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We welcome letters on all topics but please keep them to 300 words at most; shorter letters are most likely to be included.

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Not a high street
8:49am Wednesday 7th May 2008
I AM writing in response to the recent article concerning the closure of the Oxfam shop in York Hospital.

The L-plate rebels
8:49am Wednesday 7th May 2008
ARE THE majority of driving schools breaking the law?
Reader comments (9)

Post office work
8:49am Wednesday 7th May 2008
I TRIED to save all three post offices in my constituency threatened with closure. I am glad Micklegate branch will now stay open, but sad Clifton and Haxby Road were closed.
Reader comments (3)

Champion youths
8:47am Wednesday 7th May 2008
I VERY much enjoyed my first engagement as York's Children and Young People's Champion. It included holding a question time event with children aged 11 to 15 at Millthorpe School.
Reader comments (8)

The saddest fall
8:46am Wednesday 7th May 2008
I CAN think of stronger adjectives than "sad" to describe Britain's manufacturing malaise.

Council was right
8:46am Wednesday 7th May 2008
WHILE I have every sympathy with Joe Doyle's children over their recent loss, I must agree with the council's action over payment of rent The Press, May 2).
Reader comments (3)

Missing the bile
8:45am Wednesday 7th May 2008
I HAVE had a bit of an absence from writing my bile on the pages of The Press. However, that does not mean I have been living in a world of contentment.
Reader comments (5)

Petrol prices should go up and up
8:44am Wednesday 7th May 2008
THE only message for those complaining about rising fuel prices is: get used to it. They are going to go up and up and up.
Reader comments (3)

Food for thought on waste issues
1:21pm Tuesday 6th May 2008
THE PRESS highlights the shortage of rice which raised the costs to a level which halves the profit which used to be made on 32 kilos of rice in a certain Asian restaurant (April 29).

Time to harness pedal power
1:18pm Tuesday 6th May 2008
Your Agony Aunt columnist Fiona Caine offered advice to a woman who was seeking cycle training, before venturing on a pedal-powered holiday in Holland, with her boyfriend (The Press, May 3).
Reader comment (1)

Question of identity
1:18pm Tuesday 6th May 2008
IT would appear from letters in The Press (April 25) that I have stirred up a hornets' nest with reference to ID cards.
Reader comments (3)

Letting off steam
1:18pm Tuesday 6th May 2008
WHEN I'm feeling angry or upset what better way to let off steam than to put pen to paper and write to The Press?
Reader comments (2)

Load of Balls
1:17pm Tuesday 6th May 2008
LABOUR looks in a bit of a fix.
Reader comment (1)

Crumb of comfort
1:17pm Tuesday 6th May 2008
I AGREE 101 per cent with everything John Heawood has to say about the climate cost of ferrying people to hotels by helicopter (Readers' Letters, May 2).
Reader comment (1)

Booze nightmare
1:17pm Tuesday 6th May 2008
THE report by student Heledd Williams describing a typical girls' night-out speaks volumes (The Press, April 29).
Reader comments (8)

Clause for pets
1:17pm Tuesday 6th May 2008
ENGLAND is no longer a nation of animal lovers, they are now banned from more and more places every week (The Press, May 3).
Reader comments (2)

Tough luck
1:17pm Tuesday 6th May 2008
HEREWITH comments of a Second World War widow to add to those of Richard Foster's "moving account of Yorkshire men who said no to the First World War". (Book review, The Press, April 12).

Sporting chance
1:16pm Tuesday 6th May 2008
YES, York does need more homes that are affordable, but they will only be snapped up by greedy wealthy people who will then rent them out to fill their own coffers (The Press, May 1).
Reader comments (2)

Blooming good
1:16pm Tuesday 6th May 2008
MAY I compliment City of York Council on the magnificent display of tulips (Banja Luka) at the junction between Blake Street and Museum Street, for its spring flowers.

Shameful view of city beggars
10:50am Monday 5th May 2008
THE following is a reply to your Page 5 article on beggars (Begging battle, April 28).
Reader comments (15)

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