Your Letters
18:06 UK time, Tuesday, 24 July 2007
When other natural disasters occur around the world, the British public are always one of the first to set up charity boxes in shops. However, when natural disasters hit our own land, why is there no charity box to be seen?
Henry Fosdike, Bournemouth
Having discovered that , I feel my own parents have let me down: I was made to do it myself.
David, Redhill, Surrey
To Emma from Hull, Humberside has not existed for a mere 11 years, not that long really, especially when it existed for a whole 22 years! Also - Hull isn't actually in East Yorkshire. It became a separate unitary authority in 1996, when Humberside ceased to exist. Indeed in 1889, when the country council was set up, Hull wasn't even then part of the East Riding of Yorkshire! However, the Police, and Fire and Rescue services, are still Humberside. Go figure!
Trish - From East Yorkshire (but not Hull, obviously)
To Owen from Stevenage, I'd like to respond along the lines of, "Because it's there." Unfortunately, I think it's a lot more practical than that: the concrete methods developed in answering questions such as the solvability of finite games have applications in other areas of AI research.
Alexander Lewis Jones, Nottingham, UK
I’m no petrolhead, but ? The judges need to get that lollypop in parc fermé.
Stig, London, UK
Surely a professor should be aware that we already have a word for this, or is 'normality' just too normal for him?
Emma , Washington DC, USA
Are the same species as the rest of us? I'm just asking, that's all.
Chris, Witney UK
A 91Èȱ¬ Meteorologist said that Can he please explain how low pressure air pushes anything, or if he can't perhaps James Dyson can?
QJ, Stafford, UK
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