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Picture of the Week: Quick shot captures special moment in time at Grange Moor

CYCLE rides can lead to some spectacular photographs in the Examiner.Read

Web forum: Anger over adult social care costs rise

COUNCILLORS have voted to increase care charges – despite opposition from hundreds of people.Read

Family History:

A DEBT of gratitude reaching back to the Second World War is something an Australian expat would like to pay.Read

Web forum: A mixed bag!

IT was a real mixed bag on www.examiner.co.uk yesterday.Read

Web Forum: Town views

Examiner match report: Huddersfield Town 1 MK Dons 1Read

Web Forum: Top Tales

HERE are the top five stories from last week at www.examiner.co.ukRead

Web Forum: Internet news

IT’S not enough to have a web browser in your pocket. These days, people want an internet they can talk to – so say hello to Evi, the digital virtual assistant who lives on your phone.Read

Top stories on Examiner

DOG-LOVING councillors backed a crackdown on inconsiderate owners. Kirklees Council’s Cabinet supported a controversial plan to ban canines from school fields and children’s play areas. Officers have also proposed that council officials have the power to request people to put their dogs on leads in the five parks in the district, including Greenhead Park.Read

Nostalgia: Grave case of bodies buried 40ft deep

Huddersfield is struggling to find a site for a cemetery. About 160 years ago the borough had a similar problem, only worse. DAVID GRIFFITHS, a member of Huddersfield Local History Society, investigates.Read

Web Forum: Full of wind

KIRKLEES Council suspends turbine planning applications after blades fly off windmillsRead

Web Forum: Fly tipping

WASTE dumped at Thunder Bridge beauty spot - do you know the culprit?Read

Member Lane: Little lambs who were not for the slaughter house

little lambsThese lambs tugged at heart strings after being born this week in 1953. The early arrivals were at the centre of attention at the Huddersfield abattoir after they were orphaned soon after being born. Instead of becoming lambs for the slaughter, they were to become pets for Anne, four, and Patricia, two, the daughters of Mr and Mrs Harold Shaw, of Slaithwaite, who bought them. Mr Shaw, who worked at the abattoir, is pictured with his colleague Teddy Eastwood, of Farnley TyasKirklees ref: ke08592 / Examiner ref: EX53.0343Read

Web Forum: Top tales

Here are the top five stories from last week’s website.Read

Web Forum: Internet News

FOR ONE day, some of the biggest and best-known websites on the net went dark. Wordpress, Wikipedia, Google and others protested against draft US legislation that they say imposes draconian new rules on internet use and publishing.Read

Picture of the Week: Photography is a good walk improved

THIS stunning photograph of the newly revamped lake and bandstand at Greenhead Park was taken by Fixby reader Pat Conaghan who was doing a Nordic Walk at the time.Read

January 26, 2011: views on the Examiner website on Huddersfield development.

CENTRE For Cities think-tank report paints a gloomy picture of Huddersfield:Read

Family History: A long trip Down Under for Milnsbridge bad boy

LAST August John and Liedy Fearnley from Sydney in Australia were in Cleckheaton to visit the graves of ancestors who were parents to James Fearnley, a convict who was ‘transported’ for life to Tasmania.Read

Web forum: Driven to distraction

TAXI drivers have demanded larger and better signs in St George’s Square to prevent head-on crashes.Read

Web Forum: Why did the bin man cross the road?

KIRKLEES Council bin men not allowed to cross the road because of health and safety rules:Read

Web Froum: Top Tales

Here are the top five stories from our website last week.Read