Jan 18 2012 | Front and Back Pages
HERE are the front and back pages of tonight's Huddersfield Examiner. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
IT is, quite literally, a rags to riches story. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A POWER blackout left almost 100 homes in the dark for nearly 24 hours. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
HUDDERSFIELD MP Barry Sheerman has been chosen as co-chairman of a new regional lobby group. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
COMPUTER gadgetry now offers patients a quick short cut at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
WORK to build a social housing project on land that has remained empty for decades has begun. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
ANGRY mums have vowed to fight a plan to slash services at a popular children’s centre. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
GOOD causes have been handed £116,000 by a building society with roots in Huddersfield. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
COUNCIL officers will look at safety concerns on a busy Huddersfield road in the wake of a serious incident. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A WOMAN was hit in the face and robbed by two men in a town centre car park. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Health and Family
IT IS fairly widely known that Huddersfield was the first UK municipality to construct and operate its own tramway system. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Health and Family
It is almost two years since new mum Joanne Bingley took her own life after being severely affected by post-natal depression. This month marks the first anniversary of a memorial charity set up by her widower Chris, who is determined to improve care for those suffering from the condition. HILARIE STELFOX reports Read
Jan 18 2012 | Health and Family
A PICTURE published in the Examiner’s Memory Lane slot on December 22 was headed ‘Multiple Nativities’ and showed eight Princess Royal Maternity Home nurses holding a pre-Christmas batch of new-borns in 1948. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Other Sports
WITH literally just hours to go, Outlane darter Scott Waites has a major career decision to make. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Huddersfield Giants News
GIANTS Head of Youth Performance Pete Riding can’t wait for the start of the new Under 20s campaign. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Examiner Plus
JUDY MURRAY’S enthusiasm at taking over the British Fed Cup tennis team recently may well have been tempered just a few hours ago. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Examiner Plus
SAT there in his Brit Insurance replica top and with a knotted handkerchief on his head to guard against the beating sun, the England fan resigned himself to the fact that this was going to be a long day. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Amateur Rugby League
PREMIER DIVISION Read
Jan 18 2012 | Amateur Rugby League
MANY Huddersfield Pennine League teams fell victim to the icy blast at the weekend. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Huddersfield Giants News
TOMMY LEE has already set his heart on extending his stay at the Giants. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Huddersfield Giants News
SEAN O’LOUGHLIN has confirmed he will lead out Wigan in his testimonial clash against the Giants at the DW Stadium tomorrow night (8.00). Read
Jan 18 2012 | Amateur Rugby League
Premier Division: Wibsey Warriors postponed Slaithwaite Saracens, St Joseph’s post Drighlington. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
AN unemployed man who tried to earn some money by growing cannabis in his cellar has been jailed for 18 months. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
SUSPECTED car thieves were snared with the help of the West Yorkshire Police helicopter. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A FORGETFUL person sparked a bomb scare at Huddersfield Jobcentre. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A CANNABIS grower faces a special hearing before a crown court judge to decide whether he was producing the drug for his own use. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
HUDDERSFIELD people are being urged to put on their dancing shoes to take part in a national event. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
AGE Concern has changed its name to Age UK. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
MORE than 5,000 children will be staging their very own Olympic-style opening ceremony at the Galpharm Stadium. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Kirklees Business News
TAXPAYER-funded Royal Bank of Scotland saw its shares climb after announcing its biggest ever single disposal – the sale of its aircraft leasing business for nearly £5bn. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Kirklees Business News
FASHION and homeware retailer Matalan revealed a surge in sales in the run-up to Christmas. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A CHARITY set up to help people in the aftermath of road tragedies needs more people to staff its helpline or it will have to shut it down. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Kirklees Business News
CURRYS and PC World owner Dixons Retail said it had outperformed its struggling rivals – despite further sales woe over the Christmas period. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Kirklees Business News
FASHION retailer Burberry allayed fears of faltering demand after seeing its popularity grow in the world’s top shopping cities. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
MASKED ram-raiders smashed through a supermarket window to steal cigarettes. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
THREE weeks before a drug dealer was gunned down in Cornwall one of his alleged murderers said he would “get a gun and shoot him,” it has been claimed. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
VILLAGERS are threatening to take legal action against Kirklees Council to try to prevent huge wind turbines being built in picturesque countryside. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A PROTECTIVE brother lashed out after his young sibling was attacked by a man. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Examiner Plus
MY friend Russell used to call it “the unrequited hate affair”. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
TOWN fans are to hold their most strident protest yet in their battle to claim back shares in the Galpharm Stadium. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
POLICE have appealed for a man who stopped a Heckmondwike sex offender from allegedly abducting a child, to come forward. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Comment
KIRKLEES schools have certainly thought big to celebrate both the Olympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Examiner Plus
THANKS to the many people who contacted me after last week’s column about the birth of my daughter Ciara earlier this month. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A CONSERVATIVE councillor, convicted of benefit fraud, will have to wait another month to see if his party membership is revoked. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Comment
NOW the Huddersfield Town shares controversy is well and truly in the public domain it seems set to escalate. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
WHEN nurse Louise Murfin suffered a badly-broken leg, wedding plans had to be put on hold. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A MAN has appeared in court after breaching his bail conditions. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Unsorted
producing great showsRadio and TV producer Barney Colehan, who first came to prominence in 1946 as a BBC radio producer before going on to produce The Good Old Days and It’s A Knockout, came to Huddersfield Theatre Royal to see his friend, Allen Modley, who was appearing in the pantomime Babes In The Wood in January 1950. Mr Colehan is pictured (fourth right) with (from left) Mrs J Collinson, Squadron Leader and Mrs J W Smith, Mrs Colehan and Mr J Collinson.ke2625 Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
AN explosion has rocked one of Huddersfield’s biggest companies. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Reader Letters
AS a Kirklees ratepayer and a Giants supporter I have read with little attention to what I thought were unfair gripes from Town supporters regarding Ken Davy and their 40% shares in the stadium. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Unsorted
