Council is blinkered over city shop shutters

We are are informed that shopkeepers have no right to protect their property ('Trader's Threat Over Shutters', Evening Press, March 6). Shutters are 'bulky and unattractive.' No more, I submit, than broken and boarded-up windows, empty shops and garish, yellow-painted sex shops. For goodness sake! This is Scarborough Terrace not an historic, graceful Georgian crescent! Crossing points

A pensioner says a proposed zebra crossing in Acomb's Beckfield Lane would be in the wrong place, (Evening Press, February 24). King-size request

Can any Evening Press readers help me? I have been commissioned to write a biography of George Hudson, the so-called Railway King, and one of York's most famous sons. The book will be published in the spring of 2002, but I am starting my research now. Go to jail...

We want a volunteer to work in the prison service. Each prison has a Board Of Visitors, (BOV). This is a statutory body appointed by the Home Secretary to act as 'his eyes and ears' within each prison. This monitors the treatment of prisoners and ensures the prison is running effectively. Know your virus

We all want to educate the public about meningitis, so teach your sub-editors to distinguish between meningitis due to a virus, which is almost always benign and requires no particular treatment, and meningococal meningitis, due to a bacterium and extremely dangerous ('School's Fear Over Deadly Virus', March 8).

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