MY husband suffered a stroke five years ago following a hip operation and in now wheelchair-bound and needs home care help twice a day.

Two weeks ago a letter from Kirklees Council informed us that some changes to the home care services will take place and the service provider who supports us will change from September.

No other information about the provider was given. I understand from Kirklees that tenders are going out to the private sector. This means that our Kirklees staff are being withdrawn.

After two years of unsettling change in home care services, we have gone from a stable team of workers to having people we have never seen before coming into our home.

Just as the situation had settled down we get this smack in the face and there doesn’t seem to be much we can do about it. We’ve never been asked what we want.

The attitude of Kirklees seems to be ‘a few letters to the Examiner and it will all die down’.

Kirklees has a workforce of wonderful women – we have had dozens through our home – skilled, highly trained and a special breed of people. They don’t know as yet what is going to happen.

Where do we ‘customers’ come into the picture? The council seems oblivious to our needs.

There are Carers Gateway open days tomorrow, 10am-2pm in Dewsbury and June 17, 10am-2pm at 30 Market Street, Huddersfield.

Maybe there will be some answers.

EC and DC

Huddersfield

Cost of ‘green’ policies

THE true cost of renewable means of producing power are now being exposed.

As I have said in the past, the power companies pay four times the value of any electricity produced by wind and solar means.

The cost is passed on to the consumer in hidden subsidies. It is effectively an extra tax on already heavily burdened ordinary hard working individuals.

The fact that energy prices themselves are screaming ahead of inflation means that effectively we are putting a brake on economic growth and ultimately economic recovery.

To all those people who voted Green in the last local elections, the message should be, do you really support policies that harm the British economy?

To the coalition government I would ask – do we really have to follow every edict from Europe on cutting carbon emissions and do you think all our competitors put so-called climate change policiesŠahead of economic growth?

Bernard McGuin

Huddersfield Conservative

Damage to community

I FELT I had to write to express my sadness and anger regarding the anticipated closure of Holmfirth Adult Education Centre.

As a long-standing member of the Holmfirth community, I realise what a lifeline the centre provides for many local people.

As a young mum the courses and crèche facilities have offered me some much needed respite.

I know older people who focus their lives around the courses/classes they attend as the centre is the hub of their social support network.

I believe its intended closure will have a very negative impact on many individuals and the wider community it serves.

The centre was built by public subscription and should rightfully remain with the Holme Valley people. Is there no way it can remain as a community venue?

I firmly believe the consequence of closing the facility will have a damaging effect.

Rosie Wilson

Holmfirth

A cut too far

I AM writing to complain about Kirklees College’s mad plan of closing Holmfirth Adult Education Centre. Whet about local people who need the service?

Ever since Kirklees College came about it’s been nothing but cuts and everything going to Dewsbury or Huddersfield.

It’s all about profit and not about people. Local people need a local service.

John Simmons

Holmfirth resident since 1973

Academy assessment

TEACHING unions would like some debate on the Academies (Examiner, June 2), but this would be unusual in the public sector where serious discussion tends to be infrequent, private and divorced form the ballot box.

Hence your newspaper’s letters page is a good medium for teachers whose schools have already taken the plunge into Academy status. Are things getting better for staff and pupils or hasn’t much changed at all?

T Charlton

Huddersfield

Explain the evidence

I HAVE read the occasional letters from Steve Lawson about the shootings of the police officers in Kirkheaton all those years ago, but his most recent letter (Examiner Friday10th June), is, without a doubt, misleading.

Mr Lawson claims that the convicted murderer Alfred Moore was bullied into attending the Identification Parade and that police failed to tell him he didn’t have to attend one. Mr Lawson says that ‘from what he has seen ...’. I have to wonder what he has seen about alleged police bullying. Was he there? Is there a film of it? He then goes on to say that Moore wasn’t afraid of attending the identification parade because he was at home and therefore volunteered to attend the parade. This seems contradictory. Did he volunteer or was he bullied? You can’t have it both ways, Mr Lawson. The dying police officer says he saw Moore clearly and it was Moore who shot him. Mr Lawson is now saying a man who was dying deliberately lied in order to get a conviction. Perhaps Mr Lawson could also explain the compelling evidence that the torch was in the officer pocket? Even if it was in his pocket, it does not prove the officer had not shone it in the face of Moore. This is all pure conjecture on the part of Mr Lawson who is not an expert in any field of criminology or forensic science.

Hard Up and Fed Up

Huddersfield

Peterborough rudeness

INTERESTING to read the article in The Examiner about the Peterborough Utd reception and Mr MacAnthony’s remarks.

While accepting that the team was on a high after gaining promotion, his comments were totally out of order. It appears that he thrives on being at the centre of bad publicity like the current issues surrounding his company, MacAnthony Reality International.

Thank goodness we have a chairman who speaks and acts in a manner befitting the role. Lets hope Mr Hoyle gets what he deserves and Mr MacAnthony also.

Gordon Wilkinson

Lindley

Thank you, Dean

MAY I say a big thank you to Dean Hoyle for what he has done for our club.

Since the 1960s I used to get the trolley bus to Leeds Road to watch O’Grady, McHale, Coddington, Dinsdale etc, so a lot of ups and downs on the way. I was one of the fans who give £100 to try keep the club from folding.

But now we have the best chairman in my time, someone who loves the club, who knows what its like at a weekend when we lose, a real fan.

He is now re-developing the canal side project to set up a sports complex for young footballers of tomorrow and generations to come which will be right up there with the best in the country.

He is living a fan’s dream, a self-made man running the club he loves.

But he needs the help of all of us. There should be 20,000 crowds every home match, not just 35,000 for a one-off final which is a 50/50 game.

So, as long as Mrs Hoyle does not run out of house-keeping money, I hope Dean Hoyle lives his dream and Town reach the Premier League.

I am now 62 and, God willing, when I’m 72 I think we will be an established Premier club if Dean Hoyle is there.

A fantastic man, but we must back him with bums on seats.

R Fella

Mount

Defence of the League