Web Forum: Last weeks top stories

Sep 28 2009 by Andrew Jackson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

HERE ARE the most viewed stories on www.examiner.co.uk last week.

1) TWO men died after their car crashed on a sharp bend on a stretch of open moorland road.

The collision occurred on Holmfirth Road at 4.30am last Sunday.

The road, at its junction with Wessenden Head Road, was temporarily closed while police worked at the scene.

2) A HUDDERSFIELD motorist is fuming after getting a penalty ticket for doing zero miles-per-hour.

Marsh resident, Kooser Arshad, received the ticket for allegedly jumping a red light as she turned right from Firth Street to Wakefield Road.

The supermarket worker, 41, was snapped by the traffic light mounted camera as she drove her MG ZR hot-hatch to visit her parents in Dalton on the afternoon of August 12.

3) DETECTIVES are investigating possible links between a shooting last weekend and the callous murder of a man five months ago, the Examiner understands.

They believe the incident in Birkby on Sunday may be connected to the targeted killing of 28-year-old Jasem Asakerh in Thornton Lodge on April 3.

Officers were called to Norman Road at about 2.30pm last Sunday after shots were fired from a car.

4) AN engineering firm is to axe jobs, cut pay and extend short-time working in a bold bid to ride out the recession.

Thomas Broadbent and Sons Ltd, based at Queen Street South, is planning up to 18 redundancies among its 140-strong workforce.

The company, which makes centrifuges for the sugar, chemical and petrochemical industries and supplies industrial-scale laundry equipment, is also extending a four-day week that has been affecting 10 staff to cover about 30 employees.

And all the firm’s workers will also take a pay cut averaging 10% – possibly for up to 12 months.

5) TWO bikers died in a crash in Greetland.

The men, aged 39 and 31, were on Suzuki motorcycles that were in collision with a Ford Fiesta on Rochdale Road.

They were travelling along from Elland towards Ripponden at when the incident happened 5.20pm last Sunday.