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* I think Alder Hey should be rebuilt on the Springfield Park and kept in Liverpool where it has been for many many years.
Although Springfield Park has been there for along time, it is only used for dogs as a toilet, for gangs of youths to congrete at night drinking and being a nusiance. The park is not used for family walks and picnics, it would be put to better use as children's hospital.
These people who object will be the first to complain if they had to travel outside Liverpool if one of their children or grandchildren neeeded urgent treatment.
* Please add my name to support Alder Hey Children's Hospital remaining in Liverpool. It would be absolutely disastratrous if it were to move out of Liverpool.
Janet Moretta via email
* I cannot believe that the city of Liverpool has given the Freedom of the City to Granada (ECHO, Oct 10). They have done nothing for Liverpool except ridicule it and its people at every turn.
They are Manchester-based and Manchester biased.
I think it's disgusting.
Mr M Grealey, Kirkby.
* The letter from Tunde Arobieykie (ECHO, October 17) was astonishing in its naivety and disgraceful in its implication. The slave trade had nothing to do with the people of Liverpool.
The city was simply used as a means of embarkation for the ships, financed by rich merchants and banks and insurance companies which still exist today.
The ordinary citizens of Liverpool, the vast majority, had no ability to influence big business, then as now. In Liverpool there is sympathy but no guilt.
Paul Burns, Bootle
* To all the staff, especially Mr Michael Doherty Green, at the Odeon on London Road, a very big thank you for the tickets we received for the special screening of Nanny McPhee on Saturday October 10.
Our dads' club took 13 dads along with 27 children, who all enjoyed the fantastic film and the warm hospitality. Eamonn O'Donnell, Surestart Dads' Club, Dovecot
*Two of my oldest friends, who live down south, came to stay with me recently, and to be honest I was a bit nervous about how their trip would go.
From the moment they stepped off the train, they were made to feel most welcome by everyone from the ticket inspectors to the barmaids.
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