Volunteer for Marie Curie

port within the local community for his stance on dredging would be ideal. It’s clear that the public’s wants and needs will fall on deaf ears. Don’t hold your breath that the committee will come up with anything that the Environment Agency has not spawned or sanctioned and will take £millions and years to achieve. By that time the area will have had several more floods. The case for dredging is now insurmountable, and the only short term solution that will make an immediate difference, witness the fact that the County Bridge at New Road Mytholmroyd and the confluence of the Calder and Elphin Rivers have accumulated hundreds of cubic metres of silt and gravel. The sides of all local rivers have unprecedented amounts of trees, shrubbery and silt which needs to be removed as it is restricting flow. The river Hebden in particular needs the bed deepening by 450mm (18”) and the infamous “duck” Island just below the Packhorse bridge and alongside Innovation removing, for if one of the precarious trees is taken down the river and lodges against the packhorse bridge in the next flood you can say goodbye to the bridge forever! We have had enough of the obstructive dialogue from various individuals and the Environment Agency, it’s time to put digger and dump truck to work as we did so successfully 25 years ago without it costing millions. The will of the people affected by these recent floods must not be ignored this time, it is time for the correct and prompt action. of meat used? Thankfully Calderdale Royal informed me that meat slaughtered in the usual British way is served to hospital patients, who can ask for a halal curry if they choose to; surely this is the right way to conduct business, that one should opt into being served halal meat rather than vice versa. What do other readers think? I am appealing to your readers to volunteer for Marie Curie’s Great Daffodil Appeal, and help people living with a terminal illness in Halifax get the care they need. We’re looking for people who can donate a couple of hours of their time to collect for Marie Curie this March. All they need to do is encourage people to give a donation in return for a daffodil pin. Collecting for the Great Daffodil Appeal will help Marie Curie Nurses care for someone with a terminal illness in Halifax so they can spend more time with the people they love. The collections we have in Halfiax are: Aldi, Elland – Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th March Aldi, Halifax – Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th March Halifax Town Centre & the Woolshops –Saturday 19th March Tesco Sowerby Bridge, Sunday 20th March Halifax Tesco Metro, Sunday 20th March Halifax Sainsbury’s, Saturday 2nd April We’d like to invite people from the local community to come and join us for a couple of hours and be part of the Great Daffodil Appeal in their area at any one of these collections. If you’re able to volunteer some time to help then please contact me on 01274 386190, aanika.dhillon@ mariecurie.org.uk or visit www.mariecurie.org.uk/daffodil for more information on all our local collections and other ways you can get be involved in the Great Daffodil Appeal in 2016.Thank you for your support, Al Crowther: “Who else is having trouble hearing what the characters are mumbling/saying!! I’m turning sound up and still struggling.” Mags Ka rbow n i c ze k : “Yeah I thought it was just me. I’ve put subtitles on. Kerry Long: “Found the sound much better last night.” Anthony Holdsworth: “On Happy Valley last night my auntie’s bench got removed from Park Wood Crem in Elland whilst they were filming.” Pat Mitchell: “Already getting bored of it wen you can’t make out what they are on about don’t rate it at all. Carol Heslop: “Me too though a little better than last week though sound up high xx.” Doreen Mills: “Could do with Winnie interpreting what everyone else is saying - especially Sarah Lancashire.” Pat Mitchell: “Well its the second time I have watched it and you can not hear what half of them are saying disappointed up to now.”

Damian Gibson Ozfit: Dean Wilkinson: “OMG...That was another amazing episode. I can’t wait another 7 days.” Adrian Kellet: “What a quality episode of # happyvalley . Yorkshire drama at its best.” Tim Robinson: “Just spotted the @HXCourier in #HappyValley.” TEQGroupUK: “Love the Show but always wonder why it was called Happy Valley!” Emma Shepherd: “I’ve had no trouble with sound.” Chris Lever: “More twists & turns in this week’s #HappyValley than a climb up Wainhouse Tower. Great seeing #Calderdale on TV.”

Angela Preece: “It’s fabulous.” Deb ra Q u i nty n e E d - wards: “Best thing on tv.....” Tracey Bennett Brilliant show, can’t wait for next week ... Joanne Pickles Fenwick: “I really enjoyed it, people are complaining about the swearing in the crematorium, obviously haven’t been to a funeral with families that don’t get on, it is not a church.” Asifa Sheraz Khawaja: “It’s a wonderful drama but not very Maureen Caiger: “Wish we could hear what Sarah was saying. I have to turn the sound right up.then the title music comes on and deafens .” Damian Damo Greenwood: “Did u miss it”. To say the council kept it very quiet and no 1 even knew it was happening and it was 6 o’clock Sunday morning and you ask if we missed it. Nikki Martina: “It wasn’t 6am it was 8am and yes people knew they put letters through close residents letterbox I had one.” Mark Anthony Ford: “Probably kept quiet so there wasn’t thousands of people gathering round to watch.” Andrew Kaye: “I got told 8am then 10am Sunday but there tryed five times to blow it up on Saturday.” Andrew Jordan: “Miss it as in will be sad when it goes? It was an eyesight the first day it was opened.” Tracy Grundy: “Yeah it was 8 clock Sunday morn I heard it.” Eunice O’Brien Muir: “I saw it on a American news site. The video is now on YouTube. My question is why was it unsafe. It had been built since I left Halifax in the 60s. Was it not built or maintained properly?” Danny Taylor: “A good bit of spare land ere, how abouts building anew RSPCA build a wall round it , level it, a running place for the doggies , a modern shelter for dogs cats, simples.” Craig Dove: “That’s a fantastic idea.” Kelly Wilson: “They’ll end up building flats/bedsits for the HMO’s most probably like they are everywhere else.” Jezz Rushworth: “What would be good is for a shopping centre to be built that’s what Halifax is crying out for and if their going to use tax payers money to knock something down at least build something that we need not flats,car parking or food outlets we have enough.”

Andrew Clifford: “Hotel lol.” Natalie Kershaw: “I don’t drink any of these so it’s all good.” Philip Nelson: “I guess it’s only shocking if you’ve never come in contact with the modern world before...”