It is sad that Coun Keal has to descend to the lowest level of insult instead of looking at the facts and the evidence - particularly when he was the only Liberal Democrat to vote against my motion on flooding, and the others failed to support him, even though he is their leader.
I hope our pseudo-militant school teachers, in teaching history to their pupils, do not align themselves, in any way, with those pioneering trade unionists of yesteryear, who sacrificed so much for the right to strike.
May I thank you on behalf of my son Matthew, who recently won a place at the Sport For All event at Ampleforth College through a competition in your paper.
IN response to Alan Atkinson's letter about buzz words' (April 30). Transition
Towns / Villages is not a Government scheme. It is a grass-roots movement
originated by Rob Hopkins. You can hear him explain the thinking behind it
on www.soilassociation.org/conference
I WOULD like to bring to the attention of the much older Blue Badge Holders, that I am totally in awe at the disgusting looks and grimaces I receive from many of them when I park in a disabled bay.
This week there is to be a talk to the people of Normanby and Marton, on "transition villages". The new buzzword "transition" is apparently a way in which villages can better cope with "peak oil and climate change".
THE Inedependent Reconfiguration Panel, the independent expert on NHS service change, has been asked by the Secretary of State for Health to carry out a review relating to contested proposals for changes to maternity services in Scarborough and North East Yorkshire.
THERE I am, sitting at my desk having an early-morning breakfast, which is the norm, with a large black coffee and a bacon butty (apologies of using slang reading my favourite local newspaper, the Ryedale Gazette & Herald of course, when I suddenly realised that I had become for some unknown reason to myself the centre of attention.
