Playing fields for schools is also vital to good health

5:11pm Wednesday 5th November 2008

THE Greens support the council in preventing fast food shops from being near schools and parks as childhood obesity is a major challenge for Waltham Forest. We would agree that tackling this problem requires a change to a healthier diet and more exercise for children.

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She has let down the old and the frail

5:04pm Wednesday 5th November 2008

DOES LIz Phillips forget she was elected to serve the people of this borough? (Guardian, October 23).

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Procedure for recycling is a load of rubbish

5:03pm Wednesday 5th November 2008

ON returning home I noticed that the recycling team had decided to filter out the plastic elements they didn’t want and left them in a nice pile next to the bins in our garden.

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Vulnerable folk were left to their own devices

5:06pm Wednesday 5th November 2008

FURTHER to the article in the Guardian (October 16) regarding an abandoned house on Hainault Road, I would like to add my comments.

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Here is a simple tip for obese people

5:07pm Wednesday 5th November 2008

WHY all this fuss about obesity? If people eat too much they get fat.

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Cllr Loakes should now provide invoices from project

5:09pm Wednesday 5th November 2008

YOU report that pressure is mounting on Councillor Loakes over the Better Neighbourhood Initiative affair (‘Demands for inquiry over funds fiasco’, 30 October). You are quite correct.

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Closure of post office has hit vulnerable residents

5:10pm Wednesday 5th November 2008

I ATTENDED the national Post Offices conference in Stansted, where over 100 council delegates objected to the flawed way that 2,5000 local post offices had been closed nationally in the narrow vision of the One Size All Government model.

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Walton House residents were begging to not be moved away

5:00pm Wednesday 5th November 2008

REGARDING the article about Walton House Care Home (Guardian, October 23), councillor Liz Phillips comments: “It was quite calm at the three meetings with residents and the only ones actually stirring it were some of the families of residents, who were shouting and saying ‘come on we have got to save the care home. ”

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Contact me if Google maps are a source of concern to you

4:59pm Wednesday 5th November 2008

SOME voices in the media have been critical of the launch of websites such as seety.co.uk and the planned improvements to google maps, which show 360 degree photos of almost every street in London.

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Lib-Dems setting the agenda in improved recreational facilities

4:55pm Wednesday 5th November 2008

RESIDENTS might like to know that, after some debate at the last full meeting of Waltham Forest Council, members from all sides unanimously approved Liberal Democrat plans to increase residential involvement in the running of local facilities.

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