WEDNESDAY'S most viewed stories on www.examiner.co.uk were
1) Huddersfield teacher accused of sex offences visited student at university and paid off his debts
A TEACHER accused of having sex with a pupil visited him at university and paid off his university debts, a jury heard.
It is alleged that Peter Smith, 38, of Pilling Lane, Scissett, abused his position of trust between December 2006 and June 2007 after grooming a teenage pupil and having sex with him.
But the defence has claimed the sex between the pair happened in 2009, when Smith was no longer in a position of trust.
2) 99 jobs in danger at Huddersfield textile firm Fred Lawton after merger
ANOTHER of Huddersfield’s biggest employers is set to axe jobs.
Textile manufacturer Fred Lawton, of Meltham Mills, is to merge with fellow textile company, William S Graham, of Dewsbury, to form Lawton Yarns Ltd later this month.
And it is expected that up to 99 workers will be made redundant in the merger.
3) Brighouse graffiti vandal in court after West Yorkshire spree he bragged about on Facebook
THEY boasted about their “art” on Facebook.
They even took photos of themselves with the images they had created.
But now two graffiti vandals behind a spate of damage across West Yorkshire could be made to pay.
A judge has suggested that the pair who caused an estimated £14,000 in damage to trains and track side equipment across the region should be made to clean up similar anti-social behaviour as part of their community payback work.
4) Kirklees councillors say stockpiled salt is the answer to icy road problems
COUNCILLORS are to continue to push for Kirklees to stockpile salt to keep the region’s roads open.
The decision to buy 25,000 tonnes last year, after problems with shortages in the previous winter, has been praised.
And the efforts of the council’s highways workers so far this winter to keep roads clear have also been welcomed.
5) Latest on former Denby Dale man Thomas Haigh's trial: Murders were “cynically planned”
A JURY was told that the murder of two drug dealers was “cynically” planned by “allies” who sought to blame each other when the crime was discovered.
In the prosecution’s closing speech, Ross Stone and Thomas Haigh were said to have killed David Griffith and Brett Flournoy, as a joint enterprise.
The bodies of the two men were found buried in their van, which had been set alight, at Sunny Corner, a small holding near St Austell, Cornwall, where Stone lived.
