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4:25pm Thursday 4th September 2008

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SAVE LAKE: Crystal Palace park lake is turning green with algae causing a reduction in oxygen which is suffocating the fish there.

Parts of the lake are just mud with a thin covering of stagnant water. The pumps and filters for the lake have not worked in the year since an arson attack burned out an electrical junction box.

There are grand multi-million pound plans for the park which make it look rather pathetic a few thousand pounds cannot be found to stop the lake dying.

The park is rightly proud of its restoration of the dinosaur area, but the addition of a primeval swamp is not really necessary as well.

Please can the park authorities sort it out before it is too late.

KEVIN KIRWIN, address supplied

POLICE PROTECTING US: It is always very disappointing when the police are criticised simply for undertaking their core responsibilities of protecting us from crime.

I refer to the story about stop and search (Carry On Searching, News Shopper, August 13) and the comment from Liberty.

The question I would pose to these critics is how many of the 28 people arrested for possessing an offensive weapon would have gone on to use them, seriously injuring or killing someone? You do not carry a weapon unless you are intending to use it.

And how many more offences would the other 97 people arrested for a variety of offences have committed if they had not been arrested?

Our police must have the tools to effectively carry out their duties.

MICHAEL KENNEDY, Venner Road, Penge

KIND COUPLE: I would like to thank the extremely kind couple who came to my rescue after I tripped on a uneven paving stone in Charterhouse Road and fell heavily, injuring myself badly.

They drove me to the Princess Royal University Hospital, waited for me while I received treatment and then drove me back to my home.

Their consideration was heartwarming and restores one's faith in human nature. My renewed and grateful thanks to them both.

PAUL TOWERS, address supplied

NO SURPRISE: The rise in C diff infections at the Princess Royal University Hospital, Farnborough, is regrettable but not surprising.

The hospital is not entirely to blame for this. Recent visits to the hospital meant the call of nature had to be answered.

While washing my hands, I saw the public and even hospital staff failing to do so.

Such unhygienic behaviour does little to prevent the eradication of hospital infections.

JOHN GAMET, Oakfield Lane, Keston