Support group is here to help

from any other business – profit and loss.

If Mick Lynch cannot see this, then he needs to put his name forward for early retirement before he finishes this business off.

The Labour Party supports these strikes, they support the disruption to people’s working lives and their salaries, and yet they want the public to vote for them. How ironic is that.

The usual Labour MPs have been seen on picket lines doing what they do in general, nothing. This party should be condemning these strikes. Once again, Starmer cannot keep all his ducks in a row.

Sir Keir, a man in waiting, only on the platform waiting for a train.

Martin, Huddersfield

This is on top of record applications for new Irish passports from descendants of Irish parentage living here in the UK to obtain an EU Passport. If Ireland can manage it why cant we?

Have we become accustomed to unacceptable delays after Covid restrictions or is this yet another example of not enough staff to do the job?

Joyce M. Clarke, Holmfirth

THE past three years have affected our mental health in many ways.

More people have experienced increasing anxiety and depression related issues.

Help is sometimes hard to find when you are experiencing these issues and some find it difficult to talk to others and express how they are feeling.

Peertalk is a peer support group which meets face to face every week.

Trained facilitator run the meetings and the organisation believes that everyone has the right to be heard and to access appropriate support so that they might now full health and wholeness enabling them to flourish.

I enjoy meeting others and helping by listening to them as a Volunteer Facilitator.

There are groups in different parts of the country, but there is now a group in Huddersfield.

We meet at 7.30pm–9pm at

Dalton St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Wakefield Road, Dalton, HD5 8DE.

The group is for anyone over the age of 18 years and a warm welcome awaits those who attend.

If you or anyone you know needs some support, please come and meet us.

For more information, see Peertalk.org.uk

- Justice Secretary Dominic Raab says the Government has to “hold the line” against the RMT’s demands for improved pay and conditions on the railways.

“One thing that will keep inflation higher for longer and undermine pay packets for longer is if we have spiralling public sector pay increases beyond what is responsible. And that’s what’s at issue here. It is precisely to protect the wages of those on the lowest incomes that we need to hold the line” “We know without question that the Windrush generation have made our culture richer, our services stronger, and our fellow countrymen safer” Billie Eilish

RMT union boss Mick Lynch. See ‘Express train to the 70s’ Volunteer facilitator, via email