Top five stories

Jul 18 2008 by Andrew Jackson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Top five news stories of the week

1 Town centre ambulance crash - pictures Saturday, July 12

PARAMEDICS sent to deal with a medical emergency ended up in an emergency themselves. Their ambulance was in a crash with a car at a junction on a main Huddersfield road. The force of the impact sent the ambulance careering into traffic lights and bollards near the large Lidl store at the bottom of Somerset Road.

2 Shutdown as strike bites Wednesday July 16

HUDDERSFIELD was badly hit by the council workers’ strike. Schools were closed and bins left unemptied on the street as thousands of council staff began a two-day strike. Local government workers – including home carers, bin men and dinner ladies – took industrial action in protest against a 2.45% pay offer.

3 M62 fall death tragedy latest Wednesday, July 16

POLICE were expected to release more details about a man who plunged to his death on the M62 above Huddersfield. The man, thought to be in his 30s, was found on the westbound carriageway yesterday lunchtime, immediately below the Brown Cow Bridge, which carries the B6114 Saddleworth Road over the motorway.

Police believe he had fallen from the 170-foot high bridge. The man was taken to hospital but died of his injuries.

4 Terror as armed gang strike twice Tuesday, July 15

AN armed gang brought terror to Linthwaite. The men, one of them armed with a sawn-off shotgun, terrorised people in two homes in Manchester Road. Police appealed for witnesses and are hunting the men.

5 Woman climbs down towerblock to escape violent partner Tuesday, July 15

A TERRIFIED woman fled from her violent boyfriend by climbing between the balconies of a Huddersfield block of flats, a court heard. Steven Davies, 34, was seen on CCTV equipment hitting Fiona Murphy in a lift as they made their way back to the fifth-floor flat they shared at Holme Park Court, Berry Brow, last August. A woman on the floor below saw Miss Murphy drop down onto her balcony after clambering down from the floor above.