- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- GPs 'overpaid for ghost patients'
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- Mild weather hits Centrica profits
- Tributes to 'jolly jester' Carson
- 'MP' held after Commons disturbance
- RBS losses hit £2bn amid bonus row
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
- Man quizzed over women's murders
- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
Community
Plan in for Acorn Centre building
MR J Akhtar has applied to Calderdale Council for permission to change use of the former Acorn Centre, 32 Burnley Road, Todmorden, from a community centre to a shop and offices on the ground floor and two flats above.
Excellent new look
Congratulations on the publication of your excellent tabloid newspaper. Let us hope the paper goes from strength to strength and you continue to headline local news stories, however silly they may sound.
Don’t take press release as gospel truth
Once again we hear that supermarket expansion will create new jobs (‘ASDA unveils its plans for a new superstore’09/02/12), without any qualification whatsoever.
Do you agree over Jubilee?
I was disgusted to discover that the Labour Group on Todmorden Town Council have removed a budget provision for small grants to local schools and Institutions that was to have enabled applications to support Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in honour of our Queen.
We can’t wait for next year’s winter pantomime
Regarding St Joseph’s Players winter pantomime production One Upon A Time - wow, what a performance!
Letters
They make it so hard - no wonder there is fly-tipping
IS IT any wonder that fly-tipping is such a problem in our and so many other areas?
Our only porkies!
In reply to Vincent Mulligans letter (January 26), I can assure Mr Mulligan that the only porkies he will get from Ham Corner are the pork pies that we sell over the counter!
Make them pay
My answer to your question: “Should the Judge have ordered the men to repay the prosecution costs and legal aid fees?”
Couldn’t you have been kinder?
To the person who dumped their pet lop-eared rabbit in the Centre Vale Park woods and Doghouse Lane area recently - just in case you were wondering what had become of it, I can tell you.
New supermarket is what we need
WHEN I read the news, I couldn’t believe that at long last it is getting nearer to a new supmarket in Todmorden.
Local Businesses
Come and see our giant painting of canal scene
A GIANT painting capturing a Todmorden canal scene has been gifted to Todmorden Information Centre.
Todmorden can make great strides, if we take them together
UNITY is the key to attracting investment to Todmorden, believes Coun Ian Cooper, and the town centre development brief will be key to this.
A year when progress will start to be more visible
IN spite of a tough economic climate there will be no lack of activity in moving Todmorden projects forward in 2012.
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Thursday 23 February 2012
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