Articles...
Dec 29 2007
ONE in five Yorkshire people look set to book a holiday within the next few weeks....
Dec 29 2007
AN 86-YEAR-OLD man who died after a hit-and-run accident has been named....
Dec 29 2007
HEALTH workers are teaming up with a fictional cartoon character to raise awareness about the use of antibiotics....
Dec 29 2007
BERRY BROW climbed off the bottom of the Works League with their best display of the season....
Dec 29 2007
SHEPLEY pupils helped to spread a little festive cheer in Africa this year by sending gifts....
Dec 29 2007
CHILDREN and young people with diabetes are benefiting from a new service closer to home....
Dec 29 2007
DOGS, particularly the greyhound breed, really are a man's best friend as far as the founder of a West Yorkshire charity is concerned....
Dec 29 2007
MISBEHAVE on New Year’s Eve and you’ll end up seeing the New Year in from the inside of a police cell....
Dec 29 2007
A SOLDIER from Brighouse is back in uniform – after risking his neck on the Austrian mountain slopes....
Dec 29 2007
POLICE seized the equivalent of 6,500 pints of alcohol from teenagers during a month-long crackdown on under-age drinking in public places, the Home Office said today....
Dec 29 2007
THE festive season is a time to be with family and friends – but how would you feel if you suddenly lost a loved one?...
Dec 29 2007
AS Kirklees prepares to become the first urban area in the country to go plastic bag-free BARRY GIBSON speaks to a representative of Modbury in south Devon, the first town in England to ban the bag...
Dec 29 2007
G4 HAS been named the most financially successful finalist of X-Factor since the programme began....
Dec 29 2007
A TYPICAL basket of groceries is now 22% cheaper than a decade ago, a supermarket said....
Dec 29 2007
KIRKLEES Council’s Cabinet member for environment issues has welcomed the support and interest from Mirfield residents in playing their part in conserving energy – as well as getting advice on how to cut their fuel bills....
Dec 29 2007
YOUNG musicians have produced a CD, thanks to a trust fund set up in memory of an inspirational music teacher....
Dec 29 2007
Chad: The government has insisted that it will decide the ultimate fate of six French aid workers sentenced to eight years of forced labour as France asked that they be sent home. France wants the charity workers, who were convicted of trying to kidnap 103 African children they claimed were orphans from Darfur, to be repatriated under a 1976 bilateral judicial accord....
Dec 29 2007
MORE than half of all workers in West Yorkshire who drive as part of their job do not know the risks they face, research shows....
Dec 29 2007
A CHARITY is urging Huddersfield people to help raise enough cash to plant 24,000 trees by recycling Christmas cards....
Dec 29 2007
A VETERINARY charity is calling on animal lovers to help them by donating unwanted Christmas gifts....
Dec 29 2007
THE new year will herald a new beginning for the Salvation Army in Huddersfield....
Dec 29 2007
KIND-HEARTED youngster Lydia Wood has been busy helping a hospice that cared for her uncle at the end of his life....
Dec 29 2007
EX-world record-breaking athlete Derek Ibbotson today received an MBE....
Dec 29 2007
A FORMER Kirklees Council worker has been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s honours list....
Dec 29 2007
A FARTOWN woman said she is honoured to be awarded an MBE for services to community relations in West Yorkshire....
Dec 29 2007
A DRIVER escaped unhurt after his car hit a parked hatchback and then ploughed into a lamp-post. The crash was at Smith House Lane, near Bailiff Bridge, Brighouse, at midnight on Thursday. Firefighters were called to the scene to disconnect the battery on the Renault Laguna estate car and make it safe....
Dec 29 2007
PLANS for 36 new flats in a Brighouse development have been recommended for approval. Prestigious Living wants to build the retirement flats behind the Brighouse High School sixth form centre, at Parsonage Lane. A similar plan incorporating office space was rejected in June because of access problems. Councillors have been advised to approve the latest application because it fits in with local planning policies....
Dec 29 2007
PEDESTRIANS are now less likely to hit a sticky patch as they walk on Huddersfield’s pavements....
Dec 29 2007
FOUR chefs were burned after carrying a huge pan of burning fat out of their restaurant....
Dec 29 2007
A TOP Kirklees councillor is at loggerheads with an entire parish council as a feud over its parish plan rumbles on....
Dec 29 2007
HUDDERSFIELD wine merchant Rob Hoult kept his bottle to raise cash for charity....
Dec 29 2007
THE old year still has a couple of days to run, but the Orchestra of Opera North decided to give 2008 a head start with this traditional Viennese-style New Year concert, principally consisting of waltzes and polkas from the Strauss clan....
Dec 29 2007
THE family of murdered teenager Ahmed Hassan have opened a book of condolence....
Dec 29 2007
POLICE are investigating an attack on Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe by another patient at Broadmoor....
Dec 29 2007
HUDDERSFIELD University’s Computer Services department has been shortlisted as one of only six finalists in Computer Weekly’s Best Places to Work in IT 2008 awards....
Dec 29 2007
FIVE children from Christ Church Woodhouse Primary School, Deighton, were filmed for a TV commercial....
