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    Market traders need more support Jul 09 2009

    REGARDING Queensgate Market – I am one of the people who uses and supports local traders in the market and I find it sad that owners are having to leave because of unreasonable rent hikes on top of other rates. Read

    Schools may face axe in Huddersfield Jul 08 2009

    I HOPE the rest of Kirklees is watching carefully to what is happening to education in north Kirklees. Read

    Carry on as before after expenses row Jul 07 2009

    SO what has changed? Read

    Be sure what you are really voting for Jul 06 2009

    I MUST respond to the letter ‘immigration issues’ from W Shaw (Mailbag, June 24). Read

    M62 misery Jul 04 2009

    M62 misery Read

    Council failing to plan for future Jul 04 2009

    THE fact that the council is having to rely on selling off the ‘family silver’ in order to fund the replacement of a public building is an absolute disgrace and smacks of years of cross party mismanagement of our council tax. Read

    Give us back our Huddersfield name Jul 03 2009

    DESPITE being burdened by the same afflictions as any other UK town or city in the 21st century – poor roads, grotesque architecture, high street dereliction, a growing criminal class and litter louts – the good folk of Huddersfield quite rightly hold a deep and enduring affection for their home town. Read

    Our pensioners are getting a poor deal Jul 02 2009

    WHO do Kirklees think they are kidding when they say pensioners would rather pay £9.25 per day for food cooked in their own home, than £1.95 for a two course hot meal delivered to their home? Read

    Bee debate has our readers buzzing Jul 01 2009

    ONCE again, I read with some dismay Kirklees Council’s defence of their ban on bees, re: Huddersfield Daily Examiner June 23, orchestrated by Mr John Fletcher. Read

    Parents paying for teachers’ strike Jun 30 2009

    I AM an outraged parent of children at Colne Valley High School. I would like many questions answered by Hazel Danson, the NUT executive member quoted in your front cover story of June 25. Read

    £119,000 council job rattles ratepayers Jun 29 2009

    WHY, at a time of cutbacks all across the board all across the nation, is Kirklees the exception? Read

    Demolition won’t cure vandalism at shelter Jun 27 2009

    ON THE subject of the planned demolition of the Cliffe recreation ground shelter, Holmfirth, we seem here to have yet another example of the absence of either clear or logical thinking by our councillors. Read

    Bee ban logic Jun 27 2009

    A COUNCIL officer, with impeccable logic, informs us that livestock are animals, a bees is an animal and therefore bees are livestock (Examiner, June 23). Read

    ‘Council have not listened to parents’ Jun 26 2009

    IN the most recent Building Schools for the Future consultation for high schools, including the plan for a co-ed school at Howden Clough, Kirklees Council highlights “community issues” in the consultation documentation and comments that the “broad range of different communities living in the catchment area will be best served by a co-educational school at the Howden Clough site”. Read

    Time to end Shelley’s motorised madness Jun 25 2009

    THE Isle of Man TT Festival has finished for yet another year. Before the mountain road reopens to the public they have what has become known as ‘Mad Sunday’. Read

    Kirklees vans could be costing us dear Jun 24 2009

    THERE seems to be cutbacks in Kirklees Council such as libraries, information centres and other things that affect the public. Read

    Council with a busy bee in its bonnet Jun 23 2009

    I JUST have to reply to the bee article in Saturday's Examiner. Read

    Stinging criticism of council’s bee ban Jun 22 2009

    I READ with great interest the Buzz Off story in Saturday’s Examiner. Read

    Saturday’s letters: Chasm opening between politicians and people Jun 20 2009

    WATCHING a recent episode of Question Time reinforced my view of the contempt politicians have of the public. Read

    It’s not vandalism Jun 20 2009

    WE read with great interest your article in last Friday’s paper (June 12) on the proposed alterations to Huddersfield railway station. Read

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