Paying to park to go to church

I WAS sorry to see that there are now charges on the car parks in Ripon on Sunday mornings.

As you will be aware there are few parking places in the city

and those of us who attend church on a Sunday morning, be it at the cathedral or the non-conformist churches in the city centre, have been grateful to use the parking facilities to attend worship.

I feel that it is not so much “prosecution” as “persecution” to levy those charges without some means of stating that people are at churches for the hour and a bit it normally takes. Nominally we are still a Christian country; could Harrogate Borough Council not set a trend in acknowledging this?

There are so many other things that they do well.

Remember the farm boys too

From: Mr J Matthews, Pendle Road, Great Harwood, Blackburn.

THE entire media is full of the horses who went to war in 1914-1918.

Can I draw your attention to a monument to the farm boys who followed the horses when they were mobilised in 1914?

The monument stands on the Yorkshire Wolds and lists the names of all the farm boys who followed the horses (to be with them).

I wonder if any of them ever returned.

I am still a fervent reader of the Yorkshire Post which I take daily after living in Lancashire for 40 years!

What happened to the plaque?

From: Martin D Stern, Hanover Gardens, Salford.

PAUL Cockroft asks (Yorkshire Post, January 21) what has happened to the bronze memorial plate set up in 1933 to commemorate the River Aire overflowing and flooding the city of Leeds with considerable loss of life.

Perhaps the answer is that it was the victim of an Aire-raid?