Yorkshire seen in a bad light

THE BBC’s South Riding did not really get off the blocks, did it? It began with a promising start which fizzled to nothing. I could not bear the dark gloomy rooms or the ugly bleak scenes of the outdoors and the depressing coastline.

Yorkshire was portrayed in a very negative way when of course any northerner knows it is God’s Own Country. Let us hope we can watch some programmes that are a little more cheerful.

Hit RBS chiefs with rugby bill

From: Bob Heys, Bar Lane, Ripponden, Halifax.

As a former player of rugby union football, I remain an avid supporter of the game but am also less enthusiastically a customer of the discredited Royal Bank of Scotland.

As such, I view the array of posters advertising RBS sponsorship of the Six Nations Championship with mixed feelings.

While welcoming in principle such sponsorship, I strongly believe that the funding involved should be deducted from the huge bonuses awarded to RBS top management rather than taken from the pockets of customers.

If a job’s worth doing...

From: G Ellison, Hawthorn Avenue, Dronfield.

WITH regard to the issue of voluntary work, if a job is so vital to do, then pay a decent living wage. If not, don’t do it and if these jobs are so important, then others are denied earning a living by volunteers,

One is told never to volunteer, as those in charge of the volunteers get decent salaries.

Time for Larry to take ermine

From: Tony Wilding, Westfield Rise, Hessle.

GIVEN reports that the new Downing Street cat, Larry, seems to be failing in its duties and is inclined to fall asleep, may I suggest it would be better employed in the House of Lords?