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Sent in by Tracey Softley, Brookfield View, Cleckheaton

Once again the Cleckheaton Folk Festival has brought music, merriment and the masses into Cleckheaton.

Why is it that the Whitcliffe Mount Foundation Building open day collides with the annual Cleckheaton Folk Festival?

There is a different spirit in the air of Batley this week.

I am the chairman of my local Tenants and Residents Association and am appalled at the catastrophic fire in Grenfell Tower block in London which has claimed so many fatalities.

Thanks to Mr Cameron offering a referendum on whether we voted ‘stay’ or ‘leave’ the European Union.

The population of Cleckheaton are about to witness over the coming months the greatest act of municipal vandalism ever manifested on our locality.

Former students of Batley’s Princess Royal Girls School attended a get-together at Union Rooms last Saturday.

Further to Margaret Watson’s article titled ‘The world was our oyster’ (May 4 edition).

On Maxwell Avenue in Batley, we have seen a rise in flytipping.

I am shocked and disgusted at Batley Tesco Extra’s decision to hold a car boot sale on the most religious day of the year.

I was born in Dewsbury (Savile Town) in 1950 and have lived all over the the western world.

When Ed Miliband was leader of the Labour Party, he frequently accused George Osborne of being a part-time Chancellor of the Exchequer.

I am sure by now that many readers will have seen the article in the March 7 edition of the Daily Express.

I have just read that a ‘Great get together’ is planned in June in memory of Jo Cox MP.

The Friends of Batley Library group was set up in August 2015 to help stave off the threat of closure to this magnificent building.

Now that I’m retired I have more time to get around our area on foot and by car which means no more commuting for me.

I write as a concerned resident of Batley’s Wilton estate.

Not to be outdone by the Batley commemorative beaker shown in the letters page (February 9 edition), I had to send you this picture of one from mighty Dewsbury!