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• ‘Make it more possible for people to work’

  In response to the recent attention focused on the welfare system, I feel compelled to share my own experience with benefits after hearing a number of people accusing those of us who are languishing on benefits as being idle, unmotivated, unwilling and similar. read more

• Local policeman went to serve in Australia

  I am Kathryn Bond, one of Thomas Robert Hughes daughters. Known as Bob, he was born in Otley in 1922 in Paradise Square (now sadly a car park). read more

• Time to get rid of the ‘rotting tooth stumps’

  I wish to draw your attention to two errors in last week’s article regarding the Chelker Wind Farm. The second paragraph should have read 1,400kwh-per-month, and not for the whole seven month period. Chelker residents have no desire to join Kelda and Yorkshire Water in their “administrative errors”. Indeed no electricity was produced at all during five of those seven months, according to figures provided by OFWAT. read more

• Grandparents’ group says special thank-you

  As project manager of the Grandparents’ Association (Leeds & Yorkshire Area) I would like to thank Guiseley Children’s Centre and its staff for the fantastic coffee morning held this week for grandparents who either day care for their grandchildren or who care full time for their grandchildren or for those who sadly are not allowed to see their grandchildren. read more

• Invitation to saddle-up in aid of a good cause

  The Prince’s Trust is calling on people across Yorkshire to help tackle youth unemployment by taking part in the youth charity’s cycle challenge. The Mersey to Tyne Cycle Challenge will see nearly 100 cyclists riding 245 miles across three days travelling through the Yorkshire Dales, from Liverpool to Newcastle, starting on September 28, 2012, raising vital funds to get unemployed young people into work. read more

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