Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England) back issues from November 2008:
I WOULD HAVE GONE BLIND; Grandad wins fight to have treatment funded on NHS.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... A GRANDFATHER and renowned businessman had to fork out thousands of pounds to save his sight. Now retired Frank Walkley, founder of the famous Walkley Clogs at Hebden Bridge, has spoken out after the NHS finally agreed to fund his treatment for macular disease. The ...
Head camera set to catch out yobs; Parents to see children's anti-social behaviour.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: By JOANNE DOUGLAS News Reporter POLICE will be wearing head cameras to tackle anti-social behaviour in theHolme Valley - and parents will be shown footage of their youngsters' bad behaviour. A head camera worth pounds 1,100 has been bought for police to ...
Rock singer's praise for driver in coach fire.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... A ROCK singer has praised a coach driver who acted swiftly when the band's tour bus caught fire on the M62 near Huddersfield. Rock band Feeder's double-decker tour bus caught fire while travelling in the westbound carriageway of the M62, between junction 22 at Ripponden and ...
A chance to change the world.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... AN expert on economics and American politics will give a lecture at Huddersfield University. Peter Jay, former British ambassador to the US and BBC economics editor, will give a free talk on Monday, just hours before American voters go to the polls to choose a new president. ...
Ask about medicines.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... PATIENTS with mental health problems are being encouraged to learn more about their medication. The Ask About Medicines Week campaign runs from ...
Holy bat boxes! It's Batman and Robin! Caped crusaders help nocturnal mammals.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: By KATIE CAMPLING News Reporter DYNAMIC duo Batman and Robin swooped in to Cooper Bridge to help wildlife. The pair were at Lower Brighouse Waste Water treatment works on Friday to help build boxes for pipistrelle bats who have made the site their home. ...
Local briefs: Car wrecked in warehouse fire.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... ARSONISTS drove a car around inside a warehouse before setting it on fire. The VW Golf estate was found burning in the building off Cold Royd Lane, Dalton, at 11am yesterday ....
Local briefs: Man trapped.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... A MAN was trapped in a car after a crash at Kirkburton. Penistone Road was closed after the smash, which involved a beige Volvo and a red VW Transporter van at ...
Local briefs: Christmas music.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... A FESTIVE concert will raise cash for Overgate Hospice, Elland. The event will be held in a marquee in the hospice grounds on Wednesday, November 26, at 7pm. Music will be provided by the Huddersfield ...
Local briefs: Young terrors!(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... LITTLE terrors tested out their creative talent at a Hallowe'en themed workshop in Marsden. Mikron Theatre held a pre-Hallowe'en craft workshop where youngsters ...
Local briefs: Healthy walk.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... A WALKING group for people with heart problems will tour Ripponden and Sowerby Bridge on its next outing. Brighouse Crew (Cardiac Rehabilitation through Exercise and Walking) will take a four-mile circular walk on Tuesday, ...
Relationship scares off firms says MP; Sheerman slams Kirklees' Tesco ties.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: By HENRYK ZIENTEK Business Reporter MAJOR retailers are being deterred from coming to Huddersfield because of Kirklees Council's "close relationship" with supermarket giant Tesco, says the town's MR Barry Sheerman said department store group John Lewis had ...
Call for action to back Yorkshire bankers.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: By HENRYK ZIENTEK Business Reporter HUDDERSFIELD MP Barry Sheerman today called for Government action after it emerged that bosses of Lloyds TSB will dominate the board of HBOS after Lloyds TSB took it over. Mr Sheerman, who has campaigned for the merged bank ...
Church repair boost.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... A COFFEE and lunch day has raised more than pounds 500 to help rebuild a badly damaged Birkby church. Birkby group The Craft Girls held the event at the rectory near St John's Church on October 22 and collected pounds 510 in entry fees and refreshment sales. The ...
How to spend pounds 100,000.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... HOW should pounds 100,000 be spent on Upperthong? Kirklees Council wants people's suggestions on how the cash should be spent to improve the village's conservation area. Draft proposals will be on display at the following events where council officers will be on hand ...
'Fair deal for eye disease sufferers; Patient's battle for free NHS treatment.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: By DAVID HIMELFIELD News Reporter AN 88-year-old saved his fading sight by spending thousands of pounds on treatment that would have been free in Scotland. The NHS has now agreed that it should pay for Frank Walkley's treatment. But today the ...
COUNCIL SNUB ARMY PARADE; Labour blames bad communication.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: By DAVID HIMELFIELD News Reporter FEWER than one in 10 Kirklees councillors - and no Labour councillors at all - turned out for a march to honour Yorkshire soldiers. Only six of the 69 councillors attended last Saturday's Freedom Parade to commemorate The ...
