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LETTER: Thank you Horncastle for Poppy Appeal support

Through your columns may I say thank you to all the Horncastle traders who supported the whist drive for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

LETTER: Help win The Wong for Horncastle

Horncastrians, once again we need your help and support for the project to ‘Save the Wong as Green Open Space for Community Events.’

LETTER: A lesson in commitment and communication

If the campaign manager for Mr Barker, Mr Lockwood, is maybe at a loss as to why they only achieved 6% of the vote during the County elections may I suggest he need look on further than the end of his nose?

LETTER: Meeting was for the people of Horncastle not the councillors

I hope you will forgive me for intruding on purely Horncastle matters but as a former resident, town councillor and town mayor who now lives elsewhere in the country I do like to keep in touch with what’s going on in Horncastle via your website.

LETTER: Why the need for another memorial in Woodhall Spa?

Since 1987, Woodhall Spa’s Royal Square has been the site of the superb “Dambuster’s Monument” and is now getting another memorial within a few yards.

LETTER: No poet, he should know it

May I, through your pages, pass a message to Mr Parnham, the UKIP Candidate in the recent elections?

LETTER: Motorists need to slow down at Belchford crossroads

Following the latest unfortunate incident at the Belchford Crossroads, I do not consider it is in any way the fault of crossroads, or the road layout, or the VERY clear signposting and automatic “slow down” signage on both approaches from and towards Louth.

LETTER: Work together for the good of Horncastle

I attended the Horncastle Parish Assembly on Tuesday, April 16, two members of the public turned up and only half of the town council.

Apologies were received from three councillors who had legitimate reasons

LETTER: Not lost touch with Kirkby-on-Bain

In response to the letters printed on April 17 saying I had lost touch with Kirkby on Bain, this is far from the true picture.

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