Banking one’s fee options

HIGHLY-paid BBC radio and TV presenters should not dodge paying their fair share of taxes.

The BBC should take the pernicious secrecy out of the salaries of presenters. It is all TV licence payers’ money including that of the poor in this country.

Even comedian Jimmy Carr had the decency to apologise for his tax-dodging escapade.

Nicky Campbell said on air that Sir Jimmy Savile told him that joining the BBC had given him “the keys to the Bank of England”.

It is the key to TV licence payers actually.

And in a time of high unemployment the BBC should stop rich presenters having two or three jobs.

No other employer allows that sort of greedy privilege. Change the system and enhance your slipping reputation.

Gems valued ...

From: ME Wright, Grove Road, Harrogate.

BENT bankers, tax dodgers, rip-off transport and energy suppliers; politicians in thrall to the lot of them and one of the wettest years on record.

Fortunately we also have Ruthven Urquhart’s latest gem “Space invaders in the skies” (Yorkshire Post, July 5). Keep at it Ruthven; we need you.

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From: Ruthven Urquhart, High Hunsley, Cottingham.

HOW convenient that the wretched jet stream is to move up North just before the start of the Olympic Games.

Why could it not have been encouraged to head south and “bother” the French, rather than the Scots, who are soon to host the greatest arts festival on earth – at Edinburgh?

Spanish custom

From: Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire, Bradford.

WHY should a Bradford-based property investment company call itself the Leeds and London and is it not sad we no longer have the Bradford & Bingley but a meaningless Santander to take its place?