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Dear editor, One needn’t go as far as Afghanistan to find danger lurking around every corner. You are just as likely to come face to ugly face with it on Castle Square in Haverfordwest every Friday or Saturday night.

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Parking plea

10:27am Thursday 19th August 2010

Dear editor, On behalf of those within our community who are disabled, might I appeal to those who are fully fit in mind and body not to park their cars in areas which are reserved for disabled drivers.

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Surely safety must come before profit?

10:30am Thursday 19th August 2010

Dear editor, Milford Haven Port Authority seems to have become very profit focused of late. Worryingly, this is just at the time when I thought that the priority was supposed to be the safe and efficient operation of the port for all Haven users.

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What a load of old cobblers!

9:17am Thursday 5th August 2010

Dear editor, on READing last week’s story and the comments by Councillor John Roberts (Milford Mercury, front page), I would like to say what a load of old cobblers.

Keep this piece of history alive

9:16am Thursday 5th August 2010

Dear editor, St Botolph’s Mansion near Milford Haven may now be just a shadow of its former elegance, but while passing by the other day, it evoked a reminiscence to me of its early Georgian architecture and I imagined how bustling it must have been, employing many people from the locality in service The Stokes family lived there for generations. I went to Milford Haven library to do some research and discovered that in 1881, Anthony Bowen Stokes, a land proprietor of 200 acres and a Lieutenant Colonel, lived there with five daughters. This in itself would have posed many headaches for the parents.

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Comments were in bad taste

9:15am Thursday 5th August 2010

Dear editor, Replying to the letter regarding dangerous funeral parking (July 15) I would like to point out to Mr Lye that there was a police presence at the said funeral.

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Well done Milford Haven

9:13am Thursday 5th August 2010

Dear editor, So our illustrious county council and leader John Davies crow like jubilant cockerels about the amount collected by these controversial parking charges introduced on April Fools’ Day.

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Sum shows it's time to remove parking charges

1:19pm Thursday 29th July 2010

Dear editor, Your sister paper, the Western Telegraph, reported the gross income raised by the car parking charges for the three months from April.

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Switch to help animal welfare

1:15pm Thursday 29th July 2010

Dear editor, As this week is Farm Animal Week — run by the RSPCA’s Freedom Food scheme — I urge readers to spare a thought for more than 900million animals farmed for our food in the UK.