Huddersfield Examiner - Columnists - Denis Kilcommons

Denis Kilcommons: A view on euthanasia

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

MANY thanks for all the messages of sympathy after the death of our dog Lucky. We still miss her tremendously. I noted afterwards that, on the vet's bill, putting her to sleep was classed as euthanasia.

Denis Kilcommons: Memories of brass band legend Edwin Swift

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

EDWIN Swift is still remembered among brass band circles as one of the greats, even though he died 108 years ago this week.

Denis Kilcommons: Tales of UFO and alien adventures in Yorkshire and Lancashire

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

PEOPLE in Huddersfield are a real sceptical lot. Earlier this week, I recounted the story of the road traffic policeman who saw riders dressed as highwaymen in the middle of the night on the deserted road over Buckstones Moor. Were they ghosts from an earlier century?

Denis: Ghost stories make such great fiction

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

DANIEL Radcliffe has shed his Harry Potter image by starring in the ghostly horror film The Woman In Black.

Denis: Can you deliver an explanation for this highway man story?

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

ONE ghost story I found that has better credentials than most, was posted by Phil Clay in the online newsletter of the Saddleworth White Rose Society in 2000.

Denis Kilcommons: So Lucky to have been her best friend

Huddersfield Examiner — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A DOG is man's best friend, they say. Maria and I have just lost our best friend and it may take some time to get over it.

Denis Kilcommons: Dogs are such good companions

Huddersfield Examiner — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

DOGS became domesticated over thousands of years.

Denis Kilcommons: Watch out, there’s a bigger cat out there column

Huddersfield Examiner — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

HOW silly to think people would want to buy dung from lions and tigers to put on their garden as a deterrent to cats.

Denis: Ghost gags

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Q: What did the young ghost give his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day? A booquet of flowers.

Denis: Ghosts

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

GHOST stories – whether you believe them or not – are always fascinating.

Denis: Royal Shakespeare Company

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

I KNOW times are hard but are the actors of the Royal Shakespeare Company moonlighting as plumbers?

Denis Kilcommons: Dung-ho attitude to scaring off cats

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THEY get some strange requests at Huddersfield Pet Supplies in Queensgate Market.

Denis Kilcommons: Ghostly goings-on

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

YOU would have thought that after 200 years, The White House pub, on the moors between Meltham and Slaithwaite, would have had a ghost.

Denis: No romance in Uzbekistan on February 14

Huddersfield Examiner — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

UZBEKISTAN has banned Valentine’s Day on February 14.

Denis: The price of love

Huddersfield Examiner — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

I MUST have a word with our daughters. According to a new report, it costs £218,000 to raise a child to the age of 21.

Denis: Out of the mouths of babes

Huddersfield Examiner — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

ONE thing about being a parent, means you have a fair chance of becoming a grandparent. And be amused by the things youngsters say.

Denis: Money talks

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

RIO Ferdinand has been in trouble with fans for using his Twitter account to advertise Snicker bars.

Denis: Milky joke

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

DID you hear about the student taking a biology exam? The last question was: Name seven advantages of Mother’s Milk.

Denis: Be wary of dentists’ economical cuts

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A NEWS story that hit a nerve this week was the one from America where a dentist in Massachusetts was in court for using paperclips instead of stainless steel posts in root canal work. The authorities say he did it to save money.

Denis Kilcommons: Sugar scandal

Huddersfield Examiner — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

BEFORE we had the sugar shortage of the 1970s, Huddersfield was embroiled in a sugar scandal.