Sometimes, it’s
who you know

RE Tom Richmond’s column (Yorkshire Post, February 23). A few years ago I hit a pothole on Weetwood Lane and burst a nearly new tyre. A local councillor told me where to make a claim. They paid me, less a small percentage for wear and tear.

I gathered from my contact that there were quite a lot of these claims but then they just paid out. As a by-product, the pothole was filled in within about 48 hours. So, perhaps try your local councillor for information and action.

Misleading
claims on gays

From: Chris Schorah, Gascoigne Avenue, Leeds.

BRIAN Sheridan’s claim that there’s no evidence that children of homosexual parents are disadvantaged is misleading (Yorkshire Post, February 19).

There is, in fact, an absence of evidence because too few studies have been undertaken to draw any conclusions. The most recent research continues to show that children do best when their childhood is spent with their married mother and father; that is traditional marriage. It’s this effective and ancient institution that will almost certainly be weakened by the introduction of same-sex marriage because it will potentially open it up to any partnership.

Sympathy for the Devils?

From: John Watson, Hutton Hill, Leyburn.

ONE of the most disturbing features of the police investigation into the planned act of terrorism by Jihadists was that, although the bombers came from Birmingham, nowhere in the whole of that city was there any help or intelligence forthcoming from the large Muslim population (Yorkshire Post, February 22).

Is this because they live in fear of the extremist element or that they have sympathy with their cause?