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Understanding illness key to helping
10:11am Saturday 20th March 2010
I’d like to draw the attention of readers of The Press to a new campaign from the Department of Health and the Alzheimer's Society to raise awareness of dementia by challenging stereotypes and breaking down preconceptions about the condition.
Women on board
10:12am Saturday 20th March 2010
The Government has recently called for some of Britain’s largest companies to recruit more women on to their boards and achieve greater diversity.
Parking problems
10:12am Saturday 20th March 2010
My husband and I would like to complain to York council about all the buses and cars parked down Knavesmire Road, on both sides.
Just coincidence?
10:13am Saturday 20th March 2010
COINCIDENCE? Timing? Who knows? I find it quite amazing to learn that, within a short space of time following the departure of the chief executive of Royal Mail, agreement has been reached over working conditions and other areas of dispute during recent weeks.
Media magnet
10:13am Saturday 20th March 2010
Tracey Simpson-Laing (Soapbox, March 17) is right about David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch and their attacks on the BBC. What she fails to mention is that, until The Sun newspaper (owned by Mr Murdoch) switched its support from Labour to the Conservatives, Labour did everything it could (including taking Test Match cricket away from terrestrial TV and giving it to Sky) to keep in Murdoch’s good books; Tony Blair even flew all the way to Australia to lick his posterior.
Need for ambition
10:14am Saturday 20th March 2010
I think we can all agree that “York is rightly famous for its history, and that its medieval road network was not designed for 21st-century traffic”.
Don’t force issue
10:14am Saturday 20th March 2010
I thank Paul Hepworth for his erudite description of the traffic light control systems in York, (Subtle system, Letters March 13).
‘I wish lights were off every morning’
10:14am Saturday 20th March 2010
Did anyone else notice that there was zero traffic congestion at the Blossom Street and Micklegate Bar crossroads on Wednesday, at 7.45am (City junction lights to stay, The Press, March 18)?
We needn’t worry about high speed railway link
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.
Children knowing right from wrong
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?
Double roundabout trouble
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.
Memorial service for Jack Archer?
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.
Farewell to Billy Powell
10:35am Friday 19th March 2010
THIS month marked the passing of William (Billy) Powell, ex-Sergeant Major D Company West Yorks Cadet Force.
Invasion or immigration?
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.
Well done to local businesses in Bishopthorpe Road
10:00am Friday 19th March 2010
CONGRATULATIONS to the Bishopthorpe Road businesses for their latest promotional idea (United front, The Press, March 4).
York Crown Court flagpole
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.
Protecting lampposts from dogs
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).
Return to the local bobby on the beat
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.
Hazell family tree plea
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.
Early butterfly record
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?
Thornton-le-Dale gas processing plant fears
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:
Road closure at Gillygate a blessing in disguise?
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.
Lib Dems PR principles
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.
Reasons to leave the European Union
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.
Real crimes with very real victims
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).
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