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YORK’S suburbs are enjoying a retail boom in the wake of the pandemic and the working from home revolution. While some city centre shops are lying empty for months or even years, suburban retail units are being snapped up within days of becoming available to let, says commercial property agent John Hornsby. He said demand had become so great that there was a shortage of properties to offer to potential occupants, and lettings had been concluded in record time in locations including Acomb, Burton Stone Lane, New Earswick and Haxby. He said they included: A shop unit in Gale Lane, Acomb, which went under offer for use as a sandwich shop within 48 hours of being marketed ....
By Reader s letter INSTEAD of having a city centre memorial to the three young soldiers killed in Afghanistan (The Press, January 8), why not have a plaque in York Minster with the names of those who have died inscribed on it (leaving space for those who will die before our involvement in this tragic conflict ends)? As this will presumably cost less than the £200,000, the money over could be used to make life easier for those men and women who return from Afghanistan maimed in body or mind. Surely this would be a better use of such a large sum of money? ....