THACKLEY TRUMPIT JULY 2014 JOE KING

Laugh

 I nearly passed me sweets round !

by Joe King

My First drink with my son.

I was reading an article last night about fathers and sons and memories came flooding back of the time I took my son out for his first pint. 
Off we went to our local which is only two blocks from the house.
I got him a Fosters He didn't like it – so I had it.
Then I got him a Carling Black Label, he didn't like it, so I had it.
It was the same with the 1664 Lager and Premium Dry Cider.
By the time we got down to the whisky I could hardly push the bloody pram back home.

BREAKING NEWS!

The Pound/Euro
The British Penny  -  European Union Directive No. 456179
 In order to bring about further integration with the single European currency, the Euro, all citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland must be made aware that the phrase “Spending a Penny” is not to be used after 31 December 2014.
From this date onwards, the correct term will be:
“Euronating".
It is hoped that this will be a great relief to everyone.

Hello -- I have questions!

Why isn’t the number 11 pronounced  onety-one?
If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhoea...does that mean that one out of five enjoys  it?
Why do croutons come in airtight packages?
Aren't they just stale bread to begin with?
If people from Poland are called Poles, then why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car is not called a racist?
If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, then doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?
Do Lipton Tea employees take 'coffee breaks?'
What hair colour do they putt on the driver's licenses of bald men?
I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks, so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use, Toothpicks?
Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them?  Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?

Shorties

A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their tournament  victories. After an hour, the manager came out and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked. "Because," he said, "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."

I sent my girlfriend a huge pile of snow. I rang her up and said: "Did you get my drift?"

Slept like a log last night. Woke up in the fireplace.

I met a Dutch girl with inflatable shoes last week, phoned her up for a date but she'd popped her clogs.

I rang up BT. I said: "I want to report a nuisance caller." He said: "Not you again."

"My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that."

When Susan's boyfriend proposed, she said: "I love the simple things in life but I don't want one of them for my husband."

THACKLEY TRUMPIT JULY 2014 FORMERLY OF THIS PARISH

Formerly of this Parish

John Wood, laments on the good, the bad & the ugly

It’s so sad. The sound of bacon and eggs cooking, the marvellous smell wafting through the kitchen have all been banished for ever in a fight against the dreaded acid stomach. Its been a battle slowly unfurling, from the day they whipped out the faithful gallbladder the system has been groaning under the weight of in-balance. Too much of this too little of that and the mixture fails to rise, in my case, it rises too much. Slowly the type of food that is deemed good diminishes to rabbit food whilst the good old stalwarts like bacon and egg are verboten.
What this does for ones own mental well being need investigation. Is the remedy worth the pain and the emotional mis-location as one pads around the kitchen in search of a healthy breakfast.
The foods one can eat are un-appetising, lacking taste and have no smell. The extravaganza of a fry-up with fried bread is a memory, clouded with the discomfort of dyspepsia, its a no go but the alternatives are so bland as to make one forget to eat !!   

Pennina Dale - Toronto

GODERICH...You remember, don't you?  Of course you do!  Well, I was there again a couple of weeks ago. Just a quick two-day visit. Lovely! especially now summer's here and the residents are now well and truly over the after-effects of the tornado of 2011. New trees in fresh green glory all around the court house again; many old favourite stores reopened and refurbished, and some that didn't make it replaced by new and very welcome   others. I was lucky enough to be on the harbour pier - on a glorious sunny morning - when a massive ocean-going ship from way up in Algoma (Northern Ontario) was coming in to load up with the precious salt which is mined from deep in the harbour waters. This giant was being nudged in by Goderich's three tiny tug-boats, all saying "me too, me too, me too!" They do so put me in mind of little puppy-dogs - never fails!  Another boat in from Hong Kong, too. The one full day I had was spent being driven around (for a change!) to a host of local towns (Southampton was one), and other interesting places. The day was rounded off very nicely (in Kincardine) for a superb fish-and-chips supper, followed by the sun setting over Lake Huron. Next morning a quick trot along the boardwalk, stopping to pick up a few new pebbles and stones to add to my garden collection, a yummy doughnut and coffee from Culbert's Bakery, and then it was (rather reluctantly) back on the trail to Toronto. I'm already eagerly anticipating my next trip to "Ontario's West Coast"!

