMT

What a fascinating and worrying insight into UKIP and its approach to local government and

LETTER: First match to be floodlit

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:59:11 GMT

Helen Richardson is probably already aware that her grandfather, Fred Sparkes, first held a season ticket at Horsham Football Club in the 1899/1900 season and began his playing career at the club in 1907, continuing up to the start of the 1914/18 War.

LETTER: Spend scarce funds elsewhere

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:39:57 GMT

A few days after the local elections last month I, like other households here, received a leaflet about the imminent replacement of street lighting in the Roffey area.

LETTER: Bin charges will inevitably go up

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:39:44 GMT

John Baugh’s letter about HDC’s new charges rightly points out that the charge for this ‘year’ is in fact only for ten months but I suspect that this is only the thin end of the wedge as charges will inevitably increase annually.

LETTER: User overpays through the nose

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:39:33 GMT

The Green Waste service is much valued and so it is no surprise that those residents who can afford it will sign up.

LETTER: My bin is going back to council

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:39:26 GMT

On June 4, just to see what would happen, I put my brown top bin out for collection, not having taken-up the kind offer of HDC and its con-trick of the newly created, ‘user pays’ philosophy.

LETTER: Massive impact of airport growth

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:30:08 GMT

Gatwick expansion will instantly devalue and pollute vast swathes of East Surrey and West Sussex.

LETTER: Powerful hammer poor and needy

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:29:23 GMT

With regard to the ill-conceived so called bedroom tax, I think it is spawned by the same sort of bullying tactics as the Highland Clearances of the early 19th century. The powerful hammering the poor further into the ground.

LETTER: Incorrect dates for bin service?

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:29:11 GMT

I have just received my membership sticker for Horsham District Council’s new Acorn Plus Garden Waste Collection Service.