Ignorance and waste at BBC

MAX Nottingham (Yorkshire Post, September 12) makes some interesting comments on the BBC TV licence fee and its consequences for poorer women who can’t afford to pay.

On the wider issue, the BBC had a pristine reputation for many years.

In recent times their reputation has really fallen as far as the public is concerned; partly by not knowing what their staff were up to and also wasting licence payers’ money in incredible ways.

Lord John Reith really will be turning in his grave.

Killers should be extradited

From: BJ Cussons, Curly Hill, Ilkley, Leeds.

Can someone spell out precisely why the mother of Daniel Pelka and her partner are to be housed for some 30 years in an English prison? They should be returned to their own country.

Every country produces its own good and bad and a tiny island cannot be responsible for the bad of the whole of Europe.

Beyond belief

From: Rachel Maister, Priest Lane, Ripon.

IT is unfortunate that the Government is encouraging faith schools. True education is the presentation of the beliefs of different religions and sects and the meanings of atheism and agnosticism, encouraging children to make their own decisions about what they or do not believe.

Ill disposed

From: JS Richardson, Leathley, Harrogate.

REGARDING the £1.5m bill to run Rotherham’s failed hospital trust (Yorkshire Post, September 20), when is someone in power going to realise that these so-called NHS managers with nothing more than an obscure university degree couldn’t manage anything in a brewery and will have to go?