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COUNCILLORS and residents have reacted with sadness following a huge crash which left a woman fighting for her life and a man in hospital.

A decision to put modifications to a council’s draft Local Plan – which will determine where thousands of new homes might be built into the 2030s – out to consultation will now be implemented.

Senior councillors faced a number of questions about Calderdale’s draft Local Plan, which may determine where thousands of new homes might be built in the borough into the 2030s.

First it was chocolate flakes - now Irish mattresses are being impacted by global supply problems Higher shipping costs and more expensive raw materials are pushing up costs for furniture and bedding-makers. By Ian Curran Wednesday 19 May 2021, 6:00 AM 5 hours ago 23,579 Views 11 Comments Image: Mattress Mick/Facebook Image: Mattress Mick/Face...

I was forbidden several years ago by a politically correct editor to write that the Irish "have the gift of gab." That was an unpermissible ethnic generalization, and probably racist, either by inclusion or exclusion, I forget which. I am reminded of that prohibition every time I review a new movie from Ireland, because so many of these movies are fueled with the music of speech, with the verbal poetry of a nation that until very recent times amused itself primarily by talking, singing and reci...