WHAT an excellent enclosure with The Press on February 17. I refer to the York Report which heralded a very bright future for the city and the business community.

Taken together with the positive comments from traders in Stonegate in the same edition, it reinforces that optimism.

So much for the “naysayers”, many of whom dominate your columns, who predicted the death of the city centre on the arrival of John Lewis.

Bob Towner, Hobgate, York.