Saturday, July 5, 2008
Horrible ... Big Brother's Rebecca
IT is disgraceful that despite the Maddie McCann case closing, her parents will stay as suspects.
How can the Portuguese police justify such treatment?
The least these sloppy cops could do is hand over everything to the McCanns’ team of investigators.
Hopefully they can do a better job.
ROSE DARBY
Manchester
TO say the Portuguese police have been incompetent throughout the Madeleine case is an understatement.
The stigma parents Kate and Gerry are living under must be unbearable.
Many people, I suspect, are becoming fed up with this saga but while there is hope that Maddie is still alive, the media must never give up its crusade to find this little girl, even if it takes another 20 years.
GRAHAM SHORT
Earl Shilton, Leics
I THINK the great British public know Gerry and Kate McCann are totally innocent of Maddie’s disappearance.
That is what matters.
Given the shambolic investigations of the Portuguese police, their findings are irrelevant.
TRACEY PETERS
Manchester
WITHOUT a single scrap of evidence, Maddie’s parents are still thought to have been involved in their daughter’s disappearance.
If they are not exonerated, does that mean every person who was in Portugal on that fateful night is also under suspicion?
IAN ANDREWS
Reading, Berks
WHY clear the McCanns?
It was only through their own selfishness, i.e. wining and dining with friends that caused the disappearance of the young girl.
They should be charged with neglect and their other children taken from them.
STEVE O’DONNELL
Bexhill-on-Sea
IT is about time the McCanns were cleared of any involvement in their daughter’s disappearance.
Kate and Gerry have suffered a great deal this last year and they should never have been suspects in the first place.
The Portuguese police never looked for that poor child properly, but instead just tried to pass the blame onto her parents in the hope they would shut up and go away.
Well they went away but haven't shut up, and I hope they continue making noise until there is a development in the case.
HAZEL RIGAZIO
Liverpool
THE NHS say they will not fund “health tourism” for British people going to Europe for operations.
I hope also that they will not fund health tourism for foreigners who come here for care.
JANET BIDDISCOMBE
Sherborne, Dorset
YOUNGSTERS don’t worry about carrying knives because there is no punishment.
Twenty years ago my 18-year-old son was mugged.
He, unknown to me, started to carry a small knife.
His older brother was out with him one night, found out and took it off him.
Later a drunken lad started to beat up my younger son.
The older one tried to stop it, couldn’t, and stabbed the attacker.
The lad was not badly injured but my son was sentenced to 18 months.
Since then he would never carry a knife.
If youngsters caught carrying knives were similarly punished, maybe it would deter them.
NAME & ADDRESS SUPPLIED
Dancing Queen
... Zara Phillips
ZARA PHILLIPS may star in Strictly Come Dancing but she ought to think very carefully before getting involved in such get-richer-quick schemes.
Look at how her brother Peter and his new wife faced The Queen’s wrath after their Hello! wedding payment.
SHARON SMITH
Romford, Essex
YET again this clueless Government has shot itself in the foot by announcing plans to build millions of homes in the next few years.
This is going to make the property market, already in freefall, even worse.
GERRY RICKARD
Scarborough, N Yorks
BIG Brother’s Rebecca is horrible.
If she’s an example of a Coventry woman I can see why people object to being sent there.
I hope Rachel wins.
ALAN BUCKTON
Middlesbrough
I CAN barely read the paper through tears these days.
Saturday’s alone carried at least three stories of child cruelty.
Forget the human rights law and take away these evil people’s ability to reproduce.
DONNA BRIDGES
Chatham, Kent
I AM lucky enough to have a good NHS dentist but he will not do dentures on the NHS.
My husband recently had work and was charged £650.
He is 68 and we are on a pension.
If you are with an NHS dentist they should only be allowed to charge the £198 maximum.
MAUREEN WHITEHEAD
Dartford, Kent
IT seems the Irish, who refused to sign the EU Treaty, have started a landslide.
Polish president Lech Kaczynski has now refused to sign it, and the Czechs may do the same.
