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Pizza perfection

I read with relish your dining columns every week hoping to find a tasty morsel sandwiched within your pages, and boy did I find the sweetmeat last week. P’s Pizza on Yaowarat Rd proved to be a sumptuous – and cheap – dining option for this ravenous reader, so I want to thank you, Stephen Fein, for your excellent find.

The pizza was crisp, delivered quickly and made professionally. Equally important, the beer was cold, the street view unhindered and the waitstaff and owner professional and helpful.

I know I will return again soon, and will wait with hungry eyes for your next cheap eat.

Dr Fell
Phuket

Taking savety to the streets of Phuket

I read with interest your story about stepped-up security measures at one local school (see “Kajonketsuksa steps up school security”, Gazette issue of June 23).

While schools should take such measures to protect their children from stalkers, miscreants and fellow students and teachers who might harm, cases like that of Virginia Tech student-from-hell Seung-Hui Cho are one-in-a-billion occurrences and impossible to predict or prevent.

To protect our students here in Phuket, a much better place to start would not be on the school grounds but on our public roads. This would mean taking a hard look at school transport.

Hardly a day passes when I don’t see uniformed students hanging by one arm from speeding pickups, tuk-tuks or even perched precariously on motorbikes, invariably without helmets.

It seems that in Thailand it is only after a tragedy that common-sense steps are taken to prevent a recurrence.

Why not be pro-active and prevent them in the first place? If we don’t, I am afraid it will only be a matter of time before a real tragedy will occur.

Concerned parent
Wichit

Baby murder harks back to Bulger boys

I was sickened and saddened to read about young Nitchanart, who at just two years old had her throat slit by teenagers [see News pages, and “Toddler killed in botched burglary”, Gazette online June 23].

My heart goes out to Nitchanart’s parents, and to the family of Dang Panthip, the nanny who died after also having her throat cut by the boys.

Memories of the Jamie Bulger case in the UK in 1993 came back to haunt me. I can only pray that the two teenagers who murdered Nitchanart do not receive the same “Western justice” as Jon Venables and Robert Thompson have – they have been released after serving only eight years of their jail sentence and one of them is reportedly going on to university to further his career prospects.

There are reasons why I have chosen to call Phuket my home. That events like this do not happen here is one of them.

Disillusioned
Chalong