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Ken Sims
22:36, 12 JUL 2013
Relationship scares off firms says MP
Barry Sheerman
MAJOR retailers are being deterred from coming to Huddersfield because of Kirklees Council’s “close relationship” with supermarket giant Tesco, says the town’s MP.
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Ross and Brand in the news but what about pensioners’ protest?
BBC
WHAT a carry on! Ross and Brand, two mature (in years anyway) millionaire men, earning millions for abusing an old age pensioner.
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Queensgate Market must be saved
Ken Sims
CONSERVATIONISTS say Huddersfield’s Queensgate Market is a structure of national importance and should be saved.
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Parking charges axed in Huddersfield town centre for Christmas
Festival of Light
MOTORISTS have been offered free parking in the run-up to Christmas.
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Market stall rent rise kept at 2.5%
Ken Sims
MARKET traders will have to pay more in Huddersfield.
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A touch of silver for green efforts
Ken Sims
TWO Kirklees towns won silver medals in the Yorkshire In Bloom contest.
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New tenants for mill conversion scheme
Eddisons
A MILL development on the edge of Huddersfield town centre has secured its first two tenants.
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Villages fed up after 34 years of ‘ping pong’ boundary changes
Barry Sheerman
THANK you, Iain McFalls (“No thank you, Mr Malik,” Mailbag Sept 11).
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Return of Euro market to Huddersfield
Ken Sims
A CONTINENTAL flavour returns to Huddersfield this week.
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£12m injection for road safety
Conservative Party
BETTER and safer roads and paths are coming to the ‘valleys’ after councillors agreed to plough £12m towards improvements.
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Festival time is near!
BBC
BANDS, beer gardens and cooking will all be part of this year’s Holmfirth Food and Drink Festival.
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Clr Ken says judge St George's Square when it's done
Conservative Party
GIVE us time – and then take a look. That was the plea today from Clr Ken Sims – the councillor at the centre of controversy over the use of Chinese granite in St George’s Square in Huddersfield.
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Pedestrian Taliban are on the march in the middle of Holmfirth
European Union
WHEN I was a lad, and I grant you that that was some time ago, I was always told that whenever possible I should use a zebra crossing to cross the road.
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Sites identified to keep 1,000-plus Fox's jobs in Batley
Ken Sims
THE fight to keep Fox’s Biscuits in Batley has received a major boost.
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Tories created the problems, but Labour’s done almost nothing
Armed Forces
SADLY, one must agree with Arthur Quarmby (Mailbag September 6) that nowadays some MPs appear to put their own interests first in terms of high salaries and expenses that many strive to keep hidden from the public, plus, of course, huge state pensions.
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Let’s have a Castle Hill that’s free from 21st century clutter
Ken Sims
OH dear, “Wine bar plan for Castle Hill” (Examiner September 2).
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St George's Chinese granite: Red Square-up
Green Party
A HOLMFIRTH councillor has staunchly defended the controversial revamp of a Huddersfield landmark.
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Labour’s attack on St George's granite ‘vandalism’
Conservative Party
KIRKLEES is carrying out a “wanton act of vandalism” on a Huddersfield landmark, a councillor has said.
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Plumbing open day for free course starting next month
Ken Sims
A RECRUITMENT event for would-be plumbers is to take place this month.
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These Southerners’ complaintsare just a case of sour grapes
Armed Forces
SO the gap between the north and south of the country is widening – of course it is.
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Proms and Party in the Park back next year
Festival of Light
MUSIC-LOVERS have rated the £150,000 Concerts in the Park value for money.
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Numbers one and two!
Conservative Party
ROBERT Zubaly questions R Liversidge over his claim that From Me To You was the Beatles’ first number one single in late April, 1963 (Mailbag, August 26).
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Garish contrast in square
Barry Sheerman
AS I sit in St George’s Square, outside my favourite pub and nursing an excellent pint of real ale, the old Victorian atmosphere of the surroundings dwindles with every block of coloured stone that is gently laid on its bed of sand.
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New 'no' to Chinese stone in St George's Square
Conservative Party
GOVERNMENT adviser English Heritage has stepped into the growing row over Kirklees Council’s use of Chinese granite in Huddersfield’s historic St George’s Square.
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