Web Forum: Top stories

Feb 22 2010 by Andrew Jackson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

THESE were the most viewed stories on www.examiner.co.uk last week:

1) ONE of Huddersfield’s most highly-respected businessmen collapsed and died in front of his friends.

Mr Parkash Singh Chima – founder of the huge Bon Marche retail group – collapsed at Huddersfield’s Sikh Leisure Centre.

Mr Chima, 86, was there to play cards with fellow Sikhs, as he did on several days each week.

2) A HUDDERSFIELD woman urged local people to be on their guard for a team of salesmen she says use ‘high pressure’ techniques.

The woman, who did not wish to be identified, was concerned by a representative from SAS Fire and Security Systems who visited her elderly parents promoting a home monitoring safety system.

3) ANGER has erupted after Kirklees Council shifted part of its school dinner supply contract to Sheffield.

Two Holme Valley-based traders had been supplying dozens of schools with locally-sourced fresh produce.

But it emerged that both Holmfirth-based greengrocer Andrew Bray and New Mill’s Atkinson’s Butchers had lost their contracts.

4) A SON was furious after his seriously-ill mum was hit with a fine – for parking in a disabled bay.

Andrew Phillips, whose mum Brenda suffers from a brain aneurysm, was handed the £60 fine despite the pensioner having a disabled parking badge.

5) A VILLAGE is to come to a standstill to honour a Huddersfield hero.

A funeral service for Afghan conflict victim Lance Cpl Graham Shaw is set to be held in his home village of Golcar today.

And many hundreds of mourners are expected to join tributes to the 27-year-old soldier, killed in a bomb blast earlier this month.