Author Archives: Mark

A letter from Brian Showell – NHS

A letter from Brian Showell – NHS

What absolute tosh written by John Marsh, Herne Bay (letters March 2017). He implies that the NHS is serviced at all levels by foreign staff and suggests these people are only tending mainly decrepit ...
A letter from Irene Jones – Nuisance calls

A letter from Irene Jones – Nuisance calls

With regard to nuisance calls, although I joined the preference service, I still get nuisance calls regularly. All those you wrote about, I’ve had the calls. Some I get over and over again although I ...
The death of the Saturday job

The death of the Saturday job

Teenagers are ditching old-fashioned Saturday jobs because of their fear of failure, a study suggests. Instead of focusing on enhancing their extracurricular activities through part-time work, 16 and ...
A letter from Sue Stevens – What is old?

A letter from Sue Stevens – What is old?

After reading your article on when you are old, I thought I’d tell you of a conversation I had with my granddaughter. I asked at one time if she thought 60 was old, she said definitely not, she would ...