THACKLEY TRUMPIT JULY 2014 BRIDLEWAYS

Bridleways

By Christine Hardaker

The longest day has passed and my pony still hasn’t lost all his winter coat yet, that’s usually a sign of Cushing’s disease - but then it’s possibly just old age. But with current research finding that a very high percentage of equines over the age of fifteen have got Cushing’s, probably the old saying that elderly horses hold onto their winter coats would mean that those that did stay hairy   probably had undiagnosed Cushing’s.
On the other hand my retired gelding, who is twenty seven this year, has lost all his winter coat and I think he started to moult earlier this year. That got me wondering if, after his body has settled down now having stopped the medication for his Cushing’s, perhaps he’s getting back to a more normal hormonal routine. Cushing’s is a disease which upsets the hormonal balance. So in a normal horse the coat would   begin to change as the days lengthen or shorten. The change in light received by the brain sends a signal to the pituitary gland, which then triggers the release of a hormone which controls the growth of the next coat change.
My retired gelding is still looking good for his age. I attribute that partly to the new diet I started him on over two years ago now. That was also when I noticed he was doing much better than in previous years and made me decide to try reduce his pergolide dose. I still had him blood tested at regular intervals to make sure the hormone that they measure as a diagnosis hadn’t risen back to dangerous levels. Each result has been normal, apart from one which was taken last October. This is the month when normal horses’ ACTH would rise but in a horse with Cushing’s, it rises dramatically. That’s what it did, it had spiked to higher than it had ever been. I made a calculated decision not to put him back on medication because his condition had remained exactly the same so I watched him like a hawk for the next few weeks, and he never changed.  So I had him tested again in March this year, and the levels had dropped back to normal. That was very puzzling because usually, once a diagnosis is made, it is a condition you have to manage for the rest of the horse’s life, and the vets are amazed too.
I’ve had some worrying reports of horses being spooked by cyclists using an outdoor track in Esholt woods. It was first brought up by Pam who founded WHOA. She had walked her dogs in that area and had become very worried, not only for horse riders but also for the destruction to the forest floor by the cyclists digging ramps and banks on corners. Worst fear though was that the track had appeared to have been extended across the bridleway to the other side. The potential for accidents involving a bike and a horse just doesn’t bear thinking about but I bet many horse riders reading this will envisage their horses not getting anywhere near the cyclists if, as two riders recently found out, they are travelling a breakneck speed towards you!  Two cyclists came hurtling towards them as they were on the bridleway and both horses spooked, both riders luckily just managed to stay in the saddle.
I’m appealing for anyone else who has had a fright passing in this area to call me or e-mail me please, we need to gather evidence that this track being so close to the bridleway is a hazard and it needs to be diverted away from it before there is a nasty accident.  I’m sure no horse rider would begrudge cyclists pursuing their hobby but given that they tend to like to travel at such high speeds, and in general, horses would spook at them moving at such speed, there clearly needs to be some distance made between the cycle track and the bridleway.  It is somewhat annoying that if horse riders had done this sort of excavation anywhere other than on their own farm, there would be an outcry and barriers would have been erected to shut us out.  In fact I do seem to remember quite some years ago there were complaints about kids jumping their ponies over logs in Buck Woods, and recent enquiries about reopening the barrier on Ainsbury Avenue has been met with the usual stumbling block of needing funding to erect fencing to keep us out of the main woods!  It’s the same story on the canal towpaths……I better stop now I could go on all day! I have e-mailed Bradford Council Countryside and Rights of Way manager, manager of Woodlands of Bradford and a councillor for that ward to organise an urgent site meeting with them next week.  I’ll report back with news next month but in the meantime, if you’re riding to Esholt woods, please take great care but try not to be put off, we need to keep every bridleway open.
There was another WHOA meeting on 25th June where Pam updated us with all the work she had been busy with since the last one two months ago. Unfortunately her pc died the day before the meeting so she couldn’t print out the list for me but she certainly had been very busy doing her best to research old and new bridleways. One of the subjects was a new Greenway which is being proposed to run from Menston to Otley via Burley in Wharfedale using mainly the old railway line. There was a touring public consultation which I managed to get to at Menston. We had made an extra effort to attend this one because there was no mention of horse riders being included in the plans. Other Greenways in the region have been constructed to accommodate horse riders so we needed to attend to make sure we were included before the plans got too far ahead. We were relieved to discover when we got there that due to the width of the proposed track, it is going to be suitable for equestrians as well as cyclists and pedestrians. The lady we spoke to at the church hall display was from  SUSTRANs and she explained that these off road routes were called “greenways” so they are not “owned” by any particular user and are to be used by all for leisure or commuting to work, rail stations or schools at a slow pace and to link villages avoiding roads and traffic. So in effect horses are not specifically excluded from this project but even so, we will keep an eye on this project, and make sure horses are not forgotten.
If you have any info about the Esholt Bridleway and encounters with cyclists or any other horsy information / questions, contact me on:
christinehardaker@supanet.com
or call me on 07739708727