Bishop to call in.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... THE Bishop of Wakefield is coming to Huddersfield as part of a 'day of prayer' being held in his diocese. The Rt Rev Stephen Platten will come to Huddersfield Parish Church tomorrow morning. He will be making a whistlestop tour of four other towns in the Wakefield ...
Maisie to perform in Halifax panto.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... YOUNG dancer Maisie Beaumont has won herself a place on the stage this Christmas. Seven-year-old Maisie has been selected to perform in the chorus of Jack And The Beanstalk at Halifax's Victoria Theatre, which runs from December 15 to January 3. The role comes after ...
Mystery of experienced biker crash; No speeding, yet rider lost control.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: By EXAMINER News Correspondent A CRASH that killed a Huddersfield biker may have resulted from him braking hard on a bend, an inquest has heard. Robert Dyson, 54, lost control of his 750cc Suzuki GSXR at the summit of Holme Moss on the A6024 Woodhead road, ...
Unearth a present at the mining museum.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... START your Christmas shopping early at the National Coal Mining Museum's winter gift fairs. The museum near Flockton is hosting several gift fairs in the run up to the festive season. The first will be next weekend from 10am to 4pm. Entry is free and there will be a variety of ...
Fireworks seized.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... TRADING standards officers have seized and destroyed more than pounds 250 of illegal fireworks from a shop in Leeds city centre ....
Ross out of awards show.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... JONATHAN Ross (pictured) has stepped down from presenting the 2008 British Comedy Awards, ITV announced. The broadcaster said it had agreed with the decision following the Andrew ...
Anglo-French bid to stem disaster; 200,000 on run from Congo rebellion.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: By GAVIN CORDON News Correspondent FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband and his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner have flown to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) amid intense diplomatic efforts to end the latest fighting between rebels and government forces. ...
Jet skids off runway.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... A PLANE carrying dozens of British holidaymakers skidded off a runway as it landed. The Air Europa jet, with 74 people on board, went off the end of the landing strip moments after touching down in Lanzarote in the Canaries. It came to a halt close to the airport ...
Terror charge woman.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... A MANCHESTER woman has been charged with a terror offence, two weeks after police raided addresses in the city and in Holland. Houria Chahed Chentouf, of ReynellDrive, Longsight, is charged with possessing a computer memory stick, allegedly for terror-related purposes. ...
THEY'RE HOT DATES! Village WI are Calendar Girls.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: By JOANNE DOUGLAS News Reporter A WHISK was a secret weapon when members of a village Women's Institute shed their clothes to re-create the famous Calendar Girls. Ten members of Stocksmoor WI posed in their birthday suits for the charity calendar, which is now ...
TICKLED PINK TO; Examiner staff join in the fundraising fun.(Features)
Nov 01, 2008 ... OCTOBER has been breast cancer awareness month. Several charities that raise money to support people with breast cancer or fund research into the disease come together to raise money. All share the same distinctive pink ribbon symbol. Yesterday was Wear It Pink day ...
World briefs: Nose-dive for.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... JAPAN: The head of the Japanese air force has been sacked for claiming in an essay competition that his country was not an "aggressor" in the Second World War ....
World briefs: Crash kills six.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... EGYPT: Six tourists were killed and 26 injured in a bus crash yesterday. The bus was heading to an ancient temple at Abu Simbel when ...
World briefs: Wedding arrests.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... PAKISTAN: A wedding between a girl age seven and boy of five was stopped by police in Karachi. Officers arrested the Muslim cleric ...
World briefs: Final score.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... USA: A ten-pin bowler collapsed and died after recording his first perfect score of ...
Rachel, a model girl-next-door; Office worker proud of Yorkshire roots.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: By BARRY GIBSON News Reporter A MIRFIELD girl is in the running for a top modelling prize. Proud Yorkshire lass Rachel Pedley, 19, is through to the last 100 of FHM's High Street Honeys competition. The NHS clerical worker, of Lower Hopton, was one ...
Gifts for needy children.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... STAFF at a building society in Huddersfield are backing an appeal to provide needy children with Christmas gifts. The Leeds Building Society is supporting the Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child Appeal. This national scheme collects shoeboxes filled with ...
One-third on wrong benefit.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... ONE in three pensioners is getting the wrong benefit payments, the Government has admitted. More than one million elderly people received incorrect pension credit payments last year, figures released by the ...
