Tag Archives: your views

Every sympathy but the figures are wrong

Every sympathy but the figures are wrong

I am a member of both Leicester City and Leicestershire County libraries, which I use on average 4 or 5 times per week. Having no home computer, I use the libraries to check and send emails and for ot ...
Libraries are about equality

Libraries are about equality

In my younger days libraries were about borrowing books, reading newspapers and finding somewhere quiet to do some research. Today, though those facilities still exist, libraries offer much more than ...
The joys of volunteering

The joys of volunteering

I was surprised not to see volunteering as one of the things newly retired people could do in your article comfort in retirement (July 2014). I have volunteered all my adult life in a wide ranging fie ...
Checkpoint Charlie

Checkpoint Charlie

Thanks for your even handed coverage of the Scottish referendum issues. I enclose a box brownie picture of the English-Scottish border taken 60 years ago. My brother and I cycled from near Hawick wher ...