THACKLEY TRUMPIT JULY 2014 GONE FISHIN with Idle and Thackley Angling Association

Gone Fishin...

with Idle and Thackley Angling Association

Beginners Tips

If you are thinking of taking up angling or are new to the sport here are some useful tips. Licenses-all freshwater anglers must be in possession of a current Environment Agency Rod License which are available from Post Offices. You should also join a club or pay for a day ticket to fish most venues. Day tickets on our length of the canal for example at Dobson locks Apperley Bridge can be obtained on the bank for only £3 adults or £1.50 for juniors and are available from Eccleshill Angling Supplies.
Many beginners have a tendency to make the mistake of buying short rods of only 6ft or so which can make casting much more difficult. If you are buying a rod buy the longest you can cope with and afford. Reel spools should always be filled with line to within a few mm of the lip of the spool. This makes the line come off the spool much smoother and helps casting. If necessary build up the level of the spool with some old line or fine string first before putting on the new line. Line breaking strain should be just heavy enough for the fish you   intend to catch and for the venue. Use 4 to 6lb line for river fishing for larger fish such as chub and barbel but fish much finer 2lb or less on canals and rivers for smaller fish such as roach and perch. Always fish with a slightly weaker short hook length of about a foot so that if you get fast on anything it will break there and you will not loose a lot of line or tackle.
Hook size should be varied depending on the baits being used. For heavily fished waters small hooks such as size 20 or even 22 are needed for small baits such as maggot. Use 16 or 14 hooks for medium sized baits such as worm, bread and sweetcorn. Larger hooks 12 to size 6 should be used for large baits such as luncheon meat and bread. Always weight your float correctly so that only a small part of the tip is showing. For lakes canals and ponds you should bunch most of the non-toxic weights at the bottom of the float with just a few very small ones down the line. This makes casting much easier with fewer tangles and also makes the bait fall slowly through the water leading to many more bites. For river fishing a more even string of weights between float and hook or bunched weights lower down the line may be more effective.
Look after the environment and don’t leave any discarded line, non toxic weights, litter or empty tins anywhere. Take them home and put them in the dustbin.

Swainby R Swale Open Match Result 22.6.14

The River was just above normal summer level for the first match of the season. Matty Prudhoe won the match with   2 chub and a few dace weighing 8lb 1oz on stick float and maggot from peg 40.  Second was George Huscroft 2lb 12 oz from peg 72 and third was Mark Allison 1lb 6oz from peg 47.
Future Swainby Matches- July 6th, July 20th,  Aug 3rd, Aug 24th, Sept 7th, Sept 21st, Oct 5th, Oct 19th, Nov 9th, Nov 23rd, Dec 14th and Dec 28th. For Bookings ring  Charlie Hardaker 01274 615016.
Contacts- If want any further information or have any  reasonably sensible suggestions contact.
Phone 01274 615016.
Web Site - idleandthackaa.supanet.com.
Email idleandthackaa@supanet.com

