I WOULD like to draw your attention to an ongoing issue in Upper St Paul’s Terrace, Holgate, York.
I use this route regularly and have been asking the council for two years to clear the dangerous overgrowth of weeds on the pavements.
They are a trip hazard and also very slippery in wet weather.
I have slipped on them and fallen.
The council told me they would deal with it last year but never did remove them.
This year they are even bigger.
This community has a number of infirm residents who are especially vulnerable using these pavements. It is a safety concern.
Name supplied
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Three thoughts on Labour and Starmer
1. The government tells us it would be ten years before the country is fully prepared for war – I am not convinced Putin will wait that long.
2. When one looks across the vast expanse of the Vale of Pickering with its hundreds of square miles of farmland you immediately feel sorry for the dozens of farming families caught up in their shocking dispute with the government over inheritance tax, imposed by a city based socialist regime with no regard or respect for anyone outside of their close knit ideological environment of state control. If this lot remain in charge, within 50 years rural England will have become the largest area of deliberate wilding in the world. Farming being another industry seen off by political idiocy borne out of pure envy.
3. Nigel Farage’s invitation to Keir Starmer suggesting they meet for a question and answer session at a South Yorkshire Working Men’s Club brings to mind Christians against the lions in the Colosseum in Rome. Starmer would be verbally eaten alive, shame it will never occur. It would have been worthy of prime time television. Reality and common sense would have hit Starmer so hard, as in boxing, the bout would have been stopped to save him from further mental anguish.
Peter Rickaby,
West Park,
Selby
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Where have all the Good Samaritans gone?
WALKING into York down Goodramgate the other week I noticed a road diversion sign had fallen over on the footpath outside the RSPCA charity shop and two of the metal legs stood up perhaps 18 inches and the sign took up half the footpath.
Returning perhaps an hour later the sign remained unmoved,
Putting down my shopping I stood the sign up and replaced the sandbags.
On Saturday, walking past Goodramgate/Ogleforth junction two road diversion lay on the floor completely blocking the path and forcing everyone on to the road.
Walking back later the signs still blocked the path and so I picked them up and placed them around the corner.
There must have been thousands of people manoeuvring around these obstacles, people with prams, pushchairs, dogs and small children and yet no-one had the thought or public spirit to simply pick them up or make them safer.
Have we become like the Priest or the Levite in the story of the Good Samaritan – simply crossing over the street and ignoring any problems?
D M Deamer,
Penleys Grove Street,
Monkgate,
York
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