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YEP Letters
Letter: The last two remaining honourable gentlemen
Upon reading this morning’s papers, telling everyone about the birthday of a member of the Labour Party, Mr Dennis Skinner’s 80th birthday.
Letter: Show you care for the health service
The YEP should be thanked for its report on the e-petition “Stop the Health Bill”.
2 commentsLetter: Devastating attack on those in need
THE decisions made in the House of Lords, recently, have exposed the welfare reforms for what they really are.
1 commentLetter: When a park is not a park...
I NOTICED with concern in your recent papers that you have referred to Woodhouse Moor as Hyde Park on several occasions.
2 commentsLetter: Hard times for market traders
DEPLORABLE that Leeds City Council have plans to reduce the Kirkgate market – the heart of the city. One would have thought that, logically, facilities of the market could be enlarged.
2 commentsLetter: Our council’s ‘pitiful’ response over ‘art’
Following your article on Thursday headed “Artwork title spells trouble for city gallery”, I felt I should further reinforce my complaint to the city council via your letters column.
1 commentLetter: Losing our heritage
I read with concern, your recent letter from John Roberts regarding the sale of pews from Wakefield Cathedral.
2 commentsLetter: Lost in literature
How I empathised with the letter from Mr T Crawford about his memories of battling with Dickens in his schooldays!
Letter: Thanks... for your inspirational story
Thank you for a tremendous article about the love of Jimmy and Lucy Gittins (YEP, February 13); two wonderful people who have faced adversity head-on and how good to read a day before ‘Valentine’s Day’.
Letter: What a time to act on whiplash injury!
It seems ironic to me that just as I have my first car accident (not my fault) and suffer genuine, agonising whiplash,
2 commentsLetter: Our driving nightmare!
My wife and I had booked tickets to the Leeds Grand Theatre on Saturday to see the opera Julius Caesar in Egypt, produced by Opera North.
2 commentsLetter: Dressed in style
I was very interested to read Juliette Bains’ report about Heatons Clothiers at Leeds, as both my parents were employed there when I was a child.
Letter: Let’s stand up to European Court
Once again, British justice, already the laughing stock of Europe, has been dealt another blow by the European Court of Human Rights, which, overturning a court decision here to extradite a disciple of the late Osama Bin Laden, has completely ignored the recommendations of our judiciary system.
5 commentsLetter: Protect unborn babies from this
What a tragedy, 100 babies born in Leeds each year are ‘hooked’ on some kind of drug. (YEP, February 9)
3 commentsLetter: Keep connection with the past...
Some people mistakenly refer to Woodhouse Moor as Hyde Park. This is very common among newcomers to the city who are unfamiliar with the area.
1 commentLetter: Car insurance is a rip-off for motorists
Considering we all know car insurance is a rip-off, unregulated and therefore an out-of-control industry, and motorists have little or no choice but to pay ridiculous sums for cover, a number of factors, introduced since the war, have contributed to the ever increasing cost of premiums.
Letter: Right to stand firm on illegal camps
I REFER to the article headlined ‘Anger at “offensive” traveller camp ban’ (YEP, February 10).
8 commentsLetter: Quiet, please
I WOULD like to thank Michael Chapman for a wonderful concert in a local club in Leeds.
Letter: A disaster that was waiting to happen
I FIND it intriguing that Michael Gove and co would let this propaganda disaster get away: that the extra money given to an academy was a miscalculation, and £117,000 has to be given back, at the probably expense of seven teaching assistants’ jobs.
Letter: Pews with historic significance
ALTHOUGH I suppose we should count our blessings that the pews in Wakefield Cathedral are being sold and hopefully going to good homes rather than being chopped up or burnt, for many people these pews represent an unsurpassed and integral part of the building, just like the stained glass and reredos (also installed at a later date).
Letter: Where have all the classic films gone?
I DO not know why Mr Shipman (Letters, February 9) is complaining about films shown on TV. After all, Willy Wonka, You’ve Got Mail and every Randolph Scott cowboy film were only shown three times last week.
2 commentsLetter: Chance to freeze council tax bills
Over the coming weeks, local authorities across Yorkshire will be setting their council tax bills for the year ahead.
2 commentsLetter: Misery of the Thatcher years
RE Estelle D Davis’s letter of February 6, I can sympathise up to a point, as I agree that there were and still are many injustices caused by governments of all parties.
5 commentsLetter: Leeds is not a one-team city
IN response to Richard Walkin’s letter (YEP, February 4) I would like to remind him that the city of Leeds does have another major team other than Leeds United.
Letter: Are we now in the midst of class war?
I DO agree with the sentiments of Malcolm Naylor’s letter (YEP, February 3). Capitalism does need reform, but a benefits system that gives people more than £25,000 indefinitely is corrupt.
Letter: Britain’s forgotten cinema classics
ON two Monday nights running, ITV has shown The Shawshank Redemption. Whilst this is a fine movie, it does not warrant two screening in such a short time.
1 commentLetter: Why Grayson had to go...
