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Web Forum: Car crimes

THERE’S been a recent spate of car scratching around the area and it’s getting up the good folk’s noses! Read

Webforum: Knock down the Town Hall as well!

WE used to make dens when I was little. Read

Web Forum: Driven mad

THE standards of driving around Huddersfield and very probably every other town and city in the country seem to be slipping drastically according to the folk of the Examiner forum. Read

Web Forum: Fish faces

ANOTHER pleasant walk around Huddersfield, another grumble. Read

Web Forum: Parking anger

jUST when you thought it couldn’t get any worse trying to navigate your way round the streets of Lindley, with the Halifax Road and East Street roadworks, a new breed of menace has reared its ugly head. Read

Web Forum: Top ten stories from last week

HERE are the most viewed stories on www.examiner.co.uk last week: Read

Web Forum: Have a Hunch

Hunch.com is the new project from Caterina Fake, one of the web pioneers who brought you photo-sharing site Flickr back in the early days of the dotcom boom. Read

Web Forum: Bee green!

THERE’S a sting in the tail of Kirklees Council’s latest clampdown and the forum has been swarming with irate posters offering their own views on the subject. Read

Web Forum: Gun law

PAT Baker has been a law abiding citizen for 57 years, but two weeks ago West Yorkshire Police made him feel like he was a criminal. Read

Most viewed stories on www.examiner.co.uk last week

THESE are the most viewed stories on www.examiner.co.uk last week Read

Graham Porter gardening: Poplar subject to viral and bacterial diseases

IN THIS month’s postbag of questions, Sheila Thomson from Mount has highlighted a problem that has been on the increase in recent years. Read

Graham Porter’s gardening diary for June 20

The Expert Vegetable Notebook – for those of us who have been around for a few years, the original version of this Dr Hessayon book, published in the 1970s, was a must-have book to help you record your successes and failures in the vegetable garden, gradually building up a picture of what does well and what does not on your plot of ground. Read

Graham Porter Gardening: root ginger’s many uses

My wife and I adore ginger in all its forms, from ginger beer to chocolate gingers, ginger marmalade, grated ginger in savoury recipes and stem ginger in syrup. Read

Graham Porters gardening notes: dead-heading - do it this week

1 Dead heading and cutting back – I know that I keep harping on about dead-heading but it is one of the most useful jobs that anyone can do at this time of year to help extend the flowering period of many annuals and to encourage second flushes of flower from some herbaceous perennials. It also helps to keep the garden looking pristine, with none of those brown, floppy, bedraggled old flowers cluttering up the garden picture. So, if you have nothing better to do this morning, take a bucket or a trug basket, a pair of secateurs and gloves if you wish and walk slowly around the garden keeping a watchful eye on any flowering plants. Where the plant produces flowers in clusters, just removing the oldest blooms will often help to encourage the ones behind it to open up. On your travels you can dug or pull up the odd weed or two. Happy gardening. Read

Travel: Great value USA, summer holiday bargains

AS the sterling surges to a seven-month high against the dollar, cheap packages and offers to cut living costs in the United States could attract many British families who are keen to avoid the sky-high high prices of Euroland. Read

Travel: Happy camping in Britain

THE traditional camping market has been hit hard by the high cost of living in Euroland. Read

Travel: blissful country retreat in the North York Moors National Park

IF YOU go down in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise – but you certainly won’t be disappointed! Read

Pink Floyd tribute band Think Floyd head for Holmfirth Picturedrome

PINK Floyd fans are in for a treat, as tribute act Think Floyd are set to perform in Holmfirth. Read

Theatre: Halifax Thespians receive Mayor’s award

HALIFAX Thespians have been given the Mayor’s Citizenship Award. Read

£1m hope

ESSEX lad and cyclist Steve Trister wants to raise a million pounds for the British Heart Foundation and he’s had a couple of great ideas to make it happen. Read

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