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Months after the consultation on the Local Plan finished, our Labour council leaders have confirmed what we knew all along: that Brighouse and Rastrick will be forced to accommodate the majority of the borough’s housing allocation.

Here is a poem I’ve written called Clifton’s Lament (adapted from a poem by David “Gwenallt” Jones).

Apart from the clueless, the brainless and ‘it never applies to me’ brigade, the regular mentally stable citizens of the Rastrick neighbourhood will now be aware, and have noticed, the appearance of some new circular street art.

I walk my dog most every day, one of the routes I take is up the mad mile, along Jay House Lane, through Thornhill and back into Clifton.

Craig Whittaker has held his first public meeting and it makes me wonder has he even read the Local Plan and does he understand how it came about?

Do you live in Brighouse and would like to be part of a fantastic group of volunteers fundraising for Marie Curie, to help more people across the area living with a terminal illness get the care and support they deserve?

I write in to agree whole-heartedly with the chairman of the Halifax and District Rail Action Group, Stephen Waring, who made the case for electrification of the railways in Yorkshire.

The winner of the competition held at the Rastrick Big Local Fun Day held on Sunday, July 16, from a large entry was Alicia, an HD6 3 resident.

I believe Brighouse is a pedestrian nightmare; on the morning of Saturday, July 15, a car was on its side on the Bradford Road (roundabout by Tesco).

I am writing to you in regard to the report you have published about Elmroyd Nursing Home.

Like many of your readers, I know first-hand how devastating a breast cancer diagnosis can be as I was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer when I was 46.

TV show Ackley Bridge, although well acted and the idea in general is innovative, it is laden with stereotypes, as every other Northern soap seems to be.

Over the next few days there will no doubt be much said about the National Health Service during the run-up to the election, some of it good, some of it critical.

On a beautiful, sunny, late Friday afternoon in April I was enjoying looking out of the window at the sunset, at 5.30pm.

The Conservatives have launched their manifesto, and not surprisingly it includes means test (benefits cut) after means test (benefits cut).

In reply to the letter from councillors James Baker and Janet Battye (May 4).

We wanted to publish something in the Echo concerning an incident last weekend.

The last decade has witnessed an amazing shift in attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people: succeeding governments have played a significant role in this transition, getting rid of homophobic laws and replacing them with anti-discriminatory ones.

So now we come to the big one.