York car tyre slasher – ‘time to call in Sherlock Holmes’

REGARDING the reports of vandalism with the slashing of car tyres overnight in Clarence Street, York, between the hours of 8pm and 9am on February 23.

I walk past the mud verge (it used to be grass ‘but that’s another story’) every morning as I collect my papers, around 7am, and damage to cars are a regular thing, on this particular piece of land.

At least once or twice a week I’ve noticed similar problems.

A month or so ago I noticed a small silver car with all four tyres “deflated”.

Obviously there is a “Jack or Jackie the tyre ripper” on the loose in Clarence Street and perhaps Sherlock Holmes should get involved to chase down the perpetrators.

D M Deamer,

Penleys Grove Street,

Monkgate,

York

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Here is a better idea for our Home Secretary…

THE Home Secretary has announced a new gimmick to throw to us during an otherwise busy time for news; pay failed asylum seekers £10,000 to go home.

I’ve got an even better idea – fine them £10,000 plus all costs for their stay while they were here and then instantly deport them to whichever country they came from.

They can find cash to pay the smuggling gangs in France so they can afford the exit fee as well.

Dr Scott Marmion,

Woodthorpe,

York

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UK defence gaps exposed by war in Middle East

ONE thing of great importance has been exposed by the war in the Middle East.

Our defences are patently lacking in any substance, we are bare to the bone, a navy moored in harbour awaiting repair, an army ill-prepared, an air force the same.

We are further embarrassed on the international stage by having a leader who is content to sit on the fence instead of making any sensible, positive decisions.

Peter Rickaby,

Moat Way,

Brayton

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Ditch cash and go card-only? How would we manage?

THE mind boggles, Mr Deamer, as to how we can possibly manage without cash as everything stops as it is when we have an odd power cut.

Mary Morton,

Hob Moor Drive,

Holgate,

York

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