Yeovil man dismayed at adultery ads in newspaper, Borg Cube…
An angry Yeovil resident has blasted small ads soliciting adulterous relationships and the trend for holes in jeans.In a brilliant letter to his local newspaper, David Stedeford also takes aim at the use of the word “iconic” to describe the town’s police station which he likens to a Borg Cube from Star Trek.He kicks off by asking the Western Gazette if it believes in promoting adultery after its dating page contained two separate adverts from women who say they are married but looking…

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Author: JoshFordham

The postal service is far too slow
Ever since the Royal Mail was privatised, when it comes to efficiency, they must be near the bottom of the list.There is no consistency or reliability with our post these days, and once again postage has gone up and the service continues to get worse, but as usual when this happens we don’t get value for money and it is not acceptable.No wonder we use email whenever possible, which is quicker, cheaper and more reliable.This is my latest experience. Two letters were sent 2nd class from…

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Author: Western Daily Press

Shame on lack of candidates' details
Is it little wonder that we will see a low turnout at next week’s police and crime commissioners’ election. With only a matter of days before the election I have received nothing for any of the candidates.I have cast my vote by post but the only way I could find any information on the candidates was to go to the Wiltshire Council website. Shame on these candidates.Councillor Terry ChiversBy email

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Author: Western Daily Press

Finding figures in on-going EU debate
In 2015 the UK would have paid a gross amount of £18 billion to the EU. The instant rebate of £5 billion reduced that to £13 billion and with 4.5 billion being spent in the UK we are left with a figure of £8.5billion, says HM Treasury 2015 EU finance and the office of national statistics.The money spent in the UK does not include receipts from the EU budget that bypass government and go straight to the private sector and other non-governmental organisations such as…

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Author: Western Daily Press