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Brown signing away our country to Europe

MR BROWN is telling us to trust him regarding 42-day detention yet he has signed up to the Lisbon Treaty which, according to Hansard, will bring our criminal law under EU control. Read

Danger pay?

IS it true? Read

Victims of credit scam

MY husband and I were victims of a credit card scam just before Christmas 2007 when several transactions were made in a couple of weeks, transactions of a lot of money. Read

Seance was planned by social club

I AM writing to you following publication of the article 'Government-funded body planned seance to build spirits' (Mercury, June 8). Read

Mystery of woman who helped find lost brother

THANK-YOU for publishing the article on my missing brother, Craig Hawkins (Mercury, June 15). Read

Don't blame the violent games.. blame parents

AFTER reading the article 'Call to ban violent computer games after American study' (Mercury, June 8), I did some checking. Read

Just a caretaker

Regarding the 42-day detention vote on Wednesday, Gordon Brown had to rely on deals to get through. And then only by nine votes! Read

Oink, oink, oink

MY councillor, Tony Ward, labels a scheme to help the jobless in Sandwell improve their employability as "ridiculous", and a waste of taxpayers' cash. Read

Tell us who they are!

SOME parents don't know what time their teenage youngsters get home at night or what they have been doing... until they go to court on some offence. Read

Immoral BBC salaries

I FEEL salaries the BBC are paying some of their presenters is immoral. Jonathan Ross gets £6 million. If the BBC invested the money in providing better entertaining programmes it would be of more benefit to everybody. I'm sure there are plenty of presenters of local radio and television who could do the job at a fraction of the cost. Read

Labour is anti-brum

I HEARD on the news that this Scottish-northern based Labour Government are to spend £3 billion of taxpayers' money on the transport system in their beloved Manchester. Read

Time for some common sense on parking

ON a wet bank holiday Sunday in a deserted and empty Queen Street, at 10 o'clock in the morning, I saw a parking attendant booking a car parked in a disabled bay. I suggested to the young man that he might find something more constructive to do with his life. Read

Royal Mail chief rewarded for failure

ADAM Crozier, Royal Mail's Chief Executive, was paid more than £3 million last year. This has been described as both obscene and immoral and, of course, it's both, and a great deal more, as is the £12.6 billion paid in City bonuses. Read

The real agenda is closing post offices

SO now it's another 4,000 post offices on the closure list. How many does that leave open, I wonder? Read

Mother gave her sons up out of love

THE mother who gave her sons up to the police must love them very, very much. Read

Class size was no barrier for me

I READ with interest your article in the Sunday Mercury headlined "Crowded Out". Read

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