At mercy of foreign police

CHARLES Hay, director of British consular services at the Foreign Office, commenting on the many arrests of Britons for crimes which are not offences in the UK, said: “We can’t interfere in another country’s legal processes.”

So why then did the Foreign Office accept the change of the law in this country allowing Britons to be arrested and imprisoned abroad under the European arrest warrant without evidence being presented and even if the offences were not offences in the UK?

Probably because – like Douglas Hurd and the Maastricht Treaty of 1992 – they did not read the European Treaties they were signing.

Civil servants like these make our enemies look quite mild!

Trouser puzzle

From: Mrs Patricia Pickering, North Street, Scalby, Scarborough.

WHAT a good letter and remarks from Joan Sutton of Sheffield (Yorkshire Post, August 28). Why do women of all ages want to wear trousers?

Not for me, I am over 80 and never wear them. Maybe it is because I worked in a 
munitions factory during the 
war and had no choice but to wear them then, and also dungarees, clogs on my feet and my hair in a snood.

After five years in the factory, I worked in a ladies fashion store and only sold trousers to lady golfers.

Healthy appetite

From: D Bramley, Scarborough.

IN defence of hospital care 
and food (Yorkshire Post, 
August 27), I have just had a 
two-day stay at Scarborough Hospital where I found the medical care and food to be excellent.