What do you think about my ‘rubbish’ proposal?

Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, Cooper, author Tyne Daly, actress, William Baldwin, actor, James Dean Bradfield, rock singer Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress/director, Charlotte Church, singer and TV presenter LET us all recognise an ‘environmentally conscious young couple’ when we see them.

Struggling up Scotgate Road into Honley, as I do regularly on my bike, I noticed a young couple filling bin liners with the accumulation of vergeside rubbish that our beautiful countryside is blighted by everywhere.

Many of us take a bag, when out walking, to help pick up the never-ending stream of rubbish beside every road, lane, bridle path and footpath.

But to see this young couple giving their time to clear this particularly awful area of the cans, takeaway food wrappers, plastic bottles and all manner of household rubbish, has compelled me to write to you.

They need an accolade, they need recognition of their good deed and they need to know they were noticed for all the right reasons.

If we all matched their example and cleared up a lane, a road, an area near our homes, just think how we’d transform our beautiful countryside.

We need to do something. We are drowning in the detritus slung out of cars by thoughtless individuals who clearly couldn’t give a ‘monkeys’ about the consequences!

Let’s appeal to everyone and start a campaign to do something really positive for Huddersfield and our local areas.

Keep Huddersfield tidy – take rubbish home!

Here’s hoping and I look forward to hearing thoughts and opinions. this year owing to the fact that the Kirklees Budget meeting ran for five hours.

My wife made up for it by booking us into the Kirklees College restaurant, Landings 72.

I would like to tell people that we had a wonderful evening.

We had six courses, some of them admittedly tasters, all of high quality.

The students have obviously been very well taught and they had put a lot of hard work into the evening.

All the diners we talked to were very happy with what they had eaten and some were booking for other evenings.

The restaurant is typically open on Wednesday and Thursday nights for themed events such as Italian or French nights.

At £12.95 per head you can’t go far wrong and you are helping support great chefs of the future. NOWADAYS schools do not put any emphasis on religious education - the older generation was taught right from wrong.

John Wesley, the Methodist preacher, visited our area many times and if anybody needs an example to live by, this was his motto of his greatness:

‘Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.’

The younger generation need to look up to people who can guide them. Sadly many of our MPs and people in office are a bad example.