Date set for tourist office to shut down; New visitor information desk to open in library.Byline: BARRY GIBSON A CONTROVERSIAL office closure will go ahead next week. Campaigners have failed to stop Kirklees Council from shutting Huddersfield Tourist Information Centre tourist information centre tourist (Brit) n → Touristen-Informationszentrum nt on Albion Street. Kirklees announced yesterday that the office will close at noon next Friday Next Friday is the 2000 sequel to Friday , which depicts the neighborhood of South Los Angeles in a comedic sense. The hero, Craig Jones (Ice Cube), leaves home and moves in with his lottery winning and sex-crazed Uncle Elroy (Don "D.C." Curry) in Rancho Cucamonga. . A new tourist information tourist information - Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful, but contributes to a viewer's gestalt of what's going on with the software or hardware behind it. service will open in the foyer of Huddersfield Library 10 days later. It will be staffed until 5pm from Monday to Friday and until 4pm on Saturdays. The tourist information centre also handles ticket sales for dozens of groups, including 28 choirs. This service will move will move to Huddersfield Town Hall. There will also be an interim tourist information service in the town hall from October 17 to 23. The changes will save the council pounds 44,000 this year and pounds 14,000 in 2010/11. And Kirklees hopes that moving tourist information into the library - which has 540,000 visitors a year - will help promote Huddersfield. The council's Cabinet member for culture and leisure Clr Mary Harkin said: "We hope that all our current customers and lots of new ones will come to see the tourist information centre in its new home." But campaigners claim the move will damage Huddersfield's appeal to visitors. Stan STAN Stanchion STAN Stärke- und Ausrüstungsnachweis (German) Stan Standard Man (human patient simulator) STAN SEMCIP Technical Assistance Network STAN System Trace Audit Number STAN Star Trek Area Network Solomons, of the National Association of Choirs, led the fight to keep the Albion Street office open. The Cowcliffe man said yesterday: "I still feel the library is the wrong place to have tourist information. Most people when they arrive in a town don't go to the library for information, they go to the tourist information centre. "People go to the library to borrow books." Mr Solomons added that the new service in the library foyer would be inferior. He said: "They won't sell as many souvenirs and there isn't a window to display posters." For more information about tourism in Huddersfield call 01484 223 200 or email huddersfield.tic tic: see spasm. tic Sudden rapid, recurring muscle contraction—usually a blink, sniff, twitch, or shrug—always brief, irresistible, and localized. Frequency decreases from head to foot. @kirklees.gov.ukorhudderfield.information@kirklees.gov.uk Your view? Text: Exletters to 84080 Tel: 01484 437767 email: editorial@examiner.co.uk Forum: www.examiner.co.uk CAPTION(S): * LOSING BATTLE: Stan Solomons (left) and Eric Cooper protest outside the Huddersfield Tourist Information Centre on Albion Street. Inset: The new venue of Huddersfield Library |
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