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Focus on growth, not Tory traumas

9:11am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

LIBERAL DEMOCRATS believe the focus of the Government should be on creating jobs and growth, not on an in/out referendum that we have already legislated for.

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What an influx of ‘spring orphans’

9:10am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

ON BEHALF of Selby Wildlife Rescue, I wish to thank all readers who responded to our recent appeal following the overwhelming influx of spring orphans. We are now taking on average 20 calls a day with regard to baby doves, ducklings, swifts, swallows, hatchlings and hedgehogs.

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Another site, please

9:10am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

THE Press editorial of May 18 and Julian Cole, in his column of May 17, seem to be at odds in their opinions regarding travellers’ sites.

Yes, York’s in a mess

9:11am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

AS A frequent visitor to your beautiful and historic city, I am disgusted at the sorry state of York’s streets at the weekend (Levels of rubbish verge on Medieval, Letters, May 21).

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Keep cats indoors

9:09am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

AT THIS time in early summer, all our birds are nesting and rearing young.

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What about Revie?

9:09am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

SIR Alex Ferguson has been a great manager. However, he inherited a huge, wealthy club in Manchester United.

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A time we lost

9:08am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

THERE was a public meeting in Stamford Bridge to discuss the proposed building of 173 new houses.

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Paths are so poor

9:08am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

I KEEP reading about footpaths and pedestrian foot streets.

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Show alternativesre

9:09am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

IN ALL the discussion about the closure of Lendal Bridge to cars, I have yet to see a map of proposed alternative routes.

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The blob mystery

9:08am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

Has anyone else noticed the unusual yellow blobs covering the relaid paving in High Ousegate and Spurriergate?

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Why show Eurovision on BBC1?

8:36am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

ONCE again BBC1 had saturated Saturday-night viewing for three and a quarter hours with the Eurovision Song contest in the faint hope that Britain would win once again.

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Pop the bill here

8:36am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

The ethos of the NHS is that it is free for everyone. If smokers and drinkers are to be charged for their treatment (Letters, May 18), just where do you stop?

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Such rotten roads

8:34am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

THE Moor Lane, Princess Road and Lords Moor Lane roads in Strensall are in absolutely appalling condition and urgently require total resurfacing.

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Mystery ‘mags’

8:35am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

EVERY day I walk into the city centre along Petergate or Blake Street, and I would say that on most days a team of men are trying to sell a small magazine. I think it is a joke book or similar. Well, I fear the joke is on those who buy these things.

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Intelligent? Hardly

8:33am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

IN response to Matthew McCartney (Letters, May 18), I do not agree that pigeons are intelligent. They are the one bird that seemingly has no care for its own life.

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A clear view ahead

8:33am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

DURING the preparation work at the junction of the A59 with the A1237 for the new road improvement scheme, the highways authorities have cleared all the overgrown shrubbery from the roundabout, affording much-improved vision of traffic and its intended direction on to and leaving the roundabout.

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Traffic blockage

8:32am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

FOLLOWING my previous letter about the inadequacies of the bypass between Clifton Moor and the Boroughbridge Road roundabout, I have just received a copy of the Lib Dem Focus which has on the back page a map with the outline of the proposed site for 4,020 new homes.

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On and off the buses

8:31am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

LIKE R Hutchinson (Letters, May 15), I too was visited by a very pleasant young man doing a survey of transport arrangements.

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Why not in Selby?

8:29am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

I NOTE the Bishop of Selby, who lives in Malton, has decided to retire. His retirement service is being held in York Minster.

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A better distinction

8:30am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

I AGREE with AP Cox that all lives are equal and there is no justification to value the life of a police officer higher than those of others when sentencing murderers (Letters, May 18). If any distinction was to be made then surely it should be where the victim is a child.

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Sorry, that’s wrong

8:28am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

I would like to inform Mr Glover (Letters, May 11) that gipsies, roma and travellers are an ethnic group and classed in case law: Commission for Racial Equality v Dutton. He mentions that the FA Cup has been around longer than these residents but their presence was first recorded in Scotland in 1505 and in England in 1514. Today more than 350,000 live in traditional and non-traditional homes, but actual numbers are unknown as many are afraid of indentifying themselves As to other letters on this topic, I do not live opposite the area as one writer suggests: the area is flood zone three – not suitable for development and is in the ‘trust’ of a residents group.

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Costa is clear for me

8:27am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

As a Haxby resident with family, I should like to strongly support the notion of a Costa coffee bar. I gather there is some objection but prejudice against perceived “chains” is undesirable for this discussion. The silent majority will welcome Costa with open arms and Haxby will become a destination for shoppers, families and the elderly alike. Costa consistently comes top of consumer polls for excellence in all areas of service and product so the quality of Costa coffee is undeniable. People are voting with their feet and love Costa. I hope to be doing the same within a walk of my home and will pick up some groceries on the way back.

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That will be too narrow

8:27am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

HAVING read Stephen Lewis’ report on the redevelopment of King’s Square and Colliergate (The Press, May 17), I was incredulous to see that Colliergate’s roadway was to be narrowed.

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Levels of rubbish verge on Medieval

8:26am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

SO, WE’VE come to the point where we are complementing our fine medieval buildings, walls and Minster with medieval amounts of filth on our streets. The horrendous amount of rubbish in the city centre on Sunday was utterly embarrassing, even by York’s standards.

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Alex Ferguson’s good, but he’s not the greatest

8:17am Monday 20th May 2013

I FULLY agree with Dave Barker (Fergie lacks class, Letters, May 14).

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