No way to raise alarm over dogs

With reference to C Balmer’s letter “Ordeal of dogs in car” (Yorkshire Post, June 21) I would point out he obviously did not read my letter “Concern over four dogs left in hot car” (Yorkshire Post, June 7) very thoroughly or he would have realised that I did not have a telephone to call the police or RSPCA.

I guess the car alarm was not switched on, or the dogs’ behaviour would have set it off and, if the owners were truly disabled, I cannot see them “running” back to their car in the event of the alarm going off.

Goodness know how far away they were in any event! Certainly they were not in the café.

Media hot air

From: Tim Mickleburgh, Boulevard Avenue, Grimsby.

WHY is hot weather inevitably presented in the media as a “good thing”?

Many of us find that going about our daily business becomes more of a chore once the mercury reaches a certain level, especially if you have to travel.

And I remember seeing figures that showed a greater number of deaths caused through excess heat than excess cold. So a little balance wouldn’t go amiss.

From: Eric Thomas, Sowerby Bridge.

YOUR correspondent, Ken Holmes (Yorkshire Post, June 4) is irritated by the weather forecasters. The pleasant young man, Darren Betts, says: “Clouds bubbling up.”

It just means increasing. I like it.

All Greek to me

From: Peter Meal, The Pines, Huby, Leeds.

WOULD someone please answer me this? If the Greek government doesn’t do as the European financial experts tell them, will the country sink beneath the waves or disappear in a puff of smoke? Or will there be more talk?

Puts me in mind of my younger days in Golcar many years ago – where it was often said: “Everybody talking and nobody ’arkening.”

Perhaps I’ve just answered my own question!