Evening Press Readers' Letters

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!

Our councillors and their officials are becoming more like their elevated counterparts in Brussels. They suffer from an excessive majority syndrome and seem to revel in their power to suppress.

Honest, hardworking shopkeepers should quietly give in to vandals and wreckers. It seems this is much the better option than taking on our blinkered council.

Kenneth Scaife,

Ferguson Way,

New Lane,

York.

...ONE icy afternoon in March we daringly decided to have our annual viewing around our beautiful home city of York.

What a shock we got on approaching the grotesque sight of the new cinema placed on a prime site in the centre of our 'historical' town. Moving swiftly along into Coney Street I focused in on Mr Yeo's much-discussed shutters.

Tasteful, expensive and well in keeping with the surroundings, I think to myself. It appeared one businessman had got his windows protected at long last but, after reading the Evening Press, I fear not.

How do we justify building a concrete jungle just a stones throw away from Mr Yeo's tasteful, black shutters?

Save another set of handcuffs for me, Mr Yeo, because I'll stand alongside you on any ice cold day you care to mention.

Mrs S Barker,

St Stephen's Square,

Acomb,

York.

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