Costly switch 
for firms as 
Scots split

DO the possible Yes voters on this issue have any idea of how much money both Scotland and Britain will have to shell out just to deal with the bureaucracy and name changing of all the companies whose trading patterns will be disrupted?

Everything from councils and utility companies to car licences and many other items will have to be re-jigged.

Money that we all need for schools, hospitals, road repairs, carers will be diminished.

The position of the BBC will be interesting .

Will they have to set up a different branch for each country?

Could it possibly mean an end to the disproportionate number of Scottish accents we have from Sports commentators? I do hope so.

From: Colin Cawthray, Stowe Garth, Bridlington.

COUNCILLOR Peter Box, leader of Wakefield Council, says there will be a huge amount of pressure whichever way Scotland votes for devolution.

Westminster will face a chorus of calls from English cities for greater devolution of powers and funding.

If this should happen, does this mean that the same people with their noses in the trough will be the same people running the cities?

Before this happens, perhaps Coun Box could explain how much this will cost the electorate in expenses for the already over- paid councillors.

From: Michael J Robinson, Park Lane, Berry Brow, Huddersfield.

I HAVE just heard an interviewee on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme say “unimpacted”. He meant ‘unaffected’ of course. Can anything be done or is it, as I sadly suspect, far too late?

From: Clifford Booth, Darley, Harrogate.

ONE point concerning the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence which consistently bothers me is this.

Given the population numbers in Scotland, why should a mere two and a half million people be able to cause the break up of the United Kingdom? Who has allowed this to be possible? If it was David Cameron, much as I hate to say this, he should resign forthwith regardless of the outcome of the referendum.

Catch these
sex abusers

From: Phil Hanson, Beechmount Close, Baildon, Shipley.

RECENT disclosures in Rotherham and elsewhere concerning the grooming of young girls demands the question be posed across our nation to our chiefs of police, “what is the level of this in 
your patch and what are you doing about catching the culprits”?

I ask your journalists to take up this matter on behalf of your readership and the population as a whole.

For all the handwringing so far, very few criminals have been brought to account and this problem is still reported as being
huge.

As taxpayers who reward our police and civil servants very well, we deserve to have action and answers.

From: Mr J Brown, Lamb Lane, Monk Bretton, Barnsley.

I’VE told Shaun Wright “Hang on in. Who better to find the corpses than the undertaker?” Keith Vaz displays the impotence of a Select Committee (on which impotent local Scrutiny Commissions were modelled) with his demands for Wright’s resignation.

Wright, like the rest of the Rotherham cabinet and all Labour cabinets, was a salary drawing yes man. The guilty leader has gone.

As only vice-chairman of the police authority, Wright was as ignorant of police operations as the other members. Having been driven out of the Labour Party, he has additional motive to dig the dirt on his ex-colleagues; not simply in Rotherham but throughout South Yorkshire.

A memory
to treasure

From: Mr M J Thompson, Goodison Boulevard, Cantley, Doncaster.

FURTHER to the request by the National Railway Museum at York, I would like to relate to you a story from my train spotting days.

In the late 1950s at the age of 12, I use to go to my local branch line to train spot. The rail traffic was pretty mundane so we use to get on the bus to Doncaster, buy a platform ticket and do our train spotting in the station.

The crowds of boys hoping to see more exciting locomotives got too much for the station master so he ruled that you 
had to be accompanied by an adult.

So somebody came up with the idea to get a return rail ticket from our local station to Doncaster station; therefore we became bona fide rail travellers.

In fact it was cheaper than going on the bus.

On one of these trips the steam engine Mallard pulled up to a halt at the platform directly in front of us boys and the driver asked if any one would like to step onto the footplate.

About five of us scrambled on board for a few minutes until it was time for Mallard to continue her journey.

Could you imagine what the health and safety zealots would make of that today?

It is one of my most treasured memories.