Your letters - Sunday Sun

Good luck in battle against the pub giants

I WISH Steve Corbett and Mark Dodds all the best in their battle against the domination of pubs by giant companies.Read

Shame on British Gas jobsworth

I HOPE British Gas are ashamed of themselves. How could they have taken that money from the poor family and their disabled son as you reported last week?Read

Anger over secret injustices

THE question: "Should family courts be made open to the public?" on our What Do You Think? forum has generated a lot of debate on the Sunday Sun website. Here are just some of the comments.Read

Society needs less religion, not more

I AGREE with Ken Oxley’s article criticising calls for a greater role for religion in society from clerics with a vested interest in extending their power base.Read

Clearing up facts over the split

THE article you carried last week headlined “Taking God out of the Shoebox”, made it seem as though I had left Samaritan’s Purse in anger, which isn’t the case and has not benefited the children I aim to help at all.Read

No religious row in split

I WAS surprised to learn about a story in the Sunday Sun last week about one of my former colleagues, Steve Whaley, claiming that he had left Samaritan’s Purse because of “a religious row”.Read

Listeners losing out

I’M writing in response to Robert Weatherall’s article about BBC presenter Mark Turnbull.Read

Sad to lose DJ Mark Turnbull

FOLLOWING Robert Weatherall’s article on Mark Turnbull leaving BBC Tees, I would just like to say I think it is absolutely disgusting that he has been finished and I could have cried my eyes out when I heard.Read

Fostering fears

AS MPs debate the Children and Young Persons Bill in Parliament, foster carers across England will be asking them to make a commitment to young people in care by allowing them to stay with foster families until they are 21.Read

Aden wreath-laying ceremony

WE are ex-Royal Northumberland Fusiliers who served in Crater, Aden, Saudi Arabia 1966-67.Read

Great North Run places

HAVE you missed out on a place to run in the Great North Run on Sunday, October 5? Well, Henshaws Society For Blind People can help you. We have secured more places and one of them could be yours.Read

MS is chronic, not fatal

THE weekend before last our Newcastle and Gateshead Branch held a fundraising event involving a zipslide from the Tyne bridge.Read

Jury still out on MMR jab

I WAS very pleased indeed to read Phil Doherty’s excellent report last Sunday on the statement by Dr Bernadine Healy, the former head of the US National Institute of Health.Read

Another side to George Reynolds

I WRITE with reference to the article by Ken Oxley last week, which said of George Reynolds: “It’s hard to be positive, George”.Read

Headbutt boy's family's views should be heard

I HAVE read with interest your recent articles about the headbutting incident in a Jarrow school.Read

Could you be a BHF volunteer?

I AM writing to appeal to your readers to help the British Heart Foundation by volunteering at their local BHF shop.Read

No excuses for butt boy return

THE saga of the North schoolkid who has now gone back to school after headbutting a teacher continues to generate interest on the “What Do You Think” forum on our website at www.sundaysun.co.uk. Some comments are serious, some not so . . .Read