I WELCOME the green light given by the city council for the development of the Hull-York medical school last week.

This is a positive step that will allow York to maintain its identity as a key academic centre in the North of England.

The medical school will also support economic development in the city as well as producing a crop of new doctors by 2008.

This sort of development is crucial to the future prosperity of York and the North Yorkshire region.

Rory Palmer,

Chairman,

York University Labour Club,

Farrar Street,

York.

Updated: 10:44 Thursday, September 05, 2002