Stop this mass hysteria now!

THE sad death of Gary Speed was seemingly an obsession of the UK football world for week after week. And now we have Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba and his collapse.

I feel sorry for all those people whose loved ones died of sudden heart failure the very same week. They did not get a top heart surgeon leaping from his seat in the stands.

I shudder to think how the UK football scene would have reacted if Muamba had actually died. Stop this mass hysteria now. We are becoming an emotionally incontinent nation.

Shedding light on castle deaths

From: Michael Ross, Weeton Lane, Dunkeswick.

YOUR recent article regarding the opening to the public of Harewood Castle reminded me of my late father telling me as a boy, stories of deaths either by accident or suicide occuring in or around the castle, possibly sometime around the first half of the 20th century.

I would be interested to know if any of your readers could shed some light on these stories.

Speed action

From: Donald Bean, Littleborough, Lancashire.

PLEASE tell me that the majority of lorry drivers and car drivers exceeding the mandatory 50 mph speed limits on the M62 will be fined.

Pride of place

From: JR Turner, Cropton, Pickering.

COULD you tell Stuart Maconie (Yorkshire Post, March 23) that Sedbergh is in the West Riding and has been since Adam was a lad?