WHILE reading Robert McNeil’s amusing article regarding the Presiding Officer at Holyrood (“Presiding over a bruising brouhaha”, The Herald, April 29), I was surprised to hear that woolly hats emblazoned with “Huddersfield Tourist Board” were banned as unsuitable clothing (allegedly) among our MSPs.
As a regular visitor to the fine town of Huddersfield over the last 30 years, may I call on all of your readers to demand that such woolly hats be taken off the banned list of headgear at Holyrood.
Among the many attractions of Huddersfield are possibly the finest railway station facade in the UK, the hotel where Rugby League was founded, many fine museums, a football team which recognised the talents of Denis Law as a 17-year-old and signed him, and last, but by no means least, the town is the Real Ale capital of the UK.
Many pubs brew their own ales and every pub in the place sells a selection of such ales. Even the afore-mentioned station has a real ale pub at each end of its magnificent neo-classical facade – both of which can be accessed from the main platform. Now, there’s an innovation which could and should be legislated for by the denizens of Holyrood, no more standing on cold and draughty platforms waiting for your train when a real ale pub or two is there to welcome you – Huddersfield’s unique cultural contribution to the history of the world.
So, rise up readers and demand that woolly hats with ”Huddersfield Tourist Board” be made compulsory headgear for all MSPs both inside and outside of Holyrood,
Ian Gartshore,
16 Barloan Place, Dumbarton.
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