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WELL done Gold Coast Titans board for consigning your team to be cellar dwellers for years.

No self-respecting coach will go near them after sacking Neil Henry and allowing the player to stay.

This has been dreadfully handed as both player and coach should have been sacked.

You have now established an extremely toxic atmosphere where the player has basically been given on-field control. TOM, NERANG

WE KEEP hearing how dangerous the M1 is. My observations of risks on the M1 are:

The driver who is in the right lane who wants to exit the M1 within

50m so cross four lanes to exit;

The driver who sits in lanes two and three doing 90km/h forcing others to swerve around them or brake heavily causing rear-enders;

The P-plate driver who is stopped dead beside the 110km/h sign because they are uncertain how to merge (yes, I had to take evasive action so I wouldn’t rearend this one);

■The driver who doesn’t indicate when changing lanes or leaves it so late to indicate their intentions that it causes reactions from drivers that may cause accidents.

Looking at the above list, I don’t see anywhere where it states the M1 is at fault. KJB, SOUTHPORT CANBERRA assures us we are safe from any terrorist attacks, yet they allowed someone to walk into the Senate chamber dressed in a burqa and unchallenged by security or by any of the Senators.

I congratulate Pauline Hanson for revealing our Canberra show ponies’ naivety, when, in fact, this burqa stunt could have been the real thing, with disastrous results. KEN WADE, TWEED HEADS

RE LETTER by Police Minister Mark Ryan (GCB, 21/8).

While Mr Ryan likes to paint himself as being an attentive listener it is hard to believe in the Broadwater electorate where we have the Runaway Bay Police Station.

Although this police station has recently gained an extra five officers it is still understaffed.

I have repeatedly written to the Minister’s office requesting police numbers be brought up to full capacity but to no avail.

I have sought a reason why, when statistics are showing a rise in hooning on the land and on the Broadwater, why his office has made no provision to provide extra patrol cars and extra water police to man more boats.

I have asked why a permanent water police station cannot be built at Paradise Point and a police beat at Hope Island to fill the gap between Runaway Bay and Coomera. I received no reply.

Either you are avoiding to answer us or you are not checking your letter box. BRENDEN BALL

AT THE Saturday matinees in the ’50s, we had our fill of the Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis films.

Even as a pre-teen, l thought Lewis was funny for about 10 minutes with his squeaky voice and elastic facial expressions.

Still, vale Mr Lewis. DAVID HALL, LABRADOR