I am deeply concerned about the City of York Council's proposal to close the York Story.

This exhibition is the only place where the history of the city is displayed and is an essential centre for tourists, residents and school parties.

The city has failed to care for this award-winning exhibition as well as it should, but with a little care it can be, again, a facility of which the city can be very proud.

Even now attendance figures have increased and I gather that the York Story does not lose the city money.

To close the York Story temporarily is no solution because it will become an eyesore in a prominent city centre location as the Arts Centre at St John's Church has done.

The late King George VI said: "The history of York is the History of England." The disappearance of this centre will lose the only place where the history is shown.

I urge the city councillors to visit the York Story, be reminded of its excellence and reconsider its proposals.

Bishop Stephen,

Brownlow Street,

York.

..I am disgusted that yet another tourist attraction is to close down, namely York Story, Castlegate (End Of Story, Evening Press, January 28).

Will these council chiefs think again before our tourist attractions are a thing of the past?

Do they realise the amount of money they bring into the City of York?

There was no need for the Millennium Bridge in Fulford; the amount of money being spent on it is sheer stupidity.

The cash should have been used for repair work to our tourist attractions.

Nancy Firth,

Hall Rise,

Haxby,

York.

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