Why pick on Sheffield?

From: Brian Sheridan, Redmires Road Sheffield.

IT is odd that Oliver Letwin should pick on Sheffield to sneer at (Yorkshire Post, April 14). Of all the university cities, it is reported to have the highest proportion of students settling there after graduation. It is also reported that Nick Clegg’s Sheffield Hallam constituency is one of the poshest in Britain in terms of both academia and wealth.

Bankers’ bluff

From: MJ Thompson, Goodison Boul, Doncaster.

The recent announcment by George Osborne, the Chancellor, that he will call the bluff of the big banks to relocate abroad is good news.

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This may be an idle threat but, as account holder at Barclays Bank for the past 40 years, I would have no second thoughts about moving my account to a more patriotic institution.

Wedding offer

From: Colin Challen, St Sepulchre Street Scarborough.

REPORTS of the Hambleton Strollers “wedding walk” has reminded me of my coast walk on the day of Charles and Diana’s wedding. This was to the north of Berwick on Tweed, a destination made possible by British Rail’s eastern region which on that happy day offered all seats on its trains for just £1 return. A public spirited gesture by a publicly owned body. Now what has East Coast Mainline got in common?

Crime figures

From: Tim Mickleburgh, Boulevard Avenue, Grimsby.

I WAS pleased to read Dan Lewis’s article (Yorkshire Post, April 11) saying that “a lot of crime seems to happen where people don’t actually live, and city centres tend to figure highly as hot spots.”

For I live in Grimsby’s West Marsh, an area made out to be far worse than it is because of police statistics that include town centre crime. But virtally no-one lives there, with offences being carried out by those from all over the borough.

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