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Look closely for those wind farms

11:19am Tuesday 18th June 2013

THE draft Local Plan has caused alarm over the thousands of homes planned, but another side seems to have gone largely unnoticed, namely the wind farms.

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Happy to have run

11:18am Tuesday 18th June 2013

I HAVE just run my first fun run, the “R U taking the P” male-only run, raising money for prostate cancer research. May I say a tremendous thank-you to the organisers, the marshals and the public who cheered us all the way round, and of course my fellow runners, joggers and walkers who raised so much money.

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It was ‘propaganda’

11:18am Tuesday 18th June 2013

THE Big York Survey of residents was not a “great success” (The Press, June 15) but an exercise in propaganda. The repeated survey this year will be more of the same.

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Thanks for support

11:17am Tuesday 18th June 2013

THROUGH The Press, we would like to thank to all our colleagues and customers at the Sainsbury’s store at Monks Cross who sponsored us to walk around as many churches as we could in a couple of hours, starting off at the Minster.

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Plucky in those heels

11:17am Tuesday 18th June 2013

MISS York and District (“No missing our winner”, The Press, June 14) is plucky negotiating the bar walls in high heels while pulling along her luggage en route for Torquay.

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Scouting boys ask...

11:06am Tuesday 18th June 2013

WE are three brothers who are members of the Lord Mayor’s Scout Group.

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Safety comes first

11:00am Tuesday 18th June 2013

WHY is it that any obstacle invented for road safety to slow down motorists is like a red flag to a bull (Speed cushions not the answer, Letters, June 12).

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How I recall it...

11:00am Tuesday 18th June 2013

IN REPLY to Paul Hepworth’s letter of June 1, he need not worry, because the statute of limitations for his misdemeanour is well passed.

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A duty to protect

10:59am Tuesday 18th June 2013

Thirty years ago, as a very young teacher working in a York secondary school, I took the class of a domestic science teacher who was ill.

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What a great lunch

10:57am Tuesday 18th June 2013

On Friday, June 14 my wife and I visited the Judge’s Lodging for the first time for lunch, and it will definitely not be the last visit as it was probably one of the best lunches we have enjoyed in a long time.

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Well, it’s a puzzle

10:58am Tuesday 18th June 2013

HERE’S an interesting one. If you hired someone to provide care for an elderly parent, would you expect them to charge/invoice the deceased to attend their own funeral when that person passed away? Well, that was my experience.

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Goodbye to the man who knew

10:56am Tuesday 18th June 2013

CAN I add to the tributes to the historian Hugh Murray whose death was recorded in The Press of June 15?

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Rat-run? You wait

10:57am Tuesday 18th June 2013

TO THE residents of Westminster Road and The Avenue worrying about rat-runs (The Press, June 15), you ain’t seen nothing yet. Wait till they close Lendal Bridge.

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Flood insurance deadlock must be resolved

11:23am Monday 17th June 2013

THE long-standing agreement between the Government and the insurance industry to subsidise insurance for homes and businesses in high flood risk areas such York will come to an end in weeks.

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Looking at 'bedroom tax' options

11:23am Monday 17th June 2013

WITH regard to Tina Duke’s letter (Bedroom politics,June 12), I would like to point out that Leeds City Council has only reclassified 865 homes while more than 3,000 residents are affected by the bedroom tax.

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Local Plan over simplified

11:21am Monday 17th June 2013

DON’T be duped. The consultative document outlining Labour’s second attempt at producing a Local Plan has been circulated in a guise that deliberately over-simplifies the facts behind it, to the extent of deliberate concealment of the true picture.

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Painful impact of speed-humps

11:22am Monday 17th June 2013

I AM pleased that Anneliese Emmans Dean’s concerns over the speed-humps on Heslington Lane were covered in your letters page (Speed cushions not the answer, June 12).

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Lendal Bridge closure won’t ease rail station snarl-up

11:20am Monday 17th June 2013

COUN DAVE MERRETT doesn’t appear to have a clue about traffic.

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Putting up a front

11:21am Monday 17th June 2013

WHAT a pathetic, transparent facade the UK and France have presented to the international community with their puerile arguments to escalate the intervention in the Syrian conflict.

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Collection thank you

11:20am Monday 17th June 2013

THE North Yorkshire Branch of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust would like to say thank you to all those people who made a contribution at our street collection on Saturday, June 1, in York city centre.

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Care concerns

11:19am Monday 17th June 2013

I Wholeheartedly welcome the opportunity the Care Minister Normal Lamb is extending to home-care companies to engage with him about the sector.

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We all pay for NHS

11:17am Monday 17th June 2013

I do enjoy reading Helen Mead’s columns. She is so down to earth and funny with it.

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Green belt debacle

11:18am Monday 17th June 2013

THE Tory debacle over the green belt seems to have hit new lows with Coun Sian Wiseman’s decision to form an alliance with the Conservative group solely so they can remain the official opposition and retain some £17,000 of allowances.

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Service invitation

11:17am Monday 17th June 2013

ALL RANKS from RAF, WAAF and WRAF, or next of kin, who served in Coastal Command are invited to join RAF St Eval Coastal Command Association at St Eval Church at the Annual Remembrance Service on Battle of Britain Weekend, on Sunday, September 15.

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‘Terrible toilet put me off return visit’

10:46am Saturday 15th June 2013

WE had a day out in York and had to visit the toilets in Exhibition Square. I was disgusted when I walked in and so glad we had not brought our children.

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