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Andrew Jackson: The height of idiot consumerism Apr 12 2012

Can anyone tell me what the appeal of drinking a cup of coffee while walking down the street is?Read

Andrew Jackson: Lack of road manners is driving me round the bend Apr 12 2012

AS I walked down the street one day last week I stopped in the middle of the pavement to check my pockets.Read

Martin House Children’s Hospice has been helping Huddersfield families for 25 years. Apr 12 2012

THEY have helped hundreds of Huddersfield families. Now Martin House Children’s Hospice is celebrating 25 years – and is caring for 78 Huddersfield families at the moment.Read

Fashion and Beauty: Celebrating the pattern cutters’ art Apr 12 2012

The fashion industry would be nowhere without pattern cutters - the skilled technicians who translate designers’ ideas into actual garments. A new exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery celebrates the under-valued art of creative pattern cutting and gives members of the public an insight into the world of couture fashionRead

April 1989: Youngsters at school, sport and play - Are you on one of our pictures? Apr 11 2012

THIS year marks the 200th anniversary of the Luddites’ rising.Read

Family and Health: No pizza, pasta or chocolate for coeliac sufferer Lyla Apr 11 2012

How would you feel if common foods such as bread, cakes and pasta were off the menu or a tiny biscuit crumb could make you ill? For the one in 100 people who have coeliac disease this is an everyday, lifelong reality. Hilarie Stelfox meets a six-year-old sufferer from LinthwaiteRead

Family history: Caring for old photos Apr 11 2012

WEST Yorkshire Archive Service has set up a project in response to the current BBC 2 series Britain’s First Photo Album which traces the extraordinary achievement of the pioneering Victorian photographer Francis Frith and his team.Read

Family History: How Huddersfield Register Office helps trace people’s family tree Apr 11 2012

WITH the ever popular BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? encouraging people to research their family history, Kirklees Superintendent Registrar Lesley Hewitson reveals some of the many steps to trace your family historyRead

Pete Barrow: Don’t slam Oldfield he brightened things up! Apr 11 2012

JUDGING by Sunday’s national papers Trenton Oldfield has become public enemy number one.Read

Pete Barrow: But Roberto you are Spanish! Apr 11 2012

WIGAN manager Roberto Martinez has left me stunned.Read

Barry Gibson: A Titanic anniversary for my Belfast Apr 11 2012

THIS Sunday will be a very special day for the city I called home for the first 23 years of my life.Read

Barry Gibson: How the Real Ale Trail often goes off the rails Apr 11 2012

AS reported in the Examiner on Saturday, Huddersfield now has more micro breweries than anywhere else in the country, relative to its population size.Read

Huddersfield’s Titanic bandsman Wallace Hartley’s only letter home to be sold at auction Apr 10 2012

A RARE letter by Titanic bandsman Wallace Hartley is to go under the hammer 100 years after the legendary ship sunk.Read

Denis Kilcommons: Don’t ask me for careers advice Apr 10 2012

A NEW National Careers Service was launched last week to offer information and advice on learning and work.Read

Denis Kilcommons: New photo of Booths fire funeral Apr 10 2012

LORRAINE Lowe has sent a photograph of a tragic scene that she hopes readers can identify.Read

Denis Kilcommons: old town photos on glass plates Apr 10 2012

MANY thanks to portrait photographer Steve Lockwood and John Woods Photography in the Byram Arcade for volunteering to help Paul Dickinson who had a stack of old photographic plates.Read

Denis Kilcommons: Amusing Golcar anecdote Apr 10 2012

IT’S been a funny year so far for weather.Read

Denis: Testing old rock ‘n’ roll minds Apr 09 2012

ANTHONY Hodge sent me a rock and roll quiz for, as he put it, more mature music fans.Read

Denis: Court TV will be a turn-off Apr 09 2012

THE Government is expected to announce in the Queen’s Speech next month that parts of court proceedings will be allowed to be shown live on television.Read

Andrew Hirst: Enjoying a walk on the really wild side at Ovenden Moor Apr 07 2012

I’VE often felt there are masses of places to explore around Huddersfield and yet never had the time to do it.Read

Andrew Jackson: The height of idiot consumerism Apr 12 2012

Andrew Jackson: Lack of road manners is driving me round the bend Apr 12 2012

Martin House Children’s Hospice has been helping Huddersfield families for 25 years. Apr 12 2012

Fashion and Beauty: Celebrating the pattern cutters’ art Apr 12 2012

April 1989: Youngsters at school, sport and play - Are you on one of our pictures? Apr 11 2012

Family and Health: No pizza, pasta or chocolate for coeliac sufferer Lyla Apr 11 2012

Family history: Caring for old photos Apr 11 2012

Family History: How Huddersfield Register Office helps trace people’s family tree Apr 11 2012

Pete Barrow: Don’t slam Oldfield he brightened things up! Apr 11 2012

Pete Barrow: But Roberto you are Spanish! Apr 11 2012

Barry Gibson: A Titanic anniversary for my Belfast Apr 11 2012

Barry Gibson: How the Real Ale Trail often goes off the rails Apr 11 2012

Huddersfield’s Titanic bandsman Wallace Hartley’s only letter home to be sold at auction Apr 10 2012

Denis Kilcommons: Don’t ask me for careers advice Apr 10 2012

Denis Kilcommons: New photo of Booths fire funeral Apr 10 2012

Denis Kilcommons: old town photos on glass plates Apr 10 2012

Denis Kilcommons: Amusing Golcar anecdote Apr 10 2012

Denis: Testing old rock ‘n’ roll minds Apr 09 2012

Denis: Court TV will be a turn-off Apr 09 2012

Andrew Hirst: Enjoying a walk on the really wild side at Ovenden Moor Apr 07 2012

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