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Put it to the vote

9:37am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

IF this country had a true democracy instead of the mock one we have now, substantiated with your vote every five years, one referendum would settle everything.

No chance of a job

9:37am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

I AM baffled to see employment rising. It seems at the moment there are no job opportunities in York whatsoever.

Divine intervention

9:37am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

The producers of the Mystery Plays should seriously think about how much goodwill they would generate throughout the city if they cast Gary Mills as God.

First and foremost I would just like to congratulate my beloved York City on promotion back to the football league. What a fantastic job Gary Mills and all the staff right through to the first team have done.

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Praise for coverage

9:39am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

CONGRATULATIONS York City on your win back into the Football League.

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Let’s look to sun to power stadium

10:19am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

CONGRATULATIONS to York City on the second victory at Wembley in one week and their promotion.

Here’s more pollution caused in name of helping cyclists

10:10am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

SOME 18 years ago soon after my arrival in York, I did a tour of the city with two HSE Traffic Inspectors, with whom I was working on a pay and grading review.

It’s a first for me

10:10am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

I AM writing my first letter to The Press because the debate on cars verses cycles seems endless and no one is ever going to be 100 per cent right.

Thanks for support

10:11am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

MANY readers will have read the touching feature about the Oliver family (Women’s Press, May 15) and were doubtless moved by the love and fortitude demonstrated by Rob and Tracey Oliver in caring for their seriously ill son, Alfie.

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On the home front

10:11am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

COLIN HENSON implies that all the civil servants being allowed to work from home during the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be on vacation, watching TV and enjoying the Games (Letters, May 19).

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Dangerous ‘arms’

10:12am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

WITH reference to the front-page headline ‘Crossbow Road Rage Nightmare’ (The Press, May 16), it should come as no surprise to anyone when we see once again the spectacle of mayhem through the medium of weapon ownership.

Too much waste

10:13am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

I HAVE just seen Taste The Waste, one of three films being screened at City Screen as part of the Green Film Festival.

My bomb memory

10:13am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

I HAVE read with interest the letters about the day the bomb dropped on 32 Brownlow Street.

Please get in touch

10:17am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

CAN you solve my little problem? On April 1, the Queen visited York to distribute the Maundy money. The streets were crowded, especially in front of York Minster.

More on Monks Cross...

10:18am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

WITH the approval of Monks Cross stadium, this could be an opportunity for the centre of the city to really come into its own.

Time to graduate to a different city?

11:42am Monday 21st May 2012

ACCORDING to a recent report, 40.9 per cent of York’s working age population is educated to degree level or above. This compares with 31.3 per cent nationally and 26.4 per cent in the Yorkshire and Humber region.

Consult on 20mph speed limit

11:38am Monday 21st May 2012

ACCORDING to reports it would seem that City of York Council may vote through a plan for a blanket 20mph speed limit across York. This was to be expected once Anna Semlyen (of the Twenty’s Plenty campaign) became a councillor.

Memories of air crash

11:39am Monday 21st May 2012

I HAVE just been reading the letter from JA Brough (Letters, May 16) regarding the Hampden aircraft which crashed at Haley’s Terrace at 02.18am on February 22, 1942.

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Heed this political lesson

11:39am Monday 21st May 2012

DAVID Cameron shouldn’t get carried away by Boris Johnson’s victory in the London mayoral election.

Very public protests

11:40am Monday 21st May 2012

Protest marches and demonstrations appear to be attended solely by public-sector employees. Could it be that they have too much spare time on their hands?

‘Sporting chance is just not fair’

10:09am Saturday 19th May 2012

AS MINISTERS urge Britain to stop whingeing and work harder, they have other plans for their own employees.

Flying the flag for the home-grown tomato

10:05am Saturday 19th May 2012

I WAS interested to read in your 50 years ago column that “Tomato growing in England was doomed” (The Press, May 11) and am pleased to confirm that the UK tomato industry still exists.

Like a sore thumb

10:05am Saturday 19th May 2012

STONEBOW is a prime example of architecture not suited to its surroundings, along with obscuring more favourable buildings of historical importance which will stand the test of time.

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Take responsibility

10:06am Saturday 19th May 2012

WITH regards to the articles on April 18, 25 and 30, no one seems to have claimed responsibility for the horses in dangerous conditions in York.

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Clean-up operation

10:06am Saturday 19th May 2012

ON Saturday, May 12, Britain’s Got Talent was won by Pudsey, a dog who was trained by his owner, Ashley Butler, who along with The Sun newspaper offered to look for other talented dogs and help train them.