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STAR LETTTER: Unbelievable flyers!

Isle of Wight Observer Feb 21, 2025

Dear Editor, I doubt if I am alone in being somewhat bemused – and amazed – at receiving two flyers…

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STAR LETTER: Tories ‘bottled it’

Isle of Wight Observer Feb 7, 2025

Dear Editor, So having grumbled for the last 4 years at the Alliance leadership not dealing with the surplus school…

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STAR LETTER: Our buses could do with a good scrub

Isle of Wight Observer Jan 31, 2025

Dear Editor, Why, oh why are all the buses on the Island so dirty? They look awful on the outside…

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STAR LETTER: The ferries always let you down

Isle of Wight Observer Jan 27, 2025

Dear Editor, I would like to share with your readers my recent experience of trying to book with Wightlink ferries.…

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STAR LETTER: Irreplaceable relationships at Island School

Isle of Wight Observer Jan 10, 2025

Dear Editor, I have written to the Isle of Wight Council making the following points and others. I am awaiting…

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STAR LETTER: Locked loo and lost custom at Lidl

Isle of Wight Observer Jan 7, 2025

Dear Editor, I’m diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease and I found myself needing a loo while shopping in Lidl in Shanklin.…

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STAR LETTER: Corruption is an insult to UK taxpayers

Isle of Wight Observer Dec 20, 2024

Dear Editor, Adam Webb (Island Soapbox, December 13) quite rightly states there is long-standing corruption in the Ukraine. Zelensky has…

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STAR LETTER: Learning practical lessons

Isle of Wight Observer Dec 13, 2024

Dear Editor, Years ago, we were taught practical skills like sewing, knitting and mending in school. These invaluable lessons equipped…

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STAR LETTER: MPs are right not to follow majority

Isle of Wight Observer Dec 9, 2024

Dear Editor, Paul Martin, Island representative for Dignity in Dying, will be pleased that the Terminally Ill Adults (End of…

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STAR LETTER: Benefit fraud is a way of life

Isle of Wight Observer Nov 29, 2024

Dear Editor, Having lived and worked in London I learned that benefit fraud is not just tolerated, it is an…

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STAR LETTER: Frustrating road works

Isle of Wight Observer Nov 22, 2024

Dear Editor, Once again, road disruption is causing delays over a lot of the Island. From the amount of ‘road…

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STAR LETTER: A statue to Labour minister?

Isle of Wight Observer Nov 15, 2024

Dear Editor, In order to make progress in Parliament it is important to make an impression, and what better way…

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STAR LETTER: Thank you to those dreadful migrants

Isle of Wight Observer Nov 11, 2024

Dear Editor, In the somewhat febrile atmosphere of the US elections, and the coronation of the latest incumbent as leader…

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STAR LETTER: Retirement ain’t what it used to be…

Isle of Wight Observer Nov 1, 2024

Dear Editor, With regards to your “Star Letter” (Island Soapbox, Oct 25); the writer, Avril Page, described her “belief in…

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STAR LETTER: Guilt over how my taxes are spent

Isle of Wight Observer Oct 25, 2024

Dear Editor, I believe in caring for older people and helping them to enjoy their retirement. After all, they have…

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STAR LETTER: Who decides what is truth?

Isle of Wight Observer Oct 18, 2024

Dear Editor, It was telling that Andrew Day, quite pompously, touted his view of the ongoing war in Ukraine as…

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