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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.

I refer to recent editions of the Whitby Gazette, which have highlighted, either in articles or letters, the pertinent and serious issues facing the people in Whitby.

I feel morally obliged to draw attention to a situation on Whitby’s East Pier, which I am convinced will eventually result in someone being either seriously injured or even killed.

As it is now many years since I lived in my lovely home town, perhaps I am not qualified to judge but I couldn’t agree more with Mr Kilpatrick (Gazette, January 18).

With regard to the proposed mandatory levy, as a result of the Yorkshire Coast BID project being imposed upon businesses in Whitby, I wonder why no one is listening to the concerns being expressed by Sandra Turner, Whitby councillor and cabinet member on Scarborough Council, where she has categorically stated that many business owners in Whitby do not want this BID and have told her they will not pay.

It has come to my attention that Whitby Council has passed this plan for the NatWest Bank.

There’s good news for all of us who are so vehemently opposed to the NatWest Bank becoming a fish and chip place.