Trains not planes, growth pains and why eating the same makes sense

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Heathrow enlargement volition marque the clime situation worse, not the system amended

‘It volition assistance neither our system nor radical to stay successful denial’
It is outrageous for Rachel Reeves to blasted a dilatory readying strategy for expansions astatine Heathrow and different airports not having gone up already.

Independent aviation experts, including the government’s authoritative clime advisors, are wide that until measures specified arsenic a taxation connected predominant flyers are limiting maturation successful formation numbers, airdrome expansions should not happen.

It volition assistance neither our economy nor radical to stay successful denial astir the request to bounds the increasing harm from utmost weather events. Chris Broome, Sheffield

What astir the affects connected our prime of life?

‘More pollution, sound and the nonaccomplishment of greenish space’
After tanking the system with a disastrous budget, Rachel Reeves has decided to emulate Liz Truss’s madcap ideas by allowing developers to person escaped rein successful the sanction of ‘growth’.

This means unfettered development of roads, houses, airports etc causing much pollution, sound and nonaccomplishment of countryside.

What happened to minimising pollution? What astir prime of life?

More pollution, sound and nonaccomplishment of greenish abstraction volition mean much carnal and intelligence unwellness for an NHS already connected its knees.

This hopeless ideological hunt for short-term maturation ignores the agelong lasting interaction connected our accelerated disappearing countryside. Anthony, Lancashire

Labour hasn’t learned: ‘Boom and Bust’ economics ne'er works

‘Older readers whitethorn remember…’
Thursday’s header ‘It’s roar oregon bust’ for the chancellor’s program for accelerated maturation surely cannot be? Older readers whitethorn retrieve that Gordon Brown – a Labour chancellor with a decade’s worthy of acquisition – announced 20 years agone that he’d abolished roar and bust! Of people we didn’t judge him – the world was antithetic and Labour were soon voted out. Steve Milner, Guildford

‘I stopped buying successful Croydon due to the fact that of unchecked shoplifting’

‘Before I stopped, I would spot shoplifting each clip I shopped’
Your header connected Friday that we are ‘a federation of shoplifters’ – you’re not kidding. I unrecorded successful Croydon and present won’t store successful our municipality centre. Why?

Simply put, earlier I stopped, I would spot shoplifting each clip I shopped without neglect – and it would spell mostly unchallenged. It got excessively disheartening. And each clip I reported it I got the accustomed effect of shrugged shoulders.

Is it immoderate wonderment much and much take shoplifting?

I present store successful Kingston. At slightest determination I spot shoplifters challenged and caught. Geoff Hall, Croydon

Why eating the aforesaid meals each week works for me

‘There are galore advantages to this’
Your Poll Position connected Thursday tells america that much than fractional of america – myself included – instrumentality to the aforesaid meals each week. There are galore advantages to this, specified arsenic reducing the request for planning, making buying easier and quicker, keeping power of banal levels and champion earlier and use-by dates, truthful reducing discarded plus, of course, keeping power of budgeting – particularly successful these financially hard times. Bill Martin, Norwich

Would you accidental thing to idiosyncratic spreading germs connected a bus?

‘She was perpetually sneezing and coughing’
I got the No.263 autobus connected Thursday and determination was a woman afloat of cold/flu. She was perpetually sneezing and coughing and making small effort to incorporate either.

The autobus was packed with schoolchildren and commuters.

There is each this speech of A&Es and hospitals being nether pressure yet nary one, including myself, said a connection to her. P Goodmead, Finchley

Mocking EV drivers? Petrol cars trust connected energy excessively

‘How would helium person filled up his car astatine the substance pumps?’
I had to laughter astatine the message from Otto Inglis (MetroTalk, Thu). He seemed to find it amusing that a powerfulness nonaccomplishment astatine a motorway services resulted successful a chap traveller successful an EV not being capable to recharge to proceed their journey.

Agreed, the operator was unwise to let the artillery to driblet to specified a debased level it would not instrumentality them to an alternate charging constituent – but that’s a elemental quality mistake to make.

However, if Mr Inglis had made the aforesaid mistake, continuing to tally his diesel car agelong aft the substance informing airy had travel on, however would helium person filled up his car erstwhile the substance pumps are not capable to pump substance without electricity? Graham Tapper, Camberley

Billionaires are atrocious for the system – here’s wherefore

‘It would beryllium amended to person had 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire’
The crushed our system is suffering truthful overmuch is due to the fact that we present person excessively galore billionaires and not capable millionaires.

It would beryllium amended to person had 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire, who would not acquisition the other 999 houses, cars and different associated goods 1,000 millionaires would. All the billionaire would bash is acquisition a ace yacht oregon a shot club, which does precise small for our economy. Carlos, Lancashire

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