KIRKLEES employs about 19,000 people, several thousand being part-time, and including about 3,500 teachers.
I said last week it was 30,000 full timers, embarrassingly more than it should be.
I have often argued that one should check one’s facts against more than one source, and am now hoist by my own petard.
This nugget was trawled from a website a month or two ago and dropped into a box for use as what we journos call a ‘filler’, for when a little blank corner appears on one’s page.
When one such corner appeared last week, I dug the stuff out and posted it off for publishing without a second thought.
Websites never lie? Oh yes they do. My apologies to Kirklees Council and all who sail in her for falling for such an old trick.
Never the less, let’s remind ourselves that 19,000 employees, full or part time, still makes Kirklees the biggest employee in the borough by a long chalk.
THE world’s most famous scientist, Stephen Hawking, claimed recently there could be up to 11 dimensions, only four of which – height, width, breadth and time – we experience directly.
Well, assuming seven dimensions are as yet unclaimed, I want one.
I’m not sure what the going price for one is, or to whom I should make the cheque out, but a dimension of one’s own has to be the must-have accoutrement for the Noughties.
