A question of making grade

YOU reported (Yorkshire Post, January 25) on about 30 students from Winifred Holtby School in Hull sitting their GCSE English three years early.

They achieved two As, nine Bs, 15 Cs and four Ds which the school thinks is wonderful. As a teacher, I would be unhappy if I had entered four exceptionally gifted (A*) students early for them only to achieve a Grade D.

Do other readers think I am wrong?

Piping hot in Scotland

From: Martin Vallance, River Lane, Brompton-on-Swale, Richmond, North Yorkshire.

WHAT a devastating and amusing article by GP Taylor on Scottish independence (Yorkshire Post, January 25).

My brother went to school in the north of Scotland and I remember well him telling me how he learned to love the bagpipes, especially on a (rare) midge-free balmy summer evening when they were playing just out of earshot.

Roads before gun reform

From: David Thompson, Main Street, Wheldrake, York.

FURTHER to Tom Palmer’s recent article (Yorkshire Post, January 18) regarding the minimum age for the granting of shotgun certificates, I think if Mr Docherty is serious about saving lives he should consider making our roads safer first.

How many more innocent people must be killed by drivers who are not fit to be on the road before action is taken?

Not so fine line

From: Maurice Cole, Thorpe Mandeville, Banbury.

DAVID Hockney’s landscape paintings of Yorkshire are wonderful. Perhaps Mr Hockney would kindly repaint a landscape depicting the HS2 rail link ripping through the scene.