THACKLEY TRUMPIT JULY 2014 VIEW FROM MUPPET HILL By Waldorf

VIEW FROM MUPPET HILL   By Waldorf 

THACKLEY AFC

It is often said that the older one gets, the faster the passage of time, and once again a new season dawns for the Dennyboys. It seems only a couple of weeks ago that we were travelling down to Rotherham to play Parkgate in the final match of last season, in fact it was the last weekend in April. The scoreline, a two all draw, just about summed up the whole of our last campaign, finishing in a rather disappointing thirteenth position in the league. Although Thackley did manage to win something last season, the April Fair Play award for the Premier Division. 
A new season brings hope for something better, as always, the   ultimate aim is to win promotion to the next level of the pyramid, in Thackley's case the Evo-Stik League. There are also a number of trophies to play for, the most prestigious of which is the FA Cup, the best that club's at our level can hope for is a reasonable run in the competition and picking up a few quid on the way. However, the FA Vase is a different story, and Thackley have a reasonable chance of progressing to the latter stages and the possibility of, albeit somewhat optimistic, playing on the hallowed turf of Wembley. Again prize money is on offer for each victory, a successful run can make a big difference to a club's financial well being. The West Riding County Cup and the League Cup are other competitions that  Thackley are involved in, but these, although well worth winning, carry nothing in the way of financial reward.
New Manager, Andy Patterson, starts his first full season at the helm, having been appointed after taking charge of the final six games of the last campaign. Three defeats, two draws and a win was not the best start to his managerial career but the committee wanted continuity and Andy, being an ex player and still involved with the club, gave them that. I am sure after this rather faltering start, he will turn things around and will begin the season with a bang, only time will tell. He will be assisted by Mick Watson and Greg Beswick. Mick has been around Thackley for some time now, involved at both senior and junior level. Greg hails from York and was previously involved with the York Academy side. Pre-season training started during the final week of June, it is hoped that the majority of last season's players will be returning, and I am sure that the management team will be adding a few more names to the list. It would be nice to start the current campaign in similar fashion to last year, when Thackley won their opening seven league matches.  
There have been the inevitable changes to the constitution of the Premier Division, which last season consisted of twenty three teams. Five teams have left the league, (Brighouse Town promoted, Lincoln Moorlands and Winterton Rangers relegated, Basford United and Long Eaton United have moved to the new Midland Football League). Four teams have joined the league, (Worksop Town and Wakefield have dropped from the Evo-Stik, Shaw Lane Aquaforce and Cleethorpes Town have been promoted from the First Division), reducing the number of teams competing this season to twenty two. Worksop Town were not relegated, in fact they finished in fourth  position in the Evo-Stik Premier Division last season. However, financial difficulties, their owner and sole backer left the club and so they resigned from their league and were re located in the Northern Counties East Premier   Division. It is reported that their wage bill last year was well over £100,000, little wonder then that they are struggling now. I believe that their future is still rather uncertain, as they play their matches at Worksop Parramore's ground and there is some problems regarding their tenancy next season. At the time of writing, it is rumoured that Wakefield will not be around to start next season, it is reported that they are to be 'wound up'. Wakefield started out as the original Emley team, founded in 1903, after nearly 100 years playing at the ground in the village, they left in pursuit of promotion to a higher level, to play their football at Wakefield Trinity Wildcat's Ground, Belle Vue, in 2000. Although they did win promotion, they always struggled to get much support and after a rather nomadic few years, decided this season to return to play their games at the ground they had left fourteen years previously, sharing the facilities with AFC Emley, a new club formed in 2005 and currently in the NCEL First Division. So, some doubt at this moment in time of the exact number of teams that remain in the Premier Division, but all should be sorted out  before the season starts on Saturday 9th August. 
Thackley have rationalised the number of teams that they will be running at senior level next    season. They have dropped their Under 19 and Under 17 sides, these will be replaced with an Under 18 side playing in the Huddersfield League on Sunday afternoons at Apperley Bridge. They will, of course, be maintaining the First Team and the Reserves (Lancashire League), playing their matches at Dennyfield.
The League fixtures for next season are not yet available, but a number of pre-season friendlies have been arranged. They begin with an away trip to Durham City of the Northern League on Saturday 12th July. This is followed by three home fixtures, Colne (North West Counties League) on Tuesday 15th July; Kendal Town (Evo-Stik) on Saturday 19th July and Knaresborough Town (Northern Counties) on Tuesday 22nd July. A visit to North West Counties side Barnoldswick Town has been arranged for Monday 28th July. I believe there may be another couple of fixtures to fit in, thus ensuring that the players are fit and raring to go before the season starts for real in August.
The club's AGM is to be held on Monday 14th July in the clubhouse starting at 7.30pm.
Thackley's pre-season fixtures :-
Sat. 12th July Durham City away KO 3.00pm; Tue.15th July Colne home KO 7.45pm;
Sat. 19th July Kendal Town home KO 3.00pm; Tue. 22nd July Knaresborough Town home        KO 7.45pm;
Mon. 28th July Barnoldswick Town away
KO 7.45pm.   

