Exempt garden centres and nurseries from virus lockdown please

From: Bob Swallow, Townhead Avenue, Settle.
By YP Letters
Published 30th Apr 2020, 11:45 BST
This was a garden centre before the Covid-19 lockdown. Now there are calls for restrictions on such businesses to be lifted.This was a garden centre before the Covid-19 lockdown. Now there are calls for restrictions on such businesses to be lifted.
This was a garden centre before the Covid-19 lockdown. Now there are calls for restrictions on such businesses to be lifted.
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I WOULD hope that one thing HM Government would consider in the coming days is permitting the reopening of not just garden centres, but the many market stalls selling plants.

There must be into the millions of people like my wife and self who enjoy gardening. This year we were fortunate in ordering many plants last November which are now thriving in our greenhouse.

Kath and Gordon West at their family garden centre in Dishforth before it was forced to close, at their busiest time of year, due to Covid-19.Kath and Gordon West at their family garden centre in Dishforth before it was forced to close, at their busiest time of year, due to Covid-19.
Kath and Gordon West at their family garden centre in Dishforth before it was forced to close, at their busiest time of year, due to Covid-19.
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We should like to purchase more to enjoy during the summer. Relaxing the present lockdown in this respect would do much to improve the mental wellbeing of a large number of people, plus making a small improvement in those currently out of work.

May we also wish Prime Minister Boris Johnson well after his undoubted very worrying period and return to active office.

From: Barry Foster, High Stakesby, Whitby.

THERE are too many critics and pessimists about today. I am grateful that I am alive and living in this country where I do. I think of all those starving millions in the world. At least we have food, clothing and somewhere warm to sleep.

Boris Johnson during his 10 Downing Street statement on Monday.Boris Johnson during his 10 Downing Street statement on Monday.
Boris Johnson during his 10 Downing Street statement on Monday.

I have been a critic of the BBC for years, as your readers may know, but I would like to say thank you to them for the Sunday morning church services over the past weeks. They have been a credit to the BBC. Whatever anyone says, we are still a Christian country and I am proud to be part of it.

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Another word of thanks to you all at The Yorkshire Post. It has been – and is – a pleasure to be one of your readers for so many years. Thank you.

From: Christine McDade, Morton on Swale.

I REFER to the letter from Peter Hyde (The Yorkshire Post, April 24), and have to agree with him about the daily Downing Street coronavirus updates.

Surely, it is not necessary and twice a week would be more than sufficient. In the main it has become a constant repeat of figures which we all know are incorrect, promises of target figures for testing, provision of PPE etc, which can’t and aren’t met.

It has become dispiriting to watch some of the lacklustre performances of our Cabinet ministers and experts. The repeat of the same facts and figures do nothing to bolster our spirits and the journalists have run out of useful questions.

I am an avid watcher of the news programmes, but, likewise, have stopped watching the 5pm briefings.

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