York must learn from Scot's incinerator peril

If York is a potential site for a waste incinerator (Evening Press, January 24), the experience of the Rechem site near Bonnybridge in Scotland is interesting. Impeccable treatment

I was astonished to read criticisms of the Hepworth Hope Fund and, by implication Gail Hepworth, allegedly made by Mrs McAllan (January 6). Swimmingly healthy

In this healthy brewery town, the battle-cry: "We want a swimming pool" was repeated with monotonous regularity from the start of the 1900s. Therefore it took almost a century to accede to the wishes of local people - though naturally many had long gone - who would have preferred to swim in a purpose-built pool rather than the treacherous River Wharfe.

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