'Past inquiries ignored health data—Hixon must not repeat this' - your letters, plus a nostalgia snap of when gales wreaked havoc in Walsall

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Supporting image for story: 'Past inquiries ignored health data—Hixon must not repeat this' - your letters, plus a nostalgia snap of when gales wreaked havoc in Walsall — PICTURE FROM THE PAST: Gales battered the West Midlands in November 1981 and among the damage was the greenhouse belonging to Mr Joe Fox, of Pelsall Lane, Walsall. The roof of an old car, which was being used as a temporary shed roof by a neighbour, was hurled 200 yards into the greenhouse.

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Concerns about new incinerator

Those concerned about adverse health effects from the proposed incinerator at Hixon should have no confidence in the proposed public hearing. If that hearing goes the same way as the public inquiries for which I was a Rule 6 Party objector in 2005 and 2011.

A 2005 inquiry was held for an incinerator at Belvedere in the London Borough of Bexley. My submission was wrongly dismissed but included unpublished ONS birth defect data released on the instruction of Rt Hon Ruth Kelly MP which showed a post-incinerator rise in Bexley’s birth defect rate after treated sewage sludge at the massive Crossness sewage works was incinerated instead of being dumped in the North Sea.

Michael Ryan, Clee Hill