Last week in Prime Minister's Questions, I queried why the Government is trying to exempt London from new air quality controls, when it claimed that there would be no further expansion of Heathrow unless proposals met strict environmental limits. As usual, I was unable to get a straight answer, but I am not alone in finding this.
It seems as if everyone is talking about the rising price of fuel in recent weeks. With petrol prices now over £1.15 per litre, and diesel even higher, the cost of filling up the family car has rocketed.
With all the excitement about elections last week, it would be understandable if you missed that another damaging blow was struck last week to the Governments' case for expansion at Heathrow Airport.
This month there are so many issues that I would like to write about, I really have to ration myself. So I have chosen just three that are top of my postbag at the moment.
THERE was a very vocal and overwhelming message sent from the anti-Heathrow expansion rally in Central Hall, Westminster, last week.
"AS pensioners, the security of our pensions depends directly on the long-term success of British Airways, and that... depends on the success of Heathrow."
A HAPPY 2008 to all Hillingdon Times readers and their families, and I hope that it is not just happy but healthy too.
IT almost seems that the Monty Python team are in charge at Westminster. Not only has HM Revenue and Customs lost discs containing millions of people's personal data and bank details, including my wife's, we now find that the Government may never be repaid in full for the £24billion that it lent to Northern Rock.
WHEN I first heard Gordon Brown's latest plan to claw back money from those schools which had saved some of their annual budget, I had to check my calendar to see if it was April Fool's Day.
WHEN I was a boy, I had a money box. Along the spine there was the word "thrift" and an embossed design of the plant of the same name.