Watch out world here we come!(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: Gemma Castle TWO years ago I was fresh out of university, about to begin my first full-time job, and my plan to travel the world seemed little more than a pipe dream. This was the first time my friend Sarah and I discussed the trip: Our plan - to backpack ...
Sympathy for the devil ...(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: Gemma Castle THE controversy surrounding Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross's supposed 'abusive' phone call to Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs has led Brand to resign from his Radio 2 show, and the suspension for 12 weeks without pay for Ross. Quite frankly, I ...
Lest they forget ... The Huddersfield Daily Comment.(Leaders)
Nov 01, 2008 ... TROOPS of the Yorkshire Regiment experienced fierce fighting in Iraq. Every soldier gave his or her best in their own way in difficult conditions in this harsh environment. Hundreds of well-wishers lined town centre streets last Saturday to show their appreciation ...
They don't deserve it; The Huddersfield Daily Comment.(Leaders)
Nov 01, 2008 ... HUDDERSFIELD MP Barry Sheerman need not feel too bad that there will be no HBOS executives on the board when the group is taken over by Lloyds TSB. They, after all, are the ones who messed up. That HBOS has been forced to seek refuge in safer hands happened on their ...
Letter: MAILBAG - Club needs leaders after heart was ripped out.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: TONY GALLIVAN HAVING heard the vitriol aimed toward our current manager I felt I just had to put pen to paper and say what I think about the situation at Town. I watched Town for 15 years home and away and in the end gave up because I've got better things to ...
Letter: MAILBAG - Surprise appointment.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: ELLIOTT AINLEY THE appointment of Stan Ternent came as a shock to most Town fans following the rumours and speculation of the preseason. It would be a fair statement to say that the appointment was made on the recommendation of Andrew Watson, who was involved ...
Letter: MAILBAG - Down with the boo-boys.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: JOHN MOORHOUSE I HAVE two questions to the morons who booed Matt Glennon when his name was read out before Tuesday's match. Just how do you think that helps anybody? How would you like to keep goal behind a ...
Letter: MAILBAG - Backroom staff praised.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: ANDREW NORTH WHILE Town are struggling in the league I thought it was worth letting everyone know how hard the staff are working behind the scenes. On a freezing cold Tuesday night, my son James, six, and his friend Thomas, seven, were selected to be mascots ...
Letter: MAILBAG - Back to front Bond.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: ROBERT ZUBALY HAVING watched Daniel Craig on TV trying to explain away why Quantum of Solace is a departure from traditional Bond films, in that there are no gadgets and hardly any Bond girls who he also fails to end up with. Also missing are the famous ...
Letter: MAILBAG - Silly safety rules.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: M GARSIDE FOLLOWING on from the fire service letters regarding gender, what about this one seen in the Southport Visiter (October 17). Southport firemen have been banned from using their slide pole due to health and safety reasons in case someone hurts ...
Letter: MAILBAG - Leave the school alone.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: DARREN HALMSHAW I AM a disgusted voter who will do all in my power to remove this administration if they do not back off the two Mirfield schools, having helped them get there with my vote in the first place. So Clr Jim Dodds listens? Ha; could this because ...
Letter: MAILBAG - We have been active.(Letters)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: CLR MARTYN BOLT LOCAL councillors have been vocal, active and supportive of the parents, heads and governors in the Castle Hall/Mirfield Free Grammar matter, as we always are on Mirfield issues. Town Council members have attended meetings of the Reach (Retain ...
Thoughts of war; Poet's corner.(Features)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: By Peggy Reeves, Newsome His sightless eyes turn to the left to face the cenotaph where a sea of crimson poppy wreaths are laid, and he thinks about the war and the brave and gallant crew who gave their lives so others could be saved. He marches to familiar ...
Prune your spending with Graham's money saving ideas.(Features)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: Graham Porter I DO not care for the continuous panic-stricken chatter about the current economic chaos that the developed world seems to have put itself in. But it is important that we gardeners do our bit to save money until the 'recession' ends and we can ...
Do it this week . . . Notebook Plant of the Week. Autumn Gold.(Features)
Nov 01, 2008 ... 1 Toadstool troubles - I have had several inquiries recently about what gardeners can do to get rid of toadstools on the lawn and from other parts of the garden. Firstly, most, if not all, should not be thought of as edible. If in doubt do not eat them! Unless the toadstools are coming up ...
'I'd like to be stuck in a lift with my wife'.(Features)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: LENNY HENRY LENNY HENRY was born in Dudley in the West Midlands in 1958 and shot to fame when he was still in his teens, thanks to his appearance on the talent contest New Faces. Since then he's been involved in numerous successful TV series, including ...
