M&S failing loyal clientele

IN answer to Stephanie Smith’s recent article (Yorkshire Post, December 14) I feel I 
must comment on Marks 
& Spencer.

I am now a senior citizen but have shopped at M&S from being a young woman.

I feel 2013 was a terrible year fashion-wise. I have walked through the store and nothing in my eyes said stop and look.

The skirt section has been terrible, very few longer-length skirts – we older ladies don’t want to show our knees.

I think M&S is not looking after the clientele that has shopped over the years and are trying to attract a younger client – this they will find hard to do as I have spoken to many who wouldn’t shop at M&S.

The classic collection is quite “frumpy”. We need clothes with a sleeve of some description – Dame Helen Mirren says we shouldn’t show the tops of our arms. How true.

Please, M&S, get your 
act together for your older clientele.

In defence of Look North

From: Brian Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.

LIKE Keith Hardy (Yorkshire 
Post, December 13), I am quite a fan of BBC’s Look North, especially now they have unloaded the overbearing Christa Akroyd.

I am astonished by accusations of a pro-Sheffield bias as, living in Sheffield, I often hear complaints that Bradford, Leeds and Huddersfield Town are given more exposure than the South Yorkshire football clubs.

Bias, like beauty, is indeed in the eye of the beholder.

The most amusing criticism 
of the programme was that 
there was too much bad news on it.

This reminds me of the critic who famously disliked Mozart’s music because there were too many notes in it.

The normal procedure for a news programme is to deal with the serious news of the day then, if discretion permits, to close on a lighter note.

Has this reader never heard the expression “No news is good news?” Ergo: good news is no news.