The announcement that the restoration of the Grade II-listed building, the Kirkgate Railway Station is to go ahead must be music to the ears of the people of Wakefield, especially the commuters who have to use the station, and also the people who live close by.

Hats off to Wakefield Council! I was pleasantly surprised walking home from work through Ossett on Friday evening to find most of the side roads and pavements had been gritted in preparation for the weekend weather.

I FELT compelled to write in response to last week’s article in which a couple walked free from court after stabbing their pet dog to death.

THANKS for printing my letter and while I know many people write in I was very interested but not surprised by Coun Box’s reply. One thing’s clear, it seems the England team need some spin so perhaps he should be drafted in the team!

IN a week that has seen the criminalisation of Christian actions I could not help but smile at the letter, Express February 10, ‘No-one stopped after I crashed.’

YOUR recent item (Tesco to Destroy Horbury?) suggesting that the Horbury community centre would become a Tesco Express and destroy the business life of the town is rather alarmist and based on a possibility rather than a fact.

AN outstanding young engineer at Wakefield engineering firm Group Rhodes has been honoured with a top award.

PRINT firm Bezier has strengthened its board with two key appointments.

After reading in the Express about the Bar 42 being put on hold in Ossett I felt I needed to put pen to paper, although I barely know where to start.

ALEX Storey’s column (Express January 27) argued that Wakefield needs a directly elected Mayor, and that the present arrangements (where we all elect our local councillors and they then elect a ceremonial mayor and a council leader) are undemocratic.

I AM thankful to Alex Story for raising the issue of elected mayors and elected police commissioners in the Express.

ON Saturday morning two weeks ago, I was cycling through Stanley along Aberford Road towards the M62 roundabout.

RE last week’s Wakefield Express report on the ‘Gypsy Camp’ at Boundary Lane, Warmfield.

IN his letter last week Mr Milburn makes some interesting points.

LAST Autumn I underwent heart surgery under the joint care of the cardiology Unit at Pinderfields and the cardiothoracic surgery Unit at Leeds General Infirmary.

TO be blunt sex is too good for young people! But since this particular genie/djinn (a djinn is the opposite of a genie) is out of the bottle we have to do the best we can.

I REFER to the dangerous ‘picking up’ of customers at the rear of the Morrisons supermarket within the Ridings.

Here is a list of Kirkgate traffic offences:

How refreshing to read Ian Stevenson’s letter (January 6) ‘Leave the lights off’. At last some fresh thinking with some common sense and reason.

I just want to say thank you to everyone who helped me when I fell over in the Ridings.