Loss of the Broad Acres

I WOULD like to comment on a letter from Geoffrey Bayley (Yorkshire Post, March 25) regarding the situation the people of Saddleworth find themselves in regarding county identity.

I have the same feelings regarding the changes made to our county which seems to have been eroding little by little as time goes by. I have just been on holiday in Settle and found that they are subject to Granada TV and little Yorkshire news was mentioned. Most sport was all Lancastrian. It is also the same in the most northerly dales which have Darlington postcodes and only receive Tyne/Tees TV which is mostly Tyne. Is it too late to reclaim our Broad Acres?

Loyalty test

From: Brian Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.

My wife and I fell about laughing when Tony Christie, whom we admire, chose Michael Parkinson, whom we do not, as the Yorkshire person he himself most admired (Yorkshire Post Magazine, March 26). As we are talking about loyalty to one’s roots, who better to start with than Dickie Bird and Ian McMillan?

Blind to success

From: Kate Plant, Mill Lane, Ackworth, Pontefract, West Yorkshire.

IN response to the letter (Yorkshire Post, March 23), I don’t mind Midsomer Murders being all white because there are areas of the UK that are mostly white.

What I object to is the idea that that is something we need to protect. It is that fear that makes integration difficult – or can blind us to the very real success of multi-culturalism that most of us experience and enjoy day to day.