EDITOR'S COMMENT: What the right hand giveth, the left hand...
IF YOU were to ask the vast majority of people heading into later life with growing health failings or disabilities how they would choose to spend their remaining years they would almost certainly say...
View ArticleEDITOR’S COMMENT: No easy answer to crisis of social care costs
IN yesterday’s Telegraph & Argus we reported ambitious plans by Bradford Council to cut the number of people living in care homes in the district by 20 per cent as part of a bid to reduce its care...
View ArticleEDITOR'S COMMENT: Settle down and we’ll tell you a story...
ONCE UPON a time, as it used to say at the start of almost every children’s book, there was no such thing as television and there were no computer games to provide endless distraction for youngsters.
View ArticleEDITOR'S COMMENT: Back to the future to build a safer society
READERS with a nostalgic frame of mind will remember the days when policemen were to be feared and respected.
View ArticleEDITOR’S COMMENT: More flexibility needed for blue badge decisions
THE STORY of four-year-old Aneesa Rahman raises questions about the rigidity of Bradford Council’s policy on issuing disabled parking permits.
View ArticleEDITOR'S COMMENT: ‘Funding crisis’ warning must not be ignored
HEAD teachers traditionally keep a lower profile than unions which represent rank-and-file teachers, so the fact that the National Association of Head Teachers is warning so strongly of what it...
View ArticleEDITOR'S COMMENT: Let’s not cut off our nose to spite our face
ITS ORIGINS are probably lost in the mists of time, but that old saying “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” sounds about as Yorkshire born and bred as “Never do owt for nowt” and other Tyke...
View ArticleEDITOR'S COMMENT: Museum’s new focus is a major step forward
THE NEW name and new direction taken by the now rebranded National Science and Media Museum is a major step forward.
View ArticleEDITOR'S COMMENT: Breakaway is not the right path to follow
THE call by Shipley MP Philip Davies and Keighley MP Kris Hopkins for their constituencies to breakaway from Bradford Council and be run by a separate local authority is not one we can support.
View ArticleEDITOR’S COMMENT: Message on smoking has to hit home
IT’S ASTOUNDING to learn that one in five people in Yorkshire continue to smoke in defiance of overwhelming evidence showing the potentially devastating health problems associated with the habit.
View ArticleEDITOR'S COMMENT: Trial scheme’s success shows way forward
FOR MANY years, dealing with the problem of pupils going ‘missing’ from school rolls has dogged Bradford and other councils.
View ArticleEDITOR'S COMMENT: Investment in railways vital to our economy
WITH record numbers of people now using our railways, an outlay of £100 million to replace and upgrade the track and trackbed between Bradford Interchange and Manchester is to be welcomed.
View ArticleEDITOR'S COMMENT: Sometimes, there just isn’t enough money to rescue old...
THERE’S an understandable outcry about the stark fact that Bradford Council has given permission for a listed former school to be demolished.
View ArticleEDITOR'S COMMENT: This simple but effective plan deserves praise
INNOVATIVE thinking is needed more than ever to help our under pressure NHS.
View ArticleEDITOR'S COMMENT: Care is needed over Council budget savings balancing act
AS BRADFORD Council’s plans to slash £32 million from its budget by 2020 start to roll into action, there will be many who bemoan the resulting cutbacks in services which are of particular importance...
View ArticleEDITOR'S COMMENT: Pop-up shops could enhance unloved area of city centre
THE PROPOSAL to bring pop-up cafes, shops and food vendors to the pedestrian underpass beneath Hamm Strasse is certainly an interesting idea.
View ArticleEDITOR'S COMMENT: Road repairs must not be a short-term fix
MOST drivers will have first winced and then cursed as they crash over yet another pothole on our roads.
View ArticleEDITORIAL COMMENT: Green belt pledge must be honoured
THE GOVERNMENT’s pledge that the green belt should be protected in all but exceptional circumstances will be of interest to anyone concerned about Bradford Council’s plans to build more than 10,000...
View ArticleEDITOR'S COMMENT: Public sector sickness rates still too high
THE sheer number of days lost through employee sickness in the public sector has long been a problem.
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