Apr 13 2012 | Arts News
A HOST of contemporary artists take part in an art show at the Harrison Lord Gallery, Brighouse. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Val Javin
ELLAND Silver Band’s 23rd Annual Slow Melody, quartet and junior duets contest takes place on Sunday, May 6. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Val Javin
TWO of India’s most acclaimed Carnatic Violinists will be performing at Dewsbury Town Hall on Sunday. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield music news
THEY sold three million records and then disappeared. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield music news
THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY (12A, 93 mins) 2/10 Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield music news
Ghost launch Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield music news
Festival cancelled Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield music news
Lap tapping strum Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A WOMAN who was allegedly raped by two footballers told police she could not remember the attack and suspects her drink was spiked, a court heard yesterday. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A MAN cleared out his estranged partner’s wardrobes and burned some of her clothes in a wheeled bin, Kirklees magistrates heard yesterday. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A LEADING historian with 46 books to his name is to make history himself. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
“IT TOOK a long time to build up the country’s deficit and it will take a long time to get it down.” Read
Apr 13 2012 | Kirklees Business News
THE Co-op’s stalled acquisition of 632 bank branches being sold by Lloyds Banking Group faces further pressure after a rival tabled a renewed offer. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Kirklees Business News
PUBS operator Punch Taverns revealed a 20% drop in profits as the consumer spending slump continues to squeeze the business. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Kirklees Business News
RETAILER JD Sports Fashion posted a fall in profits as it admitted it will need more time to revive ailing outdoor chain Blacks Leisure. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Kirklees Business News
HUNDREDS of UK workers employed by Sony are waiting to hear if they will be hit by an announcement of 10,000 job losses – 6% of the electronics giant’s global workforce. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
YOUNGSTERS from Mirfield will put their best foot forward as they prepare to do a sponsored walk in aid of the Meningitis Trust’s Toddle Waddle event. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield Giants News
EXCITED Luke Robinson is happy for the Giants to produce another ‘ugly’ performance at Hull on Sunday – if it can guarantee Challenge Cup fourth-round success. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Other Sports
SARAH HOLT has thrown within centimetres of her personal best after just two outings this year – but still she has mixed feelings over the start of her Olympic qualifying campaign. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Rugby Union News
HUDDERSFIELD will return to a top-three spot if they can win at relegation threatened Nuneaton tomorrow (3.00). Read
Apr 13 2012 | Dale Tempest
THE internal problems at Manchester City have, for me, been highlighted this week. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Kevin Brown column
THERE’S a feeling among many of us that our home win over Hull on Easter Monday was our best of the season. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield Giants News
HUDDERSFIELD Giants have a tough task on their hands if they are going to progress to the fifth round of the Challenge Cup on Sunday. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Bowls News
THE Huddersfield Indoor Bowls Club held their annual presentation at Huddersfield Sports Centre. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Rugby Union News
WITH their Yorkshire I status guaranteed, YMCA travel to promotion-chasing Driffield in optimistic mood tomorrow. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Football News
AFC EMLEY aim to extend their unbeaten run to seven games when they entertain fifth-placed Pontefract Collieries in their latest Northern Counties East League First Division game at the Welfare Ground tomorrow. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Football News
KIRKBURTON suffered a crushing 5-1 defeat by West Riding County Amateur League leaders Ovenden WR in their Premier Division Cup semi-final clash. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield Town News
SIMON BALDRY, left, scored a late winner as a Guiseley side including three other ex-Town players lifted the West Riding FA Cup with a 1-0 win over Bradford PA at Valley Parade. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield Town News
FORMER Rochdale manager and Manchester City coach Steve Eyre is Town’s new senior professional development coach. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield Giants News
WORLD Cup winner David Fa’alogo believes the Giants have what it takes to taste Wembley glory. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield Town News
GLYNN SNODIN expects a positive reaction when Town begin the countdown to another League I play-off bid at Preston tomorrow. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield Town News
FRANK WORTHINGTON, who watched last Saturday’s Galpharm derby clash with Sheffield Wednesday, was on the scoresheet last time Town won at Preston. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield Town News
SIMON GRAYSON will pit his Town side against Preston tomorrow promising fans: “The promotion dream is still very much alive.” Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A CANCER charity is being boosted by a Huddersfield town centre store this month. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
MEMBERS of Huddersfield Croquet Club were joined by absolute beginners to raise money for Breast Cancer Care. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
IT wasn’t egg-cactly the weather they planned. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
INSPECTORS have announced that a Colne Valley nursery is top of the class. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
IT’S a striking tribute to the pub next door. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Examiner Plus
I HAVE always thought Wallace Hartley did not get the credit he deserved. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Comment
MOST charities are exceptionally deserving but Guide Dogs For The Blind is certainly an outstanding one. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
FORMER Huddersfield Giants hooker Scott Moore, is facing an uncertain future in sport after another disciplinary problem. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Examiner Plus
FORMER teacher Margaret Kenworthy is getting ready to say a fond farewell to her star pupil. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
