I WAS brought up in West Yorkshire and have always wanted to return to Yorkshire to live. Last August I moved to York.

Since then I have had items stolen from my house and garden, porch windows smashed four times, garden pots smashed twice, plants uprooted and taken three times and pebbles thrown at the house and garage, damaging the paint work of both. I have also had eggs thrown at the house.

This is not much of a welcome to York.

I realise that there is no single cause for this behaviour, which arises from youngsters in my case. Does any reader have any ideas as to how these problems can be tackled effectively?

Mary Hamilton,

Stuart Road, Acomb, York.

Updated: 11:23 Tuesday, April 15, 2003