Yorkshire Theatre Newsletter: What's On This Week (Jun 11-17)
From the American South of Tennessee Williams to a re-imagined Swan Lake. Why escaping to the country can be a big mistake. And some important legal news.
Here is the news from nowhere:
Last week the people of Hemingbrough learnt they were going to lose their GP branch surgery. The reasoning — ill-suited to today’s medicine, better, cheaper and safer to treat everyone at the main Selby surgery — would have made sense except for one factor. The village also lost its bus service earlier this year.
I have lived in Hemingbrough for the past 24 years. A taxi trip costs £11.50-£13.50 each way, depending on whether you book in advance or hazard “off the rank”. I know this because ysterday I rang round some local taxi firms and checked.
I can point to actual, named people who, unless something is done, will soon be facing a £27 transport bill for supposedly free-at-the-point-of-delivery medical care. Even members of one-car households will be in this plight, if the wage-earner takes the car all day.
Naturally, the village is in uproar on social media. Some are blaming the surgery, …