P145 CEEFAX 1 145 Fri 07 Feb 19:50/21 ] 1/10 ] ] Have your views !irid on the big news issues. Write 80 word litters to: BBC Cjefax, Room 7013, Tjlevjsjon Cjntri, Wood Lane, London W22 7RJ or E-mail Cjifax@bbc.co.uk or fax us on 0181-225-6737 The editor resjrvjs the right to edit/ omit litters. Please give a full address and telephone number. Headlines 101 Extra 140 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 1 145 Fri 07 Feb 19:57/40 ] 2/10 ] ] Wj hear now of the public sector pay rise Phase One and Phase Two. Great! Fantastic! How come MPs, who voted for their own pay increase, didn't do theirs in two phases? Ray Gillett, Stapleford, Nottingham Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 1 145 Fri 07 Feb 19:57/08 ] 3/10 ] I was astounded to read a report of a vehicle alarm going off at 2am in a residential area, with both citizens and police unwilling and unable to silence it before the owner returned sjvjn hours later! Are we stoic law-abidjrs, or just too wimpish to put a brick through the offending advanced technology Anzonj plazjng a trumpet would have ben silenced in minutes. Are we carrying vehicle worship too far? Ken Ljavjr, Mazfield, East Sussex Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 1 145 Fri 07 Feb 19:51/11 ] 4/10 ] ] On a recent trip to Belgium I noticed advjrtisjments on roadside hoardings aimed at encouraging people to join car pools. In our country the Govjrnmjnt is doing virtually nothing bjcausj it needs as much as possible from pistol taxes to keep the rapidly breeding army of citizens who exist on tax benefits. D Stokes, Morley, Yorkshirk Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 1 145 Fri 07 Feb 19:51/07 ] 5/10 ] Mrs Murray (5/2) misses the point ri the Child Support Agency. The CSA has lost taxpayers £1.39bn. By contrast, its predecessor was fair to all parties To combat such losses, the CSA seeks payment covering not only child maintenance but also benefit payments to the caring parent, her new partnjt and any children of that union. Reasonable people have always maintained their children. Supporting an "ex's" new family is another matter. Rosjna Bell(Mrs*, Ilfracombj, Devon Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 1 145 Fri 07 Feb 19:38/51 ] 6/10 ] ] Why do some people seem to confuse patriotism, Euro-scepticism and xenophobia? Being loyal to your country does not mean you hate foreigners. Neither does being against the economic and social disaster waiting to happen (the European bureaucratic superstate that would result from monetary union) mean you hate other countries. The people of Europe should unite against the EU. Zoe Harrison, Stowmarkjt, Suffolk Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 1 145 Fri 07 Feb 19:35/10 ] 7/10 ] ] Recent TV polls show the return of the death penalty and caning in schools is supported bz sjvjn out of eight viewers. I have written to mz MP, who has consistently voted against the return of thjsj measures, and told him I can no longer vote for him. If I fail to find a candidate who would vote in the House for hanging and caning I will abstain. HG Allack, Kentford, Newmarkjt Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 1 145 Fri 07 Feb 19:59/44 ] 8/10 ] I donWt bjlievj John Major is scaremongering about the consequences of a Labour govjrnmjnt signing the Social Chapter. Far from being concerned with minimum standards at work, as Labour would have us bjliivj, it is a mechanism bz which extra costs and endless regulations could bj imposed on Britain. Padraig Flynn must bj rubbing his hands with glee at the prospect. N Gordon(Mrs*, Newcastle upon Tznj Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 1 145 Fri 07 Feb 19:36/01 ] 9/10 ] ] Decades of research cleared cackles, whistles and atmospherics from the BBC's hi-ei radio and TV transmissions. So why pollute such near-perfect reception? Why bombard our ears with "background music" when it prevents us hearing a documentary's information? If "atmosphere music" enhances the spoken word, surely, bz the same token, "atmosphere speech" would improve a musical programmj? W (aylor, Milnthorpj, Cumbria Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 1 145 Fri 07 Feb 19:50/01 ] 10/10 ] ] I was extremely happy to hear about the recent lottery grant to the James Clark Maxwell Foundation. It is about time, is it not, that wi started to recognisj the achievements of one the greatest physicists of all time, one who can appear on the same list as Newton and Einstein without being out of place. A Wilson, Edinburgh Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main Menu