leahortez86: Nottingham Post letters

THERE you are then! It must be the joke of the century Charles and Camilla off to Morocco, as trade envoys would you believe.

How many do we need for God's sake? We deal mainly with weaponry, are we trying to start an uprising there?

If they want to make a bob or two they should wait till after the wedding, there'll be plenty of junk memorabilia to flog to car booters and flea markets.

Talking of the wedding, don't get too carried away when it arrives in April – there's been four turn sour.

For a family that uses the Church as bedrock of its existence yet regularly breaks its code of conduct, there's only one word that applies, hypocrites.

The Church in their turn never complain, at the drop of a mitre they perform every ceremony required, again only one word applies.

So who's on our side? The man in the street, the taxpayer, the masses. Certainly not MPs. Can anyone see them offer a referendum on the monarchy? They would lose their invites to royal garden parties not to mention the mish-mash of gongs they accommodate.

Tom Paine, who helped America rid itself of George III's Great Britain and France from Louis XVI, wrote: "'Royalty is as repugnant to common sense as to the common right; of all superstitions none has more debased men's minds."

PM of the day William Pitt the Younger, although agreeing with much Paine wrote, had him declared an outlaw with a price on his head for fear the French revolution would spread to Britain.

DAVID TOBIAS Bracken Close Long Eaton

IT is good to see that old gentleman, A O Wilkinson, back in these columns. I hope his sword is sharp.

I do fail to see how he can contend that my saying homosexual behaviour occurs in the animal kingdom is insulting gays.

It is a simple and non-judgemental fact and for anyone who believes in evolution it would be irrational to ignore it.

Nor did I invoke any yardstick of animal behaviour as to what is permissible for humans. Permissible does not come into it.

We are capable of rising far above some animal behaviour or sinking far below it.

Human beings have lived, and still do live, in conditions which no free animal would tolerate. Consider the filth, sewage and degradation that people lived in towards the end of the 19 century in London or Nottingham.

These conditions are still around in many parts of the world.

Consider the scale on which humans kill and terrorise each other – to a degree far beyond what any other warm-blooded creature does.

My logic opens the flood gates for terrorism and barbarism, Mr Wilkinson? They are already open and have been so for centuries.

R L COOPER Harlequin Close Radcliffe-on-Trent

WE understand that the decision to close Sherwood Police Station has already been made by senior officers in the force.

It appears they have not had the decency or good manners to let the voluntary sector in on this open secret.

If as she says, Julia Hodson wants to leads Notts Police out of the mess they are currently in, and remember they are bottom of the national league tables, she needs to get the trust and respect of the public.

Backroom deals like this followed by a kick in the teeth for loyal and committed voluntary sector workers is not going to achieve very much beyond Notts police remaining in the doldrums.

Given the commitment Neighbourhood Watch has shown in Sherwood, I would have thought it would have been reasonable for Ms Hodson to write to us personally, but clearly she either does not care or lacks the courage to face her critics.

Ms Hodson needs to remember that she is a public servant and is paid for and accountable to the community.

In that context I note that she has very little to say to the media or anyone else. Could be an own goal as the less charitable might interpret it as something to hide.

IVAN JACOBY Chairman, Sherwood and Mapperley Park Neighbourhood Watch Association

WITH shops and supermarkets fighting for customers and survival, it still amazes me that quite a few disregard the benefits of good customer care and communication.

With very little leeway in respect of prices to attract customers, the experience of how one is treated and respect while in store goes long way to forming some identified level of loyalty.

I suspect a lot of readers of this newspaper would share my sentiment that those who ignore or mistreat customers deserve some form of retribution, however little.

It's not the first time, but recently I visited the Victoria Retail Park to purchase items, I wasn't in rush, but didn't fancy wasting half a day getting them.

To cut a long story short, I was ignored by three sales assistants who were more preoccupied with what social activities they would be undertaking later that day and who they would be meeting.

The retail outlet in question has its headquarters in Nottingham, although more loyal to local industries and produce, this didn't reduce the impact of the experience.

When I had finally attracted their attention, despite the sense of feeling a bit of a gooseberry for intruding into their social-life activities, I asked the question as to where a particular product was displayed. One assistant looked at me with annoyance, the second looked lost to understanding my request and the third gave me directions similar to saying it's over there somewhere.

With this apathy shown I decided to go elsewhere. Despite having to pay a few pence more from a smaller chain, the customer service was excellent.

It's not only shops and supermarkets which need to address their customer service, but every other form of business, because to ignore, could be your downfall.

TONY MORRIS Manor Green Walk Carlton

DAVID Tobias (Your Views, April 6) in my opinion mixes honour with die-hard republican politics.

The well-deserved Royal prefix to Wootton Bassett was given to, and for, its residents who gave quiet, spontaneous respect, time and dignity to the many funeral processions passing through the town.

They did not ask why, or know the families, yet supported, sympathised and hopefully gave some comfort to those sadly affected.

Not for greed or privilege. Neither can I see how the Queen could be accused of gain by giving such an honour.

No doubt lives will be lost in the years to come for issues which our governments feel are important – this is not my argument – nor should it be one here. That is what elections are about.

Neither I, or I suspect Mr Tobias, has actually taken the trouble to give 20 minutes every week or two to say to unacquainted and bereaved families and friends – we are sharing your loss, no matter whether it occurred in a mine, a hospital, workplace, a foreign country, at home, from old age or by accident.

By all means debate the issues of wars, or the royal family, but do not confuse this with the deserved respect earned and given by good people.

SIMON WOODROFFE Fulwood Close Chilwell