Team running in memory of Margaret

don’t get it in the house. “They said they’d fixed it but it’s not fixed. Things have got worse. It doesn’t look like a back garden anymore. It’s just a sodden pit. And it’s dangerous.” Lee and wife Janet are now desperate to keep their award-winning pedigree dogs out of the infected part of the garden. And the simple domestic task of hanging out the washing has become an intricate assault course that involves a ladder, a table, wellies and much treading gingerly through a giant puddle of filth. “We slop through the flooded bit and go to the other end of the garden,” he says. “But it’s not easy climbing over everything.” A spokesperson for Yorkshire Water said: “We would like to apologise to Mr Erwin for not being able to find a resolution to this ongoing problem yet. Investigations are progressing and the next step is for us to re-line the sewer and refurbish a manhole cover which we hope will resolve the problem. “It is a complex issue, however, and we have already carried out a multitude of investigations along the sewer, but will not stop until the issue is sorted. As soon as the sewer is repaired a lawn care package will be put in place to fully restore Mr Erwin’s garden.”

It doesn’t look like a back garden anymore. It’s just a sodden pit. And it’s dangerous.”

A pile of sludge by the 10ft long, 4ft deep hole, which was supposed to have been fixed at the home of Lee and Janet Erwin of Lepton ATHLETES are taking on the Great North Run in honour of a Huddersfield great grandma.

Margaret Boothroyd from Dalton died last December aged 81 after a 25-year battle with Parkinson’s Disease and the 22 runners will be raising money for Parkinson’s UK.

One of the runners is Margaret’s 56-year-old son, Alan, who is famed for long distance running. In 2013 Alan, of Lascelles Hall, ran 1,000 miles in just 20 days from Land’s End to John O’Groats – the equivalent of two marathons a day for almost three weeks – to raise money for Town’s Keep It Up campaign which splits money between the club’s Academy and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

The 13-mile Great North Run will be held in Newcastle on Sunday, September 10.

The route takes in sights along the Newcastle and Gateshead Quayside, including Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and Gateshead Millennium Bridge.

The team has already raised £2,522 with an auction and raffle at the Spangled Bull pub in Kirkheaton, a quiz night at the Warehouse pub in Alan Boothroyd (front, centre) with some of the 22-strong team which will be doing the Great North Run in memory of Margaret Boothroyd Huddersfield town centre, football scratch cards and a collection at Kirkheaton Rovers football club presentation evening.

A fundraising curry night is planned for the Cardamon Green restaurant in Waterloo on September 3. Their aim is to raise £7,000. The team has set up a fundraising page under Margaret’s name at http://m.virginmoneygiving.com