THACKLEY TRUMPIT JUNE 2014 SAVE IDLE MOOR THE IDLE LORD

The Thackley Trumpit

( Incorporating ‘The Idle Chatterer’ & ‘The Closing Times’ )

Tel. 07944969335   Email: billco@blueyonder.co.uk

Concreting My Childhood – Save Idle Moor

 By Steve Wilson The Idle Lord

The Bradford Metropolitan district is a large sprawling area not often cited for its beauty. However, some 70% is green space and quite stunning in parts; it’s not all dark satanic mills up here.
This may not be the case if the rampant greed of property developers is allowed to hold sway over the next few years as house builders awake from years of recession.
Ilkley Moor…where locals wait armed with crossbows should Bradford Planners approach…
There are some very desirable outlying areas such as Addingham, Bingley and Ilkley, albeit that if Scotland gets independence, you can bet Ilkley will be hard on their heels.
Inner Bradford – a mix of the good, the bad and the downright ugly – does contain some really nice places to live too. Developers recognise this, hence a plethora of planning applications reflecting the current resurgence in the UK’s mad property market.
Driven by an easing of credit and very short memories, prices are surging once again. 
George Osborne…unlikely to be buying a 3 bedroom semi in Bradford
The politicians tell us they have the current situation under control; this is patently b******s as a modest flicker upwards of interest rates would be seismic. 
Regardless, the quest for attractive land to build on means green spaces    everywhere are under immense threat. 
Spivs and speculators everywhere despite what Uncle Vince says
There are 3 separate planning applications in this part of the city for almost 1,200 new homes. Now we have another proposal for 70 new houses on Idle Moor, to be built on land that was previously a mine. The locals have a case for feeling somewhat shafted.
The land is classed as Urban Green Space and, if opened up, you can bet that subsequent applications will    follow as each field is picked off like a domino effect.
For example, the recent failure of plans to develop a nearby football pitch have temporarily land-locked a brown-field site – the old boiler works – approval of this plan is one more piece in the jigsaw to open this. 
Developers spread like a cancer.
It’s gold rush time again…lets have another crash!
According to protesters there are over 300 houses for sale in Idle & Thackley so 1300 extra houses hardly seem a priority. This is not to count the number of empty homes lying waste, estimated at over 1m nationally.
Local schools are already oversubscribed as are health practices and the roads are jammed so much there is hardly enough space for the local hooligans to try to break their necks doing wheelies on their souped up BMX’s.
The developer – MGL Homes Ltd – is listed in Idle but has little real local     interest other than turning a few quid. The majority shareholder lives in rural Pickering where they are a little more reluctant to concrete green fields. 
A cursory look at the last filed accounts (30/11/12) shows little substance nor evidence of consistent trading. Put bluntly, this is a punt to grab a quick buck and the council should recognise this.
Eric to the rescue?
Of course, protesters largely live in houses built on green fields too so developers will argue their protests are inadmissible; this is missing the point completely. Development should be planned, sustainable and not limitless; clearly the current proposals are not.
Protesters might expect to take comfort in the fact that previous, smaller planning applications have been rejected by the Secretary of State and the reasons for these rejections have not changed. However, the Government’s obsession with new housing suggests not.
Bradford Council has convinced itself that it needs some 40,000 homes over the next decade and, as ever, they are taking a “cut”. Sport & Leisure are demanding a bung of £121k for “the provision of recreation open space and playing fields due to the extra demands placed on the locality by this development.” How will they provide open space when they are concreting it all? This is a blatant lie as the only recreation provided in the area is by private clubs because the council simply has no strategy at all.
It would be another severe beating on the doorstep and a bucket of cold water to wash off the dust before Blue Peter.
I grew up playing on Idle Moor, roaming the fields of the Booth’s farm hoping not to get shot or gored by a bull, coming home black bright like a miner as we played commandos    rolling in the coal dust on the moor, our own Utah Beach. Fortunately, Mr Booth never shot us.
We played King of the Castle on a little hill right where they want to build crappy boxes. It was here that I realised throwing the object of your teenage desires off the top was not a way to her heart. Limbs luckily intact she vanished very quickly mumbling “psycho…”We fumbled in long grass on silly, endless summer days, coming home red-faced and none the wiser. We ran, we hid, we mucked about; sometimes we hit golf balls for as far as we could with no hope of ever finding them but secretly aiming at the cows. We had free space and we loved it, but in these money obsessed times of greed these simple things seem not to matter. To hell with the quality of   people’s lives nor the right to some free space from the claustrophobia of modern life. Finally, one look at the Planning Committee sitting for the next scheduled meeting at Wacky Hall down in Bradford would fill most objectors with dread for there is only one that represents a ward remotely near.
One more nail in the coffin for a part of the city where life is still good.

