Dog death shame

9:12am Friday 10th October 2008

May I draw readers’ attention to the Dogs’ Trust Annual Stray Dog Report .

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Homes rule hits its ‘latest victim’

9:12am Friday 10th October 2008

At last City of York council has had a taste of it’s own medicine, and has fallen victim to it’s excessive 50 per cent affordable housing policy (Fresh land crisis to cost us £1.2m, The Press, October 6).

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Marks of a slower postal service

9:12am Friday 10th October 2008

TWO or three letters that I have received recently, posted in York postal area, have been delivered bearing two postmarks.

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Not like the rest

9:13am Friday 10th October 2008

WHAT more proof is needed that the Royal Family is still out of touch with what is happening in Britain today? The right-hand man to Prince Charles on £100,000 a year for squeezing the prince’s toothpaste tube, and £30,000 paid to a florist to arrange the flowers!

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Uni’s good news

9:13am Friday 10th October 2008

I’M amazed that the sensational headline about the University of York in the September 22 edition of The Press escaped the editorial pencil.

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Is it catnapping?

9:14am Friday 10th October 2008

I HAVE noticed that the black cat has gone missing from the wall above the dry cleaners in Low Ousegate, but his mate is still standing on the window sill.

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Lock up drunks

9:14am Friday 10th October 2008

I READ Heather Causnett’s letter with interest (Drunks must pay, October 1).

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Bikes reduce jams

9:02am Thursday 9th October 2008

Mike Usherwood commented unfavourably (Cash better spent, Letters, October 7) about the major grant that York recently received from Cycling England, to boost pedal-powered travel across the city.

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Say it’s not so

8:58am Thursday 9th October 2008

On receiving the latest copy of City of York Council’s Your City update last weekend I was amused to read, in the article about the replacement of the Edmund Wilson swimming facility, that the £6 milion redevelopment will include “a new 25m, six-lane poo”.

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Having a bad day

8:59am Thursday 9th October 2008

Recently, my friend and I decided to have a day’s shopping in Leeds.

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Grabbers’ charter

9:00am Thursday 9th October 2008

“We need to protect England’s green and pleasant back gardens.” says Selby Labour councillor Steve Shaw Wright.

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Don’t poo-poo gurus

8:40am Thursday 9th October 2008

“What next from climate change gurus?” is the question in the headline to a letter from Phil Roe (Soapbox, October 6).

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Have eco-fears delayed plans?

8:41am Thursday 9th October 2008

The Press reports that the eco-friendly councillors are unhappy that the new University of York plans do not include an acceptable renewable energy plans (“Ungreenn” varsity plan is slammed, October 6). The suggestion by Coun Vassie that the “new-fangled” technology is proven is rather optimistic. All have yet to provide actual evidence of change being achieved.

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Fears over betting shop expansion

8:57am Thursday 9th October 2008

The build-up of betting shops in some areas is being presented by their spokespeople as brightening up shopping parades. I see it as the vultures descending to pick at the bones of desperate, less prosperous communities who are struggling to make ends meet.

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No Big Brother

8:38am Thursday 9th October 2008

THE decision by All Saints’ RC School to introduce thumb print recognition for pupils as young as 11 will doubtless spark concern among civil liberties supporters and, indeed, some parents. We can’t agree. The school caters for 1,200 youngsters on split sites in Mill Mount and Nunnery Lane, making registration extremely difficult.

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Keep them in schools

8:38am Thursday 9th October 2008

WHEN a child has to be excluded from school, it is an admission of failure. A decent education is one of the most basic rights any civilised society should be able to guarantee to its children. Their futures, and ours, depend upon it. No school takes excluding a pupil lightly, therefore.

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Mystery object

8:40am Thursday 9th October 2008

Walking my dog recently, in a newly-ploughed field on the outskirts of Bridlington, I was lucky enough to find this unusual numismatic artefact. Looking at it, I think it’s a copper or brass token of some kind. It is marked 6d, along with the wording “(W)ardill Leeds”, and is the size of a modern 2p (though much thinner). The reverse of the token is plain apart from a circle.

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Event chief gives food for thought

9:49am Wednesday 8th October 2008

I’m writing to respond to Ada Vine’s letter about the York Festival of Food & Drink (Where was all our local food?, October 3).

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Quest for power

9:44am Wednesday 8th October 2008

WELL, it seems Napoleon and Hitler did achieve their ambitions in the end, by forming a dictatorship through the back door and calling it “the European Commission”.

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Hopeless case

9:45am Wednesday 8th October 2008

THE Americans had Bill Clinton, George Bush, Johnnie Cash, Bob Hope, Stevie Wonder.

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