I REALLY enjoyed your article on Skills Coaches (Post, February 14). It brought back some memories.
I worked for Skills in the days of the Peters Street garage, in the 60s, when Mr Arthur Skill was about, a real gentleman was he.
He was the boss by sure, but he wouldn't walk by you without speaking to you, and he new most of his drivers.
Quite a few of them were ex-Robin Hood drivers.They knew the country like they knew the way home, and were a good set of guys.
My first job was on the second day working for them, a private hire job to Norfolk. On my work ticket were all the roads I needed to take, so no trouble with that.
All the coaches were maintained very well, I don't think I remember anyone complaining about any of the buses. I'm sure that Skills is the same today as it was them days.
MICK SPENCER
Llanberis Grove
Nottingham
IT is hard to refrain from insults and name-calling where correspondents like Demi Green (Letters, February 14) are concerned.
Does she suppose that people who live in "social housing" choose where they live? By and large they have to take what is offered.
Bedroom tax is just another example of yet another attack on the poor and the absolute unfairness of this Coalition Government.
It would be far more fair and reasonable to go after landlords who take advantage of people on benefits to charge them exorbitant rents for often dangerous and ill-maintained accommodation, knowing that potential whistle-blowers ware likely find themselves on the streets. That does happen.
Right-wing propaganda seeks to blind us as to who the real fiddlers are, the people who have the power to make their fiddles appear legal.
R L COOPER
Harlequin Close
Radcliffe-on-Trent
SO, the EU is going to set up a euro-election "troll patrol" to monitor and trawl eurosceptic debates in the internet.
Up to £2m will be wasted on this – Eurocrats know hostility to their rotten organisation is growing by the sounds of it.
The proposals violate the neutrality of the EU civil service by turning officials into "troll patrols", stalking the internet to make unwanted and provocative political contributions in social media debates.
What a ridiculous and wasteful proposal.
DEREK CLARK
Ukip MEP for the East Midlands