Mar
2008
Articles from 8th Mar 2008
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Smaller Westminster?
Mar 08 2008 | Reader Letters
IF, as we are told, some 80% of our legislation now comes from Brussels is there any real reason why Westminster should not be shrunk to one-fifth of its present size? Read
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What about Wallace?
Mar 08 2008 | Reader Letters
AS a musician and teacher in Huddersfield I am often left wondering why it is that one of the town’s most famous musicians is often left disregarded, without so much as a memorial. Read
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Ban hoods in bid to battle crime
Mar 08 2008 | Reader Letters
IT appears the number of muggings, both in and out of town, are constantly being perpetrated by “hoodies”. Read
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That very special moment
Mar 08 2008 | Reader Letters
I AM researching “the first romantic kiss”. Did it come up to expectations or was it a disaster? Read
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Co-ordinator (Neighbourhood Watch), Lingards Road, Slaithwaiate
Mar 08 2008 | Reader Letters
AFTER 18 months of lobbying Kirklees Council Highways to improve the accident-prone roundabout at Slaithwaite the village may now look forward to safety improvements in the near future. But don’t hold your breath! Read
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Cohesion and Conservatives
Mar 08 2008 | Reader Letters
I AM pleased to so see that Clr Khizar Iqbal is leading the council’s attempts to launch a cohesion strategy to bring communities together. Read
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Deportation ‘bribes’
Mar 08 2008 | Reader Letters
THE Government has arrived at a new low with respect to its various “promises” to remove foreign criminals from our country. If they will not leave of their own accord £3,000 of taxpayers’ money will be offered as an incentive. No coercion to leave, just a bribe. Read
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H Barrowclough, Waterloo
Mar 08 2008 | Reader Letters
IT would be a great idea if lottery cash that is not won went to the NHS instead of doubling the cash prize for one winner the week after. Some 99% of people have to go into hospital during their lives, so it’s a must that all hospitals in the UK have this financial boost to help the public who are in need of treatment. Read
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Those manhole covers . . .
Mar 08 2008 | Reader Letters
MUCH has been written about the state of our roads in both articles and the letters column. What visitors and potential business investors to Huddersfield must think can’t be good. Read
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Black day for democracy
Mar 08 2008 | Reader Letters
IT was a very “black” day for the citizens of the UK when Gordon Brown denied what the French and Dutch have already expedited in the consultation process, that of “public opinion” in the shape of a EU referendum on the “new” member states constitution. Read
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Referendum hopes
Mar 08 2008 | Reader Letters
CONGRATULATIONS to Neil O’Brien, the Huddersfield-born man behind the I Want A Referendum campaign. I sincerely hope his efforts to get a referendum are successful (Examiner, February 27). Read
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A Peckett, Netherton
Mar 08 2008 | Reader Letters
I WOULD like to say thank you to the three police officers who assisted at the road accident on Leeds Road on February 25. They were so helpful and one even rang us in the evening to check if we were OK and to offer further help should we need it. Thanks also to a very nice ambulance crew. Read
