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MP: Town hall has no excuse for its failures

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Published date29 June 2022
Barry Sheerman hit out after the council declined to step in and secure the August festival for St George's Square which routinely attracts more than 100,000 people and provides a valuable spin-off for businesses in Huddersfield town centre. And he is still angry about the simmering row over the council's volte-face over proposals to create a museum at the birthplace of Rugby League in the George Hotel which it now owns

Mr Sheerman said: "I am deeply disappointed that we are not going to have the Huddersfield Food and Drink Festival for the third year running.

"It seems to me that it was the council's job to come in and lead from the front. Sometimes I want to see more imagination and now the council has full control there is no excuse for it not to show bold and imaginative leadership. As for the George Hotel and the proposals for a national Rugby League museum I am sure there are plenty of buildings a lot closer to the hotel that would have been suitable rather than the one the council suggested around quite a way off. If it was Shakespeare's

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