In dark over council cash

From: Mrs Judith Mason, Moorfields. Long Preston, Skipton.

AFTER learning of the local authorities switching off their street lights to save money (Yorkshire Post, May 19), our council should already have saved considerable amount where I live.

In the village of Long Preston, we have street lights that have not worked for four years. We have one of the highest parish council precepts in North Yorkshire, so where does the money go? On a new mower to cut the village green.

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Surely, street lights are a priority over new sit-on mowing machines.

Proof of the pudding

From: David J Whitehead, Sunnydale Crescent, Hinckley.

WITH reference to the article by Ian McMillan (Yorkshire Post, May 8) if it isn’t too late to stick my wooden spoon into the bowl of batter, my late father would have several medium size Yorkshire puddings as a first course of his Sunday dinner – all half-filled with home made blackberry vinegar.

But he was a Warwickshire lad through and through.

High praise

From: Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire, Bradford.

I WOULD only reiterate what Brian Sheridan of Sheffield has said about Dr John Sentamu (Yorkshire Post, May 23).

Dr Sentamu is my favourite English cleric since Cardinal Hume, who Queen Elizabeth II liked to call “my cardinal”.

Pure theft

From: Alec Denton, Oxford Avenuue, Guiseley.

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MY wife had a bottle of madeira wine, bought at Blandys and still in its shop packaging, confiscated by security officials at Madeira airport on a recent visit.

This is pure theft hiding behind a security technicality and ruined the holiday. Needless to say, my wife and her friends will never visit Madeira again.