Articles...
Mar 8 2008
A LANDOWNER’S claims that a bridleway is dangerous have been vindicated after a recent incident left two elderly people in hospital....
Mar 8 2008
A GROUP of teenagers from the Colne Valley has been monkeying about in London in a bid to master the gravity defying art of parkour....
Mar 8 2008
VALLEY clergy are urging people to stay at home and watch TV this Easter....
Mar 8 2008
AN exciting array of dance styles was on show at the Kirkburton Cluster Dance Festival this year....
Mar 8 2008
Denby First School children and their mums took part in the Family service to celebrate Mothers Day at Denby Church. The school thanks Aagrah Indian restaurant, Wakefield Road, Denby Dale for supplying refreshments for the open day on Wednesday. To celebrate World Book Day, Denby School Council children held a ‘story sleepover’ for the day. Complete with nightwear and sleeping bags, pupils wrapped up and hid away with their favourite books. The school can be contacted on 01484 222913....
Mar 8 2008
Family communion at St George’s Church on Mothering Sunday was celebrated by the Rev David Barnes. Helen Dickinson read the lesson and Elizabeth Mosley was the server. Verena Wood played the organ. Daffodils donated by Judi Gibbons were given to the ladies by the children. Wine, fruit juice and nibbles prepared by Jane Kenworthy were served....
Mar 8 2008
A would-be thief failed to get into a flat at Eastlands, Almondbury ....
Mar 8 2008
YOUNGSTERS from a Meltham school are celebrating their second place finish at last month’s Mrs Sunderland competition....
Mar 8 2008
FREE insulation and heating improvements are available to all homes in Kirklees, councillors say....
Mar 8 2008
TOP martial arts facilities could be coming to the Holme Valley if one of the North’s leading black-belt academies is allowed to expand....
Mar 8 2008
A CAMPAIGN to cut traffic and reduce speed on a narrow Holme Valley lane has been a success after a pioneering Quiet Lane scheme was given the green light....
Mar 8 2008
THE Parkour Generations team is made up of some of the most experienced practitioners and teachers of the discipline in the world (writes E&C reporter Nick Lavigueur)....
Mar 8 2008
MANY thanks to Margaret Redfearn, of Healey Wood Road, Brighouse, who has managed to name many of those featured in our Nostalgia photographic special on the closure of Meltham Mills School in July 1962....
Mar 8 2008
Originating from France in the 1990s, parkour is an athletic way of running from A to B across urban obstacles in the most direct way possible....
Mar 8 2008
A LANDOWNER’S claims that a bridleway is dangerous have been vindicated after a recent incident left two elderly people in hospital....
Mar 8 2008
Canon Martyn Crompton and the Rev Barbara Mitchell officiated at the Mothering Sunday service at St John’s Church. A large congregation included Sunday Club, Sunday Youth, Rainbows, Brownies and Guides. The colour party from Rainbows comprised Corby Land, Olivia Roberts and Bayley Taylor, from Brownies Caitlin Humble, Imogen and Shauna Moss and from Guides Abbie Smith, Elizabeth Dyson and Helena Fletcher. Brownie leader Margaret Shaw gave the reading and Sylvia Hanson led prayers with the help of Sunday Club member and Rainbow Bethany Hemingway, Brownie Rebekah Heywood and Guide Kathryn Dyson. Daffodils were distributed by the children to ladies of the congregation. Ann Norton was organist and Helen Davies played the guitar....
