Grateful thanks to generous stranger
I just want to say thank you to the very kind gentleman who anonymously paid for our meal on Tuesday night, June 9.
I had gone out with three friends for tapas in York and when we came to pay the bill we were told that someone had already covered the cost and they had already left the restaurant.
I want to thank him for such a kind and heart-warming act and let him know that we were really touched by his thoughtfulness and really appreciate it. Thank you again.
Eleanor Shiels
Name and address withheld
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Labour's waterways protest is baffling
It is the stuff of politics for politicians to join campaigns, I get that, but like many York residents I am struggling to understand the Labour council leader and several Labour councillors and our local Labour MP organising photo opportunities to protest against the state of our waterways.
The Labour party control all the levers of power: the city council, York's two MPs, the regional mayor, and the national government. So who exactly are they protesting against?
There are solutions. Council planners could be requiring developers to stop storm water entering the drains and overwhelming sewage farms, a key cause of these increasingly frequent sewage spills in our rivers. National government could be obliging water companies to create new drains networks to separate rain water from domestic water and sewage waste.
Repeated calls at planning meetings for positive action to impose conditions on developers, from myself and others, have been ignored for years.
Instead of implementing solutions, a Labour-run council and a Labour York MP, both in power, protest against persons unknown. It's weird. Could it be that protesting is easier than fixing things?
Christian Vassie
Blake Court
Wheldrake
York
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Extra star to Sam’s chain: it’s TV soccer-free!
First, my commiserations to Mr D M Deamer from a fellow-sufferer. His lead letter on page 30 of June 8 Press, ‘Don’t shove World Cup down our throats’ resonates with me.
I too am a ‘football-free zone’.
Second, about the revered Sam Smith’s Brewery and Mr Tom Tavener (nice touch) who monitors their estate and comes up with some interesting findings (see Press, June 8 again, page 16, full-page feature titled, ‘Guide shows half of brewery’s pubs shut’).
If Mr Tavener ever decides to produce a hard-copy edition of his list, please make sure it has a loose-leaf binding. Appreciated. Extra star to the Sam’s chain; it’s TV soccer-free!
Derek Reed
Middlethorpe Drive
York
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Is it no prune June?
No words for why this island of grass was ignored. Perhaps No Mow May didn’t clear it on the Grass Cutters Sat Nav!
Thought he’d gone for a break and would be back to finish the job. We can look forward to no Prune June in York's parks.
Ruth Clarke
Heworth
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We face serious unrest
Kemi Badenoch may not be everybody's favourite politician but her attack on "wokery" will have resonated with millions of people irrespective of political loyalty. It is becoming obvious by the day that unless we have a drastic change in Government attitudes, together with civil servants and police chiefs, we are heading for serious unrest.
Peter Rickaby
Moat Way
Brayton
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