A totally batty use of taxpayer funds

local and the remainder belong to the Leeds Inspiration Choir. They are more than 250 strong with some fantastic soloists.

The final offering on Sunday was a spine tingling arrangement of Bali Hai, the classic from South Pacific.

Their rendition of ‘O Fortuna’ from a previous concert was equally memorable.

I dare not enthuse any more otherwise I will be unable to get a ticket for December when they go on sale in September. BRIAN TAYLOR,

North Shields I WAS appalled when I read taxpayers have been left with a £4m bill to protect a colony of endangered Bechstein bats.

They are paying for a relief road to be raised 3ft, so the bats can use tunnels.

They are more concerned about bats than people’s lives, what with roads crumbling, people working and having to go to food banks as they are struggling to feed their families, and people are being made homeless. IT’S funny how an old song can come back When something new happens out of the blue, Your dismissal has left me blue and black, Today the song is ‘Can’t Stand Losing You’. I thought there was something wrong with your phone But now your card’s announced the final split, It’s said that when we die we go alone, We’d might as well start getting used to it.

With all that is going on in the country, with all the benefit cuts, and then you read something like this.

They keep saying they have not enough money for everything and they have to save money but think saving bats are more important.

Bats must be more important for saving than us humans.

Is this some kind of joke? NAME & ADDRESS SUPPLIED I’m only human, I know I’ve got faults, But when you say that I’m a control freak, You’re somehow using mental somersaults To get away with what you did last week. Although I’m heartbroken to see you go, And though it’s you that’s dealt the farewell dart, I’ve got a job to do, and you must know That you’ve been holding me back, my sweetheart. Think of all the friends who have come and gone Over the last fifteen-to-twenty years, You couldn’t cope if they were all still on, Goodbyes are needed, regardless of tears. But even with these things confirmed and said, “1 can’t, I can’t, I can’t stand losing you”, I’m here, sitting on the edge of my bed, Watching the cars drive down the avenue.

ANDREW TAIT, Jesmond