Health warning over Blair

summing up your Editorial on Tony Blair (Yorkshire Post, May 29), you stated that there will be many of us who will conclude that the former Prime Minister’s relationship with the Murdoch regime was an unhealthy one.

Very well said.

In my humble opinion two other relationships which were also unhealthy were the ones with Alastair Campbell and United States President Bush, particularly unhealthy for thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children.

In fact, everything he touched should have carried a public health warning.

When jumping ship, he still continued to rub our noses in it by lumbering us with an unelected Prime Minister in Gordon Brown. A right twit if ever I saw one.

Receipt worth framing

From: John Hayes, Grove Road, Ilkley.

MY best memory of Boothferry Bridge is almost 64 years old.

It was opening as we came into view but at our top speed it took some minutes to get there and we were not what was expected.

Some 20 minutes earlier, myself and another engineering apprentice had met barges heading downstream with the tide.

Their horn told us which side they would take and we had responded correctly with a war surplus electric klaxon.

The bridge began to close as we passed, to the sound of horns from drivers who had waited for a boat less than three feet high.

As registered owners, we got a bill for 12 shillings and sixpence, the minimum fee.

And I framed the receipt.