BRIT award winners Mumford & Sons are to play Greenhead Park in Huddersfield. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Examiner Plus
COCKNEY rhyming slang was not dying out, I said last week. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
PATIENTS in Huddersfield Royal Infirmary are not sent home at night, it has been confirmed. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Salendine Nook, Marsh, Lindley news
“WE’RE going to bring a party to Huddersfield”. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Comment
THE rising cost of day care has become starkly clear in today’s paper. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A MAN who downloaded more than 1,300 indecent images of young children on his computer has escaped a jail term. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
OFFICIALS have moved a step closer to winning special status for Castle Hill – reducing chances that a pub will be built at the landmark site. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A BIG crackdown on dog owners who fail to clean up is continuing in Calderdale. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
AMATEUR photographers have put their work on display at Queensgate Market. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A MOUNTAIN rescue team will have a new base in a village park, despite objections from residents. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
OVER-75s are being offered free checks to help them stay safe in their own homes. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A BROKEN down freight train caused disruption to Huddersfield rail services yesterday afternoon. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A PENSIONER was shocked when Kirklees Council increased her day care charges by nearly 50% overnight. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
AN AMBULANCE union has reinforced claims that Huddersfield ambulance staff are being sent out of the area. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A DOZEN youngsters took part in a sponsored toddle to raise money for children’s charity Barnardo’s. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
THE University of Huddersfield has made a new appointment. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A TEENAGE yob has been banned from a Mirfield estate. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
NEW residents have moved into a Huddersfield care home. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
TRAIN operators running services through Huddersfield have improved their time-keeping. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A MEDIA company in Elland is recruiting 35 staff for its call centre. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
A MAN who claims he was a victim of repeated sexual abuse at a West Yorkshire school has denied a suggestion that he was looking for someone to blame for his difficult life. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
HEALTH services are changing and you could help shape the future. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
COUNCILLORS last night decided to keep a town centre shop vacant. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
IT is another blow for Huddersfield town centre. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
ROAD improvements are due to get underway in Dalton and Almondbury over the next week. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
STRUGGLING retailer Mothercare is to axe another 111 UK stores over the next three years in a move hitting 730 jobs. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Unsorted
Only a few years after criticising the then Labour government for trying to monitor the internet the Tory-Lib Dem coalition is proposing a very similar thing. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Reader Letters
THE government has kept it very quiet that in the new Working Tax reforms that anyone aged 50 to 60 has now to find employment of 30 hours per week to be able to claim Tax Credit as they have scrapped the over 50s subsidy. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Two youths have been arrested over the recordings of calls made to Scotland Yard's Anti-Terrorist Hotline, police said. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Police are questioning two youths over the recordings of calls made to Scotland Yard's Anti-Terrorist Hotline. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
All Pakistanis wanting to study in Britain will be interviewed face to face as part of measures being trialled to crack down on bogus applications. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
One in five supermarket chickens is contaminated with the food poisoning bacteria campylobacter, an investigation has found. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Royal Mail has imposed a cap on the number of stamps every shop can buy to ensure it benefits from price rises later this month. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Formula One's governing body, the FIA, has said the Bahrain Grand Prix will go ahead as planned despite ongoing political instability in the country and threats by some groups to disrupt the event. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
The Government will pave the way for cigarette packets to be stripped of all branding, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has said. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
North Korea has fired a long-range rocket, South Korean and US officials said, defying international warnings against moving forward with a launch widely seen as a provocation. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
The Foreign Office is underfunded and further cuts could damage its ability to successfully operate for Britain overseas, a committee of MPs has said. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Foreign Secretary William Hague said he was "deeply concerned" about North Korea firing a long-range rocket in defiance of international warnings. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Proposals to rebrand community support officers are to be presented to the police authority. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Oxford and Cambridge universities have joined the increasingly bitter row over Chancellor George Osborne's controversial cap on tax relief for charitable donations. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
David Cameron has arrived in Burma in what is believed to be the first visit to the former colony by a British prime minister. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Local West Yorkshire News
FIRE broke out in a Huddersfield block of flats this morning. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Syrian troops are clashing with rebels near the border with Turkey, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
An engineering firm is to create up to 1,000 new jobs after receiving a Government grant to build foundations for offshore wind farms, it has been announced. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Front and Back Pages
