May
2008
Articles from 31st May 2008
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Answer is blowing in the wind
May 31 2008 | Reader Letters
THE recent winds – though not winter easterlies – remind me of an expression my father used to use when bitter east winds blew up Colne Valley in pre-war winters. Read
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Strange choices in war
May 31 2008 | Reader Letters
THERE is something which I still cannot understand about the Second World War; it started with Germany in alliance with Russia and Japan. Then after a couple of years Germany attacked Russia. And what did Japan do? Did they attack Russia’s back door as they had done so successfully in 1905, when the Russian defeat sparked off the Russian Revolution of that same year? Read
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Library book worries
May 31 2008 | Reader Letters
I WAS interested to read your article about the cleaning company set up to fight the possibilities of contacting MRSA, E.Coli etc from the multiple use of computer keyboards etc in the workplace. Read
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‘Apathy’ a winner
May 31 2008 | Reader Letters
EXAMINER reader Kathleen Brown had a blast in our letters column this month about the Kirklees Council elections. Read
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Fireworks menace
May 31 2008 | Reader Letters
FURTHER to the letter on May 29 from Party Pooper, I am so glad someone feels the same as I do regarding fireworks. Read
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Time to honour real hero of Town that bought itself
May 31 2008 | Reader Letters
WITH reference to the letter from Arthur Quarmby referring to “The Town that bought itself,” yes, the town did buy itself – but not from Sir John Frenchville Ramsden but from Sam Copley. Read
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Textile knowledge
May 31 2008 | Reader Letters
WHILST on the subject of historical accuracy (A Collins, Mailbag, May 26), the “On this day” section in Monday’s Examiner showed a dire lack of knowledge of cloth manufacturing given that this is a textile town: “1733 John Kay, Richard Arkwright’s assistant, patented the flying shuttle to operate on Arkwright’s spinning frame”. Read
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Barry ‘undersells himself’
May 31 2008 | Reader Letters
FOR a (presumably) intelligent columnist like Barry Gibson (Examiner May 28) to admit, and not under torture, that he is a big fan of The Apprentice show on TV, does, as he acknowledges, and I quote, “make him sound like a girl.” I think he undersells himself, more like a big girl’s blouse I would have thought. Read
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Fuelling government greed
May 31 2008 | Reader Letters
IT’S not just the rise in crude oil per barrel that’s hiking up fuel prices, it’s a greedy government’s whacking 60% tax on a litre of fuel as well, and claiming they are doing it to save the environment. The same strategy is used to get more tax from the motorist with bigger engined cars. Read
