SUPERB game, superb result!
Barnsley probably deserved to win the game but Town stuck at it and got the goals back.
I have knocked Beckford in the past and am pleased that he has made his mark on the club.
We weren’t playing to his strengths in his first stint of games but when we do he comes up with the goals.
Novak should be given another contract first touch to Vaughan and bang!
We need to boost the defence as a priority too many mistakes – including Saturday – have cost too many points – four or so more wins could have seen us up or around the playoffs.
But let’s enjoy Saturday’s great result for Yorkshire. Even better that Posh go down.
Town fan
Huddersfield
Prickly problem
READERS must have noticed as I have how so much of our local woodland is being engulfed by a mass invasion of young hollies.
These young holly bushes seem to be everywhere, growing together in a fairly dense masses.
I am accustomed to the holly being no more than an occasional tree in our woods, but this sudden, dense invasion has never happened before in my lifetime.
What can have caused it? The show of holly berries has been pretty sparse in recent years, so however are they spreading at such a rate?
And what is to be, or could be, done about it – because Hollywood may be a glamorous name, but a wood which has been taken over by hollies is to my way of thinking, a wood spoiled.
Arthur Quarmby
Holme
Vote for change
FOR the media to state that the massive gains of UKIP were a protest vote, is an insult to the British public who voted for them.
The voting public are really looking for a party who will listen to them and truly understand their real concerns.
For decades, we have been hearing the same old rhetoric from Labour and the Tories, a promise on an EU referendum that has never materialised, “Tough on crime and the causes of crime”, that Labour were too afraid to implement in case it infringed the human rights of criminals, a fear to speak out about immigration, without been branded a “Bigoted Racist”.
Labour had 13 years to control the bankers and never did, but blame the Tories for doing the same, and so it goes, on and on.
Self-serving governments who do not listen to the voters, so let’s have a change and give UKIP our vote.
They surely couldn’t do any worse than these Tory, Labour, jokers and clowns.
Alan Parkinson
Lower Cumberworth
Tell us centre’s costs
THERE is a huge problem with taxpayers not being told how much they have contributed towards the cost of the new £35m Huddersfield sports centre until it is finished.
Kirklees Council are public servants funded by the ratepayers and ultimately need to be entirely accountable to the population of their borough.
Without complete transparency in issues such as this, then the confidence of the public is lost along with the integrity of the council.
Using “commercial sensitivity” as an excuse to withhold information is bunkum.
It is paramount that this information is in the public domain, otherwise we may as well not have a democratic system of government.
Tates
Huddersfield
Go stripy for charity
MAY 17 is Nautical Friday, Seafarers UK’s annual fundraising day, when people are being asked to ‘wear something stripy’, show their support for our seafarers and give money to support seafarers in need.
Seafarers UK was formed in 1917 as King George’s Fund for Sailors, following the loss of thousands of seafarers’ lives during the First World War.
For 95 years our funding has continued to make a real difference to the lives of serving and ex-seafarers across the Merchant Navy, Fishing Fleets, Royal Navy and Royal Marines.
Seafarers work in a stressful and hazardous environment. Fishermen risk their lives to provide food for our tables. Merchant sailors handle 95% of the UK’s imports.
In the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, men and women serve to protect UK shores and shipping and our national interests overseas.
Each year Seafarers UK gives annual grants totalling £2.5 million to help seafarers and their families who are suffering from poverty, poor health, welfare issues, injury or bereavement.
But despite our Royal Charter and the impact of our work, Seafarers UK is not well known outside our island nation’s maritime community.
We have only 18 local fundraising committees around the UK and I hope that Nautical Friday will help us to attract new supporters to join us in our important task of improving the lives of seafarers and their families who find themselves in need of help.
To make a donation on Nautical Friday or to find out more about the vital work that we do please visit www.seafarers-uk.org or phone 020 7932 0000.
Commodore Barry Bryant, CVO, RN
Director General, Seafarers UK
To whose benefit?
TALKING Point (Examiner May 4) debated whether wealthy pensioners should hand back their state benefits.
My view is, “here we go again”. Where would the ‘wealthy’ cut off be? A bit like benefits in general, those with £1 below the cut off point get money, those on £1 above get nothing and so are worse off than the ‘‘poor’.
I don’t know the answer but under any means-tested system someone will be treated unfairly and lose out.
Yeton
Huddersfield
Green revolution
HUDDERSFIELD MP Barry Sheerman wants to know what the town and Yorkshire should argue for nationally to breathe life into the regional economy (Examiner, May 4).
I’d like to see more investment given to grow research, development and jobs in low-carbon technology/industry. Make Yorkshire the place to kick-start the green industrial revolution.
M M
Huddersfield
