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ThePress
Friday April 29, 2016
Continued from page 9 Hedgehogs have been scalped or lost a leg because of these pieces of equipment. Please check long grass before using any cutting machinery to ensure you are not putting a sleeping hog at risk. Most people seem to know now, but please do not give bread and milk to hedgehogs. They love the taste of milk but are lactose intolerant and will get severe abdominal pain and ‘the runs’ if they drink much milk. The hog will become dehydrated and die a very painful death if not rescued. Hedgehogs are a protected species but Oliver Colvile, MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, is seeking to get more protection for them. He is concerned about their loss of habitat, wanting to see walls and fences replaced by hedges where possible. There are many other issues surrounding protecting the future of hedgehogs. You can sign a petition online at https://petition.parliament. uk/petitions/121264. So far, 27,000 people have signed on line but 100,000 signatures are needed by August 11. Please sign up if you possibly can. I shall be at Little Gomersal May Day Fair at the Wheatsheaf Pub on May 2 from 1pm-4pm. Here you can meet Gus, a real live hog who was very poorly when found last September, but is now fully recovered and will be released shortly. You can sign the petition at the fair. There will be many other stalls – cakes, plants, books, a raffle and a local brass band. So why not come along and meet the hog and get more advice on helping this iconic creature and treat yourself to some of the other attractions at the same time.
KAAS – what a shame From: Adele Latham, Soothill Dear Sir, I accompanied my brother to the last meeting of KAAS, (Kirklees Alchohol Advisory Service), held at Batley Salvation Army this week, which due to a lack of funding has now ended. There were around 20 people there, each with their own story, but each one of them either having suffered, or suffering, from alcohol abuse, some accompanied by partners or family members whose lives have been touched by the addiction. They were all genuinely nice people trying to get their lives back on track, meeting with likeminded people, and able to discuss openly their
problems and, indeed aspirations and hopes. What a real shame this vital service has ended. Norman Macleod the co-ordinator has such warmth and understanding, and is clearly trusted and respected, and I wish him and all I met at the meeting every success.
Media owners have had it all their own way From: ‘Emley EU Voter’, via email Dear Sir, I would like to respond to the writings of Danny Lockwood in last week’s Press. So Mr Lockwood’s daughter, to her credit, wants to know both sides of the In or Out Euro question. Well she won’t get a fair view from her father’s column. I have yet to read a balanced report in his column about the EU. Might I suggest that she reads Richard Corbett’s newsletter on the internet? He is after all our local Euro MP. In the blog, he answers fairly the stories from our 80 per cent anti-EU British press. The answers are very revealing. We are told that we have a free press in this country. What an illusion! Just five press barons control all but 20 per cent of our papers. Who are these unelected press barons, whose papers slowly brainwash their readers? If you rely on one paper for your news, then ideas will be planted in your mind that influence your views. This is especially true of the In-Out question. For years the News of the World, until it was closed following the phone-hacking scandal, and also the Sun and Times have been pumping out anti-European Union tales for a long time. Who owns these papers? None other than
Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire magnate who also owns Sky TV. Does he live here? Is he a UK resident? No, he is a US citizen. He owns best part of 25 per cent of our dailies. Yet in the US foreigners are are not allowed to own US media outlets. Not so here. Then who is on his payroll? Michael Gove, a leading Outer used to write for the Times. Boris Johnson writes articles for The Sun. Gove’s wife Sarah Vine, writes for that other antiEuro tabloid, the Daily Mail. Then Boris Johnson reputedly gets £250,000 a year for writing for that other anti-Euro paper, The Telegraph. That is in addition to his salaries as Mayor of London (full-time job?) and an MP (full-time job?). Talk about wheels within wheels! Yet the Outers complain when friends of this country warn us of the dangers of leaving. Why don’t they ask Vladimir Putin to support their Out campaign? He will be very pleased if we are foolish enough to come out. The government was right to send details to our voters about the In or Out question to try to give a fair picture against the anti-Euro press. The Outers have had it all their own way for years. So what should Miss Lockwood read for a fair and balanced view of the In-Out question? Might I suggest The Mirror, the I or the New Day and in the broadsheet press The Guardian or Sunday Observer. If she wants to know who owns the UK tabloids and their backgrounds, read Private Eye. She will be amazed.
Ludicrous system for drones in the UK From: John Appleyard, Liversedge Dear Sir, As if airline pilots haven’t enough to contend with we now have an increasing number of idiots shining lasers in their eyes whilst in flight. Now we hear of a drone hitting a British Airways plane with 132 passengers and crew on board. Detectives are unlikely to catch the operator of the drone because there is no registration system for users in the UK. Ludicrous.
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Titanic bosses’ holiday veto cost heroic Wallace his life By David Miller TITANIC legend Wallace Hartley was denied a holiday by “vindictive” bosses which would have saved his life. The detail was revealed in a letter from his parents which sold at auction for £27,000 last Saturday. Band leader Wallace, of West Park Street, Dewsbury, was just 33 when the Titantic sank on its maiden voyage in 1912. His body was found with a letter from Albion and Elizabeth Hartley about their sadness at being unable to meet. Wallace had been away for several weeks as the band leader on the Cunard ship RMS Mauretania. It docked in Liverpool on April 8, 1912, and Wallace was asked to go straight from there to the Titanic. The ship was due to set sail from Southampton only two days later, so Wallace was unable to see his family as planned. While on the Mauretania, the employment of musicians switched to the CW and FN Black agency. Albion Hartley wrote that their decision to make Wallace go on working was made in a “rather vindictive spirit”. He signed off the letter with the words: “I hope that things will turn out for you alright.” The Titanic, supposedly “unsinkable”, struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic on April 15, 1912, and went down.
Wallace...drowned Wallace and his eight-piece orchestra played on to keep passengers calm as they tried to escape. More than 1,500 passengers and crew, including Wallace and his orchestra, drowned. Wallace’s body was recovered from the sea 10 days later, with his valise case holding his violin still strapped to his body. The letter from his parents was kept out of the water by a combination of his life jacket and the violin case. Returned intact to his grieving parents in Dewsbury, it was put up for sale by a private collector of Titanic memorabilia. Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge, of Henry Aldridge & Son of Devizes, Wiltshire, said: “It was the last letter sent from Wallace’s parents. “The fact he had this letter on him at the time of the sinking illustrates the meaning and importance he attached to it. “It clearly meant an awful lot to him. The content is very good and offers a fascinating insight into life at home.”
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Albion Hartley (Wallace’s father) wrote that the bosses’ decision to make Wallace go on working was made in a “rather vindictive spirit”.