I WAS surprised at Reading manager Brian McDermott’s sympathy for Simon Grayson not being afforded the luxury of buying the best players.
1 commentLetter: Failed CSA should now be scrapped
I AM writing to comment on the massive amount of child maintenance that is outstanding in the Leeds and Wakefield areas and even more worrying, the whole of the UK.
1 commentLetter: Andy’s good example
GRAHAM Charlesworth (YEP, February 3) misses the point about the backgrounds of Labour’s ‘working class heroes’. That someone has a privileged background does not make them automatically incapable of understanding or working to improve the lot of the disadvantaged and the squeezed middle, just as it is true in reverse that someone with less privileged upbringing is not incapable of appealing to the conservative right.
1 commentLetter: Raging against the royals
IT was with a degree of shock that I realised, whilst watching a local TV news programme item about the forthcoming Diamond Jubilee, that it is 35 years since the Sex Pistols outraged (part of) the nation with God Save The Queen! A single that has the honour of having made the official Number 1 in Silver Jubilee week itself but which was “blacked out” from all printed chart positions. Some charts actually placed Rod Stewart at Number 1.
Letter: Alarm over closure of homeless hostel
BACK in 2010 the leader of Leeds City Council, Coun Keith Wakefield, warned that cuts ‘the likes of which have not been seen since the 1930s’ would be felt in Leeds.
1 commentLetter: Congratulations to volunteers
WHAT a delightful article about the PDSA in Bramley – ‘Love for animals inspires team to awards victory’ (YEP, January 31). I love the PDSA and I think it is just brilliant that the team of volunteers – all women, by the look of it – have won the ‘PDSA Retail Volunteer Team of the Year’. Judy Moore, ‘Key Volunteer of the Year’, sounds particularly impressive. Well done to her.
Letter: Relief from the deep freeze
WITH the current freezing temperatures, I would like to remind people about the ‘Home Heat Helpline’. The Helpline is a free, not-for-profit phone line which provides independent advice to people who are concerned about paying their energy bills and keeping warm. One in 10 households are entitled to some form of assistance and that help is worth an average of £250 per household.
Letter: Campaigner who preached equality
I WAS appalled to read J Wood’s letter (YEP, January 28) about Denum Ellerby, the seven-year-old boy with Down’s Syndrome who was denied Holy Communion by a church.
Letter: Protesters win a moral victory
SIR Philip Hampton, the Royal Bank of Scotland’s chairman, and Stephen Hester, the bank’s chief executive, have both turned down bonuses that have returned £2.3million back to the British tax payer. Good on them.
Letter: Olympic unease
I AM embarrassed to admit this but I actually agree with something Rod McPhee has written. His article ‘Not ringing true’ is, I believe, an accurate perception of the disassociation most people feel towards the Olympics.
Letter: The victims of an unequal society
MAY I thank D Birch for drawing attention to the effect the North/South divide has on benefit capping and how this is being exploited by the Tories for political and ideological reasons rather than economic.
3 commentsLetter: Better site for incinerator
I AM writing to you concerning the proposed site for the incinerator that the council is proposing at Cross Green (‘We don’t want this “dumped” on our doorstep’, YEP, January 25), on the former site of the market off Pontefract Lane.
3 commentsLetter: Decent singer, dreadful song
RICHARD Kimble may be correct, when he states in his letter to the YEP (January 25) that Etta James, who died last week at the age of 73, was a decent singer but I have always thought that the lyrics of her song I Would Rather Go Blind were dreadful.
Letter: Don’t fuel animal killers’ blook lust
COULD I please urge the YEP to stop publicising the recent sightings of dead rabbits, foxes etc hung in trees in local woodland.
Letter: Fred’s still in the money
AS, fortunately, only a small shareholder in the RBS, how delighted I am to hear that Fred “the shred” Goodwin has been stripped of his knighthood. It is a shame he cannot be stripped of his massive pension.
3 commentsLetter: Murky world of soaps
I agree with some of the observations made by Tony Schofield (YEP 28 Jan) about soaps (or “serial dramas” as they are now called).
Letter: That’s another fine mess we’ve got into
It is so reassuring to know that we have Stan and Ollie – sorry, that should of course say Dave and George – running the country.
Letter: A load of tripe!
Saturday’s edition of the YEP contained a letter from Paul Hudson of Barwick in Elmet concerning tripe, in the context of which he mentioned some of the YEP’s correspondents.
1 commentLetter: Don’t close this house!
The Red House Museum is an integral part of the literary history of Yorkshire and of England.
2 commentsLetter: Cap will widen the north-south divide
ON January 23, the minister who is responsible for this £26,000 maximum benefit Welfare Bill, was asked many questions on Radio 4 and appeared fervent that it will be sensible to pay out the full amount to a few and far less would need the maximum.
6 commentsLetter: Health service to suffer from reforming zeal
THE Prime Minister, David Cameron, claims that since the last general election there are 4,000 new doctors and is trying to claim it’s because of his policy on the NHS.
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