Lotto without a big winner
From: Keith Massey, Bishopthorpe, York.
I WAS exceedingly disappointed that my numbers in the recent Euromillions rollover, inexplicably, did not match those that won the £182m jackpot.
I have noticed that my selections now frequently fail to match even one number. I decided to check on the payouts last month and was quite shocked to see how many weeks go by – in most games – without anyone winning the main prize.
Multiple rollovers encourage irresponsible gambling. I also thought it was sharp practice when they went from one Lotto draw a week to two – forcing all those with fixed numbers to gamble twice.
The odds now are so bad that after 26 years Camelot should have their licence removed for something fairer.
From: John Roberts, St John’s, Wakefield.
IT was heartening to read the article about Becky Brown and attempts to attract women to careers as train drivers. Back in 1986 I was working on British Rail as a driver, also at Leeds.
The comment on stereotypically male-dominated roles was interesting. I once wrote a letter to the Aslef journal Locomotive, suggesting that more women drivers (there may then have been one or two in the whole country) would be good for the railway.
Having put my head above the parapet, I was shocked at the response; this elicited some very tunnel-visioned and arcane attitudes; not one letter of support and I was surprised that Aslef, a union that liked to portray itself as powerful and active with all the correct ethics (well, maybe now), did not pick up on this.
I assume things are rather different now (including, hopefully, those notorious hours).
I wish Becky Brown and her daughter all the best, and hope her campaign is successful. The job seems to have more status now.
From: David Craggs, Shafton Gate, Goldthorpe.
WHEN I read in your columns (The Yorkshire Post, March 11) that a rare black rhinoceros named Chanua, born at Chester Zoo in 2012 and then spending her early years at our Flamingo Land, has left the UK this week for Tanzania, I should have been pleased.
Surely it must be a good thing and in the interests of the breed’s future existence? But no. Instead I was filled with deep concern.
I just hope I do not read that she has been found dead, the result of poachers.