For Huddersfield read Scotland

From: Matthew Shaw, Golcar, Huddersfield.

FURTHER to two letters about Cleveland and Humberside under the heading “Places that don’t exist still linger” (Yorkshire Post, March 18), in 1974 the town formerly known as Huddersfield and its pleasant surrounds were engulfed by a new place by the name of “Kirklees”. Along with a meaningless name came artificial boundaries and almost 40 years of irritation.

This place exists mostly in the minds of the council ruling class and you’d struggle to find it on a map. However, this does not prevent Kirklees promoting itself as a place.

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The status of Huddersfield will remain diminished as long as it is overshadowed by Kirklees, a place that to many outsiders is somewhere near Glasgow.

Please can we have our town back?

From: Mrs M Bielby, Cromwell Avenue, Loftus in Cleveland, Yorkshire.

i REALLY must object to David Bate asking to ditch the name “Cleveland”.

I have lived in Loftus in Cleveland all my 70 years and this area had been known as Cleveland for many hundreds of years before I was born.

Cleveland is part of our heritage and part of our address.

Far from cushy

From: Patrick Kelly, East Mount Road, York.

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WHERE on earth does Mrs Joy Pattison (Yorkshire Post, March 20) get the idea that district and county councillors are only in it for the money?

It’s an insult to the dozens of local people who give up their time, promotion opportunities and earned income. If being a local councillor was such a cushy number, why do all political parties struggle to find people willing to stand for election?