HERE are the front and back pages of tonight's Huddersfield Examiner. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Breaking News
A chief constable has sought to reassure the public that police were not being taken off the beat and replaced with community support officers. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Syrian forces have tightened security in public squares and outside mosques as a fragile UN-brokered truce faced its first major test with opposition leaders calling for widespread protests. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Britain's top officer has vowed to become an "implacable enemy" of racists at Scotland Yard as he agreed the force needed to "buck up its ideas". Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Plans to strip cigarette packets of branding will increase smuggling, risking smokers' health and denying the Treasury much-needed cash, a Tory MP has warned. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
A woman whose eyes were gouged out by her partner said he "robbed me of one of the most precious things in life". Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
David Cameron has called for sanctions against Burma to be eased after holding talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Nearly £170 million was spent on NHS redundancy payouts in one year, according to leaked Government figures released by the Labour Party. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
A woman whose eyes were gouged out by her partner said he "robbed me of one of the most precious things in life". Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
A bitter row is growing over Government moves to strip cigarette packets of branding. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
David Cameron has paved the way for Aung San Suu Kyi to make a hugely symbolic visit to Britain as he backed easing sanctions against Burma. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
A computer "whiz kid" who broke into the website of Britain's biggest abortion provider has been jailed for two years and eight months. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
A mother-of-two whose boyfriend throttled her unconscious and gouged out her eyes has said he "robbed me of one of the most precious things in life". Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have arrested the country's prime minister after sealing off large areas of the capital, a military press attache has said. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Unite has been given an extension to a deadline for declaring strikes in the fuel tanker drivers dispute so that peace talks can continue. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
A man and a woman have been questioned on suspicion of murder following the death of a baby girl, police have said. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
More than 10,000 Egyptians have marched from mosques and protested in Cairo's Tahrir Square, demanding the country's ruling generals bar Hosni Mubarak's former spy chief and other ousted regime officials from running in upcoming presidential elections. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Thousands of women have upped the fashion stakes in the sunshine at a sold-out Grand National Ladies' Day. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Tens of thousands of Syrians have poured into the nation's streets for anti-government protests in the first major test of a fragile UN-brokered truce. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
The Christian group behind a banned bus advert suggesting gay people could be "cured" is seeking legal advice, the law firm acting for them has said. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
The Lockerbie bomber has been admitted to hospital for a blood transfusion, it has been reported. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
Proposals aimed at resolving the fuel tanker drivers dispute have been drawn up, raising hopes that strikes can be averted. Read
Apr 13 2012 | National News
After several years as a couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are engaged. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Quizzes
Balls, racquets, flippers - choose your weapon!If you're into sports test yourself against our sports quiz below. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Quizzes
SEVEN days, 12 questions. Think you can do it? Read
Apr 13 2012 | Arts News
THE West Yorkshire Police Brass Band perform at Dewsbury Town Hall on Saturday at a Brass and Song Charity Concert. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Arts News
TOP comedian Sarah Millican is set to pack Huddersfield Town Hall this week. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Examiner Plus
DENIM is an unusual material for artists to work with but one man has made a name for himself using old jeans – quite literally. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Arts News
MUSICIANS Alan Barnes and David Newton perform at the Lawrence Batley Theatre tomorrow. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Arts News
FORMER Kirklees Young Musician of the Year, Rebecca Robertson, lines up next weekend with the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Arts News
ALMONDBURY Ladies Choir will soon welcome a young tenor to their ranks. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Arts News
HUDDERSFIELD Voices will take part in a major celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Val Javin
MORE than 100 artists will showcase their work in Brighouse. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield restaurants & recipes
THE best laid plans, eh? As I made this dish up for the photograph, there was about half a foot of snow outside the café. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Huddersfield restaurants & recipes
FROM the elegance of Sancerre to the crispness of Pouilly-Fume and the minerality of muscadet, the majestic Loire Valley stretches 400 miles along the River Loire from central France, to the west coast. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Examiner Plus
WE’D gone to The Foxglove at Kirkburton to catch-up with pals after a weekend away in southern French medieval city of Carcassonne. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Arts News
TO mark the centenary of the Huddersfield Light Opera Company members are bringing together 100 years of memorabilia. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Arts News
A CELEBRATION of 10 years of the Yorkshire Youth Choir takes place this Saturday at Huddersfield Town Hall. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Arts News
WILKO Johnson will roll back the years as he storms into town. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Arts News
FOR 100 years the Huddersfield Light Opera has been entertaining crowds with its pantos and plays. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Arts News
HE’S the self-proclaimed science geek who asks questions of the experts the rest of us daren’t. Read
Apr 13 2012 | Arts News
POTTERY and painting classes are beginning at the North Light Gallery in Armitage Bridge. Read