SIR, Well done Jayne Kendall and the people of Ulverston for persuading British Telecom to install Broadband in the town (Ulverston will soon be able to tap into broadband, May 16). Meanwhile, we in Windermere are still waiting! Windermere residents, if you are an internet user, please register your interest in Broadband by making a free 150 call to BT. Until British Telecom hears from four hundred Windermere households, they will not install the necessary equipment and we shall be stuck with the old, slow technology.

Adrian Legge

Windermere

) SIR, Can anybody explain why the single bus journey of 10 miles from Windermere to Hawkshead costs a hideous £5.30 whereas the fare from Windermere to Kendal and back, a total distance of 17 miles, is £3.75? Our tourist friends, who provide most of the custom on the Hawkshead bus, could be forgiven for thinking that they have been selected for special high prices.

Alan Willis

Windermere

) SIR, Pensioners must stand up and be counted. I live just over a mile from the town centre and it costs me £3 to go in and £4 to come back by taxi so twice a week is a slice out of our pensions. Is this the penalty of growing old?

Mrs J Ellis

Kendal

) SIR, For months I have been following closely the debate about the closure of public toilets in this area and have until now held back from adding my penny's worth (or should that now be 20 pence worth?). However, your news item (Gazette, May 9, People ask to use shop's loo') has weakened my resolve. We read of a Kendal shopkeeper saying that, "we've had a steady stream from the public." I can only say that I don't blame them with all those toilet closures!

Philip Barry

Grayrigg

) SIR, There is a third option on the new EU regulation banning burial of dead stock exit the EU!

The directives churned out by Brussels to clobber the British could be the death of this country. They are taking us over by stealth.

Dead sheep have been buried on site for hundred of years no problem.

If it was OK at Great Orton for stock with foot-and-mouth, it is OK for the odd sheep anywhere.

The UK party with a policy to take the UK out of the EU would win by a landslide!

Edwin Bateman

Sedbergh

) SIR, In our present world climate of discord and strife, there is among mankind, a deep yearning for world peace.

The discoverer and founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, wrote a remarkable book entitled Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and it offers a complete panacea to the healing of all the world's problems, difficulties and conflicts. Mrs Eddy wrote all about God and His creation, including man. And we know that God's plan is peace and happiness for all mankind.

In her book she wrote: "One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture Love thy neighbour as thy self'; annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry, - whatever is wrong in civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalises the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed."

Doesn't that say it all?

Peter Julian

Assistant Christian Science Committee on Publication

Kendal

May 22, 2003 14:30