Reader comment: 'Ferrands pub re-vamp is great news for Airedale quiz league'
SIR - Almost 50 years ago the Value Added Tax was introduced with Customs and Excise to manage it. Before then our work had little changed since Robbie Burns’ day and the officers still saw it as an exclusive gentlemen’s club not a government department. Women were not allowed and the members enjoyed a full social life. Come VAT the service was greatly expanded to cope with an increase in workload but the survivors from the old days tried to carry on as before. Thus a full programme of out of office events was organised including a new one whereby each VAT office put up a quiz team. B...
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