Salt of the earth
live up to name

YORKSHIRE has often been referred to as “God’s Own County” and Yorkshire folk as “the salt of the Earth”, greeted with some scepticism by many of us.

When one considers the immediate volume of help sent to the flooded farmers of the South, one has to realise that perhaps there is something in what has been said (Jo Foster, Yorkshire Post, February 22).

What other county or set of people have assessed the problem and sent immediate practical help?

Paying price for
other’s folly

From: Ian Bolton, Knightsbridge Walk, Bradford.

IT has been intimated that the price of alcohol is to go up in the Budget so to get the majority to help pay for the problems caused in hospitals by the problem drinkers (the minority).

Why penalise the sensible majority yet again?

It is not the price of alcohol we should be looking. It is the access to the same.

Restrict the sale by shops/supermarkets to 10am to 6pm Monday to Saturday and at no time on a Sunday.

Perhaps, then, we may have a few more pubs staying open if they opened within certain hours.

Ticked off

From: Brian H Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.

DIANA M Priestley questions the usefulness of “Question of the Day” because the issues are usually too complex for a simple “yes” or “no” answer (Yorkshire Post, February 21). For my part, I will never be able to participate until a “don’t know” option is introduced.