Licence to print money for BBC

From: Max Nottingham, St Faith’s Street, Lincoln.

A TV licence costs about £3 a week (a lot of money to the poor). Some women, who live alone and cannot afford to pay, end up in prison. How shockingly cruel.

The unfairness is magnified when you think of the enormous salaries paid by the BBC to part-time national female presenters.

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A little bit of humane support from the rich female presenters to the poor incarcerated women would seem appropriate.

Spitfire slip

From: Rachel Taylor, Steep Lane, Sowerby, Halifax.

IN Chris Bond’s article on “our 10 proudest years” (Yorkshire Post, September 9) the picture shows RAF aircrew “scramble to intercept the Luftwaffe in 1940”.

The Spitfire shown has a two blade wooden airscrew. That dates the photo to about 1938 when Spitfires first flew with the RAF 19 Squadron.

Trees not trams

From: Patricia Belford, Drummond Avenue, Leeds.

I SUGGEST that Neil Hudson’s excellent article (Yorkshire Post, September 9) which details Alan Simson’s thoughts on the importance of trees in our environment, should be read by those Leeds councillors who advocate demolishing dozens of mature trees along the A660 to make way for the NGT trolley bus.

History lesson

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

WHEN we asked our history master Mr Hutton at the Moravian Church School for Boys at Fulneck in Pudsey what was the point in studying history, he replied that one of the points was so as not to make the same mistakes over and over again.

Why not walk?

From: Andrew Mercer, Guiseley.

IF the cost of living is so high, why do so many parents drive their children just a few hundred yards to and from school each day?

Can’t they walk?