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Feb 1 2010 by Andrew Jackson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

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

1) BALWANT Singh Rai didn’t realise that going to talk to a friend would set him back £60.

The Bradley man was fined for leaving a shopping centre car park – even though his wife was in-store at the time.

Mr Rai and his wife, Surinder Kaur, had driven to the shopping complex on Beck Road in Hillhouse to buy a heater.

2) SIX people appeared in court in connection with an alleged $2m kidnap plot following a major police operation in Huddersfield.

The group of Chinese nationals – four men and two women – are all facing charges of conspiracy to kidnap another man of Chinese origin.

3) A PUB worker suffered a terrifying assault at the hands of two masked robbers.

The relief manager at the award-winning Star Inn on Albert Street at Folly Hall was attacked after he went to find out why an alarm had been activated on Monday night.

Two men had set the alarm off after forcing open the gates to the pub’s back yard at about 11.30pm.

4) A TODDLER was bitten by a Rottweiler just yards from his Newsome home.

Terrified mum Claire Shaw watched in horror as the Rottweiler bit into her three-year-old son’s arm, fracturing it.

Little Kaden Shaw-Britton was with his mum buying lollies from the ice-cream van on his Newsome street when a neighbour’s dog, named Tyson, struck.

5) SHODDY workmanship has been blamed for problems that have forced highways officials to close part of the new-look St George’s Square.

Kirklees Council has had to shut Railway Street for roadworks just three months after the square was officially opened following a £4m revamp.