Sir, – I’m probably not the only person getting sick and tired of the cities Leeds, York and Sheffield endlessly boasting of how they’re going to destroy our rural tranquillity by hurling a bunch of bicycles through our narrow country lanes in a frenzy of carnival tomfoolery.
My despair has been exacerbated by that wonderful paragraph in the D&S Times of Friday, April 4 (Not the first, note) “Exact timings of road closures will be dictated by variable factors ... making it impossible to provide exact times...”
My thoughts went back to a time long ago when the Green Howards’ medical officer gave his lecture to the troops at the Richmond barracks on the dangers of STDs. His closing words could equally be applied to the contagious sickness of the Tour...
“Well men, is it worth if for five minutes pleasure?”
N TAYLOR Northallerton
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