Yorkshire Evening Post

[BLAKEY]

Slightly off topic for Leeds I admit, but it caused me great amusement at Huddersfield station yesterday teatime. A notice in the window of the buffet gives the (very limited) opening hours and declares that HOT SNACKS WILL BE SEVERED FROM 0800 to 1400 - presumably customers will be expected to chop the food up themselves after 2.00pm !!

[raveydavey]

Leodian wrote: raveydavey wrote: Just to prove that it isn't only the YEP that gets it wrong, tonights Calendar featured a report about a mysterious pile of clothes found on the banks of the "Calder and Aire Canal" at Woodlesford.I can only assume our intrepid journo was referring to the Aire and Calder Navigation..... The incident is reported on page 14 of today's YEP in which it also refers to the "Calder and Aire Canal at Woodlesford". I wonder if the original reporting source got it wrong but nobody knew any different at the YEP and Calendar? Ah, quite possibly - however both should have known better.

[Si]

Saw a sign yesterday that warned us that the road ahead was "LAIBLE TO FLOODING."

[raveydavey]

There is an article in tonights YEP about a forthcoming exhibition about Louis Le Prince, who filmed the first moving pictures in Leeds.Apparently the exhibition will feature a replica of his "video camera".I kid you not...

[anthonydna]

Do they have his Betamax recorder too ?

[raveydavey]

Also noticed in this mornings YEP, rail operator East Coat have "single fairs to London from just £10".

[dogduke]

This was in the paper 11/8 whilst I was away for a few days,felt sure someone else would have spotted it !Merger deal sealed for Leeds 'STATIONARY' firmPublished Date: 11 August 2010A STATIONARY firm from Leeds has upped its operation by half by merging with a Lancashire company.SCR Envelopes has merged with Tower Supplies – part of Europe's largest specialist envelope printing operation, De Vroede.SCR, which specialises in envelope overprinting, is expanding its main production facility and creating a centre of excellence running 12 printing presses and processing more than 500m envelopes a year.Its turnover will increase to £10m and bring staffing level to over 60..................Must be difficult to expand when you are standing still !

[dogduke]

Tonights edition 'Consumer Watch'was just a blatant advert for a no win no fee style of legal 'advice'How to claim if you have taken out a loan which included Personal Protection Insurance(PPI) together with the contact name and phone number.PPI was a hugely profitable add on for the banks and they are now being found out !All you have to do if you think youhave a claim is to download from the WHICH? website a template letter,edit it to suit your circumstances and POST IT !What the article did not mention is that the cardinal sin of PPI is the payment of the insurance premiun AND interest is paid up front as a lump sum and ADDED to your loan/interest.I battled for several months to win my wife almost TWO GRAND, oneletter to my own bank resulted in another 2 Grand and yet another letter on behalf of a friend got nearly three and a half grand.What you get is the PPI fee,interest on that fee plus simple interest at 8%.The banks are caving in after huge fines by the FSA.2 first class stamps and a little time was worth over £5000.Good luck to you if you have a claim.

[dogduke]

I have no intention of defending Mary Bale infamousfor dumping the cat in a wheely bin but so called journalistsneed to stick to reporting facts and not referring to Mary Bale inprint as 'that evil cow'and 'the old witch'.Debbie Leigh's column plunges the depths of so called journalism.Imagine ITN/Sky?bbc news using such language in their news bulletins,it just wouldn't happen and they would not allow a third party interview containing such remarks to be broadcast.It would appear that there is no form of scutiny before publication,has it gone the way of the proof reader ?.

[Leodian]

I get the YEP but not the Yorkshire Post. I wonder if the latter is going (or has gone!) the same way as the YEP or are they owned and run by seperate companies?