Showcase for city talents

SIMON Bristow’s report (Yorkshire Post, September 25) is the very best of news. The city of Hull, and indeed its bid to become the UK City of Culture, will be greatly enhanced by its partnership with the outstanding Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Hull has talents of its own too which I am sure will be in the forefront of the bid. For example, the Hull Choral Union, which is a local choir and orchestra giving three quality classical performances every year, and I would urge local music lovers to go along and support them.

I guarantee you will be impressed and you may even consider joining them.

The massive efforts of Hull City Council in supporting this bid is to be commended and will surely result in success.

Strength of faith

From: Chris Schorah, Gascoigne Avenue, Leeds.

ROGER Crossley (Yorkshire Post, September 28) responds to the article by Father McNicholas by asking how believing in God could “make all the difference”?

Well, I found that it brings you into a close relationship with God and so transforms your life. It inaugurates the rebirth that Christians experience, the new creation they talk about becoming.

It’s nothing to do with being rewarded for doing good, as Mr Crossley suggests, because none of us can come close to God’s standards. But with Jesus’s help, rather than through our own feeble efforts, we can do better than we did before we knew Him.

Perhaps if we Christians really followed Jesus faithfully, all of the time and not just when it suits, then together the Church could indeed “make all the difference”.

Fashion trivia

From: Andrew Mercer, Guiseley, Leeds.

I DON’T care if the Home Secretary wears designer clothes or not – all that matters is her ability to do the job (Yorkshire Post, October 2).