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Yet tomorrow City of York Council is expected to double that number in one day. The Freedom is given to those who have rendered eminent services to the city. That is certainly true of Alison Sinclair and Delma Tomlin, whose award of the honour is set to be to confirmed tomorrow at a special full council meeting. Alison, 84, is a former civil servant who came to York 40 years ago to be near family, and has stayed ever since. She studied at the University of York, became an expert on archit...

By Readers letters I AM puzzled by the proposal to create a memorial in York to local servicemen who have died in Afghanistan. Firstly, we seem to have fallen into a habit of referring to every young man who has volunteered to join the army, and been sent to Afghanistan, as a “hero”. I wonder why? Second, compared with other wars for which public monuments have been erected, it seems the proposed memorial is just to commemorate t...