HOW amazing! While citizens of York are having to endure service cuts, Steve Galloway wants a million pounds to meet an inflated wage bill.

Meanwhile, Parliament Street toilets are potentially to be demolished in favour of a hideous structure, resembling a Bose radio.

Then Richard Smythe, headmaster of St Peter's School, wants to convince people that Guy Fawkes was not tantamount to a modern day terrorist, but akin to Nelson Mandela and worthy of great adulation for supreme altruism.

Incredible! All in one night's press (October 13).

Alan Parkin,

North Parade, York.

Updated: 10:12 Thursday, October 20, 2005