What we were matching for and why?

The Government has decided to cancel the County Council Elections, that were due this May, so all existing county councillors have had their terms extended by a year.

IT was with dismay that I read Emma Clayton’s column ‘Why are charity shop staff so rude?’ (July 23), an article complaining about how she was treated trying to donate her lockdown lumber tarring every charity shop bar one with the same negative brush.

OVER the past three weeks I have had three visits to the recycling centre at Hazel Court.

SIR - Three years ago 72 innocent people lost their lives. Their only crime was to live in Grenfell Tower. (The Press, July 21 - 'Fire consultant not required'.)

SIR - Despite all the effort and money put into the pedestrian zones in York by the council over the years nothing appears to deter some of the cycling fraternity who cycle at speed through the pedestrian zone.

Not before time, the target of getting 50 per cent of school leavers to go to university is being scrapped.

I ventured down to my usual barbers on the first day of opening after the coronavirus lockdown to have my "barnet" (barnet fair rhyming slang for hair) cut.

IF Government adviser Dominic Cummings has the ability to reform the Civil Service good luck to him.

YORK Council’s grandiose plans to turn everything and everyone as ‘green’ as possible will come at huge, ruinous cost as shown by the figures for the energy saving retrofitting of council houses (The Press, July 2).