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Mar 8 2008
THIS is the latest photograph of missing Shannon Matthews....
Mar 8 2008
HUDDERSFIELD is set to be battered by the worst weather of the winter on Monday....
Mar 8 2008
THE girlfriend of Robert Broadbent wept as she recalled how she discovered that the Lepton teenager had been murdered....
Mar 8 2008
VOTERS should decide whether Britain stays in the European Union (EU), a councillor has said....
Mar 8 2008
Huddersfield Royal Infirmary’s new Family Birth Unit opens on Monday. It will provide a midwife-led service for mums-to-be who do not expect complications and who would otherwise be suitable for home births. ANNE-MARIE BRADLEY looks at the facilities....
Mar 8 2008
AN Almondbury school chef has narrowly missed out on securing a place in a national competition. Simon Flood, kitchen manager at King James’s High School, battled it out against seven other chefs in the East of England final of School Chef of the Year 2008. Simon, 38, cooked-up a feast of fruity Moroccan chicken and baked egg custard tart in the contest, held in Nottingham. He lost out to school cook Dawn Dale from Whitby....
Mar 8 2008
SOME stars have their names in lights....
Mar 8 2008
A WORRIED mum wants a traffic island to help children cross a busy road....
Mar 8 2008
MANY people will fume at being denied what we have all been promised by the major parties, a say on the EU constitution....
Mar 8 2008
HOLMFIRTH author Virginia Haywood has a new book out....
Mar 8 2008
Staff and students at the Newsome school dressed as book characters as part of World Book Day celebrations....
Mar 8 2008
Children dressed as their favourite book characters as part of the event, which included a visit to The Children’s Bookshop at Lindley to buy books....
Mar 8 2008
RUNNING fans are being given the chance to pace an Olympic route while raising cash for a Huddersfield-based charity....
Mar 8 2008
A HUDDERSFIELD student is flying high after graduating from a prestigious Royal Air Force College....
Mar 8 2008
Youngsters at many schools dressed as their favourite characters to mark World Book Day....
Mar 8 2008
Greece: Nato nations cranked up pressure on Greece to allow Macedonia to join the alliance, saying that the two countries should work harder to resolve a bitter dispute over competing claims to the name Macedonia. Macedonia, along with Croatia and Albania, is hoping to be invited to join Nato at an alliance summit next month....
Mar 8 2008
ITALY: A British tourist whose body was found in Venice, died of accidental drowning, an inquest found yesterday. Richard Raynor, 23, from Retford, Notts, was discovered in Venice’s lagoon after going missing during a romantic Valentine’s break with his girlfriend last month. An inquest at Nottinghamshire Coroner’s Court heard that a letter sent by a mystery stranger who supposedly confessed to killing Mr Raynor is thought by Italian police to be a hoax....
Mar 8 2008
A WAR memorial that was stolen from a Huddersfield mill has been returned....
Mar 8 2008
USA: A rare white killer whale has been spotted by ocean scientists off Alaska. It was discovered by the Oscar Dyson, a US research ship conducting an acoustic survey in the Aleutian Islands. Further observation showed that while the whale’s saddle area was white, other parts of its body had a subtle yellowish or brownish colour....
Mar 8 2008
China: will be stricter on foreign performers after Icelandic singer Bjork (pictured) shouted “Tibet! Tibet!” at the end of her concert in Shanghai. China’s Culture Ministry said Bjork’s outburst “broke Chinese law and hurt Chinese people’s feelings”. Bjork shouted out after her song Declare Independence....
Mar 8 2008
WALKERS are being invited to take in the sights of Skelmanthorpe village. People of all ages are being given the chance to take part in a two-hour walk on Saturday, March 22. Kirklees countryside officer Andy Wickham will lead the free trek, following the Skelmanthorpe village trail. Those wanting to take part should meet at Skelmanthorpe Council Offices at Commercial Road at 10am....
Mar 8 2008
HUDDERSFIELD’S new family birth centre is ready and open for business from Monday....
Mar 8 2008
IT’S been a miserable week on the M62 near Cleckheaton....
Mar 8 2008
Ministers want diplomas, which combine practical skills with theory, to compete with A-levels to see which courses are the most popular in schools....
Mar 8 2008
A HUDDERSFIELD University student has won a design competition....
Mar 8 2008
Animal testing advocate Dr Kirk Leech visited Huddersfield University to give a seminar. Reporter SAM CASEY met him...
Mar 8 2008
Yes: Animal testing has helped to develop vaccines against diseases like rabies, polio, measles, mumps, rubella and TB....
Mar 8 2008
YOUNG people from Kirklees are to take part in a training course designed to get more recruits into the building control industry....
Mar 8 2008
A LONGWOOD church is facing a huge repair bill to fix a gateway that was damaged during a chaotic incident after a lorry got stuck....
Mar 8 2008
A SITE in Wellholme Park has been earmarked for a new swimming pool for Brighouse....
