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Trust has site land in its own backyard

11:34am Thursday 23rd May 2013

READING in The Press (May 15) the comprehensive article about the residents of Dunnington’s objections to the proposal for a travellers’ site in their village, I was interested to learn that the Travellers’ Trust was subsidised by one of the Joseph Rowntree charitable trusts.

Same as it ever was

11:33am Thursday 23rd May 2013

I love reading the Way We Were column featuring snippets from 100, 50 and 25 years ago.

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Take your pick

11:33am Thursday 23rd May 2013

WE ARE frequently urged to shop local at independent stores and Newgate Market.

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Unresolved issues

11:34am Thursday 23rd May 2013

AN article on page 13 in The Press of May 21 refers to a call for meaningful talks over the use of casual agency (presumably non-RMT affiliated) staff utilised for ticket checks (revenue protection duties) and their effect on existing full-time railway staff.

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Praise for volunteers

11:32am Thursday 23rd May 2013

VOLUNTEERS WEEK, the campaign that each year celebrates the contribution millions of volunteers make across the UK, takes place from June 1 to 7.

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Baby’s flight for life will not be in vain

11:32am Thursday 23rd May 2013

IT WAS lovely to hear about baby Theo Mikova’s airlift to Hull for treatment of his tracheo-oesophageal fistula (The Press, May 20).

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Party politics

11:31am Thursday 23rd May 2013

In The Press of May 17, Coun James Alexander questions Lynn Jeffries’ track-record on her party allegiance. Yet does he or any of the Labour council ever question their own allegiance to the people they are supposed to represent?

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Truly thankful

11:32am Thursday 23rd May 2013

THROUGH your letters page I wish to thank the ladies and gentlemen who came to my aid after I fell in the road in Piccadilly near to the Park&Ride bus stop.

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Splashing tale

11:30am Thursday 23rd May 2013

I READ S Beattie’s letter, Levels of rubbish on verge of medieval (The Press May 21).

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Saddened by NHS

11:31am Thursday 23rd May 2013

I Have it on good authority that the hard-won practice that I introduced and built up from zero to over 3,000 patients is about to be dissolved.

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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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