I WOULD like to comment on the report in the Examiner Thursday, June 10, ‘Tormented in our own house.’
I think it is a disgrace that this youth and his friends are allowed to terrorise people and for three years.
Kirklees Housing are good at printing words saying we will not tolerate this that and the other and everyone has a right to live in peace.
It’s all a lot of rubbish saying the youth was too young.
Kirklees Housing has said it can make parents responsible for their child’s actions and can be removed from their homes.
It is making this couple ill and all the housing can say is we know it is frustrating.
I have been a victim of what Kirklees Housing calls antisocial behaviour.
It made me ill. I fought tooth and nail to have it stopped or it would have gone on years not six months.
Something should be done now to help this couple in Almondbury. The couple should take it to the ombudsman.
SRD
Deighton
Disappearing beds
DURING 1997 Mill Hill Hospital closed to make way for a big housing estate.
Now we are told St Luke’s Hospital will close within the next few months.
This will leave Huddersfield with only one hospital which has been overcrowded for the past 10 years and still is.
So what will it be like in 2011?
H Barrowclough
Waterloo
Help for shopkeepers
OUR new government will no doubt increase VAT in its budget, putting more pressure on an already hard pressed retail sector and no doubt giving more power to the supermarket barons.
Surely more would be gained from applying a tax to property magnates who have empty properties on high streets up and down the country.
Limiting the time properties would stand empty before punitive taxes were enforced would encourage substantial reductions in what are often exorbitant rents. This would surely also encourage enterprise.
Many of our towns, certainly in the Yorkshire region, have had open markets and market halls at their hub.
Sadly these are in a struggling retail area and a substantial rent reduction would both fill empty units/stalls and again encourage enterprise.
Anything can be put out at any price but if there are no takers or a dwindling number of takers then commonsense would say ‘cut the price’, cut the rents, fill the spaces up.
David John Summers
Birkby
A clenched fist
AFTER Labour’s record, financially not far behind Greece, perhaps MP Barry Sheerman would be better keeping his head down and saying nothing.
The Labour Party has done untold harm to this country. Making John Prescott a Lord says it all. Perhaps Prescott’s coat of arms should include a clenched fist.
R Chambers
Brighouse
Elected mayor chance
DR David Hill (Kirklees needs a powerful Mayor,16/06/10) is mistaken when he says “we in Kirklees have never really had a chance to vote on an elected mayor.’’
During the time when I was council leader – when the sun always shone, people were always nice to each other, local politicians never disagreed and all our roads were wonderfully maintained – we did, in fact, have a vote on this very subject.
The turn-out was impressive (14% I think it was) and the majority against a mayor was compelling.
So you see we did have a chance to be like Doncaster, even before Doncaster.
Gary Dimmock
Huddersfield
Free parking
I SEE we still have people moaning about car parking spaces as a result of the proposed new sports centre.
Have they ever stopped to think of the free two hour short stay parking the supermarkets will be providing and I am sure they will be nearer the town centre.
As to visitors coming to Huddersfield, why should they pay the high parking charges when there are huge out of town shopping centres offering free car parking.
D.C.
Salendine Nook
Bradley merger
MAY I be permitted enhance three elements in the story published by the Examiner on the merger of Bradley’s two primary schools?
The name of the new school is St Thomas C of E (VC) Primary School (VC stands for Voluntary Controlled and forms part of the title); there is no apostrophe after the name St Thomas either when referring to the church or the new school; and when the idea of merging the two schools was first mooted some years ago it was not rejected by the governing bodies of both schools.
It was turned down by the infant and nursery school’s governing body while the junior school’s governing body voted in favour.
Stanley Solomons
St Thomas temporary governor
Parking thanks
I WOULD like to thank the management at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary for their organisation over the new pay and display parking.
I don’t agree with it but it’s a sign of the times, I suppose. It was very helpful to have two people to advise and help with any questions patients and visitors had.
One question – are visitors to intensive care included in the list of non- payment for parking? They deserve this more than any of us considering the stress and upset they will be going through.
Steph
Marsh
Jolly good show
CONGRATULATIONS to everyone involved with organising Honley Show this year.
The rain ceased, the sun shone and it was another fantastic family day out. I spent all day there with my wife and son and really enjoyed the main ring attractions, the exhibits and classes and the stalls.
I think it was a great example of the great value that can be had for the whole family at agricultural shows around the region and I can’t wait for Emley Show on August 7 and Mirfield Show on August 22.
Well done and enjoy the break before starting next year’s.
William Hartley
Huddersfield
Very unLadylike
LADY Gaga is a repulsive image that all people of good will should strive to avoid.
Her most recent music video –– which features highly sexualised images coupled with Catholic religious symbols –– betrays her as nothing more than a mediocre, Madonna wannabe.
In the video she squirms around half-naked with half-naked guys while abusing Catholic symbols.
It is clear the singer has now become the new poster girl for American decadence and Catholic bashing which she perversely passes off to the world as ‘creative art.’
When asked in a recent interview by Larry King if she was considering having children some day she answered ‘not right now because it would destroy my creativeness.’ She seems oblivious to the fact that there is nothing more creative for a woman than to have a child.
Sadly, fame, fortune and false idolatry have become the heartbeat of American culture.
These things seem more important to the masses than life itself. But in the end they are all only illusions that will wither and fade.
In the end ‘the first will be last and the last will be first’.
Janine Colbert
Springwood
Blowing in the wind
VIVA the English flag! Let the flag fly high all year round with pride – the British flag too and not only for few occasions.
In Catalonia and the Basque Region (both areas still belonging to Spain) a Spanish flag is hardly seen.
Do not let this happen in this wonderful island. Be proud to be English and British and show it.
L Wachter
Fartown
Call for graduates
ARE you a graduate of the University of Leicester from the 1970s with whom we have lost touch?
The University of Leicester is hosting its annual graduates reunion on June 26 and this year we would particularly like to encourage as many 1970s graduates as possible to come back to the campus.
We are organising a buffet breakfast to welcome back all those 1970s graduates with whom we have lost touch so if you are a University of Leicester graduate from the 70s and have not had any contact from the University please get in touch now!
You are most welcome to attend the Homecoming.
Phone 0116 252 3466, email alumni.relations@le.ac.uk or go to our website at www.le.ac.uk/alumni
Amber Cuttill
Alumni Relations Intern
A cynical view?
PERHAPS I’m being cynical but could it be that making 30 teachers redundant has something to do with Kirklees College’s need to be able to service an enormous debt incurred to finance the building of a new college on The Waterfront site?
Maybe the 1960s buildings need replacing, but is building a new campus of badly designed blocks from inappropriate materials on a site on the other side of Huddersfield ring road as far from the transport links which bring the students into town as possible really the answer?
Or is this an empire-building exercise on the part of the top brass at the expense of the staff and students?
Barbara Lockwood
Almondbury
It’s all tripe
I SEE Barry Fowler’s trying a well-worn BNP Trick ( Mailbag, June 15, ‘Fervour Pitch’).
He takes one letter writer’s comment and uses it to claim the ‘Liberal/Left’ hate their own country.
If he and they can convince us of that then they’ll have done what they set out to do – spread paranoia so folk are more likely to listen to BNP propaganda about ‘threats’.
It’s all tripe, of course. However, I try to be as fair as I can.
Might I invite Barry to give us the evidence he has for this huge claim?
R A Vant
Holmfirth
Softly, softly ...
WHEN police carry out operations to cut low level crime and antisocial behaviour in Moldgreen and Netherton why do they mention street names?
Surely it would be better to keep it secret?
Rita
Bradley
