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Don’t desecrate our capital’s historic castle grounds

I AND many other people I have spoken with think that it would be desecration to begin making roads through Cardiff Castle’s grounds, for whatever reason. Read

WHEN I went to vote at the Howardian Centre on Thursday, May 1, I noticed an empty building next to the car park.

I wonder if this could be used to house Chris Plaister’s cinema museum, which is looking for a home. Alternatively, it could be housed in Llandaff/Insole Court or a school in Cardiff which has empty classrooms, due to falling pupil numbers. The women’s cafe bar at the WWII museum at Pill in Newport is also looking for a new home. Read

I WOULD like to know if anybody can beat this? I had a friend who stayed with me for five days. We went through 600 tea bags, four bags of sugar and 10 pints of milk and I ran out of tea.

Glenys Desmond Read

WITH all of the FA Cup final talk in the air, I recently found a very interesting newspaper cutting in my late mother’s possessions.

It stated: “Former Bolton winger Ted Vizard has died at his Wolverhampton home aged 84. Vizard, a Welsh international, played in Bolton’s FA Cup-winning side of 1923 and 1926. Read

Saddened by this treatment

I WAS both saddened and surprised to read about the unfortunate experience of the two blind ladies in McColl’s Llanishen store who were asked to leave because it sold food and they were accompanied by guide dogs. Read

Cameras use fatally flawed

WHATEVER her reputation and however glowing the tributes, Gwyneth Dunwoody MP was directly responsible for one of the most fatally-flawed road safety decisions ever made, with incalculable consequences for road users. Read

Huge loss for older people

IT is with great sadness that I report the loss of our only post office. Read

Jeremy’s show so hypocritical

I WOULD like to write my view on a TV programme called the Jeremy Kyle Show. Read

Death penalty is common sense

THE argument with regard to the death penalty has been raised in Viewpoints recently. Read

Sweetheart deal leaves bad taste

IT appears from recent newspaper reports that the independent members elected to Caerphilly County Borough Council last week are deep in talks with Plaid Cymru, and possibly Labour, to carve up the lucrative Cabinet positions between themselves so that one or other of the political parties can gain power – against the wishes of the electorate of the borough. Read

Time to shake ourselves out of this apathy

OVER the years whenever we have read items in the Press which have disturbed us we have written to Viewpoints to express our concern. Read

Voted on to a gravy train

IS there no end to the greed of our elected representatives: today we learn that MPs are plotting to give themselves a 25% rise, giving them an allowance of £75,000. Read

Heston, the hypocritical hunter

A LOT has been written about Charlton Heston’s roles, but nothing about the fact that he hunted animals and even had the nerve to go to another country via Canada and tell them it was all right to kill bears. Read

Billy Raybould example shows football’s loss was rugby’s gain

I WOULD agree with Nick Taylor (Viewpoints, April 26) that there could have been many budding future Cardiff football stars in the 1950s who passed the 11+ and were then lost to the round ball game because of their grammar schools’ policy of rugby only. Read

Football ‘expert’ is too biased for me

I WAS disappointed to see that the BBC has reinstated Leighton James to its Saturday sports programme. Read

Straight to the point

WE would like to say a big thank you to everyone who supported us in the recent council elections. Read

Treat the real fans a little better, please

AS a Cardiff City supporter for nearly 55 years from the days of Trevor Ford (right), Gerry Hutchings, Ron Stitfall and Ron Howells, I am totally bemused at the allocation of tickets for Ambassador season ticket holders for the FA Cup final. Read

We can’t fund self-rule – yet

COUNCILLOR Keith Parry says in his letter (Viewpoints, May 6) that we should not be governed by Westminster but should rule ourselves. Read

Wasting food is morally wrong

WITH reference to DE Coombes’ letter (Viewpoints, May 2) asking what happens to perishable foods in supermarkets, I strongly suspect they end up in the bin. Read

Stopping a bus now a danger

G JONES of Barry Island in his/her letter (Viewpoints, May 1) enthuses about changes to St Mary Street. Read