KEEP it simple and sensible. Permanent one hour free parking in Northallerton High Street is the answer. It is inconceivable that any business would say they prefer customers to have half an hour s free parking instead of one hour. Please don’t complicate things with having to download the AppyParking app to pay which would be a problem for many. Just let good old-fashioned common sense prevail.
William J L Barker, Northallerton.
Reasons to be cheerful HAVE you got snowdrops out in your garden? I have and lovely hellebores too. And, despite the snowy weather, there are some February Gold daffodils showing signs that they will be flowering soon.
Last modified on Sun 14 Feb 2021 00.06 EST
The UK may be in the grip of a winter lockdown but in one village on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales the local climate-change group has been busy.
Plans are afoot to plant hundreds of trees on land surrounding Newton-le-Willows, in lower Wensleydale, in an effort to tackle the climate crisis. According to scientists, planting billions of trees across the world is one of the biggest and cheapest ways of taking CO2 out of the atmosphere.
Bob Sampson, a former land-use planning adviser for the Ministry of Agriculture and member of the village’s climate-change group, has written to local landowners asking permission to grow trees on their land. Seven have agreed so far, and he is now recruiting villagers to sponsor, and plant, trees.