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Jan 11 2010 by Andrew Jackson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

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

1) THE snows have returned – bringing chaos to schools and roads.

More than 120 schools in the Kirklees area were closed and with more snow predicted for the rest of the week they could close again.

Shops and the University of Huddersfield also shut their doors

2) PARENTS Stephen and Margaret Pickup are mourning the baffling Christmas Day death of the teenage son they called their “most precious possession”.

Peter, 17, was found dead in bed at his home at Crescent Royd in Almondbury on Christmas morning.

He had been to midnight mass with his mother on Christmas Eve and had posted messages on social networking website Facebook as late as 2am.

Former Almondbury High School pupil Peter was a St John’s Ambulance cadet with the Dearne Valley Division and both his parents are St John’s Ambulance members.

3) KIRKLEES Council Highways staff have just two days supply of grit left for Kirklees roads.

And the news prompted the council to confirm it will concentrate on priority roads as salt stocks dwindle. Secondary routes will not be gritted and grit bins will not be restocked.

The news, which is echoed in other areas of the UK including Calderdale, also coincided with a ban on grit sales at hardware stores.

4) A MAN has been arrested after six people were stabbed outside a Huddersfield town centre nightclub as trouble erupted at a New Year’s Eve party.

A 29-year-old man from Birmingham was released on bail in connection with the incident at Mansion in the early hours of January 1.

5) THE Mansion nightclub at the centre of New Year’s Eve party stabbings has been shut down by police – along with an adjoining pub.

Mansion nightclub on Beast Market in Huddersfield town centre has been closed because of concerns about serious disorder.

Officers have also closed The Boy and Barrel pub in an inquiry into licensing breaches.