Whitby mayor: Why I’ve never been more proud of this special place

I WANT to take this opportunity as Mayor of Whitby and on behalf of Whitby Town Council to thank everyone in the community for the way you are tackling the Covid-19 crisis.

You are showing, and continue to show, true spirit by staying at home and supporting each other with practicality and kindness.

As a town we feel a deep sense of gratitude towards the National Health Service, the emergency services and all key workers – carers, retail workers, postal workers, refuse collectors, people delivering food and the very many more of those who go out daily to do their jobs and help us all.

This gratitude binds us together. The response of individuals and local organisations has been outstanding.

The love and care given to each other – the well, the ill and the vulnerable – is an absolute tribute to everyone.

I am proud to be the mayor and have never been more proud due to the way everyone is pulling together.

I can only encourage everyone with kindness to keep up their spirits and carry on helping each other.

Whitby is a special place and the people who live here are proving how special they are. Keep going, Whitby!

From: Barry Foster, High Stakesby, Whitby.

I AM fortunate to live in Whitby, mainly a healthy tourism town and area.

We are blessed with excellent hotels and B&Bs who at present are striving to maintain an existence.

If I am correct, we now learn that second homeowners are to be given assistance by the Government.

Surely they can afford to look after their properties themselves having had sufficient money to buy them in the first instance?

Additionally, most of them are rented as holiday lets most of the time.

This seems to me most unfair when all the hotels etc have to go it alone.

Perhaps we ought to be told by the Government where all this money is to come from?

From: ME Wright, Harrogate.

MAY I join our readers in looking forward to Whitby and the Dales when lockdown is over (The Yorkshire Post, April 30).

I would normally be taking the 36 to Ripon for market day and a lunchtime concert at the cathedral. Being deprived of that and Appleton’s pork pies is proving far more stressful than giving up smoking!

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Sincerely. Thank you.

James Mitchinson
Editor