LIKE Christy Fearn (Your Views, Nottingham Post, January 1) I too was appalled to read of the city council's intention to open Newstead Abbey only one day a week in the new season.
I was surprised that there was not a whole page full of letters of protest.
As Christy Fearn says, Byron is an international hero and Newstead Abbey is known throughout the world because of him.
People come from all over the world to visit the abbey, some from as far as Japan, so couldn't the city council reconsider its decision and perhaps make it two days, Saturday and Sunday?
Anyone who has had any connection with the abbey will know that Saturday is the busiest day of the week and all that money would be a gain, not a loss.
DOROTHY HALLETT Salcombe Drive Redhill
I WISH that governments, when they came into office, were less diligent about undoing the efforts of predecessors and actually learnt by their own and other governments' history, because the key to the future lies in the past.
Failures are bred on "new" ideas, in the main. Little is ever done by these law-makers to use lessons learned from past office or the actions of predecessors.
The coalition government know they have made a big error in seeking to impose hideous cuts immediately, in services and budgets, yet MPs insulate themselves by claims on expenses that will cover them. As a society, we will never achieve unity while we have so many self-serving individuals pulling in different directions.
We will never win unless someone has the courage to get hold of this country by the scruff of the neck and right it, put it back on track. We need a statesman to do that and not this group we have.
FRANK MCLOUGHLIN Rawlings Court Cropwell Bishop
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