Commending the sisters
AS Frank Field MP says in his article (Yorkshire Post, anuary 14), there can be no argument against women becoming priests and bishops, after all St Paul talks of several in his letters, notably Phoebe (Romans 16, verse 1-3).
Quality issue for M&S
From: David Davies, Burgess Road, Brigg.
CLOTHING sales will not improve until all members of the board, senior management and their families are forced topurchase all their clothes at M&S.
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Hide AdPerhaps then the serious deterioration in quality will be acted upon.
The race to the bottom on price is counter-productive.
Measure of civil society
From: Brian Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.
IN response to your headline “Why are the powers-that-be obsessed with the minority?” (Yorkshire Post, January 12), I would say that how a nation treats its minorities – and its women – is a measure of its degree of civilisation.
Drop of York remembered
From: M D Addy, West Street, Hoyland, Barnsley.
IF she heard or read something almost beyond belief, my grandmother would say “If that’s true I’ll stand the drop of York” – the drop of York being the gallows.
My mother had a saying which expressed the same sentiment which was: “I’ll be hanged if that’s true.”