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    <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 19:52:01 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Trust has site land in its own backyard</title>
           
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  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.
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           <title>Same as it ever was</title>
           
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  I love reading the Way We Were column featuring snippets from 100, 50 and 25 years ago.
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           <title>Take your pick</title>
           
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  WE ARE frequently urged to shop local at independent stores and Newgate Market.
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           <title>Unresolved issues</title>
           
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  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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           <title>Praise for volunteers</title>
           
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  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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           <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:32:27 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Baby’s flight for life will not be in vain</title>
           
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  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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           <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:32:53 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Party politics</title>
           
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  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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           <title>Truly thankful</title>
           
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  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&amp;Ride bus stop.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:32:03 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Splashing tale</title>
           
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  I READ S Beattie’s letter, Levels of rubbish on verge of medieval (The Press May 21).
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           <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:30:52 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Saddened by NHS</title>
           
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  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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           <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:31:09 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Focus on growth, not Tory traumas</title>
           
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  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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           <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:11:48 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>What an influx of ‘spring orphans’</title>
           
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  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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           <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:10:19 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Another site, please</title>
           
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  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.
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           <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:10:44 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Yes, York’s in a mess</title>
           
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  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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           <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:11:05 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Keep cats indoors</title>
           
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  AT THIS time in early summer, all our birds are nesting and rearing young.
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           <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:09:40 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>What about Revie?</title>
           
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  SIR Alex Ferguson has been a great manager. However, he inherited a huge, wealthy club in Manchester United.
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           <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:09:56 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>A time we lost</title>
           
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  THERE was a public meeting in Stamford Bridge to discuss the proposed building of 173 new houses.
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           <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:08:28 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Paths are so poor</title>
           
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  I KEEP reading about footpaths and pedestrian foot streets.
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           <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:08:43 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Show alternativesre</title>
           
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  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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           <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:09:03 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>The blob mystery</title>
           
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  Has anyone else noticed the unusual yellow blobs covering the relaid paving in High Ousegate and Spurriergate?
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           <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:08:11 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Why show Eurovision on BBC1?</title>
           
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  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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           <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:36:47 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Pop the bill here</title>
           
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  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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           <title>Such rotten roads</title>
           
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  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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           <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:34:31 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Mystery ‘mags’</title>
           
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  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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           <title>Intelligent? Hardly</title>
           
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  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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           <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:33:52 +0100</pubDate>
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