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Web Froum: Top Tales

Here are the top five stories from our website last week.Read

Picture of the Week: Emley Moor mast in the mist on cold and frosty morning

THE early January weather has been brilliant for photographers in Huddersfield.Read

Web Forum: Academy switches

Several Kirklees schools are due to become academies to join others in the area that have already successfully gone through the process, but unions have now claimed several of them bullied and misled parents into becoming academies. But the issue has sparked plenty of controversy and has got people talking on the Examiner forums.Read

Memory Lane: Barney Colehan

producing great showsRadio and TV producer Barney Colehan, who first came to prominence in 1946 as a BBC radio producer before going on to produce The Good Old Days and It’s A Knockout, came to Huddersfield Theatre Royal to see his friend, Allen Modley, who was appearing in the pantomime Babes In The Wood in January 1950. Mr Colehan is pictured (fourth right) with (from left) Mrs J Collinson, Squadron Leader and Mrs J W Smith, Mrs Colehan and Mr J Collinson.ke2625Read

Web Forum: Grave issuesWeb forum: The advent of dirty doggy Christmas decorations

New Huddersfield cemetery a step nearer as controversial plans near approvalRead

Web forum: The advent of dirty doggy Christmas decorations

MIND your step!Read

Web Forum: Top tales

HERE are the top five stories from our website last week:Read

Leader: Saturday Scourge of drug crime

THE damage caused by drugs is all too clear to see in today’s story about drug addict Andrew Jagger who committed a string of offences against his own father.Read

Web Forum: Misuse of Twitter, January 13, 2012

TWITTER users could hardly believe their luck when Rupert Murdoch’s wife popped up on the social networking site, chatting cheerfully to all and sundry. Except it wasn’t her at all.Read

Web Forum: Town centre debate

BIG debate looms on Huddersfield town centre – your chance to have your say:Read

Web forum: Schools of the future are up for debate

HUDDERSFIELD’S MP is to learn lessons from New York to help revamp the English classroom.Read

Web Forum: M62 fines

MORE than 11,000 speeding drivers snapped by M62 cameras in our area in 2011 – a 1,100% rise on 2010:Read

Web Forum: Top tales

HERE are the top five stories from the Examiner’s website.Read

Web Forum, January 6, 2012

THERE’S a theory that says if there isn’t already a website for the weird and wonderful idea you’ve just had, someone will make one within moments of you mentioning it online.Read

Picture of the Week: Dark and dramatic moment created by Emley Moor mast

IT IS a real mood-change, an atmospheric view of one of our best-known landmarks, the mast at Emley Moor.Read

Web Forum: Flockton Bypass views

SIXTY years and waiting – still no £12m bypass for Flockton:Read

Family History: Dale Butler of Ohio finds Newsome ancestors

DALE Butler is 64 and lives in the town of Elyria, Ohio, USA.Read

Web forum: The heat is on (or not if you’re in fuel poverty)

FUEL poverty levels in Kirklees have shot up after households struggled to pay rocketing utility bills.Read

Here are the top five online stories from 2011

1 POLICE released shocking footage of a mass brawl on a busy Huddersfield road which left two people unconscious.Read

Web forum: Ambulances aren’t taxis for boozers - unless they want to pay full fare

POLICE rode ‘shotgun’ with Huddersfield paramedics on New Year’s Eve..Read