Husband’s injury sparks warning over pavements

Professor Laurie Taylor, sociologist, Robert Cray, blues musician Chuck D, rapper,

Coolio, rapper/actor, Mark Wright, former footballer and manager, Sam Mendes, film and theatre director David James, former footballer, Nwankwo Kanu, former footballer, LAST Wednesday my husband, aged 75, fell into what l would describe as a crater outside Lloyds Bank.

The afternoon was quiet and he picked himself up and we went inside the bank.

There I informed the bank of what had happened and they said they had contacted Kirklees about this issue many times over a period of three months.

I then informed Kirklees of this dangerous huge hole but they said they had no knowledge of Lloyds’ complaint whatsoever. I then visited the Town Hall with my complaint and was treated with kindness and understanding.

Moreover on visiting town on the Friday l found that the crater had been filled in with black tarmac! Rush job?

This of course is good but not for my husband who lost his dignity, was deeply shaken and bruised and needs X-rays.

I have seen better pavements in third world countries.

Look to it now Kirklees! Falls, as statistics show, are a major cause of death and serious injury in older people. THERE has been for years the question of whether the BBC is biased and is an ‘Establishment’ news outlet in the main.

In this respect there have been endless examples that it is and basically to protect against what is fully going on in the world-at-large. A report on the BBC’s TV news text service had the headline ‘Palestinian viral slap video teen freed.’ The text reads: “A Palestinian teen who was filmed assaulting an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank has been freed after eight months in jail.” The Video showing Ahed Tamimi (pictured) slapping and kicking the soldier outside her home in Nabi Saleh last year went viral.

For Palestinians, she became a symbol of resistance to Israeli occupation, but many see her as a publicity-seeking troublemaker. She was mobbed by well-wishes as she returned to her home Town.

But what the BBC did not state is that her 15-year-old cousin Mohammed Tamimi just prior to the slapping and kicking incident was shot in the head at close range by the Israeli soldier(s) with a rubber-coated steel bullet, severely wounding him. I think anyone would have thought that just a slap and a kick were merely a storm in a teacup considering what the Israeli Army had undertaken in shooting her relation.

So other than the BBC stating she assaulted an Israeli soldier and that many Israelis see her as a publicity-seeking troublemaker, why didn’t the BBC state the Israeli Army had shot her cousin inside the home of Ahed Tamimi?

This can therefore be construed, quite rightly I believe, as a ‘one-sided’ piece of ‘Establishment’ news (some might say propaganda) for the benefit of one side and that being the Israeli Army, not the girl.