TV’s gravy train
leaves bad taste

HOW I agree with the letter 
from Peter Hyde of Driffield regarding television (Yorkshire Post, January 21).

For many years we have had to watch top news presenters jump on the gravy train for any big event.

Sorry, gravy plane (first class of course), plus many camera men, producers, technicians, etc.

There may be an excuse if the BBC and ITV did not have correspondents in these areas, but they have, and equal to any big name from London.

So it must be perks for the boys, and girls too, at enormous cost. Thank goodness that I am well over the age of paying for a TV licence.

World with too many mouths

From: MC Hayes, Kirk Deighton, Wetherby, North Yorkshire.

WITH your article (Yorkshire Post, January 23), I agree with what Sir David Attenborough says on population growth, plus the fact that humans are living longer.

In one extreme, there is to 
much food produced and to the other extreme, in Ethiopia for example, there was not enough food to feed the human population due to drought conditions.

Over last 50 years, when famine occurs in Ethiopia, there has been millions of pounds raised in charity to send food aid with very little to show for it. In some parts of the world, I am astonished how much food gets wasted and if we humans do our bit in reducing food waste, it will help.