Travellers on the wrong road

I HAVE received an email from East Riding Council advising me of the proposed new local plan which is to provide a number of additional gipsy sites to the East Riding.

I am sure that this point 
will make little difference 
to any argument/discussion 
but may I point out that there 
is a significant difference 
between “gipsies” and ‘‘travellers”.

It may sound biased but 
gipsies have a longer and 
better history as to their relationships with the local communities and the 
countryside generally.

I, like many other people feel that “travellers” are being forced upon us by the equal opportunities culture, so prevalent in the UK.

Criminal to cut jail sentences

From: Bob Watson, Springfield Road, Baildon.

MAGISTRATES in this region 
are sending between 3.6 and 
3.8 per cent of offenders to prison, which is close to the national average (Yorkshire Post, April 22).

The report went on to state 
that the Howard League for 
Penal Reform considers this proportion to be far too high, and wishes to see a much bigger level of non-custodial sentences handed down.

However, perhaps the Howard League could consider asking the people hereabouts whether they also wish to see a reduction in custodial sentences? I suspect that they may be somewhat disappointed.

Many of us are fed up of seeing persistent offenders continuing to escape detention, and have very much an opposite view to that being pushed by the Howard League.