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I noticed that Scarborough’s sculpture of Freddie Gilroy has had his annual clean and polish. He also has had oil-based solution applied to protect it and give it a gentle sheen.

I would just like to ask the supporters of the Yorkshire Coast BID (chairman, BID body, Welcome to Yorkshire etc) to examine their motives before justifying a tax on businesses - and domestic ratepayers.

I was trying to park at Whitby Hospital while taking my wife, who has a broken knee, to attend a hospital appointment.

I am writing with my concerns about pollution here in Whitby, especially in summertime.

I’d like to commend Ms Wright’s letter (April 12) for highlighting the issues surrounding Whitby Town Council.

Your recent letters have, in the main, been about Scarborough Borough Council elections, so I’d like to throw in my two pennorth with my views on Whitby Town Council where new and pre-existing councillors have been returned by default.

The list of candidates for the borough elections has been published and makes interesting reading.

After a hectic couple of weeks away on my motorhome trip it was great to get back home to Wakefield to unpack and unwind, WRITES KAREN WRIGHT.

After reading your lead letter from a reader regarding the current situation of councillors coming out of hibernation to collect our votes (Gazette, March 29), I would like to add the following.

Am I the only Whitby person who finds the proposed name for the new cafe to be opened on Skinner Street quite offensive.

I see no-one has taken up the request for bus services to be resumed around the Castle Park area and West Cliff.

Friends and I spent a very happy holiday in Whitby during the wonderful but worrying weather in February.

The Captain Cook Museum has spare capacity nine months of the year - like many other tourism businesses in Whitby.

Following on from David Slater’s excellent letter in the Gazette (March 1), I do wonder why Scarborough Borough Council didn’t see this ideal opportunity to take over the perfectly located NatWest building for a new modern tourist information centre, incorporating a visitor heritage centre in the centre of Whitby, to promote all that is so good about our town. 

I remember Whitby from 1955.

I have visited Whitby now for more than 50 years and have treasured it as a place of character and sensitive development amid so many soulless resorts that quite frankly blight the UK coasts and, more particularly, the Yorkshire coast.

Re: NatWest Bank - change of use proposal to a Papas fish and chip restaurant.

Here’s an idea to reflect the salary for the new CEO of Scarborough Borough Council, when they are appointed.