Continued service

MAY I offer the following correction to the obituary and appreciation of my father Arthur’s life (Yorkshire Post, September 10).

My father continued to practice as a clergyman in the parish of St James’s, Thornton, under licence to the Bishop of Bradford, until his 80th year in 2002.

He helped the parish through several interregnums during this time.

The benefit of his continued endorsement by the Bishop will also be of some relief to those families, children and couples who sought his services post-1991.

They’re off for the races

From Ruthven Urquhart, High Hunsley, Cottingham, East Yorkshire.

WITHIN the recent Saturday Magazine (Yorkshire Post, September 3) your good article described well the atmosphere and appeal of the oldest Classic race held at Doncaster – the St Leger.

Having attended myself, I naturally observed my fellow scantily-attired lady spectators, and as a result of this visual experience, I have to consider your front page headline was decidedly inaccurate.

Rather than “dressing up” for the occasion, “undressing” or even “dressing down” for this very special sporting entertainment would have been, most certainly, more of an apt summary of the event.

Our savagely unequal society

From: Max Nottingham, St Faith’s Street, Lincoln.

MONEY is a sort of taboo subject to the rich. Len Goodman says he is overpaid by the BBC for his Strictly Come Dancing judging. I salute him.

Sir Stuart Rose, of Marks & Spencer, says rich people like him should pay the 50p tax rate. It’s almost worth a knighthood.

Why don’t more well-heeled people start coughing up a bit of obvious truth about money?

It would help in evaluating our savagely unequal society.

“All in it together” is an untruth.