Did I make the right choices after all?

WHEN I read the New Years Honours List and I look back on my 44 years service on British Rail and my 32 years voluntary service to my local sports club I wonder if I had made the right choices?

Perhaps I should have gone into politics and become a failed MP, a hypocrite who reneged on promises and fiddled my expenses.

I then may have received a knighthood or have been elevated to the House of Lords where I could sleep for £300 per day.

On the other hand I am happy with my lot. I have a wonderful family and a wide circle of friends so perhaps I made the right choices after all.

AP Cox, Heath Close, Holgate, York

This honours list is a complete joke again

ONCE again the New Year’s Honours list is a complete joke, featuring celebrities, sports people and pop stars, young and old and the odd politician. Knighthoods for services to music for Ringo Starr and Barry Gibb for fifty years of doing something they enjoy and get paid very well for, and a knighthood for Nick Clegg (which has got to be the biggest joke of the lot, him having sold students down the river by reneging on his promise on tuition fees) - the list goes on.

I am sure there are people up and down the country who have served their profession for a lot longer than the above mentioned and think there is something wrong here.

I know you cannot give honours to everyone but I am sure that there could be more deserving causes than so-called celebrities and the like.

DM Dale, Clifton Moor, York