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2008
Articles from 5th Jul 2008
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What a super service
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I AM fed up of reading complaints about our dustbin service and I suggest those people should move to the Colne Valley, where we have a wonderful service. Read
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Tesco’s determined to be a good neighbour in Southgate
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I AM writing in response to Hugh Goulbourne’s letter, ‘It’s time to think again on the unpopular, polluting Tesco plan’ (Examiner, June 27). Read
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HAPPY DAYS It was a dull summer in 1954, but audiences were cheered up when Huddersfield Co-operative Players presented the farce The Happiest Days of Your Life. There was many a twist and turn in the play written by John Dighton and staged at the Fraternity Hall. (Ex54.3345)
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Thanks to motorist
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A BIG thank you to the kind motorist who took our much-loved cat, Smudge, to Donaldsons vets on Tuesday morning after he had been hit by a car. Read
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I Wish
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I wish you could come and have Read
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Thursday 7pm: Meet Brian Hinchliffe at New Mill car park for a two-hour walk covering four miles of paths and tracks.
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Living on the Edge
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This circular walk in the Thornhill area of Kirklees just south of Dewsbury offers spectacular views at every turn. Read
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Tomorrow: 9.45 to 3.45pm, meet Dave of Kirklees Countryside Volunteers at Denby Dale bus/rail interchange for a nine-mile walk called Cannon Hall Revisited.
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LAST WEEK’S WINNERS
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£20 Mrs W Haigh, of Rastrick; £5 Marion King, of Newsome and Lynda Coates, of Taylor Hill Read
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Why did the chicken cross the park?
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To get to the other slide Read
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CHARGES at some car parks in Huddersfield were to double in a move to discourage long-stay parking, it was reported on July 5, 1988. Town hall bosses said they wanted to leave more spaces for shoppers. The change was expected to bring in an extra £132,900 a year.
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Ashe and grab
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AMERICAN tennis player Arthur Ashe made history on July 5, 1975, when he became the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title. Read
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IF you had asked me what I thought of yarrows 30 years ago I would probably have told you they were a pernicious lawn weed and should not really be considered for garden use. Achillea, to give them their more correct botanical name, are now easily available and are easy to care for.
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Because of the current interest and enthusiasm for prairie planting, naturalistic planting, wildlife gardening and the hard work of nurserymen over the last 20 years, we now have scores of cultivars to choose from to enhance the flower displays in our early to mid-summer gardens, as well as supporting a wide range of wildlife. Read
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IT begins today – look at www.readersheds.co.uk for more ideas on what to do with your shed!
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IT IS not too late to plant winter cabbages, Brussels sprouts, purple sprouting, and spring cauliflowers.
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Summertime glory of school’s fruit and vegetable garden
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‘Children have developed a curiosity and enthusiasm for all things outdoors as a direct result of this wonderful project and now plans are being put in place to extend the garden to include both sensory and butterfly areas’ Read
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Somewhere for a long weekend
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THERE was a time when the annual holiday was considered to be the biggest happening in most families’ lives, this one-week event making a welcome break each year. Read
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Dreams of finding a job in a lift
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ACTRESS Tina Malone was born January 30, 1963, in Liverpool. Read
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So I won’t mention it!
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SECONDBORN says that under no circumstances must I write about her recent performance in a dancing show. Read
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Black tie effect maketh the man
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‘I had to feign indifference, because getting emotional in a men’s outfitters is simply not allowed’ Read
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` To bee or not to bee – as a lover of honey, I have found the new book by Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum particularly interesting. Entitled ‘Keeping Bees And Making Honey’, the book describes every aspect of this fascinating process, from commercial growers’ need for bees, to the harvesting and uses of the final products – honey and bees wax. With excellent photographs to support the interesting and detailed text, it is a book for anyone who is looking to start keeping bees as part of a self-sufficiency or sustainable lifestyle. Published by David and Charles, it retails at £14.99 – ISBN 978-07153-2810-1. Have a look at www.urbanbees.co.uk for more information about keeping bees in an urban environment.
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` West Yorkshire Forget Me Not Trust – Emily and Ron have been opening their one acre garden in Lindley for a variety of charities for some years now and, on July 13 they will be opening it again for the West Yorkshire Forget Me Not Trust (www.forgetmenottrust.co.uk ). So, on Sunday July 13th from 1 pm onwards get along to 112 Lindley Moor Road, Lindley for a fabulous garden and a wonderful cause. Call Emily and Ron on 01422 372796 for more information or to offer help on the day. Don’t forget to visit Carol Puszkiewicz’s award winning garden at 2 Prospect Place, Outlane, tomorrow afternoon, Sunday July 6, from noon to 5 pm. Visit www.ngs.org.uk for more details. Read
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AFTER a good shower of rain give your lawn a mid-summer treat with a high nitrogen liquid lawn feed to green it up for the rest of the summer.
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Tomorrow 10am: Holmfirth Artweek begins. The display in the Civic Hall is one of the biggest open exhibitions in the country featuring work by 425 professional and amateur artists.
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ASK at your local garden centre for bulbs of nerine, colchicums, sternbergia and schizostylis to give the autumn garden a lift.
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1 Japanese onions – If you got your sets planted last October you will probably have a really good crop now. Break the root hold and lay the onions on their sides for a week or two and then lay them out on drying racks in a sunny position until the tops shrivel and the outer skins go golden brown. The onions can then be stored in a cool, dry place; check each onion for any soft areas and discard these as the fungal infection that causes this can transfer to the clean ones while in storage. The same technique will be necessary with any garlic that you planted last autumn. For spring- planted sets and seeds harvest will not be until mid-August at the earliest.
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2 Garden furniture – Have you checked yours recently? Does the wood look grey and tired? Are your plastic chairs looking as if they need a good clean? Whatever your situation now is a good time, before you put your feet up and relax for the rest of the summer, to give the garden furniture a good clean. Treat wooden chairs and tables with teak oil or similar and use a good household cleaner to remove dirt and stains from plastics. If you have metal garden furniture treatments will be specified in the documents provided when new. But anti-rust treatments may be necessary as well as a decorative coat of outdoor quality paint. Check all nuts and bolts and other securing devices so that the chairs and tables do not collapse on you just as you sit down for that well-earned cup of afternoon tea!! Read
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Just listen to Bill
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MICROSOFT billionaire Bill Gates had some handy advice and lessons for teenagers this week when asked to speak at an American high school. Read
