Good work during lockdown must not be undone over Easter weekend - The Yorkshire Post says

In many schools across the country, largely empty but for vulnerable young people and children of critical workers, classrooms have been turned into small-scale production sites, making visors for key workers.

Businesses have transformed their manufacturing capabilities to focus on medical equipment; the food production, distribution and retail industry has taken on thousands of new employees to help feed the nation; and medical and care staff have been working around the clock to care for our loved ones in their time of need.

The national effort has been a sterling one, and, by following the Government advice, we have all played our part. During the Easter weekend, it is imperative that this contribution continues. All the good work that has been done, the lives that have been saved, must not be torpedoed.

There are families and friends grieving the loss of their loved ones and it is incumbent on each and every one of us that those losses do not rise exponentially due to a selfish inability to resist temptation. We must stay at home to save lives.

Editor’s note: first and foremost - and rarely have I written down these words with more sincerity - I hope this finds you well.

Almost certainly you are here because you value the quality and the integrity of the journalism produced by The Yorkshire Post’s journalists - almost all of which live alongside you in Yorkshire, spending the wages they earn with Yorkshire businesses - who last year took this title to the industry watchdog’s Most Trusted Newspaper in Britain accolade.

And that is why I must make an urgent request of you: as advertising revenue declines, your support becomes evermore crucial to the maintenance of the journalistic standards expected of The Yorkshire Post. If you can, safely, please buy a paper or take up a subscription. We want to continue to make you proud of Yorkshire’s National Newspaper but we are going to need your help.

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Sincerely. Thank you.

James Mitchinson

Editor