Predatory fox’s toll in the coop

I THOUGHT your picture of the fox was lovely (Yorkshire Post, July 30) – but there are foxes and foxes!

When our sons were six and eight years old, we bought them six bantam chicks. My husband made a wooden coop, with a wire netting pen attached so that they could safely run outside.

The boys looked after them, fed them, cleaned the coop and tidied the pen.

One morning, the pen had been tipped over, one bantam had disappeared and the other five were dead in the coop!

Our farm joins up with Gisburn Forest. There is a wire netting fence between our top field and the forest.

When my husband went round later in the day to look at his stock, he found a bunch of bantam feathers in the top of the wire fence. Only a fox could have been responsible.

Long-distance call problems

From: Peter Hyde, Kendale View, Driffield.

I WAS always under the impression that BT stood for British Telecom. It seems I was mistaken and it probably stands for Bangladeshi Telecom. Every time I have a problem with my computer I am put through to a very helpful person in India.

They are very courteous and do genuinely try to help me but I am a slightly deaf Yorkshireman and have great difficulty in understanding the helper at 
the other end of the line. I realise that it is to BT’s financial advantage to have call centres abroad but what about the poor, slightly deaf, individual who pays the bill?

Road toll

From: Andrew Mercer, Guiseley.

ANOTHER week and still no end to the chaotic roadworks on the A65 at Kirkstall wthat Leeds Council intended to complete by the “summer”. When will someone get a grip?