Commending the sisters

AS Frank Field MP says in 
his article (Yorkshire Post, 
anuary 14), there can be no argument against women becoming priests and 
bishops, after all St Paul 
talks of several in his letters, notably Phoebe (Romans 16, 
verse 1-3).

Quality issue
for M&S

From: David Davies, Burgess Road, Brigg.

CLOTHING sales will not improve until all members 
of the board, senior 
management and their families are forced topurchase all their clothes at M&S.

Perhaps then the serious deterioration in quality will be acted upon.

The race to the bottom on price is counter-productive.

Measure of 
civil society

From: Brian Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.

IN response to your 
headline “Why are the powers-that-be obsessed with the minority?” (Yorkshire Post, January 12), I would say that 
how a nation treats its 
minorities – and its women – is a measure of its degree of civilisation.

Drop of York remembered

From: M D Addy, West Street, Hoyland, Barnsley.

IF she heard or read something almost beyond belief, my grandmother would say “If that’s true I’ll stand the drop of York” – the drop of York being the gallows.

My mother had a saying which expressed the same sentiment which was: “I’ll be hanged if that’s true.”