HERE are the top five stories from our website last week.
1. CHILLING text messages were sent by teenagers in a deadly drugs experiment, it was revealed.
And they were the only insight police had to the last steps taken by 15-year-old Connor Aston, who died after taking the fatal cocktail of drugs.
An inquest heard how Shelley College student Connor was found dead by his mum among a range of different blister packets in his bedroom
His friend, 18-year-old Alex Walker, had also taken the drugs, which included Buprenorphine – a heroin substitute – and antidepressants, but survived after being rushed to hospital.
2. COUNCIL officials unveiled their controversial blueprint for thousands of new homes in and around Huddersfield.
It includes plans for 2,500 houses on green belt land.
But Kirklees Council’s top planning officer claimed just 1% of green belt land in the district would be built on if the proposal goes ahead.
The Labour Cabinet will vote on the Local Development Framework (LDF) next week.
The plan has already attracted massive opposition from people in many areas of Kirklees – including Grimescar, Honley and Almondbury.
3. THEY’RE set to be the answer to winter’s snow and ice – ice claws.
Kirklees Council is planning to buy sets of the shoe grips to enable elderly people to get out and about.
Ungritted roads and pavements caused Huddersfield residents huge problems during the last two winters.
In one famous case last January, people on Causeway Side in Linthwaite were reduced to crawling along black ice on their hands and knees, but now elderly people in one part of Huddersfield could be offered a solution if it snows again.
4. THOUSANDS of commuters faced delays as a traffic light failure and M62 incident caused chaos on Huddersfield’s roads.
Failed traffic lights on the A6107, Bradford Road in Huddersfield saw huge delays around the Bradley area and a broken down lorry on the M62 caused delays on the motorway and the junctions feeding off it.
5. A HUSBAND called on the health secretary Andrew Lansley to start an investigation into the NHS’ treatment of his dead wife.
Chris Bingley’s wife, Joanne Bingley, 39, was suffering from severe postnatal depression when she killed herself by stepping in front of a train near to Deighton Railway Station.