A FOND farewell to Sainsbury’s at Foss Bank, York, and all the staff.
First opened to the public on 23 October 1984 and shutting up shop on Saturday, January 11.
After just short of 40 years of serving the the community a much loved and extremely popular local supermarket has ceased to trade in this area.
Large enough to stock everything you required for a full shop, but small enough to be homely and friendly.
RIP the Foss Bank Sainsburys and the many thanks to the friendly members of staff – you’ll be sadly missed by your many customers.
D M Deamer,
Penleys Grove Street,
Monkgate,
York
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MP’s ‘contempt for his constituents’
ONCE again, Luke Charters, the hapless Labour MP for York Outer has demonstrated his utter contempt for struggling businesses in his constituency following Rachel Reeves’s destructive budget (York Press, January 9).
Despite his colleague Rachael Maskell acknowledging the damage this budget has caused to North Yorkshire’s economy, Mr Charters continues to parrot the party line and blame the Conservatives for Reeves’ wrecking ball. I am no fan of the Tories, but this budget was not their fault. Reeves alone is to blame.
I am yet to decide whether Mr Charters is naïve, economically illiterate or simply frightened of Reeves and Starmer.
Either way he is letting down his constituents who have placed their faith in him. I note he has offered to “reach out” to businesses in York Outer.
If he does, I suspect the reaction will be a curt two-word answer, which can’t be printed in a family newspaper.
Unless Mr Charters starts to look after the interests of his own constituency, rather than defending the indefensible, he will find his time as an MP extremely short. And he will have no-one to blame apart from himself.
Robert Beaumont,
Minskip Lodge,
Minskip,
York
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NHS managers need a “business brain”
I WONDER how many hours Starmer’s speech writers spent perusing Roget’s thesaurus seeking new wordage for their boss to spout his usual doleful rhetoric on how to save the NHS, always omitting what has been obvious to the general public for years.
No matter how much money is pumped into the NHS the only “success” following such investment is a deterioration in services provided to patients, courtesy of incompetent managers, and until they are replaced by those with a business brain and not tamed in Civil Service bureaucratic woke nonsense etc, nothing will change.
Surely even Starmer and Streeting possess sufficient commonsense to realise this but on reflection they are second rate politicians scared to upset trade union paymasters, always the power behind any Labour government.
Peter Rickaby,
West Park,
Selby,
North Yorkshire
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Praise for council – Bar one thing!
IT’S easy to be critical about our local authority, however I do think the new parking system for car parking is great, once you have registered your information, it’s easy to park and even get a reminder when you’re time is up.
On the negative side, I was very disappointed that the medieval Bars were not lit up this year, I have friends from all over that came to see them, please try to reinstate them next year.
Paul Stansfield,
Tadcaster Road,
York
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