Journey to the centre of Earth?

A FEW years ago, I posed the question that, because of all the oil, minerals etc that man was taking from below the Earth’s surface, and the increase in the world population, and the buildings and other items we need (or not) being piled up on the top, would the Earth, our puny planet, eventually succumb and implode?

Now, not only in this country, so called ‘sinkholes’ are appearing all over the place. Is this the beginning of the end?

Endless love

From: Mrs J Gudgeon, Little Ouseburn, York.

IN 1955, I was 18. I bought a Valentine for my boyfriend. It played the tune “Let me call you sweetheart, I’m in love with you”. We married in 1956. Every February 14 the card comes out of its drawer, we play the tune and back it goes until the next year. We have done this for nearly 60 years. It was quite expensive for 1955. It cost half a crown. He was worth it and still is!

It’s not fair!

From: Jeff Boot, Leeds.

SO Nick Clegg shouts from the rooftops “a fair society”. What’s a fair society when the rich get richer, the genuine benefit claimants get their benefits taken off them pushing them into poverty, taxation of everything to the hilt, or giving billions to worthy causes overseas?

I’ll tell you what a fair society is. When the voting public realise all three parties say the same, and then they vote hypocrites like you out of office.

Sober reflection

From: Brian H Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.

KEITH Bagot identifies the disgusting consequences of binge-drinking (Yorkshire Post, February 19). However, banging up the culprits for the weekend is not an option, no matter how much they deserve it: our prisons are already full. The only answer is education and the abolition of cheap alcohol in supermarkets and nightclubs. Most out of town pubs are models of probity and regulated drinking.