Are they still turbines?

At 4.25pm last Tuesday, passing the wind turbines on the A59 near Menwith Hill, a road I use often. As usual, they’re standing absolutely still. Given that the average wind turbine is not working for 80 per cent of the time, there’s surely a strong case to call them still turbines

How did we ever let ourselves believe that these incongruous, expensive and grossly inefficient machines have a future in UK energy production?

Cycle dangers

From: Dr Robert Heys, Bar Lane, Ripponden, Halifax.

I WRITE to draw attention to the dangerous, widespread, practice of motorists parking their cars on designated roadside cycleways, thus forcing riders out into a stream of often speeding, potentially lethal traffic or to mount the pavement, an action rightly condemned by pedestrians. Parking on cycleways should surely be declared illegal and offenders incur serious penalties, including withdrawal of the driving licence in the event of repetition.

Who foots bill?

From: Peter Hyde, Kendale View, Driffield.

charles Taylor, former president of Liberia, has been convicted in the Hague of war crimes in Sierra Leone. He is to serve his sentence in the UK (Yorkshire Post, April 27).

Two questions. The first being, why? The second, who will pay for his keep?

We are told it is so that his trial could proceed.

Just what on earth has it got to do with the UK?

No more mail

From: John Copperthwaite, St Chad’s Road, Far Headingley, Leeds.

THE Royal Mail has chosen to raise postage prices by an extortionate and unacceptable amount and I have therefore informed all of my correspondents, including family and friends, charities and societies, that no more items will be sent by me by Royal Mail.

Their loss, not mine.