Apr
2008
Articles from 12th Apr 2008
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Please join clean-up
Apr 12 2008 | Reader Letters
I WANT to call on all those who care about the environment to do their bit locally by volunteering in the CSV Action Earth campaign, supported by Morrisons. Read
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Different rules . . .
Apr 12 2008 | Reader Letters
HAVING read the story concerning the pregnant lady being fined £75 for parking in the disabled bays in the car park of Great Northern Retail Park it’s a real pity she wasn’t there the other evening. Read
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Well done to stores that have parking wardens
Apr 12 2008 | Reader Letters
CONGRATULATIONS to the stores employing wardens to police their parking bays on the Leeds Road industrial estate. This is a good initiative and will hopefully lead to the perpetrators showing a little more respect for the genuine disabled among us. Read
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Even more rubbish!
Apr 12 2008 | Reader Letters
KIRKLEES states that the fortnightly bin collections are a success. They are not in Lindley! Read
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Chinese thugs in London
Apr 12 2008 | Reader Letters
SO now it’s official. A fact that we in West Yorkshire have known for some time; Jacqui Smith and her team at the discredited Home Office cannot police the streets and have given up on their basic job. Read
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The good old days
Apr 12 2008 | Reader Letters
HOW good Longhill Road and other areas of Sheepridge Šlooked back in the 50s as featured in your All Our Yesterdays. Read
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Spending on roads
Apr 12 2008 | Reader Letters
THE spending on Kirklees highways during the past five years, 2003/4 to 2007/8, was £133.1m gross, £95.3m net. Included in these figures was a substantial reduction of funding in 2006/07 of £10.5m. How can a budget of £114m over the next five years hope to solve the problem of Kirklees’ deteriorating highways, unless the £114m is the net figure? King’s Bridge on Newsome Road is to be strengthened again? Reconstruction work is already taking place on Blackmoorfoot Road. Read
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It really is a dog’s life
Apr 12 2008 | Reader Letters
I HAVE become a middle-aged University of Life graduate who isn’t really shocked by much; more exasperated at what people get away with. Read
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End animal experiments
Apr 12 2008 | Reader Letters
WITH World Day for Laboratory Animals coming up on April 24 it is only right that we should reflect on the millions of dogs, cats, rabbits, mice and monkeys enduring laboratory experiments around the world. Read
