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Hilarie Stelfox: Talking rhubarb, but without the custard

RHUBARB. It’s a funny old word, isn’t it? For a funny old vegetable.Read

Hilarie Stelfox : Students will want value for money

SEVERAL of my friends and acquaintances have children at university.Read

Dale Tempest: Players should never be asked if they want to take a penalty, they should be TOLD!

I WAS at the Champions League final and fantastically privileged to witness such an amazing game.Read

Val Javin: Weekend trip to the moon and beyond thanks to the magic of film

I WENT to the moon on Saturday. Just for a few minutes.Read

Val Javin: Where our talent and that of the world work closely together

“CAN you see OK if I sit here,” the woman, who had just taken the seat in front of me said politely, half turning towards me.Read

Denis: Robin Gibb - a tribute

ROBIN Gibb sadly died this week and the great and good of the music business have all paid tribute to a talent gone too soon.Read

Denis Kilcommons Olympic Torch

BARON Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, said: “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”Read

Picture of the Week: John Crowther mill memories in the shadow of the moors

THIS view shows the imposing John Crowther Mill in Marsden – a stark reminder of long gone textile glory days.Read

Andrew Jackson: Let’s hear it for excess...anyone

IN other news, Facebook was floated on the stock market this week.Read

Health and Family: Laurel Gilbert’s lifelong vegetarian lifestyle

In National Vegetarian Week, HILARIE STELFOX meets lifelong veggie Laurel Gilbert who not only lives a healthy vegetarian lifestyle but has also made food her business and creates new recipes for one of Huddersfield’s oldest companies.Read

Andrew Jackson: Why is it only hot during the working week?

IT’S red hot isn’t it? Summer has finally arrived in Huddersfield for its annual two-week holiday in town.Read

Features: Lucianne Hinch didn’t even know what an upholsterer was

While her friends were planning to go to university Lucianne Hinch was learning how to be an upholsterer. It might have seemed like an unusual choice of career for a 17-year-old girl but it’s a decision she has never regretted. Hilarie Stelfox meets a young woman working in a male-dominated craft.Read

All Our Yesterdays 1987: Are you pictured on our fundraising pictures?

IT was an appeal that captured the town’s imagination.Read

Pete Barrow: Another obstacle removed for top sport in Manchester

ORGANISERS of the Manchester athletics event in which Great Britain Olympic gold medal hopeful Jessica Ennis was robbed of a personal best in the 100 metres hurdles have been very quick to apologise.Read

Pete Barrow: What ever you do don’t mention the Euros

IT IS strangely all quiet on the western front.Read

Ex-pats: Huddersfield couple's second life down under

A COUPLE from Huddersfield are forging a new life for themselves in Perth ... for the second time.Read

Nostalgia: Right Royal film for the big Jubilee

THE Yorkshire Film Archive has brought together 60 years of film from its collections in a royal compilation To mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.Read

Barry Gibson: Take note, our pages are alive and well

QUESTION: Which ‘dying’ industry’s products are consumed by more than half the British population every single week?Read

Barry Gibson: Chelsea’s win over Bayern shows why football scores highly for drama

IT’S been four days but I still don’t quite believe it.Read

Denis: Fat foods may get heavy taxes

FANCY a burger and fries? That will be 20% extra fat tax, please.Read