Schemes no-one wants... but pub’s efforts thwarted
ONCE again the council is blocking the attempt by the owner of the Plumbers Arms to enhance the public space outside its premises. They say they are going to replace the space with a road while on Cross Church Street they are making it pedestrian-only.
They allow Merry England to put out tables and chairs on New Street, so why not for the pub? The council is to spend £500k on recruiting officers to enhance Kirklees but stifle the efforts of hardworking Huddersfield people who pay the tax which supplies the money for their hare-brained schemes. They have not fixed the leaking roof above the West Riding pub either.
All around Huddersfield they have come up with schemes that no one wants. Holmfirth in particular.
By the way, I do not drink in the Plumbers but I can see what an asset the outdoor seating would be.
Why is a road needed by the pub if they closed it previously for the safety of people going to the bus station?
Crematorium upset
I FEEL I must write to express my upset and concern after attending a funeral at Huddersfield Crematorium on Friday morning, only to witness the chimney firing up and filling the car park with smoke!
I feel the decent thing to be done would have been to wait until the mourners had left the grounds!
Very upsetting!
Living in a dream world
I HAVE to apologise to readers of the Examiner. I have been operating on the idea that the moon is made of rock and not cream cheese and that the earth is a globe and not flat.
Obviously, I am wrong and clearly I have to go with the Brexiteers and assume that Boris was a beacon of reason and rationality when it came to such things as Covid.
Despite the fact (yes, a fact) that the Government’s own Office of
National Statistics has now reported that the UK had during the middle of last year the highest rate of excess deaths in Europe, that simply can’t be true nor the fact that 40,000 British citizens died in care homes. No, I have been living in a fantasy. It can’t be correct that my father, who died in one such care home last month, has to wait six weeks before he is cremated because of the unprecedented backlog of bodies at the crematorium caused by Boris’s failures to move to lockdown in time.
A fact now confirmed by Dominic Cummings, of all people, to a Commons select committee.
I must surely be dreaming that.