I SEE with great delight that a lottery grant has been given for a 600-year-old stained glass at York Minster to be removed for vital restoration work.
At long last money is being given from the lottery fund, which the British people pay into, to places like the Minster, for necessary work. This money is supposedly set aside to help places like our Minster, not to be given like it is, to obscure organisations inside this country and overseas.
Let us have more funding for similar projects like York Minster and other heritage attractions that cannot either be self-funding or receive grants because of Government cutbacks.
It's time the Brits put their foot down and demanded that lottery funds should be used for useful heritage causes, not for Tom, Dick or Harry.
Tom Mitchell, Mendip Close, Huntington, York.
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