New Huddersfield cemetery a step nearer as controversial plans near approval Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A MAN has been jailed after biting and spitting at two police officers as he was arrested. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Huddersfield Town News
LEE CLARK is hoping for a rise in temperature as he plots the return of injured quartet Damien Johnson, Calum Woods, Scott Arfield and Alex Smithies. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Huddersfield Giants News
DALE FERGUSON will be the only new pre-season face for the Giants trip to Wigan tomorrow night (8.00). Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
ACTING legend Sir David Jason was spotted in Marsden yesterday. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Former home secretary Alan Johnson has launched a furious retaliation against Ed Miliband's union critics, branding them "delusional". Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
The latest state of the jobs market is to be revealed with new unemployment figures against a backdrop of increasingly gloomy predictions of redundancies. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
The opening of the Olympic Games and the summer holiday getaway could create "the perfect traffic storm", a roads' information company has said. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Thousands of lives and millions of pounds were lost needlessly because of a "dangerous delay" in the response to the East Africa famine, a report has found. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Disadvantaged young people who attend summer schools are 50% more likely to go on to top universities than their peers, a new report has found. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
A father has made an impassioned appeal for the public's help in finding his daughter's killer on the 19th anniversary of her death. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is leaving the struggling company as it tries to revive its revenue growth and win over disgruntled shareholders under a new leader. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Britain has the best B&Bs on Earth, according to tourists worldwide, it has been revealed. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
The law surrounding gang murder cases is now so complex that juries "may find it impossible to understand how to reach the right verdict", MPs have said. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
The effects of antiviral drug Tamiflu - which was stockpiled by the Government at the height of the swine flu pandemic - are still uncertain, researchers said as they accused pharmaceutical giant Roche of withholding data. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
A series of strikes by workers at consumer goods giant Unilever is set to start, with picket lines mounted at several sites in a worsening row over pensions. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Prime Minister David Cameron will hold talks on the eurozone debt crisis with the leader of one of the countries at the heart of the storm, Italy's Mario Monti. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
A decision is due on the bid by the City of London Corporation to evict anti-capitalist protesters from outside St Paul's Cathedral. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
A recession in Europe and weaker growth in India, Brazil and other developing countries is likely to slow global economic growth, the World Bank said. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Police are investigating allegations of child abuse by two British soldiers in Afghanistan. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
The captain of a cruise liner that crashed into rocks off Italy has been placed under house arrest following a court appearance. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Wikipedia has blacked out the English language version of its website in protest at anti-piracy laws being considered by the US government. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Huddersfield Town News
OLDHAM Athletic are still in the hunt for Huddersfield Town's Nathan Clarke - but finance could scupper the deal Read
Jan 18 2012 | Huddersfield Town News
THERE will be moves in League I this January.Transfer tongues have been wagging already. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
The Government is getting "increasingly interested" in the idea of a new airport in the Thames Estuary, London mayor Boris Johnson has said. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Unemployment has reached a 17-year high after a 118,000 increase in the jobless total, which saw a record number of young people out of work. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Passengers rescued from the cruise liner that crashed into rocks off Italy have spoken of their shock as the ship's captain was placed under house arrest. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
A spectacular flotilla reflecting Britain's maritime heritage has been assembled to celebrate the Queen's 60-year reign, organisers of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant announced. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
A fourth suspect has been arrested by detectives investigating allegations that Tottenham Hotspur spied on Olympic officials during its stadium bid. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Celebrity magazine editors have given a cautious welcome to a proposal for an official register of famous people who want to remain private. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Britain is ready to consider a request from the International Monetary Fund for additional resources to shore up ailing economies, Downing Street has said. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Insurance firms Direct Line and Churchill have been fined £2.17 million for fudging complaint files, including signature forgery, the City watchdog has said. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
The long-awaited inquiry into British complicity in torture is to be scrapped following the launch of fresh criminal investigations into claims of ill-treatment in Libya, the Justice Secretary has said. Read
Jan 18 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
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Jan 18 2012 | National News
The City of London Corporation has won its High Court bid to evict anti-capitalist protesters from outside St Paul's Cathedral. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Britain looks set be asked to increase its contribution to the International Monetary Fund, after the international organisation confirmed it is looking at raising an additional 500 billion US dollars to shore up ailing economies. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Doctors have rejected the Government's planned pension changes and two out of three would be prepared to take industrial action over the issue, it has been announced. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Emergency services are dealing with a light aircraft crash in Wales amid reports that two people had been killed. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group has announced 700 job cuts across the UK as chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio continues to overhaul the lender. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
The UK is in the middle of a "full-blown jobs crisis", unions have warned after unemployment reached a 17-year high and the number of young people out of work reached a record level. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
The High Court has backed the City of London Corporation's bid to evict anti-capitalist protesters from outside St Paul's Cathedral. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Two people have died after a light aircraft crashed into a mountain in Wales, police have confirmed. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Clothing chain Peacocks has fallen into administration - putting some 9,600 jobs at risk. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Britain looks set to be asked to commit more money to the International Monetary Fund, after the global organisation confirmed it was planning to raise an additional 500 billion US dollars to shore up ailing economies. Read
Jan 18 2012 | National News
Lawyers should be able to put questions to some witnesses appearing before Commons committees to help stop MPs probing issues such as phone hacking looking like "junior Perry Masons", Tom Watson has said. Read