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Vunerable people deserve dignity

8:00am Wednesday 8th May 2013

AS some council budgets become more and more stretched, we are seeing a worrying increase in extremely short home care visits to disabled and older people, often lasting just 15 minutes.

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How much more do we need?

8:00am Wednesday 8th May 2013

RE: Erection of Retirement Community, OS Field 9525, Crossgate Lane, Pickering. I am sure that by this time the planning committee will have visited MHS homes in Harrogate.

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Honesty will shine through

8:00am Wednesday 8th May 2013

THE reasons for UKIP success are simple.

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I’m honoured to serve the division

8:00am Wednesday 8th May 2013

PLEASE could I express my sincere thanks to all who voted for me in last week’s county council elections for the Malton devision.

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Thanks are due to many people

8:00am Wednesday 8th May 2013

NOW that the county council elections, and the previous busy and hectic weeks before May 2 have passed, I would be grateful for a brief space in your column to comment.

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This excessive development will benefit only Gladman

3:33pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

I NOTE with dismay the new planning application for the excessive development on the agricultural land west of West Pastures, Kirkbymoorside.

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Thanks for laughter and tears

3:31pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

ON behalf of the ladies of Appleton-le-Moors WI and their guests, may I send a huge thank you and sincere ‘well done’ to the 1812 Theatre Company for their fantastic production of Calendar Girls.

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OAPs should pay for bags on buses

3:30pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

I FEEL ashamed to see the utter greed of pensioners who use their bus passes to go on holiday, filling the buses with their luggage to the detriment of paying passengers and the disabled.

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A message to Dear Des Reed

3:29pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

DEAR Des Reed, I always enjoy reading your column in the Gazette & Herald; it gives me a laugh, brings back memories of times gone by, and has me strongly supporting your views on the EU and some of our Government ministers and their crazy decisions.

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Criticism was wide of the mark

3:28pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

MARTIN Vander Weyer is seriously wide of the mark in describing a fair and balanced view of Mrs Thatcher as ‘old mud slinging’.

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Nurses are paid by the hospice

3:29pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

IT was good to read about the charity bike ride on Sunday in memory of Simon Duffy and his friends fundraising for Macmillan nurses.

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Time for taxman to come a'calling

3:27pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

DO you earn enough to pay tax? If you have a low income now but owe tax from last year, the taxman expects you to make a single lump payment immediately.

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Plea for patterns

3:27pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

HAS anyone any used or unwanted knitting or crochet patterns for dolls’ clothes and toys they don’t use anymore?

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Developer’s home claims are just ‘ludicrous fantasy’

8:00am Wednesday 24th April 2013

WHEN reading David Jeffels’ report of Ryedale District Council’s thirdtime rejection of David Wilson Homes’ proposal to build a large new estate on green fields in AONB Ampleforth (Gazette & Herald, April 17) I was flabbergasted to see David Wilson Homes sticking to long-outdated and inaccurate assertions of their own propaganda, saying that “Ampleforth needs 30 more homes.”

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Sleepout a great success

8:00am Wednesday 24th April 2013

A GREAT big thank you to the following organisations who supported the Sleepout in Pickering:

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