NAME-DROPPING: Following your history feature on Vinson Close, could you please point out to your readers our booklet is titled History on Our Doorstep and copies can be purchased from the Orpington branches of W H Smith and the library? We have sold out our stock. I really enjoyed your account of our booklet and the presentation of maps and photographs. The balance was just right.

Richard Burton

Orpington

GRAVE NEGLECT: The neglect of the Church Road cemetery is not unique. Visitors to Chislehurst Cemetery are met by paths covered in mud, piles of earth or rolls of turf, maintenance equipment lying idle and overflowing rubbish bins. It is rare to actually see any staff working there. Bromley Council seems to have washed its hands of its cemeteries. No respect for the dead then.

T Payne

Petts Wood

BEGS TO DIFFER: So, displays of Indian classical dancing, craft from Turkey and so on at Bromley Refugee Partnership's event of cultural fun. Hmm ... did we miss something? Refugees from modern democracies? Isn't it time publicly-funded organisations stopped trying to promote "multiculturalism" and got on with their proper business helping "genuine" refugees?

Andrew Wilk

Sydenham

MAST DO IT: If residents of Petts Wood are unhappy about a second mast on the land of the stables in Eynsford Close, they could send their objections in this order: first, it would be ugly for the surrounding area and, secondly, it would be a health risk.

S Plamer

Petts Wood

RIP-OFF: When Third World countries strip their natural assets, embezzle the financial aid given them, practise primitive religions which encourage overpopulation and then tacitly dump the surplus, then no, I don't feel a duty to encourage them.

G F Hawkes

Orpington

July 17, 2002 16:00