Why is Gordon Brown so eager to sign away our future?
COLIN SOLMAN
Hamburg, Germany
THE hypocrisy of Newcastle United Football Club takes some beating.
Joey Barton attacks a member of the public and gets his manager’s backing.
But when convicted of attacking his then Manchester City team-mate Ousmane Dabo, he is sacked.
JAMES STRACHAN
Wallsend, Tyne And Wear
READER Bill Davies says Tory plans to scrap NHS targets are misguided.
We in the ambulance service have a target to reach life-threatening calls in eight minutes or less.
If we get to a man having a heart attack in nine minutes and he lives, we have failed.
If we get to him in seven minutes and he dies, we have triumphed.
If anything is misguided, that is.
COLIN BRYAN
Galleons Lock, East London
WHY don’t courts insist young thugs wear the same clothes they wore at the time of the alleged offence?
I am fed up of seeing youths appearing before magistrates in brand new suits and ties looking more like city executives.
PAUL HINDLE
Lytham St Annes, Lancs
WHEN there was a humanitarian disaster in Africa, the music world united and raised millions to feed the starving.
South Africa was courted or condemned by film stars, pop stars and politicians to free Nelson Mandela.
Where are they all now Zimbabwe is under the control of a lunatic?
IAN MANCEY
Guildford, Surrey
Silverstone ... Jenson Button
IT’S impossible not to feel a little sympathy towards Jenson Button.
Once he was the great British hope. Now he’s going into the British Grand Prix at Silverstone with no chance of winning.
If he’s lucky he might score a point or two.
Never mind, Jenson, your day will come.
PAUL THIRKELL
Aylesbury, Bucks
WE are greatly indebted to the NHS.
My husband had a hip replacement last month, and from the commencement of the first X-ray to the actual operation it was only five months.
Leicester General Hospital carried out the operation and my husband couldn’t have had better treatment had he have gone privately.
The hospital was spotlessly clean, the nurses and staff efficient and the meals were of a very good standard.
I take my hat off to the surgeon, nurses and staff who made my husband’s stay a very comfortable one.
SHEILA SALMON
Market Harborough, Leicester.
THE President of Poland voiced his reservations about the Lisbon Treaty and refused to sign it in the light of the Irish 'No vote'.
The French, who chair the EU for the next six months, are faced with the dilemma of their president who has said that 'There is something wrong with the EU'.
There was nothing wrong with idea of sovereign European nations having close ties and trading with each other whilst retaining rights to their own laws and customs instead of being railroaded into a 'one size fits all' hotchpotch.
When will this finally dawn on our prime minister?
JOHN BURTON
Worksop, Notts.
FOLLOWING campaigns by The Sun and a great many others, our frontline troops in Afghanistan and Iraq will only pay 11p rather than nearly 90p per minute to phone home to their loved ones.
When you think that it costs American troops and other EU members next to nothing, even 11p seems a lot, but at least it is a start.
DAVID PARSONS
Leicester
POLAND’S president has got more backbone than Brown. When is he going 2 listen and act on what the people want?
E P
WE, as a country, have helped many other countries in their times of need. I wonder if anyone will return the favour as we get further into debt.
ANON
I CANNOT believe a pupil put “f*** off” on an exam paper and got 2 marks 4 accurate spelling. What is this going 2 teach our youngsters?
PAM
Essex
COULD our troops be brought home to patrol our streets to stop our kids dying and save our country?
JOHN
THERE is only 1 way 2 stop the stabbings. Bring back the death penalty.
ROSE HORSCROFT
MAKE the Gurkhas honorary policemen and let them patrol the streets. There won’t be many yobs around then.
DAVID
Harwich, Essex
SANCTIONS will only hurt the poor innocent man in Zimbabwe. Mugabe and his rich cronies will not be affected.
ANON
WHEN will it stop? Another family destroyed, a child lost whose dreams would have come true. We must do more. God bless u Ben.
SUE
Camden, NW London
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