Bombers show value of CCTV

WHAT is extremely significant in the bomb attack in Boston, is the role that surveillance cameras played.

Without that initial identification of the two brothers, I wonder how long an investigation it would have been to find the culprits and would they have struck again before being apprehended?

It is imperative that councils, particularly in our major cities, ensure that cameras are fitted to as many public buildings as possible and, more importantly, they are working at all times and fully maintained.

Confused by
music rules

From: Brian E Oddy, Fieldhead Lane, Birstall, Batley.

I WAS somewhat confused by the article in your paper (Yorkshire Post, April 20) which stated that the rugby club was being prevented by Scarborough Council from playing the National Anthem through loudspeakers at a forthcoming event.

This was because the council says it is bound by strict council rules which forbid amplified music.

Does this mean that performances at the re-vamped Open Air Theatre are presented without microphones and amplification?

Bring back dog
licensing laws

From: H Marjorie Gill, Clarence Drive, Menston.

WHEN the then government drew up the Dangerous Dogs Act, surely they should have gone much further by reinstating dog licences for the purchase and ownership of any puppy and with a fee large enough to deter anyone from buying a puppy unless they wished to care for it for all its natural life?

We hear of young men who keep dogs just to frighten people and as a status symbol.

At least having to buy a licence and perhaps having all dogs tagged to show ownership, might be a help in identifying criminals.