Action not words on bosses’ pay

BRITAIN’S top company directors have been awarded salary increases of almost 50 per cent, giving them an average wage of £3.8m a year.

Other bosses have seen their pay rise by 43 per cent, to reveal an average salary of £2m.

Prime Minister David Cameron asks them to “exercise restraint”. Ed Miliband is “outraged”.

Ted Heath, much maligned by your columnist Sir Bernard Ingham, had the answer.

He determined that all employees would receive an increase of £6 a week.

A brave but unpopular man who had the guts to face up to greed.

Carry on bowling

From: Aled Jones, Mount Crescent, Bridlington.

SMUTTY unintended humour is an occupational hazard at my bowling club, where there are broad Yorkshire types who have their own rugged lingo.

I was bowling recently at Leisure World, Bridlington, in a competitive league game and overheard the following unrelated comments.

On rink one an elderly bowler exclaimed: “Start bending now lad!”

A few seconds later, on rink three, another old bowler uttered: “No, too tight lad!”

I was in hysterics, and even more so when I remarked to myself that this wasn’t the set of a new Carry On film set by Yorkshire’s east coast!

Bradford the wool capital

From: Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire, Shipley.

HAVING two railway stations both with great freight yards and fine hotels did not hinder Bradford from becoming the wool capital of the world, where at least three-fifths (it may have been more), of all the wool grown in the world was processed, making it the richest city in Europe in 1910.