Letter printed in the Advertiser 1st November 2018 by Steve Halden

The Budget by Philip Hammond Chancellor of the Exchequerhas failed to tackle the major problems facing the British economy and that is the trade deficit.

Britain has the worst trade deficit in the developed world even after including invisible exports of services such as banking and insurance.

Manufacturing industry is the main generator of wealth in Britain and the Budget totally ignores that sector of the economy. There is nothing in the budget to encourage exports in order to tackle the trade deficit.

Britain runs a trade deficit with the EU of a billion pounds a week. This is the most urgent problem facing Britain today.

In the long term a deficit of this size is unsustainable because it adds to themore or less on his own in less than a week.

In a story that could outdo the wildest TV fiction thriller the true life ITV documentary told how the serial killer was caught.

Not only was the serial killer Christopher Halliwell caught for the murder of Sian O'Callaghan, but he was also eventually convicted for the murder of Becky Godden.

This has got to be one of the most thrilling and spectacular police murder investigations ever told.

It was just very sad that Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher lost his job due to technical problems with the Police and Crimes Evidence Act.

Steve Halden

Steve Halden letter printed in Advertiser 22 September 2018

A British ex-soldier has been given a seven year prison sentence by Turkey for fighting ISIS.

ISIS were one of the most cruel