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10:50am Friday 19th March 2010
The possible routing of a new high-speed rail link has caused anxiety because it may not serve York directly. The simple fact is that if ever built it will most likely go to Leeds/Bradford and then possibly on to Newcastle and Edinburgh.
10:44am Friday 19th March 2010
What kind of people are this nanny-state Goverment employing when we have to listen to the stupid reasoning from the likes of Dr Maggie Atkinson, where she is calling for the age of legal responsibility to raised?
10:46am Friday 19th March 2010
In recent days, at 8:30am, where the A64 bypass crosses over the York-Selby road, I’ve noticed more and more drivers using the roundabout on the Fulford side as a way to jump the queue into York, thereby blocking folk like me leaving town to turn towards Leeds.
10:40am Friday 19th March 2010
We should like to add our own tribute to Jack Archer and also support the call for a memorial service in his honour.
10:35am Friday 19th March 2010
THIS month marked the passing of William (Billy) Powell, ex-Sergeant Major D Company West Yorks Cadet Force.
10:05am Friday 19th March 2010
The question of immigration is usually dealt with in terms of the effect it has, rather than on the causes of it.
10:00am Friday 19th March 2010
CONGRATULATIONS to the Bishopthorpe Road businesses for their latest promotional idea (United front, The Press, March 4).
10:05am Thursday 18th March 2010
Mark Stead (Court flagpoles reprieved, The Press, March 13) quite correctly drew our attention to the new flagpole outside the York Crown Court.
10:07am Thursday 18th March 2010
Some years ago I read about a simple solution to the expensive problem to which the article in The Press refers (Dogs are blamed for toppling lampposts, March 16).
10:10am Thursday 18th March 2010
The TV journalist Donal MacIntyre’s investigation (Questions over Claudia probe, The Press, March 15) highlights interesting points in the Claudia Lawrence case.
9:32am Thursday 18th March 2010
The Press of January 15, 2009, ran an obituary feature on Bertie Hazell CBE, who had died at the age of 101 years after a lifetime of public service.
9:33am Thursday 18th March 2010
ON March 11 I had a beautiful tortoiseshell butterfly in my garden on my snowdrops. It is the earliest I have ever seen a butterfly as there aren’t many flowers out just yet. Is this a record?
9:45am Thursday 18th March 2010
I write with regard to Moorland Energy Ltd’s proposal to build a gas processing plant in Thornton-le-Dale. I object most strongly to their chosen site on a number of grounds:
9:28am Thursday 18th March 2010
LET’S hope that when Gillygate reopens, the drivers who have found alternative routes around town stick to them.
9:29am Thursday 18th March 2010
THE Lib Dems, a party of principle, have for many years had proportional representation as their main aim and pledge.
9:31am Thursday 18th March 2010
The EU, which has not had its financial statements passed by any set of auditors for the last 14 years (because everyone knows they are massively fraudulent), has now had the cheek to reprimand the UK for not reducing its budget deficit quickly enough and by a large enough amount.
10:00am Wednesday 17th March 2010
As the wife of a police traffic constable, an intensive-care nurse, a car driver and a bike rider, I was heartened to read Bryan Lawson’s comments in respect of selfish and dangerous drivers (Scourge of the “selfish drivers, Letters, March 13).
9:54am Wednesday 17th March 2010
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks in Gillygate. I’m still failing to understand how two words to two different groups of people can mean so many things.
9:40am Wednesday 17th March 2010
I am writing in response to a letter from Olly Sherwood regarding bus fares (Fares too high, March 6).
9:42am Wednesday 17th March 2010
What on earth has been going on at the junction of Hospital Fields Road and Fulford Road for the last two weeks? Last year a major resurfacing and cycle lane alteration took place between Hospital Fields Road and Cemetery Road, causing three weeks of major disruption.
9:38am Wednesday 17th March 2010
So the Government wants to reduce the drink drive level to one pint.
9:39am Wednesday 17th March 2010
Keith Chapman wrote recently (Back to black, Letters, March 15) regarding the increase in the TV licence.
10:40am Tuesday 16th March 2010
THE article headlined Making Tracks (The Press, March 13) about the future of high-speed rail and its implications for York, quotes Dr Tony Fowkes as saying: “If there were to be only a single line linking London and the north, then the route would probably pass to the west of Leeds, leaving York out.”
10:31am Tuesday 16th March 2010
WE HAVE read with interest and appreciation all the tributes to our dear friend Jack Archer.
10:32am Tuesday 16th March 2010
MAY I appeal for the owner of the thin and cute black cat that turned up in Hempland Avenue about two weeks ago to come and fetch it.
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