Mary Walsh who lives in the Downs with her husband and two children says the name is perfect

Mary Walsh, who lives in the Downs with her husband and two children, says the name is perfect because “it’s a jewel of a place”.”There’s a definite taste police out there, trying to ram their ideas down other people’s throats,” she said. The trend has created a row between builders and local planners, who are anxious to protect indigenous culture.
Ireland has a larger number of historical place names per square mile than any other country in Europe, but still it seems that builders and auctioneers are anxious to create their own bit of history. They will probably conclude that there was none, but this has not stopped developers from inflicting such names on new housing developments across the country. If it all gets too much, the residents of Therapie Lane might put you right.. COME THE next millennium, students of Irish folklore may well ponder the significance of place names such as Tuscany Downs and Graceland to the rural landscape at the end of the 20th century. Less appealing, perhaps, is Sober Hill Drive, but there is always Champagne Avenue, Punchbowl Lane, Chardonnay Close or Frolic Street.

There is Zin Zan Street, Gillygooley Road and Shaggy Calf Lane to name but a few.Top of Halifax’s list is High Street, and second is Station Road. Street names in Greater London reflect city dwellers’ yearning for the great outdoors. Park Road is the most common street name in the capital, bucking the national trend for High Street or Main Street to be favourite.There is no shortage of appropriate places to see in the New Year, including Millennium Harbour, Millennium Drive and Millennium Place. Not many would object to living in Pleasant Place, Bliss Close or Happyhillock Road, but there might be fewer takers for Nutts Avenue and Deadmans Lane, two of the more downbeat addresses identified in a survey of national street names conducted by Halifax.
Besides the functional names such as South Street and First Avenue, and those relating to Britain’s past, there are a number of wacky and unpronounceable entries in the A-Z of highways and byways in Britain, beginning with Aghaloo Road and ending with Zyburn Court. Kate Markey, editor of The Big Issue in the North, warned that secure accommodation in Kirklees would not solve the problems of the homeless.

“Getting them into the houses is only part of the battle – it’s keeping them there.”. YOU WOULDN’T want to take it personally if you lived in Moody Court, nor worry about your conversational skills if your address was Witter Avenue. The average weekly wage is pounds 314.60, against the UK mean of pounds 351.17.The council’s firmness with council house tenants who get into arrears leaves little scope for delinquent tenants: 300 eviction orders have been granted, of which the council has executed 40, in recent months.Prospective residents should take heart from a Wealth of the Nation report which showed that Huddersfield has one of the UK’s highest income growth rates. This a nice area to live and if there is a shortage down there we have plenty up here so why not come and join us?” An extract from publicity material for the television series has been dispatched.The empty stock is centred on the more deprived suburbs of Newsome and Crosland Moor, which are five miles from idyllic Holmfirth and Meltham, the setting for television’s Where the Heart is, but have unemployment rates of more than 9 per cent. So though there is a local waiting list for some homes, others have lain empty for months.Now every London borough has been alerted to Kirklees’s unwanted pounds 35- per-week one-bedroom flats and pounds 55-per-week post-war houses. “Everyone can relate to Last of the Summer Wine country,” Mr Earnshaw said.

“All I’ve seen on the news is that the South East is very crowded. THE CLICHeS about it being grim in the north are becoming more than a little tiresome to the authorities in West Yorkshire. More than 1,000 council homes stand empty in Kirklees and, in desperation, councillors are offering them to people from London. Kirklees Metropolitan Council in West Yorkshire’s Last of the Summer Wine country is trying to lure people from the capital to a new life. The vacant properties are spread across an area which includes Holmfirth, where the BBC series is filmed, and Huddersfield.
Locals are “very choosy” about their council houses, according to John Earnshaw, the council’s Voids Project Manager, whose job it is to fill them. The jury had to decide whether it was more likely than not that the allegation was true. “Because of the seriousness of the charge, the law requires proof on the allegation to be clear and highly convincing.”Keep that principle in mind at all times when considering the question of whether Mr Fayed has established that Mr Hamilton is guilty of corruption in his capacity as an MP.”Mr Hamilton is suing Mr Fayed over allegations on a January 1997 Channel 4 Dispatches programme that he had corruptly demanded rewards in return for asking parliamentary questions on behalf of the Harrods boss..

The element of compensation for physical injuries was often only 10 per cent of such an award.Mr Hamilton, his wife Christine and Mr Fayed listened as the judge said that even the most grievously injured person – who was blind, deaf, paralysed, brain damaged and unable to communicate – was most unlikely to be awarded as much as pounds 150,000 for pain, suffering, disability and loss of enjoyment of life.The judge said that Mr Fayed did not have to establish that every detail of his charge of corruption was true, but that it was true in substance and in fact. Starting his summing up, Mr Justice Morland said that the jury should remember that any award must be proportionate to the injury done.
Media reports of pounds 1m plus awards for personal injury were misleading, he added, in that 90 per cent or more of such sums were to pay for a lifetime’s worth of nursing or lost earnings. AN AWARD of more than pounds 150,000 damages would be excessive should Neil Hamilton win his cash-for-questions libel action against Mohamed Al Fayed, a High Court jury was told today. Mr Fayed denies libel and pleads justification.Mr Justice Morland said: “If you find that main thrust of Mr Al Fayed’s evidence credible, my strong advice to you is that you only act upon it if you are satisfied by highly convincing evidence, independent of Mr Al Fayed’s evidence which confirms that evidence of Mr Al Fayed.”The courtroom erupted in laughter before the lunchtime adjournment when the judge told the jury that as it was difficult at this time of year for their allowances to reach them by post, “they are going to be paid in cash”.. The element of compensation for physical injuries was often only 10 per cent of such an award.Mr Hamilton, his wife Christine and Mr Fayed listened as the judge said that even the most grievously injured person – who was blind, deaf, paralysed, brain damaged and unable to communicate – was most unlikely to be awarded as much as pounds 150,000 for pain, suffering, disability and loss of enjoyment of life.The former MP for Tatton is suing Mr Fayed over allegations on a January 1997 Channel 4 Dispatches programme that he had corruptly demanded and accepted cash payments, gift vouchers and a free holiday at the Paris Ritz in return for asking parliamentary questions on behalf of Harrods. His versions of events and occasions when he alleges payments were received from him by Mr Hamilton have varied and been markedly inconsistent, one with another.”All these matters mean, you may think, that Mr Al Fayed’s appreciation of what is fact and what is fiction and what is truth and what is fantasy is warped.”Therefore, I strongly advise you that it would be very dangerous to accept even those parts of Mr Al Fayed’s evidence that you find credible – and indeed would be unwise to do so – unless you are satisfied on evidence independent of Mr Al Fayed’s evidence which you find highly convincing and find confirms Mr Al Fayed’s evidence in a material way.”Mr Justice Morland also told the jury that if it decided in favour of Mr Hamilton, an award of more than pounds 150,000 damages would be excessive.He said that the jury should remember that any award must be proportionate to the injury done.Media reports of pounds 1m-plus awards for personal injury were misleading, he added, in that 90 per cent or more of such sums were to pay for a lifetime’s worth of nursing or lost earnings.