Hospital TV is a financial pain

I HAVE just read of the Yorkshire MP Philip Davies (Yorkshire Post, June 6) complaining about the price of television in hospital.

My son has just spent seven days in St James’s Hospital in Leeds. He has cerebral palsy. It cost me £100 in parking, food for myself and television for my son. The TV was £10 for 24 hours and that was once you turned the TV on. Even if you only wanted the TV on for a short time in that 24-hour period, you still had to feed it with another £10 at the end of that 24 hours.

It is absolutely disgusting – especially when it only costs prisoners in jail £1 per day.

National pride

From: Steve Davis, West View Lane, Totley Rise, Sheffield.

I THOUGHT I would reply to the letter by TE Marston of Otley (Yorkshire Post, June 7) bemoaning and complaining about the proposed HS2 rail network plans. So Concorde (that superb largely British aircraft) was a failure, was it? The Humber Bridge also? As for the so called politician John Prescott, the less said the better!

The Sheffield supertram was and still is, a superb engineering feat. My only criticism is that it doesn’t extend to other parts of Sheffield. Do I detect a hint of jealousy in TE Marston’s letter?

Duke’s decision

From: Andrew Mercer, Guiseley, Leeds.

WHY are people criticising the Royal family for being slow to visit the Duke of Edinburgh in hospital? Perhaps he does not want visitors, or the risk of infection. They cannot win.