MORE than 60 years ago, I attended a meeting in Malton which set up the Ryedale Water Board.

This took water from the Keld springs near Nunnington to a large part of Ryedale and, via the water tower at Harton, to villages close to York such as Holtby and Gate Helmsley.

I am sure that Yorkshire Water will look at any possible consequences to the Keld springs from fracking.

Bill Heppell, Rawcliffe Lane, York

 

I APPLAUD very, very loudly Cheryl Diuga and Laura Chalmers from the Gateway Food Bank in Acomb (The Press, August 12).

For Cheryl to admit publicly that she was so skint (in today’s supposedly modern day welfare state) that she was in floods of tears in her doctors' surgery and was referred to the food bank, was a big move. An even bigger move was to then go on and start working with the food bank. Laura Chalmers needs praise also for due to the fact that she giving her services to help and assists the needy, as do all charity staff.

Around 8,400 people have been given sustenance by the Gateway Food Bank, a very human, kind resource centre.

In the same edition of The Press the Comment states that: “A civilised society shouldn’t need such measures, but until someone comes up with a better solution to food poverty, what else can people in need do?”

The answer to me is quite simple. Government should legislate to ensure and enforce that people pay the due amount of tax on the money they earn, employ more people in Revenue and Customs to chase the tax evaders/avoiders and then, if found guilty, jail them for long, long terms, and redistribute the wealth of the nation.

Howard Perry, St James Place, Dringhouses, York

 

THE recollections of Peter Black (Letters, August 18) are not quite correct.

It is true that the late great Tom Adams, an architect famous for putting black cats on his buildings, produced a design for a glass structure in Parliament Street; but it is wrong to say it was turned down by the council.

The design was only ever an entry in a competition for conceptual ideas. It never progressed to a detailed design or a formal planning application.

Tom Adams did, however, often bemoan the state of Parliament Street,. He regarding it as a lost opportunity to create a stunning piazza. He would not have been impressed by rented tents we occasionally see – or the Stalag POW huts that appear each festive season to sell us Christmas tat.

Matthew Laverack Architect of this parish Lord Mayors Walk, York