Your Letters
14:27 UK time, Thursday, 28 February 2008
So, M&S charging for warrants third-top billing on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ News front page. Well, if you're working class and shop in Netto or Kwiksave, you've been paying for your plastic bags for years. Welcome to our world, middle class.
Jason True, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
We haven't needed "free" for years. We bought two large, robust carriers from Waitrose in 1980. We are now, 28 years later just coming to the end of our SECOND set. It really isn't difficult and simply carrying on with plastic bags is downright lazy and irresponsible.
David Aarons, Hemel Hempstead, UK
Interesting that on the day that Marks and Spencer announce a ban on to 'save the environment', Coca-Cola were again unveiled as the most popular brand in the UK. How many plastic bottles are produced and thrown away each year. Rememenber that Coca-cola also own many other brands of Soft Drinks and Bottled Water. A plastic bag has a dramatic impact on the environment and wildlife, but then so does a plastic bottle cap, or the plastic strips that hold 6 packs together.
Dave King
Wiltshire County Council are investigating street that can be turned off at night. I'm sure I'm missing something here, but isn't that when they're needed the most?
Keith, Dartford
Is it me, or does Philip Hodson (of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) have a rather bizarre definition of ""?
Chandra, London
Did anyone else check today's date to ensure it isn't April 1st, directly after reading today's ?
James Aldous, Coventry
I'd just like to point out that if i were a more paranoid person I would take it extremely personally that the site crashed every time I tried to post a comment. It has failed horribly to accept my comments on the last two Friday Funs and also on the item about carrier bags. Why doesn't the ´óÏó´«Ã½ like my internet connection? Is broadband just too mundane?
Sarah B, IOW, UK
Monitor: Apologies to those struggling to submit comments to the Monitor. See here for an explanation as to the likely cause... and some hopeful news about it being fixed.
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