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Expert view: Why Obama’s victory is good news for Britain

BRENDAN EVANS, retired Professor of Politics and Pro Vice Chancellor of Huddersfield University, has spent a lifetime observing the world political scene. Here he gives his views on what the Obama victory could mean for Britain Read

Comment: Pride in recycling

RECYCLING has become a mantra for many in the way that they live their lives. Read

Comment: Tough line

DRINKING to excess is something that has long blighted our society. Read

Forum: PINs, alarmed doors and wet floors

OUR excellent columnists certainly create food for thought for readers of both the Examiner newspaper and Examiner.co.uk website. Read

Barry: This form-filling is a good idea

IF your house was on fire would you care if the people who came to stop it burning down were straight or gay? Read

Moor the merrier up at Marsden ...

MARSDEN Moor has seen the Romans come and go and has the longest canal tunnel in Britain running beneath it. Read

Comment: Judged by results

ELEVEN new signings, just four wins out of 15 matches in the Coco-Cola rankings and two managers in seven months. Read

Chess club:Boylan’s gambit gamble

RICHARD BOYLAN, of Huddersfield Chess Club, is well known for his love of unusual openings, especially gambits. Read

Barry: England lost; who cares?

IT was billed as the richest game in cricket and it wasn’t even close. Read

Doreen’s delight as super slimmer

What a difference a year has made to 61-year-old Doreen Johnson. The super slimmer from Thurstonland has shed 51lb in 12 months. Read

How many of these men were to survive the war?

Joe hadn’t needed to go at all, as a 36-year-old with seven children Read

Forum: Have you heard worse in the pub?

BLIMEY! I think we’re over the worst of it now. Read

Denis: Bonfire Night’s a month of bangs

KEEP your heads down. Incoming rockets! Yes, it’s the battle to survive the nightly bombardment of fireworks that presages Bonfire Night that these days seems to last for weeks rather than be confined to one night of the year. Read

Denis: Try a national contest for a new anthem

THERE I was, listening to the Brazilian national anthem, like you do, when I thought that all these different theme tunes chosen by countries around the world were always so boring. Read

Denis: Itching to tell you ...

RICHARD Bottomley of Shepley recently saw a bottle of lotion for dry and itchy skin and thought of me. Which was nice of him. Read

Comment: Obama v McCain

NOVEMBER 4 could go down as one of the most momentous days in political history. Read

Expert View: Why white powder can be a great danger

THE problem of melamine contamination of milk in China is the most recent example of the deliberate adulteration of food for commercial gain. Read

Forum: Bang! There goes a firework

DO you remember when they used to advise you to keep fireworks in a biscuit tin on the big night? Read

Denis: Cloves to keep spiders at bay

A LADY from Lepton shares my dislike of spiders but she has an answer to them that involves neither running screaming from the room nor stamping down heavily on the beast with your right foot: cloves. Read

Lift up your eyes ....

Raising our eyes above ground level can reveal a whole new outlook on the story of Huddersfield. ANDREW BALDWIN reports on a new book by an author impressed by just what he saw Read