SEVERAL weeks ago a car was dumped in Queen Street, York.

After a few weeks, several parking tickets and a "warning of destruction" notice, it was taken away and presumably destroyed. Another car has now been dumped on Poppleton Road and I presume this vehicle will be subject to the same procedure.

Is there no attempt by the authorities to identify the owners from the car registration plates and recoup the cost of this from them, or is it too easy to let the council tax payers cough up?

AP Cox,

Heath Close,

Holgate,

York.

Updated: 09:23 Saturday, January 04, 2003