Articles...
Jul 23 2008
BUBBLY Liz Philpot has gardening in her blood. And the skills that she learned as a child working in gardens alongside her grandfather and then her dad have helped her create this year’s Examiner Garden of the Year....
Jul 23 2008
HANDS up who likes a traffic jam....
Jul 23 2008
LEISHA Kinnear is a bright young mum with two sons and a busy family life....
Jul 23 2008
DIANE Gibson continues to put the wow into window boxes....
Jul 23 2008
DENISE Yeadon could give lessons in just how to get the most out of a modestly sized garden....
Jul 23 2008
THE first that Andrew Lindley knew about the Garden of the Year competition was when he received a letter telling him he was one of our 15 finalists....
Jul 23 2008
The neat front garden at Sheila’s home in Mount gives just a taste of what is hidden behind the house, a more spacious plot bursting with colour, flowers and memories....
Jul 23 2008
Overall winner Elizabeth Philpot was presented with the crystal Garden of the Year trophy which she gets to keep for a year....
Jul 23 2008
PAT Nelson is a plantswoman to her fingertips....
Jul 23 2008
Huddersfield’s Queensgate Market Hall stands comparison to the Parthenon in Athens says a Greek student of interior design ... who believes it could become a major tourist attraction. ANDREW BALDWIN reports...
Jul 23 2008
I’VE been watching a lot of The World at War recently, mostly because it happens to be on UKTV History when I’m making my dinner....
Jul 23 2008
IN the previous two columns we have looked at matches played by former British champion H E ‘Tommy’ Atkins, who resided in the town during his time as principal of Huddersfield College....
Jul 23 2008
I WILL be off to Dewsbury this evening to report on the bun-fight that is the monthly meeting of Kirklees Council....
Jul 23 2008
WHAT a surprise....
Jul 23 2008
This year’s Examiner Literary Luncheon, on Tuesday, October 7, promises to be a sumptuous feast with five speakers, including Huddersfield’s own internationally-recognised poet and author Simon Armitage....
Jul 23 2008
SIMON ARMITAGE, who was born and raised in Marsden, is widely acclaimed as a poet, novelist, playwright and television dramatist....
Jul 23 2008
JANE WOLSTENHOLME is a former journalist and now works in PR....
Jul 23 2008
BILL MITCHELL has been a Dales country journalist for more than 60 years and in retirement has written many books about Yorkshire and its people....
Jul 23 2008
STEPHANIE CALMAN is best known for her website www.badmothersclub.co.uk and her best-selling books Confessions of a Bad Mother and Confessions of a Failed Grown-up....
Jul 23 2008
DAVID JOY is co-author (with Patricia Lennon) of a newly-published picture biography of furniture maker Robert Thompson, who became known as the Mouseman of Kilburn because his work was ‘signed’ with a carved mouse....
Jul 23 2008
‘Cycling in a hot tropical climate is unknown territory’...
Jul 23 2008
ANDY Beattie and his wife Doreen don’t stray too often from their home and garden in Kirkheaton....
Jul 23 2008
VISIT Sue Taylor’s delightful garden at Bradley Grange and chances are that you won’t want to leave....
