HASTILY flicking through the latest eerie resurrection of the undead York Citizen, I chanced upon the following, startlingly heart-warming headline: "Only residents can create new vision for York."

O happy, shining day! It looks as though we shall be spared that costly Coppergate public inquiry after all.

William Dixon Smith,

Welland Rise,

Acomb,

York.

Updated: 11:14 Friday, January 04, 2002