Council should think again on pool closure

Your recent articles about the proposed closure of the Barbican and Yearsley swimming pools highlight the total lack of consultation between the council and York residents who use these facilities. Remember refugees

As we settle down to a warm and secure Christmas we should spare a thought for the 200,000 Roma and Serbs that have been ethnically cleansed from Kosovo to spend a cold Balkan winter within Serbia alongside several hundred thousand other traumatised Serbian victims driven from Bosnia and Croatia. I hate shopping

Am I unique? After reading Helen Mead's column in the Evening Press ('Shopping Is Just A Girl Thing', December 13), I am convinced I am.

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