Straw Works, a Todmorden company run by award winning strawbale builder Barbara Jones, is running a new series of courses in Todmorden over the winter.
Barbara Jones at Incredible Edible Mytholm's Field Day in March
Look what’s happening to the privatised energy sector –
The EU Commission has invited Hebden Bridge campaigners to comment on findings from the first stage of its investigation into Natural England’s 2012 management agreement and Higher Level Stewardship agreement with Walshaw Moor Estate Ltd (WMEL).
Both agreements cover Walshaw Moor Estate Ltd ’s intensified use of the moors for its grouse shooting business.
Commenting on the article’s report that last-minute amendments to the Care Bill would allow the Coalition government to shut down A&E departments and hospitals without proper public consultation, Ken Cheslett, Chair of Calderdale 38 degrees NHS campaign group said,
“This is reminiscent of this goverment’s high handed approach to the huge opposition to its Health and Social Care Act, whereby the wishes and needs of local people are overruled in favour of the profit motive.”
The government is trying to push through a last minute change to the law to make it far easier to shut down A&E departments and hospitals without full consultation.
Amendments tabled yesterday to the Care Bill – due to have its third reading in the Lords on Monday – give the government or Monitor the right to order any hospital they like to ‘reconfigure’ – in other words, close – with little consultation, to benefit neighbouring struggling hospitals.
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Arc Publications warmly invites you to a reading by 2 Catalan poets, Manuel Forcano & Josep-Lluís Aguiló and 2 Armenian poets Violet Grigorian & Hasmik Simonian on Monday 14 October 2013 at 7 pm at the Crown Inn, Crown Street, Hebden Bridge.
Poet Violet Gregorian
Price of admission is £4 / £2 (concessions) on the door.
Food is available until 8 pm
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I totally don’t understand the new Hebden Royd Town Council booking policy for the Hebden Bridge Picturehouse. What do you think?
The policy makes the Town Clerk responsible for deciding whether a booking conforms to Hebden Royd Town Council’s Vision Statement, as well as meeting five other conditions necessary to accept the booking.
If the Town Clerk can’t or won’t make this decision, they are to refer it to the Town Council’s Picture House Committee.
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Time was, the proverb went “Where there’s muck, there’s brass.”
But now Calderdale is part of a West Yorkshire hotspot for positive investors – people who invest their savings in businesses that create positive social and environmental results, as well as making money.
This information is included in Positive Investing in the United Kingdom, a report by Ethex, the UK’s first online exchange for positive investments.
Two vacancies on the Council have arisen following the resignations of Councillor Julia Gibson & Councillor Matthew Talbot. They represented WHITE LEE WARD and CALDENE WARD
The Town Council will now fill these posts by co-option, since no poll has been claimed within the advertised period.
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This is the gist of Incredible Edible Mytholm’s 3 minute presentation at the Hebden Bridge Partnership AGM this evening (10th October).
HOW DID IEM COME ABOUT?
IEM came out of people talking about what the best use of the Mytholm Works designated employment site might be, for Hebden Bridge and the whole Upper Calder Valley.
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