THANKS from New Mill Co-op to all our customers, old and new, for the support and understanding we have had over the proposed Tesco on the outskirts of Holmfirth.
Loyalty is not something that can be bought – not the kind of loyalty we have seen these past few months. It is most appreciated.
I think with the current weather situation we have also proved beyond any doubt that we truly are very convenient hence our title, Convenience Store, which people have used to their advantage in the snow and blizzards.
While I understand we do not get snow and blizzards every day, it just might make people stop and think about what could be lost.
I have, in the last couple of days, served customers new to me who were very much for Tesco and against the Convenience Store who have said they would have been lost without our Co-op.
How proud that makes me. Everyone is welcome and we have been very busy.
There is an exception to every rule. A chap wrote a letter a couple of weeks ago saying independent businesses were fast becoming a thing of the past and it was now the age of the supermarket giants. It doesn't have to be!
Can we not be the exception to this particular rule? We do hope so and maybe this bad weather has been a secret blessing. It’s certainly made people think.
Anne Browne
New Mill Co-op
No need to say sorry
WHAT a load of nonsense is being spouted regarding Carol Thatcher's remark made in private.
Why should she apologise for something said light-heartedly and with no malice intended. Those people who complain about such innocent comments are constantly trying to re-write history and obliterate what has gone before. How prophetic of George Orwell – would he have been gratified (or shocked) to learn that his 1984 ideas have come to fruition.
Often, after reading the newspaper, my mother would remark, "the world's gone mad" – and she died more than 20 years ago. No change there, then.
Elsie M. Eva
Lepton
Nature’s exercise
JUST to see the delight on the kids faces playing in the snow was adequate compensation for schools being closed.
This “big” snow would have been the first for many.
Playing in the snow and sledging can be physically tiring so at least they were getting plenty of exercise and an added bonus for them was that their parents were with them.
As for schools closing, the school yellow bus which takes kids long distances just shows that not all schools are local.
Many teachers live outside the school area and a big snow slows everybody down.
I used to walk two miles to school in short trousers in every weather possible and the only health and safety issue we knew was the “nit” nurse and pulling your hand quickly before the cane whacked it.
They have changed, but when the going gets tough the tough get going by getting out of our comfort zone.
M Taylor
Huddersfield
Global gobbledegook
HAVING read Sir John Harman's full page on global warming I am wondering if I have dyslexia.
Complete gobbledegook from start to finish, and could only be penned by a politician.
Lord Bellamy, of course, is correct. We have had global warming for centuries. Doesn’t really matter if the Atlantic Ocean rises half an inch in 100 years, it would not cover Sir John’s big toe.
It’s a theory propounded by governments hiding their misdemeanour and crackpot scientists hoping to make a quick buck. Years ago our main transportation was horses. No doubt politicians then said every time they broke wind it would affect global warming. I don’t think so.
If St John wants to know about global warming, he should ask these gentlemen who do the gritting at 3am in cold bitter weather risking their lives. I think he would get some choice answers about global warming.
Sir John did a great job assisting the development of the stadium, but he his way offside on global warming.
T Carlile
Shelley
Political police state
DOES the little sad person who got nurse Petrie suspended for offering to pray for her/him (Examiner, February 6) realises that they are living in a Christian country and Christians do pray for folk no matter what colour, creed or religion they are.
Are the PC idiots trying to make Christians into third class citizens in their own country?
It is going to get to the state where folk will end up whispering in dark corners scared of being overheard by some jumped up jobsworth who finds everything insulting and offensive, along with spy cameras everywhere. What kind of political police state is our once great country turning into?
Mike Warren-Madden
New Mill
Blair beats Brown
IT is reported that Tony Blair has beaten Gordon Brown to it by becoming the teacher’s pet in America.
At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington he was introduced with a straight face as “one of the great moral leaders on the planet”.
This statement surely beggars belief. This is the man who was named the poodle of George Bush, which then brought about the war in Iraq.
His supposed job as peace envoy in the Middle East is one hollow laugh a minute.
It seems he then gave a sermon and mentioned the word God 31 times. Apparently he didn’t do God when he was PM, but probably still think he is the Messiah.
This man has and continues to milk the system in one way or another with not a thought of the absolute mess he left behind.
Of course he is not alone. Is it any wonder that a vast number of people don’t believe a word the politicians utter nowadays.
Brenda Holroyd
Netherthong
Town with no name
HUDDERSFIELD is the only town to have fallen victim to the political correctness gone mad at the time when Kirklees was created and was eradicated from the road signs.
It is time that it is brought back like Dewsbury, Batley and all other places who retain their original place names within the boundaries of Kirklees. Historically Huddersfield had its pride as a town that bought itself and with a rich heritage, should greet newcomers “Welcome to Huddersfield”.
Tony Sosna
Huddersfield
Forgetful Gordon
A MEMORY clinic is to be set up to help detect the early signs of dementia.
Perhaps the first to try it out should be our Lords and MPs who can never remember what they said or when they said it.
Gordon Brown can remember saying things and then forgetting the meaning of them like jobs for British workers and the banking crisis, saying he’s saved the world. His latest blunder was we are not in a recession, but a depression.
W Webster
Bite-your-tongue Brown
"BRITISH jobs for British workers" – I bet Gordon Brown could have bitten his tongue off soon after uttering those immortal words.
What amazes me is the fact that he said it and people believed it. Ethically it is an unjust thing to even think that you can dictate to a company who it employs.
It is very much like the old union saying of "last in, first out".
As an employer would you keep the lazy worker over the good worker just because he had more service?
Gordon Brown and his puppet government should be looking at how Total can outsource a contract to a South American company and they in turn sub-contract it back to Spain? Where did all this back slapping camaraderie boys club called the EU go?
Would the French workers have put up with this? No, they would not. You have only to look at the number of times they have blockaded the sea ports and nearly driven some of our transport firms into ruin.
What goes round, comes round.
R J Bray
Shelley
Win it for Gerry
WITH the news of Gerry Murphy retiring, Town v Leeds on Saturday is a must win fixture, get down to the Galpharm Stadium and help the players
win it for Gerry.
First time writer
Huddersfield
The cat that’s gone fat
WITH regards to the current obsession with political correctness.
As former goalkeeper who has put on more pounds than is good for him, lost most of his hair and whose nickname was Cat and eyesight which is not what it was, I am personally offended by the terms Fat Cat, Shortsighted and Hairless.
Who do I complain to and how much compensation will I get?
Follically Challenged, Visually Impaired Portly Feline
Linthwaite
