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'York is slipping into a cesspit of its own making'
DEREK Reed hit the nail on the head with his comments regarding the lack of communal care by businesses in York to the state of the rubbish-strewn streets.
In Derek's letter he mentioned a couple of the family run bookshops "family being the key word".
Not so long ago, local businesses cared more of their frontages and had local pride.
With the rise of York's popularity over the last 30 years, more and more local shops and premises have been taken over by large multinational companies selling fashion/coffee/ restaurant/fast food, drawn by York's tourism boom.
Unfortunately multinational companies are only interested in profits and turnover and have a lackadaisical attitude towards the maintenance outside their premises.
They lack the pride in their premises and local areas shown by the shop owners of yesteryear have been superseded by the profits they can make out of tourism.
York is slipping into a cesspit of its own making.
D M Deamer,
Penleys Grove Street,
Monkgate,
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