TRAVEL: Set sail for great bargains; Despite the recession, KEN BENNETT discovers there are still good bargains on a pre-Christmas shopping spree to France.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: KEN BENNETT THE girl walking the aisle of the giant hypermarket in the sweeping, ankle length coat could easily be mistaken for a foreign spy ... But in reality, Sharron Livingston is a sleuth of the slurping kind who has taken over from White Van Man as one of Britain's ...
TRAVEL: So how much beer and wine can you buy?(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... IN theory, providing you can prove your purchases are for personal use you have open-ended options. But Customs guidelines say youmust be able to show they are "for your own consumption or gifts". If your interpretation is different, you could be stopped and the goods seized. ...
TRAVEL: Extra allowances are in the bag on planes.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... NEVER mind the price, how much space is there on the plane for our luggage? That might become the a key question for families booking summer 2009 holidays as tour operators and airlines launch a so-called 'Battle of the Bags' to attract the early bookings which might ease their ...
Looking further afield for Christmas gifts.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... FOR a romantic - if chilly - setting and some unusual ideas for Christmas gifts, it's hard to beat the Christmas Markets in some of the most historic and attractive cities of Northern Europe and Germany. This Christmas, when we could be counting the pennies as recession takes a ...
Views of the Valley; Longwood Valley Circular Time 2 hours (a challenging 3.5 miles).(Features)
Nov 01, 2008 ... OUR walk starts at Hollin Hall Farm, off Whitwam Bank near Scapegaot Hill and has been devised by The River Corridor Greenway Project. The terrain is varied and includes some narrow, muddy paths and uneven ground and is strenuous at times with some steep sections. ...
SUEZ CRISIS; 80,000 British soldiers crammed into camps to defend the Canal Zone from the Egyptians.(Features)
Nov 01, 2008 ... UP to 6,000 British troops from the 1st Infantry Division arrived at Fayid in the Canal Zone of Egypt on November 2, 1951. It was the last phase of what was described as the biggest airlift of troops since the Second World War. And it gave young men a glimpse of life ...
They Said What?(Features)
Nov 01, 2008 ... "I'd rather have a nice cup of tea" - James Bond actor Daniel Craig, as fans try to ply him with vodka martinis. "I've definitely become more spoilt, more shallow and can honestly say I have loved every single minute of it" - X-Factor's Simon Cowell on his rise to fame. ...
Fifty for Fun.(Features)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: Andrew Baldwin NEWS 1 Which author and playwright will donate his literary archive to Oxford University's Bodleian Library? 2 Which airline has launched disciplinary action amid claims flight crew criticised its safety standards on a social ...
Price pounds 500, but sold for pounds 21,500.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: By HENRYK ZIENTEK Business Reporter A VERY special piece of Holme Valley real estate commanding impressive views in a rural location had a pounds 500 price tag - yet has just sold for pounds 21,500. Yorkshire Water had told property agent Eddisons to sell a ...
Theatrical approach to Bach; REVIEW.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: By CHRIS ROBINS TITLE Huddersfield Choral Society, Bach Mass in B Minor VENUE Huddersfield Town Hall HUDDERSFIELD Choral's huge size and heavily malted sonority dictated that this had to be a Mass in B minor on the grand scale. In the ...
NHS IT display at stadium.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... CUTTING edge communications technology in the NHS will be on show at the Galpharm Stadium on Tuesday. The show will highlight innovative solutions for medics including inter-laboratory messaging systems, infection control information systems, wireless technology messaging for ...
Ex-miner draws on seam of memories; Tom exhibits his art at national mining museum.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... A FORMER miner who turned his hand to paint is exhibiting his work at the National Coal Mining Museum. Tom Lamb gave people a chance to 'meet the artist' at the museum, near Overton, a week after he opened his exhibition, entitled My Mining Days: 1946 to 1969. The ...
Great news over George.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... LAST month we appealed to readers of the Equestrian page to help save George, a 12-year-old shire at Albert's Horse Sanctuary. George has canker in his feet and the increasing vet and farrier bills meant that the sanctuary, at Cawthor ne, near Barnsley, was struggling to pay ...
BACK IN HARNESS! I'm still busy although my herd is smaller.(News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Byline: By SOPHIA SALEEM Equestrian Correspondent IT'S been a while since I wrote anything for the Examiner, mainly due to ill-health yet again, but I'm finally on the up and getting back into things. The yard has seen lots of changes, a shrinking of the herd in ...