Care Trust ‘a disgrace’

YOUR story about Rudi Hargraves, and how she has been denied surgery (Yorkshire Post, June 24) is a disgrace to NHS Hull PCT.

This is the Primary Care Trust which spent £500,000 on a yacht, yet it won’t authorise £14,000 for an operation to save this lady’s life.

I suggest that it sells the yacht and then it will have plenty of money to do its job, which is to look after the health of those who live in this area.

Memories of the Lancaster

From: Raymond Shaw, Hullen Edge Road, Elland.

I THINK your correspondent, JG Waddington of Bradford (Yorkshire Post, June 20) will be pleased to hear that in 1945 a passenger conversion of the AVRO Lancaster Bomber was named AVRO York.

In September of that year, I broke my wrist playing football at Tabora, in Tanganyika, after which I hitched a lift in an AVRO York to Durban, Natal, for a three-week recuperation, returning in another York, which made an unscheduled landing to drop me off at Tabora.

Communities’ lack of spirit

From: Ernest Smith, Holme-on-Spalding Moor, York.

When I read the report “Race on for £350,000 to save closed village pub” (Yorkshire Post, June 21), my immediate reaction was to think what a pity that the same degree of enthusiasm has not been shown in rural communities where village places of worship have had to close because of a lack of support from village residents.