OUR street like many others around the city, is in urgent need of repair however, I now fully understand why we are not a priority, when the council need this valuable commodity, Tarmac, to patch up one of our main tourist attractions, Stonegate. I am sure our visitors’ photographs of York, will be enhanced by the wonderful patchwork effect on this famous street. In the meantime we will continue to damage our cars ,break our legs and submit our claims for compensation to our already overstretched authority.

Ken Thorpe, Ebor Way, Upper Poppleton, York