Opinion

I WANT to set the issue of health inequality in its historical context to demonstrate the difference in approach that spans the 37 years between the appointments of Britain’s first woman Prime Minister and its second.

IN the final extract of a three-part serialisation, Rachel Reeves explores pioneering Leeds MP Alice Bacon’s record as Education Minister.

AS the Government sets out a Green Paper on corporate governance, the precursor to future legislation on ethical business practices, Theresa May needs to tread carefully to avoid compromising her credibility – or Britain’s future prospects post-Brexit.

THE chilling echoes with Munich, an unspeakable sporting disaster that claimed the lives, amongst others, of revered South Yorkshire footballers

Phew, the phenomenon that is ‘Black Friday’ has been and gone for another year. Or has it?

From: Dr Michael Lowry, Moseley Wood Gardens, Cookridge.

From: Martin Deane, Hull and East Riding Green Party.

From: Sarah Atkin, Driffield.

FOR years, a lack of transparency over ticket prices on the country’s railways has epitomised rip-off Britain at its very worst.

IT is significant that Bradford, Hull and Middlesbrough have been named as vacancy hotspots in a new survey – all three are continuing to count the cost of previous economic downturns as an above-average number of people chase each vacancy.

MAYBE it’s age catching up with me, but sometimes when channel-hopping and finding a line-up of people on a sofa being interviewed, I catch myself wondering: “Just who on Earth are you?”

IN the second extract of a three-part serialisation, Rachel Reeves explores the challenges that pioneering Leeds MP Alice Bacon faced on entering Parliament in 1945.

IT is a sobering thought that the attendance at four separate Premier League football matches at the weekend was exceeded by the 24,300 pensioners and vulnerable people who died from hypothermia and related illnesses last winter.

From: Lorna Field, Menston, Ilkley.

If there is one thing recent cyber attacks on the likes of Talk Talk, Tesco and Yahoo have taught us, it is that all of us, businesses large and small, are at risk.

THE Office for National Statistics has released figures showing that a staggering 24,300 people died from mostly preventable causes over the course of winter last year.

From: Geoff Marsden, Buxton Avenue, Heanor, Derbyshire.

From: Peter Broadley, Rochdale Road, Greetland, Halifax.