THACKLEY TRUMPIT JUNE 2014 ECCLESHILL TREATMENT CENTRE

Possible Closure of Eccleshill Treatment Centre

A reader in Idle contacted me last month regarding the closure of  the Eccleshill Treatment Centre and has received the following information and is happy to pass it on to all Trumpit readers.
From: Jeanette Sunderland 
Hello Peter 
I understand that you have rung the office about the Eccleshill Treatment Centre. Please see below the latest info put out be David (about an hour ago). If you want anything else then please don't hesitate to get in touch. Hope all is well. Jeanette
Eccleshill Treatment Centre
Care UK was awarded the contract to provide services at Eccleshill Treatment Centre from July 2010. The Treatent Centre was one of the first Independent Treatment Centres in the country and was established in 2005.
The current contract for the services provided from Eccleshill Treatment Centre started in July 2010 and was awarded to a private company, Care UK, for three years and extended for one year to allow for a new contract to be awarded. Contracts for services for patients in Bradford are awarded by the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s)  Intensive efforts are being made to ensure that services currently provided by Care UK at the Eccleshill Treatment Centre continue to be provided, either at the Centre by other qualified providers for example by another private contractor or by the National Health Service itself or elsewhere if capacity spare capacity exists.
I have been told that Care UK "are being fantastic with staff" in terms of informing them about what is happening. There still seems to be a lack of understanding about what has happened and why Care UK was not awarded the contract for a further three years. This lack of understanding is not helped by the failure of the CCG to publicly state, in detail, why the contract was not renewed. The CCG state that this failure to provide further details is because of the commercial sensitivity of the information at a time when the CCG is working hard to find alternative providers. This may well be true but it is resulting in not only a degree of suspicion about the motive behind the failure to renew the contract but also a belief by some of the Care UK staff that they are purposely being kept in the dark. At a time when the Care UK staff are fearful of their futures this can only make matters worse for them.
The whole issue was discussed at a meeting of the Council's Health and Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 7 May. Because of the commercial confidentiality already referred to, the meeting had to go into a private session with the public excluded. In the public session of the meeting it became quite clear that the contract with Care UK has been subsidised with funding that had to be taken elsewhere from the NHS budget. The meeting agreed to receive a report after the 7th July with details of the services that would continue to be provided after the present contract with Care UK came to its end.
Progress by the CCG in ensuring that services continue to be available after the 7th July were reported to a meeting of GPs and Practice Managers on 8th May. It seems that some of the work currently carried out at the Eccleshill Treatment Centre will continue to be carried out there by qualified providers* with some of the other work being carried out elsewhere by existing providers. The CCG gave assurances that the    Eccleshill Treatment Centre will not close. The following services of the Eccleshill Community Hospital Campus are NOT affected by the retendering of services from the Treatment Centre and continue as normal. These are the Eccleshill Community Hospital, Ashcroft Surgery, GP Out of Hours Service, Ear, nose and throat services (ENT), the Community Hospital and the Musculoskeletal (MSK) services.
In Westminster, I have met with the Head of Hospital Inspections for the Care Quality Commission and received reassurances that anyone who takes over these contract would be subject to rigorous monitoring and regulation.
*A qualified provider can either be a part of the National Health Service or a private contractor. Since April 2012, patients have more choice about which health services they can use within the NHS. The Any Qualified Provider (AQP) scheme means that, for some conditions, patients will be able to choose from a range of approved providers, such as hospitals or high street service providers. Patients and GPs can choose a service based on what's important to them – perhaps one that is closer to home, has a shorter waiting list or better outcomes.
With Best Wishes  David Ward MP

Eccleshill Treatment Centre
I have again discussed with the CCG the progress that is being made to protect the services provided at the Eccleshill Treatment Centre (ETC). I have been assured that intensive efforts are being made by the CCG to seek a way forward that involves maximising the provision of NHS services in the ETC when the existing contract with Care UK ends on 7th July.  
All the adverts for Alternative Qualified Providers are now out but there then has to be a four week period so they can write their bids and we will know the level of interest. A tentative expression of interest in taking over the whole of the building has been received from two potential service providers but it would contravene the strict procurement rules to develop these further until the tender period has ended when all expressions of interest can be evaluated.
The building is not owned by the CCG (it is owned by NHS Property Services) and this adds to the complexity of seeking future service providers.
It is important to once again stress that the Community Hospital, Ashcroft GP Surgery & GP out-of-hours service are all unaffected by the changes that are now being considered for the ETC.
The CCG will be shortly providing a more detailed update along with a comprehensive Q&A statement which will be published on their website  www.bradfordcityccg.nhs.uk/ 
With Best Wishes   David Ward MP

Let us all hope this matter will be resolved to the satisfaction of all concerned and the area has its Treatment Centre back in operation as swiftly as possible. Thank you Peter for your efforts in this controversial matter.