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Sep 21 2009 by Andrew Jackson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

HERE’S the most viewed stories on www.examiner.co.uk last week:

1) A KNIFEMAN who threatened to kill a baby was shot with a Taser by police in Huddersfield last night.

Examiner readers Phil and Ryan Howard managed to take photos and videos of the scene near Comet on Leeds Road, Bradley yesterday.

They snapped the man lying on the pavement after police had stunned him with the electric shock taser.

2) HUNDREDS of council workers will lose their jobs as Kirklees seeks vast savings.

The Examiner can reveal today that plans are to be drawn up to cut at least £250m over five years.

Kirklees Council will slash its budget by a fifth to deal with the public spending squeeze which is expected after the General Election.

3) MURDER victim Christopher Hartley was today linked with a seedy sex holiday business run from his house.

Police have said they are looking into the matter as part of their investigation into his execution-style killing near Clayton West.

4) THE ambulance service has been condemned for wanting to recruit 50 ‘apprentices’ to drive patients to appointments and pay them well beneath the minimum wage.

The Yorkshire Ambulance Service wants the apprentice drivers for its Patient Transport Service, but will pay them just £100 for a 37½ week.

This equates to just £2.66 an hour to help transport non-emergency patients to hospital.

5))A BROTHER and sister have been jailed for a vicious attack on a taxi driver.

Adam Lynch and his sister, Kimberley, both of Dalton, set upon taxi driver Rashid Ahmed in June last year.

Prosecutor Duncan Ritchie told the court how Mr Ahmed had asked the pair and their friend to get out of his taxi when Adam Lynch began to abuse him.

He stopped his vehicle in Somerset Road, but Adam Lynch grabbed him and punched him in the face.